In 2021, I wrote this article: "As Israel increasingly relies on US evangelicals for support, younger ones are walking away: What polls show."
www.brookings.edu/articles/as-...
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arab woman, us citizen, europa resident, poli sci phd. xenophobes, racists, misogynists, fascists, & associated haters are strongly encouraged to move along.
In 2021, I wrote this article: "As Israel increasingly relies on US evangelicals for support, younger ones are walking away: What polls show."
www.brookings.edu/articles/as-...
I honestly just get way too attached to all my open tabs and so I kinda pretend I don't know that it's quite bad for the computers, plus I kept telling myself that "I need them" - when I clearly do not!! good riddance, I'm free (at least for a while) 😂
07.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0those're all good points!! but in my case, I have been previously informed many times, by multiple people that lots of tabs are bad for computers so I can't plead ignorance.😂 I use Duckduckgo browser, not google, & I think he was mocking the high # of trackers to indirectly critique the # of tabs 😂
07.11.2025 12:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0he really stressed how terrible it is; I can still hear him exclaiming in distress, "does it say over 2000 trackers blocked just this week?? with 100s of tabs loading up everytime?? you're killing your phone!!" and begging me to have mercy on this poor box of circuits. 😂 it seem like legit advice!
07.11.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0tech friend expressed at length such genuine horror, sincere upset upon finding out I had +300 tabs open on my phone, that it made a real impression on me --> so this morning, I recklessly closed all tabs at once. liberation! and another reminder that freedom is never given, it must be taken. 😂
07.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement.
mappingdeportations.com
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What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
for my birthday this year, the universe sent me a dead Dick Cheney, Zohran crushing it in NY, and dems winning in VA and NJ 🥳 🤘🏽 can't ask for anything else! other than a delicious birthday banh mi in the sun ☀️
05.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hindi films and songs referenced by the Mamdani campaign and victory speech at some point.
1) "We made the impossible possible"
youtu.be/YYRWKBIc88w?...
An absolutely electric victory speech by Mamdani tonight: "We have bowed at the alter of caution and paid a mighty price". Here's hoping the rest of the Democratic party is listening.
05.11.2025 04:46 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0An editorial cartoon divided into two panels. On the left, a couple watching tv news; the wife asks out loud "Dick Cheney's been compared to Darth Vader. I wonder how he feels about that..." On the right stands Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith. "I'm hurt" he replies.
To mark the passing of former shadow US President Dick #Cheney today, this banger from @mluckovich.bsky.social of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
04.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 632 🔁 131 💬 12 📌 5Dick Cheney, one of the most polarizing vice presidents in US history, has died. bloom.bg/4oqCbR4
04.11.2025 11:47 — 👍 163 🔁 50 💬 64 📌 135my vote already cast! come on Virginia, please don't send another republican to the governor's house (or anywhere else) 🙏
04.11.2025 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂
03.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🇹🇿 Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as president on Monday, with an internet blackout still in place after election protests in which the opposition says hundreds were killed by security forces.
➡️ u.afp.com/SeeU
Posters saying Stephen Miller is a creep and ugly
Love you DC
02.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 2765 🔁 663 💬 39 📌 26Syrian ministry of interior spokesman says authorities investigated 42 reported abductions of women and girls in center/coast, concluded only 1 was genuine kidnapping: sana.sy/locals/23203...
03.11.2025 08:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0trepidation: the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you've made an emergency moustache removal appointment with an unknown european lady who claims to be an "expert" in threading. wish me luck (and no injury) 😂🤞🏼
01.11.2025 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sooooo....it sounds like my new neighbor is very into karaoke! worse than his voice, his taste in music is tragically French. 😂 but at least the building is more interesting now.
31.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0or like ethnographic methods
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnogr...
sounds kinda like grounded theory!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounde...
"erythema ab igne" is a new thing I had to learn about last week and I promise, it's not cool at all.
30.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I recently met an experienced, middle-aged, professional political advisor to the California democrats and he told me in all seriousness and with a straight face that, until this year, he "didn't know racism was a thing in america anymore" because "it doesn't really exist in my state."
29.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Picture of the book cover "Transformed by the People," by Patrick Haenni & Jerome Drevon
it's a sunny reading day in gruyere! 🌞 and if you haven't picked up Jerome & Patrick's new book yet...what are you waiting for? yalla #syria #HTS
28.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Those who can study all day should study and those who cannot should support scholars.” From a 1720 will. Seems sound to me.
27.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 63 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0I say this with all the disrespect in the world, but I have no patience for anyone making excuses for the Saudi or Emirati regimes. Especially if you’re an Arab. You know what you’re doing.
27.10.2025 13:08 — 👍 102 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1Alfred Pellan (1906-1988) - Jeu de quinze (1968).
26.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0mabrook, that new juicer looks beautiful!!! 😍😍 sa7tein Erin xx
26.10.2025 08:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0