@samratner.bsky.social
Policy director at Win Without War, working to enact a more just and progressive US foreign policy. Formerly @ACLEDINFO and @ZitamarNews. He/him. Views my own.
@ilhanmn.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialTrump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.
@transitionsec.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialOur Co-Director @patrickmbigger on Israel’s ecocide in Gaza for @zeteouk 👇
@ploughshares.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialIn a new piece for @cipolicy.bsky.social, @samratner.bsky.social of grantee @winwithoutwar.bsky.social argues that addressing the broader risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East requires a vision for regional denuclearization.
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@winwithoutwar.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialSenator Merkley is right -- this corrupt deal and its likely regional consequences should be a scandal, as our policy director @samratner.bsky.social lays out: internationalpolicy.org/publications...
@samratner.bsky.socialI wrote on Trump's delusional Saudi nuclear deal, the unfolding nuclear proliferation nightmare that everyone predicted, and how progressives can meet a moment that everyone else seems intent on ducking.
@winwithoutwar.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialThis week, Win Without War Education Fund, A New Policy, and @cipolicy.bsky.social cohosted a panel for staff from 27 congressional offices on accountability for US officials implicated in the Gaza genocide. Hear what our panelists had to say ⬇️
@harrisonmann.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.social1st event of its kind, I believe: Senators Van Hollen and Welch intro'd, and 30+ staffers (some who will have a role in appointee confirmations) came to hear testimony from fmr officials and @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social on the malfeasance of the Biden officials now angling for 2028 gigs.
@yaelschacher.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialToday Refugees International and Global Strategic Litigation Council published a report based on months of research and interviews with third country nationals removed by U.S. to Costa Rica.
Have a read!
@samratner.bsky.socialThe Saudi government? Pursuing nukes? After Trump has systematically destroyed incentives for the Iranian government not to? Whomst could have predicted this?
@forumarmstrade.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialNew from @imeupolicy.bsky.social authored by @jwrchappell.bsky.social @cipolicy.bsky.social analyzes the
implications of implementing Section 502B with respect to Israel, drawing from recent policy proposals, legal analysis, and media reporting.
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@samratner.bsky.socialI ended up reading "From Hell" and Beaton's "Ducks" back to back. They're both obv excellent, and such wildly different takes on the relationship between pervasive, violent misogyny and the production of modernity. Unoriginal recs, but they're good!
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialeven conceding the distorting effects of colorblind discourse post Cold War / apartheid, it's wild how committed people will be to applying this skepticism to periods of history where the commitment to white supremacy was completely explicit
@dhnexon.netReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialIt’s literally a defining feature of international order from the 19th century onward.
@spmiles42.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialIt looks years for Dems to start using antiwar messages in their campaign ads after Iraq. It's taken months on Iran.
Full story via @punchbowlnews.bsky.social here: punchbowl.news/article/defe...
@owillis.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialtrump to this day still emphasizes the HUSSEIN in obama's name and thats a direct outgrowth of the gop hatred vs muslims that was unleashed on 9/11. but as usual the mainstream media is playing clean up
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.socialReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialno amnesty
@inkstickmedia.comReposted by @samratner.bsky.socialProgressives ought to defend the sovereignty of countries in Trump’s neo-imperialist crosshairs.
By: @abujamajem.com
