Sarah E. Parkinson
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A reporter has posted a new trove of IS documents online, mostly combat unit intake forms, w/o redactions. This release makes me viscerally uneasy & uncomfortable. A thread about grey
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Police "standing back" & what looks like "vigilantism" are often evidence of of pretty grim but careful political calculations that should be called out for what they are. This behavior
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Some of the underlying dynamics that McGurk refs in this thread re: Trump have a name in comparative politics, specifically the study of authoritarian politics: acting “as if.” @UChicagoPoliSci's Lisa
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Great reporting from @washingtonpost's @ksieff on how militants, gangs, and mafias are engaging with #COVIDー19 pandemic. What I said: Some groups are filling gaps that governments have left. Some are
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