Karl Rahder

Academics and journalism: @uchicago alum, former international relations adjunct faculty and CEP Academic Fellow: Baku State, GIPA, Lake Forest, North Park.

[Karl Rahder @isoruku]

@ProfessorPape Bob, that is a very tasteful painting you have on your wall.

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@nigargoksel 😢Sad and shocking.

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An appalling, indefensible outcome that I wasn’t expecting:

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“The High Court has refused Giggle app founder Sall Grover special leave to appeal the case brought against her by transwoman Roxanne Tickle, meaning that without new legislation, Australian law is now set in stone: men can become women, and sex is not purely biological.”

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@WomenReadWomen 🙏🏻❤️

[John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter]

My take on the Arday debacle. Elevator pitch version: 1) Arday is typical of a thriving alternate-universe academia elevating performance art over curiosity; 2) the "anti-racist" people who supported him are either bigots or caught up in recreational tribalism.
https://t.co/oLU3XEcKvJ

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@LauraLoomer @Yatsenyuk_AP Glad you went! Are you still in Ukraine?

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Peter Boghossian interviewing Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on the Muslim Brotherhood, among other things:

https://t.co/cv5vX5Wmt6

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Azerbaijan has certainly been trending recently, and this short video piece by Griha Atul is a useful primer for why Azerbaijani-Iranian relations are at a critical juncture:

[Griha Atul @GrihaAtul]

Israel didn’t just strike Iran’s Caspian fleet from nowhere. CNN confirmed commandos and Mossad were staged in Azerbaijan — 60 miles from Tabriz — months before the first bomb dropped. The real story is why Azerbaijan let it happen. That goes back to 1828, and it’s far more volatile than anyone is reporting.

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@yasminalombaert @JohnCleese I believe the ballistic missiles that hit Kyiv when I was there in May were air-launched, but his recent statements here regarding the Oreshnik, which was first used on May 23, imply an escalation against purely civilian centers.

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The Kremlin said the same thing during the Victory Day celebrations as a way to deter Zelensky from attacking Moscow and that worked, at least until the big attack on May 13. This time, it appears that #Putin is not satisfied with the most recent air assaults on Kyiv.

[RussiaNews 🇷🇺 @mog_russEN]

Breaking: Russia declares decision-making centers in Kive as legitimate targets, announces large-scale strikes on key facilities, and urges countries to evacuate their diplomats from Kive.

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@Briviagra Thank you for that trenchant examination of Sartre's character; I wish this sort of analysis was more common.

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A stunning monologue regarding #Taiwan's security as #Trump appears to cede its future to the People's Republic of China...

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump's clear message: The USA is now betraying Taiwan as well.

China is a very, very powerful, large country, and Taiwan is a tiny island—as far as their respective chances are concerned. — Trump

Further statements by the US President:

If you look at history: Taiwan developed the way it did only because we had presidents who had no idea what they were doing. They basically stole our chip industry from us.

Anyone manufacturing chips in Taiwan should relocate to the USA.

The Chinese do not want to see this place—let’s just call it a place, because no one knows how to define it—as independent.

I don’t want anyone to become independent. Do we really have to travel 15,000 kilometers to fight a war? I don’t want that.

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Dmitry Peskov reiterates Putin's allegedly conciliatory message earlier in May, calling for peace talks to resume under American auspices. Fine. A new ceasefire would be a good start. @realDonaldTrump @POTUS could take the initiative. https://t.co/LcqVezacJW

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@clashreport Not a "famous American military officer." It was Nato's first Secretary General, Lord Ismay.

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@alerts_in_ua They are headed SW towards Kyiv.

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@alerts_in_ua Hi. You say that UAVs are flying over Pyriatin in a southwesterly direction. But the illustration indicates a NW/SE axis.

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Just another morning in #Kyiv, with explosions and then a #drone flying over my hotel on its way to detonate somewhere. But if the drone is high in the sky, people barely notice, and life goes on, until it doesn't:

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@salltweets @Zaan909090 Done.

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In the wake of the May 13 air attacks, #Zelensky wants a Security Council meeting and instructs #Ukraine military to prepare "possible formats for our response." I expect him to be careful here and avoid civilian casualties in such a response. https://t.co/x4zTzkucIX

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

This is brilliant 🤌🏼✨️

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges talking about what the task of Art boils down to.

(Watch all 97 seconds.)