Sam Ratner (@samratner.bsky.social)

Policy director @WinWithoutWar, working to enact a more just and progressive US foreign policy. Formerly @ACLEDINFO and @ZitamarNews. He/him. Views my own.

[Sam Ratner (@samratner.bsky.social) @samratner]

Some professional news! I couldn't be more excited to join the incredible team at @WinWithoutWar. The global challenges we face today demand progressive responses, and I'm thrilled to join an organization dedicated to developing truly progressive foreign policy.

[Win Without War (winwithoutwar.bsky.social) @WinWithoutWar]

We’re thrilled to announce that @samratner will become our new Policy Director! Sam recently worked on security & humanitarian issues in Mozambique and as a journalist, incl. as writer of Critical State newsletter & founding editor of @ftravelersblog. https://t.co/iSDr7zJBEJ

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

If you wake up this morning and see the surge of black voters across the Deep South and the bold response of Latinos who came out despite the threats, and the presidential level participation of young folks, and conclude that the scale of our victory was solely because “we had the discipline to stay on message about kitchen table issues” - you should not be given a dime of our ActBlue donations for your guaranteed future mediocre strategies.
That was a rights based surge. A democracy surge. Gas prices, irrational tariffs, and broad cost of living played a huge role. But we cannot ignore what animated the souls of our surge voters. And we absolutely cannot continue to ignore corruption as an issue even within our own Party “until the polls catch up”

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

Over the last two years, many of the most powerful people in America-tech oligarchs, college presidents, media tycoons, leaders of big law firms + basically the entire pro-Israel Jewish establishment-capitulated to Trump's authoritarianism. They abandoned American democracy in its moment of maximum peril. They should never be allowed to forget it. They should wear that shame for the rest of their lives.

[Sam Ratner (@samratner.bsky.social) @samratner]

(I know, it’s an Oscar, but you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to acquire a replica Emmy, so we’re doing it Romeo + Juliet “sword” style)

[Sam Ratner (@samratner.bsky.social) @samratner]

Went as twitter legend and Emmy winner @katiedippold and her wine-drinking adult friends this Halloween.

[Ryan Costello @RyeCostello]

A future administration would be wise not just to make and follow this pledge, but to ensure that the Gaza resignees - who have demonstrated their moral compass and backbone multiple times over - have significant positions, if they want to.

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

No one involved in Biden's disastrous Gaza policy should serve in a future Democratic administration. That's the floor.

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

In which the head of ACLED asserts that in the last Tigray conflict, "there was a distinct *anti-Ethiopian* component of the international community":

[كريستينا بياض | Kristina Biyad @KristinaBiyad]

Thats why we’re launching @OnRecordFP. To pull back the curtain on who shapes U.S. foreign policy and what they did with that power. @haaretzcom highlighted ON RECORD today in its coverage of the growing push for accountability:
https://t.co/a0Yiao7vLI

[كريستينا بياض | Kristina Biyad @KristinaBiyad]

Washington loves recycling its foreign policy establishment while ignoring the consequences of the policies they shaped. Their records should be scrutinized, not glorified.

[Ploughshares @plough_shares]

In a new piece for @CIPolicy, @samratner of grantee @WinWithoutWar argues that addressing the broader risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East requires a vision for regional denuclearization.

Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/xGJQi0wQ0R

[Win Without War (winwithoutwar.bsky.social) @WinWithoutWar]

US policy in the Middle East should center de-nuclearization, not backdoors to proliferation. Our policy director, @samratner, laid out the stakes here:

https://t.co/eaGYNLvfMR

[Sam Ratner (@samratner.bsky.social) @samratner]

I 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.

[Center for International Policy @CIPolicy]

Trump’s proposed Saudi nuclear deal is both a nuclear proliferation risk and a self-enrichment scheme for the Trump family. Congress should reject it, argues @samratner of @winwithoutwar

https://t.co/eRQ19wgvl3

[Sam Ratner (@samratner.bsky.social) @samratner]

@oguzerkan Why do the numbers in Aug and Sept not add up? Aug total Middle East is 816 kbpd less than Aug PG+RS, and Sept total is 1,667 more than Sept PG+RS.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

As you read Akbar's great reporting about the role ODNI played in muting the alarm about Israeli violations, keep in mind that the DNI who oversaw this, Avril Haines, was recently named president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Today, I am filing a lawsuit against Columbia University and SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo for their gross and systemic discrimination against Palestinian students at Columbia. I am joined in this action by my friends at the Palestine Working Group.

Columbia laid the groundwork for my targeting by the Trump administration through its deliberate indifference and discrimination aimed at intimidating Palestinian students. For over two years, we pleaded with Columbia. Columbia did not care. Our safety and our wellbeing did not serve the ideological project its Board of Trustees was protecting, so they traded us away.

We are suing because no student should ever have to go through the hell Columbia put us through all these years.

I will continue to seek accountability for all the wrongs that were done to me and my peers. Next, I will turn to the hateful individuals at Columbia who were also responsible for what we endured. Stay tuned.

https://t.co/cCkUwEEyBq

[Win Without War (winwithoutwar.bsky.social) @WinWithoutWar]

One year ago, the Trump admin began its campaign of extrajudicial killings off the coast of Latin America. We’re proud to join 41 other organizations in urging Congress to end this boat strike campaign and commit to real accountability:

https://t.co/t7nTviBrUP

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Could not be more excited to welcome @tcambanis and his great team to CIP!

[Sam Heller | سام هيلر @AbuJamajem]

Excited to join @CIPolicy today alongside @tcambanis and other Century International colleagues, as part of @CIPolicy's new global research department: https://t.co/nh3sPM5CFk

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Excited to announce this new project, a collaboration by over 30 progressive thinkers laying out a new vision for US foreign policy.

Coming in November from @orbooks. Available for pre-order now!
https://t.co/tTtlBIHzhv