Poli-sci prof @ Temple, Senior Fellow @ DAWN, and luckiest dad outside Türkiye. I write on Mideast politics, authoritarianism, & US foreign policy. More: http://seanyom.com. ***Slowly moving here from Twitter/X...
Sean Yom
We're in the Ranking Pedophiles phase of rationalization.
MERIP's new issue is on campus politics & Palestine which @makrevis.bsky.social @lisahajjar.bsky.social Stephen Gasteyer and I oversaw!
Incredible essays on campus surveillance, activism, & crackdowns in US, MENA, & Germany, and sobering roundtables w/ faculty & students on advocacy under duress.
"Cold War coups generated insider trading profits for a tiny corporate elite. In 1954, you had to be a board member with a CIA contact; in 2026 you just need a phone and a friend in the squadron...."
So this is disturbing: hegemon.substack.com/p/polymarket...
So the CIA is fighting and dying in Mexico now, got it
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Jordan--where the most existential threat to national security comes from a peace partner (Israel) and where US military forces invite, not deter, foreign attacks
My words in Arab Reform Initiative: arab-reform.net/publication/... via
@ArabReform_ARI
The Journal of Democracy lives at CDDRL now! Excited to see this partnership grow and flourish.
@jodemocracy.bsky.social @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social
UPDATE
• Trump: US to Blockade Hormuz
• Pakistan talks failed
• Trump: All or nothing
• US, Iran delegations left Islamabad
• UAE: Hormuz’s “not Iran’s to close”
• Israel prepares for war to resume
• Israel strikes Lebanon, raid in South
• Ceasefire expires04/22
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.
Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
