foreign policy | comfortable at base levels of quite panic | formerly @TimepDC | alum @UF @ElliottSchoolGW | no one to blame for my opinions but me
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Excited to share my first piece for @TimepDC on a topic that’s both fascinating and reflective of the linkage b/w the economic and human rights crises in Egypt.
I’m grateful for the individuals who spoke to me for this - these are their stories, I’m just lucky to help share them
NEW: As millions of Egyptians struggle to make ends meet, guards and administrative officials in prisons regularly exploit detainees and their families for money.
@RyanDWalsh examines the black market in 🇪🇬's prisons & the commoditization of repression. timep.org/2023/04/04/shareho…
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1/ This isn't front page news, but it's important.
For years, Congress has said no taxpayer money to Egypt to help them repress free speech.
But Trump ignored Congress. And a disaster resulted for the Egyptian people.
Soon, maybe disaster for us.
apnews.com/article/rubio-egy…
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In an absolutely egregious escalation against press freedom, Egyptian journalist and @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief @Linaattalah has been referred to trial on charges of establishing, managing, and operating a website without a license. Her trial is set to begin this Tuesday, Oct 27.
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I've been in D.C. for 25 years and have never once heard a resident or visitor refer to East Potomac Park as "Trash Island." I don't know that it even has a trash problem!
That being said, this is where the East Wing was dumped after it was demolished...
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Tearing down the East Wing and ruining the Reflecting Pool are bad, but symbolically so. This makes the experience of living in DC as a normal person – turning a place for cycling, fishing, birding, picnicking, and cheap golf into a playground for the rich – materially worse.
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Whenever | travel abroad to meet with foreign leaders, I write a behind the scenes account of the trip on my way home.
Here are notes from my recent trip to the Middle East. It's not a comprehensive recitation of all the topics raised. Just a snapshot.
chrismurphyct.com/p/behind-t…
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If “Aaron Philo” or “Tramell Jones” beats Auburn and Byrum Brown on the road in their first SEC start ever then I will staple my ballsack to the ceiling
Shit is not happening yall need to be put down
My Final Florida Schedule Predictions: 🐊
UF vs FAU: 48-3 ✅
UF vs Campbell: 63-0 ✅
UF @ Auburn: 20-17 ✅
UF vs Ole Miss: 38-31 ✅
UF @ Missouri: 28-31 ❌
UF vs SC: 35-24 ✅
UF @ Texas: 27-20 ❌
UF @ UGA: 21-17 ❌
UF vs Oklahoma: 28-21 ✅
UF @ Kentucky: 38-14 ✅
UF vs Vandy: 35-17 ✅
UF @ FSU: 41-21 ✅
Final Record 9-3
Floor: 7-5
Ceiling: 11-1
Could maybe sneak into the playoffs @ 9-3 but probably unlikely, i don’t think any game on our schedule is not winnable and it’s so hard to predict the games. Yeah maybe there’s some biased here but I’m extremely high on this roster & this staff. This defense will be top 5 in the SEC & I trust buster with these weapons & think our offense has a pretty safe floor
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Texas A&M honoring Pete Hegseth in attendance by being at a stalemate with a much lesser opponent
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if I were Germany, I would simply score four goals against Paraguay, like the United States men's national team
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All the Iran hawks said that the way to get rid of Iran’s hardline regime, nuclear program, missiles, and support for terrorism was to go to war with Iran.
We went to war with Iran. And the hardline regime, nuclear program, missiles and terrorism aid are all still there.
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If you're wondering why the Middle East looks the way it does, it is in part because of people like McGurk. This guy should never have a job in government again.
Biden's Middle East advisor suggests that America's war with Iran was unavoidable
In a conversation with the American Jewish Committee, Brett McGurk, who was the Biden White House's top Middle East official, was asked: Was this war inevitable or was it avoidable?
His answer reveals surprising overlaps between how Biden and Trump national security leaders see Iran and the Middle East.
"We've been at war with Iran since 1979, and the Iranian ideology, which remains very much intact, is to get the US out of the Middle East and to eliminate Israel," McGurk says.
"And as the White House point person through that [post-Oct. 7] crisis, let me just kind of very succinctly, what a day was like. Put aside the horror of Gaza and the hostages and everything going on there for a moment.
"We’re under attack in the Red Sea. Anti-ship ballistic missiles flying Mach 4 trying to hit US ships and kill dozens of sailors. We're under attack in Iraq. We took a grievously wounded casualty on Christmas Day 2023 and attacks continued to escalate until we have three Americans dead in Jordan at the end of January.
"Iran launched two of the largest ballistic missile attacks in history against Israel before Israel ever attacked into Iran, and all the while Iran is enriching uranium in Fordow to 60% grade as this is all going on.
"I met the Iranians in Oman during this crisis. I dealt with it every day. And what Iran was doing to continue to escalate throughout that horror that was going on in the Middle East is a story that I don't think has been effectively, frankly, told.
"But it gets to your question. You can dissect decisions of certain American presidents from Carter all the way through Trump. You can dissect American decision-making. You have to look at what Iran does, its policy and what it does in the region which drives so much of this mayhem. And I can criticize certain elements of the way this current campaign has been prosecuted. I think we're in a very difficult predicament now which we can talk about.
"But the core of your question was this war — this war has been ongoing since 1979."
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I am 95% done with a deal to buy a new house. The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on the price and whether the owners are actually willing to sell
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Dude, the war that has been the raison d’être of your organization @FDD for ages happened & it has been the unmitigated disaster so many of us warned it would be. Please sit silently in a hole somewhere until CNN or Fox lets you resume your career as a pez dispenser of dumb ideas
If President Trump agrees to a 60-day ceasefire extension based on vague Iranian promises to “discuss” nuclear issues, it’s game over. That pushes the crisis into late July or early August, when major military operations become far less likely ahead of the midterms.
Once the military leverage disappears, meaningful nuclear concessions disappear with it. Ballistic missile restrictions will be nonexistent. Iran will get billions in sanctions relief—while repeatedly using Hormuz as a tool of blackmail.
Tehran will have won at the negotiating table what it lost on the battlefield.
