Aaron Y. Zelin
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinI’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. Zelin🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinSpraying pepper spray directly into the eyes of a detained person who’s already fully subdued
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinI refuse to accept anything other than the resignation and immediate retirement of all of these fucking corporate candy-ass Democratic cowards. They’ve lost the right to do anything but get out of the way and live in disgrace for the rest of their days.
- To quote one source: “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.” prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinHeartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together
- Reposted by Aaron Y. Zelin“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. Zelin‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began. From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinMeanwhile... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinI grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinNada Atallah for the The National on the Shaddadi ('Sini') prison break, with pro-army tribal fighters most likely being responsible for letting the IS detainees out. Only 120 fighters held in the facility in total, 30 still missing the rest in gov't custody. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinIt is tough here right now in Minneapolis but Greg Bovino crying to the paper about how he’s getting his ass handed to him by plant sale moms has been a real pick me up
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. Zelin“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.” — Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is a stunning illustration of the national auto-lobotomy going on in the United States 🇺🇸 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Aaron Y. Zelintrump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinThis is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.
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- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinAt least 16,500 protesters have been killed in Iran and more than 330,000 injured, The Sunday Times reports, citing a report by a network of Iranian doctors, human rights data, and eyewitness accounts.
- Reposted by Aaron Y. ZelinWhatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
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