M. Kabir

M. Kabir

@mkabir.bsky.social

Ph.D in International Relations, faculty, research interests in alliances and the geopolitics of Asia-Pacific. Read non-fiction, history, and IR books. 💙 Rumi’s poetry, Stephen King📚& dystopian novels. 🚫 NO DMs PLEASE, I WON’T RESPOND 🛑

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“I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry.” — Ralph Bunche

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

So happy that Lula won in Brazil! 🇧🇷 Do we know if ketchup started flying in the Cheesecake Factory? 🤷🏻‍♂️

How do authoritarians stay in power and avoid accountability? There are several strategies. Two noteworthy ones are: 1. Capturing the institutions and referees who are responsible for upholding the law, 2. Creating a cult among the followers that will absolve the leader for absolutely everything!

“The oppressed has only one solution: to deny the harmony of that mankind from which an attempt is made to exclude him, to prove that he is a man and that he is free by revolting against the tyrants.” — Simone de Beauvoir

“What’s up with the gold”? A serious question! 🤷🏻‍♂️ I am never ever tired of listening to Obama’s speeches!! An amazing orator! 💙

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

"We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” — Terence McKenna

An intensifying arms race is gripping the Korean Peninsula, as both sides trade missile tests. . . North Korea is rapidly upgrading its conventional forces with the help of its military partnership with Russia, recently revitalized by the Ukraine war. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/w...

nytimes.comArms Race Intensifies in Korea as the North Is Emboldened by Russia Alliance (Gift Article)A rare escalation this month exposed the increasingly lethal arsenals the two Koreas are building up across the world’s most heavily fortified border.

"I know you cannot fit anywhere with this love; the world is too narrow for you. But endure, my heart. Endure, for every night surely has a morning." — RUMI 💙

"You are forced to live with a group of hypocrites, delusional people, and liars, and you no longer have the strength to endure all these absurdities." - Franz Kafka (When we are governed by a group of hypocrites, delusional people, and liars, VOTING them OUT is the way to end the nightmare)

Roger Marshall: "Leaving Afghanistan led to the Ukraine war." Huh! . . .like. . Like how??? You hear something weird from the cult everyday 😳😬😵‍💫

I keep seeing posts like this👇 This should be taken very seriously. . Anything is possible as the cult doesn’t care about integrity and accountability!

“An admirer of Orban”— a pretty good summary of the cult’s politics ! That’s all one needs to know! 🤢

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LOL -- JD Vance says "I've endorsed one foreign candidate in my entire life, and it didn't go particularly well, as much as I'm very much an admirer of Orban"

Trump says Kim Jong-un has been “unthreatening and respectful,” but North Korea has not slowed its missile-testing spree. The Kim regime knows how to play this game well. . . 🤔 Learn more: bit.ly/4eIGq7v

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” —Martin Luther King

“When someone utters the word “iron” or “silver,” don’t we all think of the same thing? … But what happens when we say “just” or “good”? Doesn’t each one of us go in a different direction? Don’t we differ with one another and even with ourselves?” — Plato

I will always remember this moment!!

Andrea Devon@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks

November 4, 2008. Remember when hope felt this big? We can have it again. Vote like your life depends on it. #VivaHerAlliance #VoteBlue 💙🇺🇸