Dr. Jolani Peterson

Dr. Jolani Peterson

@boundedrationality.bsky.social

Разом до перемоги а ти шо думав? vibes? papers? essays? פֿרייערס.

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We simultaneously have H.R. 10912 being introduced to amend third party transfers to get defense articles to Ukraine faster while Trump is racing to lift even more sanctions on Russia. While Melania touts a deal that amounts to sending Oleshky survivors into Russian filtration camps to silence them.

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Worth noting we have even more polling showing how profoundly unpopular lifting sanctions on Russia is in America. This admin doesn’t care and if want sanctions for any other country in the world you actually do need to study Russia sanctions. Citing apartheid South Africa in 2026 is unserious.

You need to read about CAATSA, EU sanctions packages on RU, US laws post 2022. The networks in China, Central Asia, Iran, Cyprus, Gulf, South Caucuses and how goods and money flow through them. And yes I have plenty of literature and archived articles I can share.

We simultaneously have H.R. 10912 being introduced to amend third party transfers to get defense articles to Ukraine faster while Trump is racing to lift even more sanctions on Russia. While Melania touts a deal that amounts to sending Oleshky survivors into Russian filtration camps to silence them.

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Aaron Gies @aarongies.bsky.social has signed the Track Ukraine Pledge! He is running as a Democrat in New York's 23rd Congressional District [NY-23] on November 3. ✅Supports military aid ✅Supports financial aid ✅Supports sanctions ✅Condemns ethnic cleansing ✅Condemns child trafficking

If I am understanding things correctly, Iran has been able to maintain supplying the Myanmar junta with jet fuel but we don't know if they still relabel it as South African? And OFAC hasn't designated Dynamic Wave, Tawan or National Energy Prime and likely won't until conclusion of US-junta talks?

Annoying how people are trying to downplay Lula’s ties to Russia simply to defend against dumb arguments from Bolsonaro apologists. He was one of the only democratically elected leaders to go to the May 9 parade in 2025, refused to come to Kyiv, and oversaw expanded Russian investment in Brazil.

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Zelenskyy’s congratulatory statement to Lula can be read as outreach meant to sit alongside Putin’s much stronger statement of support. In 2023 Putin touted that he had support from both camps. Which is the ideal situation for any nation and a Russian goal of blunting any pro-Ukraine sentiment.

Annoying how people are trying to downplay Lula’s ties to Russia simply to defend against dumb arguments from Bolsonaro apologists. He was one of the only democratically elected leaders to go to the May 9 parade in 2025, refused to come to Kyiv, and oversaw expanded Russian investment in Brazil.

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Going further, Lula began abstaining on UN resolutions assigning blame to Russia in 2025 and affirming Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. One reason RU liked Lula is Bolsanaro said he would consider leaving BRICS. Yet he’s in alignment with Trump, who is furthering Putin-Xi goals in UA

Boric was the only leader in South America who both supported Ukraine and took no policy that actively harmed it. Milei is vocally anti-Russia but simultaneously supports right-wing parties and candidates abroad that are anti-Ukraine.

Annoying how people are trying to downplay Lula’s ties to Russia simply to defend against dumb arguments from Bolsonaro apologists. He was one of the only democratically elected leaders to go to the May 9 parade in 2025, refused to come to Kyiv, and oversaw expanded Russian investment in Brazil.

Obviously Bolsonaro is worse on every front including on Russia. Lula winning is better for Ukraine and for Brazilians but he’s the perfect example of a leader who was anti-UA yet Russia still saw more opportunities with Bolsonaro as authoritarian consolidation is in their best interests.

It’s honestly very amusing how many people rant about Ukraine and the MIC when defense PACs all donate to the most pro-Russian candidates. Anyone can use the FEC’s API key. Don’t try to bs I am not a “Ukraine watcher” I am a Reverse Noticer™️. True to this not new to this.

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Democrat and Track Ukraine Pledge signee Doug Chapin @dmcj.bsky.social is running in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District [MN-06] on November 3. ✅Supports military aid ✅Supports sanctions ✅Supports the Ukraine Support Act ✅Condemns trafficking of children ✅Condemns U.S. abandonment of Ukraine

I saw discourse on Twitter again about “Marxists read the Financial Times while liberals can’t explain socialism” is back on Twitter which is hilarious. You’re telling me the people who never bring good booze to parties and always have the worst blow are paying for FT? I’m 40 please shut up.

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The California Insurance Commissioner’s choices affect every homeowner and driver in the state. Jane Kim is an incompetent political climber who would blow up California’s already-in-crisis insurance market if elected. It is VITALLY IMPORTANT that every Californian vote for Ben Allen.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

In my opinion, progressives like Sanders should not be endorsing hardcore NIMBYs like Kim. And hardcore NIMBYs like Kim should not be allowed to call themselves progressives.

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“In his 2023 self-published memoir, John Deaton details several transgressions: shootout & possible homicide, drunk driving, filing a false police report while serving as a Marine JAG officer, and, perhaps most notably, that as an adult he approached a 15-year-old girl, began a sexual relationship"

Track Ukraine@trackukraine.bsky.social

John Deaton is running in Massachusetts' Republican Senate primary on Tuesday. ❌Opposes military aid

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Sovereign wealth funds invested $14.2B in mainland China and Hong Kong in January-September 2026, versus $4.9B in all of 2025, CNBC reports, citing Global SWF. Middle Eastern investors led the rebound.

It must suck to work for FDD on Russia. You spend all this time to remove Russian leverage on Israel but every contradiction of FDD has led to a US that went into a disastrous Iran war and that same admin is allying with Russia. Using the bill you lobbied for to waive sanctions.

change.orgSign the PetitionCondemn assault on Ukrainian scholar Vladyslav Starodubtsev
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My friend @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social a war veteran and scholar was attacked and viciously beaten by far-right thugs in Lviv while on his way to give a lecture on the history of labor and socialist movements in Galicia for UA’s main democratic socialist org. 20 vs 1. Fucking cowards.

Imagine being left of center and having the same foreign policy platform on Ukraine as Randy Fine.

Track Ukraine@trackukraine.bsky.social

Republican Randy Fine is running for reelection in Florida's 6th Congressional District [FL-06] on November 3. ❌Voted against the Ukraine Support Act ✅Supports sanctions ❌No alternative to failed negotiations

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Cars burning in Chabany, just south of Kyiv , after either strike by jet drone or falling debris from shoot-down. Casualties reported. The explosion could be heard over 8 km from this location.

China has trained Russian troops. They are heavily involved in the occupied territories through over 17 major corporations. Xi could have ended the war. It's why democracy is so important. These conversations are simply not possible in Chinese society. We always focus entirely on EU & US.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

Trump: Xi has been very fair on Ukraine

I don't take people seriously who always insist we can only criticize countries we ally with or sell arms to. Global problems require global solutions. It's intellectually lazy to ignore China, India, and so many others who enable Russia’s war machine.

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turns out most american jews are progressive democrats who are not going to vote for a republican because of islamophobic pro-israel fearmongering, no matter how much these folks wishcast otherwise

Philip Bump@pbump.com

This is functionally equivalent to the CBS exec who hollered at the reporter about how much better she knew Mideast politics.

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Don't necessarily agree w/ everything LC publishes, but it feels strange to me for people to be reading this as "punching left" when the thesis is very plainly: "No, INTERNET POLITICS are awash in antisemitism because we let fascists run the place and adopt their behaviors;" which is observably true

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

"There is an antisemitism problem on the left because the left consists of people, and modern internet culture is built out of bigotry and slurs from the ground up." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-native-l...

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⚡️US-Russia-China summit would only 'encourage Putin to continue this war,' Ukraine says. "A trilateral meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, the U.S., and Russia could help end the war sooner," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.

kyivindependent.comUS-Russia-China summit would only 'encourage Putin to continue this war,' Ukraine says"A trilateral meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, the U.S., and Russia could help end the war sooner," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said. "A trilateral meeting between the leaders of Russia, Chi...

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typically great stuff from @goldwagnathan.bsky.social on how indulging in the libidinal lust for slurs and dehumanization crosses ideological lines--and yet sets us all on the same dark path

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

"There is an antisemitism problem on the left because the left consists of people, and modern internet culture is built out of bigotry and slurs from the ground up." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-native-l...

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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com, running for U.S. Senate in Alaska [AK-Sen], on Ukraine at last week's Alaska Public Media debate: "I think it's so important that we stand with Ukraine and our allies… I think we should be doing everything in our power to help support them. Not bolstering up Russia."

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Statement on the Attack on @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social Oct 18th, 2026

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My friend @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social a war veteran and scholar was attacked and viciously beaten by far-right thugs in Lviv while on his way to give a lecture on the history of labor and socialist movements in Galicia for UA’s main democratic socialist org. 20 vs 1. Fucking cowards.

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Europe needs to consider a No Fly Zone over Ukraine this winter. The chances of russia accepting it and focusing on the frontline are higher than the danger of it picking a fight w NATO. Not doing it out of fear means Ru sabotage and strikes on Europe will keep escalating because russia smells fear.

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More than 100 of us Jewish and Palestinian activists, were in the village of Al-Maniya in the West Bank, standing in solidarity with the Palestinian community and helping harvest olives. The village has faced violent attacks from settlers nearby.

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I am shocked at this news. I was privileged to be interviewed by Vladyslav on radical republicanism (the interview, which he translated into Ukrainian, is here: respublica.social/sotsialnie-r...) Sending solidarity and warm wishes for a quick and full recovery.

Dr. Jolani Peterson@boundedrationality.bsky.social

My friend @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social a war veteran and scholar was attacked and viciously beaten by far-right thugs in Lviv while on his way to give a lecture on the history of labor and socialist movements in Galicia for UA’s main democratic socialist org. 20 vs 1. Fucking cowards.

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Netanyahu is a genocidal war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but Jews were not considered ethnic Poles based on the Polish government, and Polish Jewish last names were forced on families against their will. This kind of conspiratorial rhetoric about Jews faking their identity is gross.