Tomer Stern
@tomer_stern
Economist at The Burning Glass Institute
Top Syrian government official swears that not one Alawite woman has been abducted on the Coast of #Syria Anas Ayrout in this interview swears to God that the story of abductions is an entire fabrication, accusing journalists such as @Reuters' @mokhbersahafi and @spectator 's…
The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in #Syria She resisted. He called another man. One of them held her down and the other raped her. She says, “I fainted. When I woke up, there were seven men in the room. They took turns raping me.” spectator.co.uk/article/the-al…
The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in #Syria She resisted. He called another man. One of them held her down and the other raped her. She says, “I fainted. When I woke up, there were seven men in the room. They took turns raping me.” spectator.co.uk/article/the-al…
I think there is too much ml and not enough lm going on in advertising right now. I am non stop getting barraged with ads for products I just purchased a couple hours ago
From the MoDo archives. Trump: "When Puff Daddy has a party...I'm the person they call." Fascinating!
New post: my visit to the former Alawite village of Arza in Hama, whose inhabitants were massacred & expelled in March. Arza is now populated by some Sunnis from a nearby town called Khattab. The case of Arza raises very serious issues of accountability aymennaltamimi.com/p/photo-essay-…
I would just add that “the attorney general, the director and deputy director of the FBI, the VP, the head of DOGE, and the president’s son all teamed up to lie about the existence of an Epstein client list” is itself an interesting conspiracy theory! Why did they do that?
They painted themselves into the weirdest corner. Because now their only two options are to fess up to having misled their supporters, or to be seen as part of the Epstein coverup.
Ok poli sci actually does have falsifiable theories and a lot of the core ones seem to hold up
Wow — New Gallup poll: —Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 —Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall) —78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024) —30% want decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
Clearer video of Israeli airstrike on the Tajrish neighborhood of Tehran on June 15. The attack struck a crowded traffic junction with what appears to be a Rampage air-launched ballistic missile. From the footage one can only conclude that the civilian casualties were intended:
He literally shouts out @ezraklein lmao incredible
Syrian forces massacred 1,500 Alawites. The chain of command led to Damascus. By @mokhbersahafi A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres following an Assad loyalist insurgency. The chain of…
To me this feels like bringing up trademark law in late 1917 Moscow
Many of Mamdani’s plans to cut costs strike me as unlikely to work well — but not all of them. His approach to expensive Halal truck food is purely deregulatory: cut the cost of doing business by handing out more cheap permits. A good idea!
Chicken over rice now costs $10 or more. It's time to make halal eight bucks again.
@ZohranKMamdani is a great example of how far you can go if you genuinely center your campaign in an engaging way around the issue that voters overwhelmingly say in surveys they care the most about
Chicken over rice now costs $10 or more. It's time to make halal eight bucks again.
Policy wise, he sounds sincere about finding cost-effective ways to pursue left-wing goals. Doesn’t change that big parts of his plans read like fantasy, but I think he realizes that his mayorship would be a referendum on the left’s competence and wants tangible results, not a…