Big news to share: my book West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East is coming out in November 2025 with @politybooks.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

Qatar and Switzerland fans dancing together 🤝

Allowing #Scotland, a country famous for its war of independence from Britain, to play not one but two games in greater Boston, a region famous for starting a war of independence from Britain...was a fantastic idea by all involved

I love the World Cup and even more, the fans!

Scotland fans 🤝 the people of a Boston

Canada, you had ONE job!

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Back of the net. @balogun

“He [Fedorov] is leading an effort to monetize or trade Ukrainian war data, including a library of more than five million annotated videos of the battlefield filmed by surveillance and strike drones… Last month [April], the Defense Ministry, through a program called Avenger Labs, opened up the data sets to companies from allied nations to train artificial intelligence models… Access to Avenger Labs is conditioned on Ukraine receiving the A.I. models that are produced from the data. About 20 companies have expressed interest.” nytimes.com/2026/05/15/world…

BREAKING: The pride of France, Mistral AI, is exploring a raise of €3B at a €20B valuation

The Algeria-Kansas alliance only grows stronger and more wholesome 💚 This is the World Cup we love 🇩🇿

Since this blew up… Modern Egyptians are absolutely decedents of Ancient Egyptians. Conquests do not eradicate native populations. Obviously. BUT the real lesson is that human beings are awesome and can build awesome stuff (when they’re not held back by building regulations).

“Kallas’ seemingly speaking her own mind on issues such as EU-China relations and making proposals that had not yet been approved by capitals.”

“Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety”

German startup Neura Robotics has raised about $1.4 billion in a funding round backed by stablecoin issuer Tether to develop and ship its artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

South Korea’s Naver agreed to build data centers based on Nvidia's models in a move to clinch its dominance in the country’s artificial intelligence landscape bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Analysis from @ThisIsSoliman for #OrbisJournal podcast #ShiftingGround in conversation with me and @lprubin73 ...

Delighted to see West Asia in the top ten bestselling books on Amazon in Political Science, Middle Eastern books and Asian Books, months after its release. Grateful to everyone who has read it, shared it, and engaged with its arguments. @politybooks