Restive

unable to stay still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control (usually happening because of impatience, boredom or some sort of dissatisfaction) alternative definition exclusively when describing a horse: refusing to advance; stubornly standing still; moving backwards or sideways

Clément Plaisant

Clément Plaisant

@cplaisant.bsky.social

Great article by Amberin Zaman: "Turkey’s equally big fear is that a dissolution of central authority would encourage Iran’s restive ethnic minorities, notably the Kurds, the Baloch and the Azeris, to break away"
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/01/why-iran-regimes-potential-collapse-spells-more-risk-benefit-turkey?gift_code=yBLGMfflZyiKuncVYHnGpICNKZI

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Quiescent

being quiet or still; inactive; motionless; at rest; in a state of inactivity or dormancy

Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky

@sashaabramsky.bsky.social

Trump ramps up authoritarianism, threatening to conquer Greenland and send military into Minneapolis. His quiescent FBI raids home of a journalist. his Justice Department begins investigating Fed Reserve chair. My Authoritarian Watch column breaks all of this down. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-colonialism-authoritarianism/

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Flout

to show contempt or scorn at something

The Scales ⚖️

The Scales ⚖️

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The US is a failed state: governed by criminals & perverts, with poverty as deliberate policy; they arm genocidal regimes, flout international law, violate borders, break treaties, extort entire countries, drive global corruption, promote racism, murder their own citizens, & terrorise the globe.

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Advocate

a person who publicly supports a certain cause or policy; someone who recommends a certain cause or doing something a certain way; supporter; promoter; champion

TheCityCeleb

TheCityCeleb

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Shaheem Sanchez Burns, mononymously Shaheem, is a pre-eminent American deaf dancer, choreographer, and advocate whose electrifying footwork and expressive sign-language…

Read More: Shaheem Sanchez Biography: Net Worth, Height, Age, Father, Siblings, Deaf, Wife, Wikipedia, Ethnicity

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