Professor, international relations, Spartan & Cyclone alumni, studies conflict, institutions, and disasters; mother of awesome rehabilitation counselor
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Your reminders: Trump ended the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team which investigated crypto-related crimes like fraud and money laundering. Trump also fired the ethics watchdog overseeing corruption in the executive branch. This is just another Trump family scam.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Even though the president negotiated the deal that put them back in power 🤷♀️
If a Katrina like event happens in the T administration, the response will make the Bush administration seem highly competent 🤷♀️ www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
Brendan has gone over to the dark side 😂
Wow, 16 years
Cute names!
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Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban appeals for international aid as rescue teams search for survivors
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We are hiring in my department at Cardiff! Three positions available, closing date September 7th. I’m happy to talk with anyone interested!
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers.
I realize I have met 3 judges that serve or previously served on the ICJ or ITLOS courts. Very cool!
Oooh, Utrecht is a lovely city!
Trump has done a fantastic job of strengthening America's international rivals, ceding leadership in every field, leaving us weaker in security, influence, and economics. Regaining US prominence will take many years, if it is possible. My guess is Trump is ushering in a new international era.
🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
As someone who loves tennis, I experienced several major injuries that led me to stop playing (2 herniated discs & tennis elbow). So far, playing pickleball has been much better for my body. I miss playing USTA leagues though 😢
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
Lmao
We can’t be so lucky…
The cruelty is the point
Saving for intro IR
Toll likely to rise, with significant damage reported across mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan, sources say.
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
Yep!
Ukraine should cede nothing. A person like me who studies territorial disputes understands the long term problems with making any concessions now. Not to mention how this would shred territorial integrity norms and increase revisionist behavior globally.
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Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
Trump, with his endless wisdom, pushes India into China’s dragon hug. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/c...
The cruelty is the point 😡😡
Also the stock market has risen, but it had a long way to go from the first tariff dip.
Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts DOGE was supposed to save $1-2 TRILLION. Likely saved only about $1.4 billion instead. (A billion is 1/1000th of a trillion btw) www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Funny how this administration is creating the left’s version of states’ rights as supreme
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
My beef prices suggest otherwise 😂
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Hey #CivMilSky, the annual APSA Hangout will be at 5pm on Friday, September 12 at the Tap and Barrel. I got a place there under my name. Hope to see you there! Spread the word!
Staffan Lindberg Project 2025 tracker....anyone in doubt what is in the works? www.project2025.observer/en?fbclid=Iw...
WAPO needs to call this what it is: an ethnic cleansing plan 😡😡😡
Just because you feel like your day to day life may have not changed that much much doesn't mean that America hasn't changed dramatically under Trump. Authoritarianism is here, right now. We all need to be as clear eyed about it as @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Now on FirstView! "…we present a predation index in political science based on a clear operational definition & coding, thereby providing a tool that every scholar can use to protect the integrity of the publishing process & their own work." doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #academisky
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Breaking the Dublin curse 😂
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Wait, Paxton thought he was above the law? Where did he get that idea?
“Lo and behold” sounds like AI
Agreed
I have always hated Ostapenko and this solidifies my hatred. Also Townsend continues to be mistreated in tennis and it makes me so angry!
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
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Children with brain cancer
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
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Wow
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icymi: how Mearsheimer left his own theory behind to blame liberals for the war
The 80’s especially after the 90’s destroyed hair metal 😂
Maybe T could be awarded the anti Nobel Peace prize 😂
Unfortunately yes. They are like cockroaches in terms of resilience.
As debate boils over allegations of genocide in Gaza, there’s another place where all sides in the United States seem to agree a genocide is underway — yet largely ignore it. That’s Sudan My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
We can’t get that lucky…
I think Grassley is actually the most normie on this list. He still believes in institutions and the rule of law. Johnson might also be more normie as president.
Gift link. Read it for the sheer stupidity of our President's reasons for wrecking our relationship with India, not to mention a chunk of their export trade.
Has done you mean 😂
BREAKING 🧵: Divided appeals court rules against Trump's tariffs. 4 judges appointed by Bush I, Obama, & Biden (2) say IEEPA doesn't allow tariffs. 4 judges app. by Bush II (2) & Obama (2) - including chief - say it does. 3 judges app. by Clinton & Obama (2) say it doesn't allow *these* tariffs.
"However, the restrictions could prevent the attendance of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Refusing him a visa would be highly controversial and would appear to violate the UN Headquarters Agreement. The United Nations recognizes Palestine as a non-member observer state."
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When you know something is wrong, say it when you see it. Everything doesn’t need deliberation
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
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We need more reporting like this in the US
Glad you are more optimistic than me about the future of our country!
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Hinson "has been remarkably unpopular at town halls across [Iowa] as she ardently defends Trump’s agenda. She faced even more heat in May when she told a crowd...she was 'proud to vote for [the OBB], eliciting so much contempt from the crowd that they yelled at her until she stopped speaking."
YES!! Some good political news for Iowa!
Bluesky is what Twitter used to be when Elon didn’t own it
Academic “peasants” have always been working harder with fewer resources than the “landowners” and not getting credit for it 😂
It's almost like knowledge and expertise actually matters. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Essential reading from @dziblatt.bsky.social. Hitler rose because of other politicians’ belief that “democracy’s protections could be bargained away but democracy itself could still somehow survive.” www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵
WSJ Page One: @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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Or not digging out…
Trump's ending the $800 duty-free exemption on Friday but customs hasn't told postal services how to actually collect the tariffs. Germany and Singapore just said forget it and stopped shipping packages to the US entirely. www.ft.com/content/43ae...
I laughed so much! Great episode!
WTF!!
Stacey Abrams and I sound the alarm - the time to act to stop autocracy is now. time.com/7312340/stop...
Isn’t it supposed to work if you have one of the comorbities on that list?
Congratulations!
@smsaideman.bsky.social thoughts? I am closer to your position on this point.
Smart. China should be doing this as well. Good time to pull the hedging states closer.
We need a GARCH model for this forecast