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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please join for my talk today at University of Tokyo on zoom, 9:30-11 JST! For US East Coasters, thats 830pm on June 10. Registration link below.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Excited to present my forthcoming book, The Foundations of Modern Territory, tomorrow at Edinburgh Law School, and to have such excellent commentators! If you're in the area come through tomorrow! 10am-4pm, Elder Room at the Old College. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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The Foundations of Modern Territory: Building Bordered States in the Early Modern Law of Nations | Edinburgh Law School

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Exactly! The fine ‘academic’ distinctions are really the details that make up the world of choices you imagine you’re making. Andi’s sense of agency and self- identity in this scene are completely shaken.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The Cerulean blue scene in The Devil Wears Prada is perhaps the best illustration of what studying the history of political thought is for.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Reading Simone Weil’s Need for Roots today, wondering if we need to talk more often about boredom as a political concept.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hey everyone, just fyi I’m a pretty big deal and they’re devoting whole podcasts to discussing my brilliant ideas.

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Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 17/05/2025

typical corrupt science

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The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought
Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am
By DINO GRANDONI
The Washington Post

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Great answer. I’ve also recommended Raymond Geuss, History and Illusion in Politics.

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Hannah Cornish @hannahcornish.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational

Cross stitch embroidery of beetles and the words: But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything. C Darwin to C Lyell 1861

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It’s 2025. Sovereignty is winning.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The thing is that anarcho-capitalist secretly really love the state.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

No one told me that Ben Affleck played an accountant with a gun named “Christian Wolff”

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

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Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions

The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Columbia Ph.D. and faculty member here. Completely gutted by this decision. And as a researcher of autocracy, not challenging these charges in court and in public opinion is a great mistake.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

a dog who can read you the newspaper and get 85% of the headlines right is the most important invention in dog history and the least important invention in newspaper history

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Follow art historians and journalists. They’re interesting people.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It’s the one we go back to most frequently. I think it’s because commodifying your interests translates especially well the older we get.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Sounds like they should do a costanza.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

When buddy decides the day is over.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/02/2025

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

Photograph of the Royal Historical Society's BlueSky homepage.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Give these fine folks a follow

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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist. When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question." @courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...

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Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Say It’s a ‘Cautionary Tale’ For All Law Firms

The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."

However, previous administrations have allowed so-called "independent regulatory agencies" to operate with minimal Presidential supervision. These regulatory agencies currently exercise substantial executive authority without sufficient accountability to the President, and through him, to the American people. Moreover, these regulatory agencies have been permitted to promulgate significant regulations without review by the President. 

These practices undermine such regulatory agencies' accountability to the American people and prevent a unified and coherent execution of Federal law. For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President.  

Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials' accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register.

Sec. 3. OIRA Review of Agency Regulations. (a) Section 3(b) of Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993 ("Regulatory Planning and Review"), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:  

"(b) "Agency," unless otherwise indicated, means any authority of the United States that is an "agency" under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), and shall also include the Federal Election Commission. This order shall not apply to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or to the Federal Open Market Committee in its conduct of monetary policy. This order shall apply to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System only in connection with its conduct and authorities directly related to its supervision and regulation of financial institutions.".

(b) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) shall provide guidance on implementation of this order to the heads of executive departments and agencies newly submitting regulatory actions under section 3(b) of Executive Order 12866. Agency submissions by independent regulatory agencies under such section shall commence within the earlier of 60 days from the date of this order, or completion of such implementation guidance.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

the protein arms race has taken a turn: 45g per protein bar. next thing we know we'll have 17 blade razors

picture of Musashi protein bar box against a white background, with "45g protein per bar" in a red circle

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Me getting that email from the Chronicle this morning about a useless tool that nobody wants

Miyazaki telling it how it is about ‘AI’

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/01/2025

Your contribution to our 501(c)(3) makes an incredible difference. Let's expand the reach of Free Press journalism together, ensuring balanced, nonpartisan stories for Mississippi and the nation. buff.ly/42bjxUY

Purple writing that says support Free Press journalism.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I guess democracy died

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Our newsletter includes round-up of recent JHI Blog posts and a some of the year’s most-read journal articles, which are freely available for the next few weeks: mailchi.mp/742b2d4d8001... Have a look—and resolve to submit an article or blog post to the journal or JHI Blog in the new year!

A list of some of hte JHI's most-read articles from 2024 which are freely available for several weeks:
Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part One: Rethinking the “Origins” of US Intellectual History by Sophie Smith
Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, and the Future by Sophie Smith
Alternate Edens: History, Evolution, and Origins in UNESCO's Cultural and Scientific History of Mankind by Emily M. Kern
Sophie de Grouchy’s Political Thought in the "Letters on Sympathy" (1798) by Minchul Kim
“Facts” and “Ideas”: Richard Jones, William Whewell, and the Entangled Histories of Science and Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain by Upal Chakrabarti
Prisoner, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Hobbes on Coercion and Consent by Daniel Luban
Legal Analogies in Cicero's Political Thought by Maarten Klink
Historicizing a Dream of Complete Science by Nasser Zakariya
Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity by Stuart Elden
"Building the Earth": Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Science, and the Spirituality of the United Nations by Sarah Shortall
The Influence of the Principle "Necessitas Non Habet Legem" on Nordic Medieval Laws on Theft by Mia Korpiola and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is trench art, made by a soldier living the unbearable in 1916. When we face cataclysm, humans make art. It’s how we cope & protest, every kind of art, including ephemeral arts from rage baking to a game night. Hobbies are human hobbies are self-care hobbies are art hobbies are resistance!

Hand holding a pitcher made from a shiny brass shell casing from a World War I artillery gun. The top has been cut and shaped into a graceful curving spout with a curling handle, and the edges decorated with an etched line.

Same pitcher shown from the front, which is etched with a shield shape containing decorative scrolls and the text “Mametz July 1916.” The text is in beautiful fonts with lovely spirals, clearly a labor of love. Not quite visible is a small heart decorating the top of the handle.

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Nate Rogers @naterogers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site: www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

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Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars

The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industr...

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It’s probably very context and language specific.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Caught part of this at Bell House last year! Can't wait for the special

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

bsky.app/profile/vote... Follow these folks

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There is glory in the unexpressed thought.

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Follow these brave souls. go.bsky.app/LpYSbPT

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Gearing up for end of the semester grading...

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Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

FWIW, I love & voraciously consume audiobooks! But I think we impoverish the unique forms of paying attention denoted by 'listening' and 'reading' by collapsing them.

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