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Chmielewska-Szlajfer @hchsz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Last but not least, a special ❤️ to @jansmolenski.bsky.social who made me rethink the arguments from my book for the increasingly (not) kidding political scene today. "(Not) kidding: politics in online tabloids" is here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2671-n... and in many other bookstores /3

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So these eastsplainers of westsplaining have finally met! @jansmolenski.bsky.social and I shared some very mutually understanding remarks and wavelengths in Warsaw and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social might want to photoshop himself in

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The recording is very worth listening to. Was energising to hear Olga talk about our collaborative critique of epistemic imperialism, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social & @jansmolenski.bsky.social's work on epistemic superimposition and the problem of Westsplaining more broadly www.sg.uu.nl/video/2026/0...

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What do we know about Russia's war against Ukraine?

How Western ignorance plays into Russia's hands

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After a long hiatus I am back. And with a recently published paper on the boundary problem in democratic theory and the federal principle. It’s open access so download as much as you want! academic.oup.com/publius/adva...

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Seems like a good time to repost what @jansmolenski.bsky.social and I wrote about Mearsheimer and his moronic ilk back in 2022: newrepublic.com/article/1656...

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

So much support! This is really pathetic.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The berating of Zelenskyy in the White House is perhaps the final defeat of the pro-atlanticist faction in the Republican Party. MAGA with its strange blend of isolationist rhetoric and extortionist actions won. It is not inconceivable that the whole thing was staged Vance for just this purpose.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably IS a duck.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lindsey Graham repeating Putin's talking points is the new low even for the Republican Party.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is the message that Europeans have been receiving for some time. And we need to act accordingly.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lindsey Graham sucking up to Trump on Fox News is embarrassing. No, Senator, Putin watching Trump defending him is not scared of Trump, he is happy he has his fanboy in the White House.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Presidency-ending scandals for any POTUS from Truman to Obama, massively endangering US national security, now happening on a daily basis, while Congress sits on its hands & does nothing. Total, comprehensive failure of Article I of the Constitution.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Putin’s lifelong dream was to somehow separate the US from NATO. But how to break up a strong alliance that stood for 80 years and continued to expand? There really was only one way to do it, he figured it out a decade ago, and played the long game. Now his guy will do it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Keep this in mind as House Republicans vote for a budget framework that would gut Medicaid (relied on by 72 million) and food stamp programs (relied on by 42 million people).

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Perhaps Nikki wants to consult a mirror?

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Removing "your" people from the reach of the law is one of the traits of authoritarianism. It rests on providing favors in exchange for loyalty. And favors in the form of temporary exemption from criminal prosecution are the best, because they guarantee control.

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Piotr Wilkin @ilintar.org · 24/02/2025

The new American government: protecting... (checks notes) poor loan sharks against their scammed victims. And no, this is not a joke nor The Onion, as much as I'd wish it were.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Serious question I do not have enough time to answer myself: how many of these incompetent people have crypto investments and can be controlled through them?

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

How? Against Trump's political opponents. This is not about the effective use of the power of the state but about its use against specific people. Here the competence is not needed. What is needed is blind loyalty.

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Time for this I think. Every new signal from the White House says they’re abandoning Ukraine and actually want to ally with Russia. Worse than even just the pessimistic prediction of simple abandonment.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So far the US elites did next to nothing…

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"...expectations vis-à-vis the parties are asymmetrical: Democrats must be the adults in the room; the Republican party has license to feature Marjorie Taylor Greene... Accepting this...asymmetry – and...politicians never facing consequences...– is part of what has brought us to this moment."

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Lessons for the resistance 2.0 on how to fight back against Trump | Jan-Werner Müller

Defeatism and demoralisation are rampant in Trump’s second term. But we cannot give up

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

9 tweets per hour if he didn’t sleep. Too much k🐎💉?

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Looks like Democrats stopped censoring themselves. Maybe this is the way to mobilize and capitalize on people’s anger at DOGE

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

No one should full themselves. It is not about not being advantage of anymore. It is about exploiting vulnerability. This is not a behavior of an ally but of a predator.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/02/2025

My favourite part of the new Captain America movie is when he tries to extort Wakanda for $500b in Vibranium rights before "ironically" teaming up with Hydra to own the libs.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This is a deal between Trump and Putin.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Posted by @rothschildmd.bsky.social on another platform: “The entire federal government now apparently reports to Elon Musk, who is not the president, doesn't run DOGE according to Trump administration court filings, has no authority to remove federal employees, and tweets all day.”

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This is fake. If this were true Trudeau would be referred to as governor

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Americans voted this man saying things like this into office twice. American political elites are going along with it. The problem is not Trump. For Europe, the problem is that voting Americans and American elites decided to terminate the transatlantic alliance.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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This is the most dangerous move yet

The canary is gasping for air

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Some strong Führerprinzip vibes here

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Giorgia Meloni may be Musk’s personal friend, but even she has to see that investing in Starlink isn’t smart

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Report that Zelensky will cave to Trump's mafia-style threats. US allies need to pay extremely close attn to this. Given this dramatic transformation, the US can bully each of its allies this way so the lesson is-- don't rely on the US for anything, start treating them as a rapacious adversary.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This, of course, is the way the US under Musk-Putin-Trump-Vance will treat other Europeans states. Maybe not with such heavy-handedness, but with the same goal and equal contempt. I’m wondering how ppl like Lindsey Graham feel knowing that they buried the most successful alliance in modern history.

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This $200m was certainly appropriated by Congress for exactly this purpose.

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Americans should know that Trump just abandoned allies with a combined GDP equivalent to US GDP, in exchange for Russia which has a GDP only 6% the size of US GDP. And Trump convinced MAGA that they were all going to be rich.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 22/02/2025

This is not going to go well

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If this happens, it’s clear that Trump’s prime commitment is to make Russia great again.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

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Bartosz T. Wieliński @bart-wielinski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Donald Trump ponosi druzgocącą klęskę w negocjacjach z Kremlem - piszą eksperci analitycznego ośrodka Re-Russia. Powodem jest rażąca niekompetencja ludzi prezydenta i jego maniakalne dążenie do błyskotliwego sukcesu. wyborcza.pl/7,75399,3171...

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Druzgocący falstart Trumpa w negocjacjach z Putinem

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Jan Smoleński, PhD @jansmolenski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

He is getting it. It will be white and very, very mediocre.

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