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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exactly. But even the most circumstantial of evidence is enough to sustain at least a week-long conspiracy theory news cycle on Fox. Grimly hilarious that they still can’t meet this subterranean evidentiary standard.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t wait to see where she fails up to next

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The best part is that Schmitt must’ve been so excited at the thought of being the one who got Smith to perjure himself. For like two minutes he thought he was gonna be the hero of MAGA world. Then it all just comes crashing down with stunning speed. Boom to bust in a matter of seconds.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some would argue it’s bad for elected officials to treat tax revenue as “income” for their party

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Implementing policies that immiserate our voters, but keeping them on board with relentless messaging stoking racial and cultural anxiety” has essentially been the GOP platform for at least half a century. I see no reason why this particular instantiation of it would suddenly prove unsustainable.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stiff competition but “build a bridge out of her!” might be my favorite line in the holy grail.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Purdue was responsible enough to wait until Mitch Daniels stepped down as president to rename half the campus after him. But now he’s back on an interim basis and all the Mitch Daniels lectures at the Mitch Daniels School of Business on Mitch Daniels Blvd give real North Korea vibes.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Donald Trump’s time horizons can only be measured in nanoseconds, example eleventy billion.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems important that W’s approval spiked around the midterms, as broader party interests created a sort of coattail effect for him. Opposite is happening for Trump. Either the GOP as a whole is cratering (likely) or GOP reps are throwing Trump under the bus to save themselves (also likely).

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The enormous drain on public resources of people who… *checks notes* …don’t file health insurance claims.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Don’t ask how the war will end. Just keep fighting it” is the Platonic ideal of an Eliot Cohen article.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who would've guessed that throwing infinity into a utility function would fuck everything up. In simpler terms, there's no such thing as an "infinitely good outcome" you absolute child.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not to be a dick, but undergrad research is never “reliably excellent.” Most of the time it’s shit. That’s not even remotely the point of it.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Domestic violence as foreign policy

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Donald the dove, as promised, reducing the long-term US military presence in the Middle East.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lol calm down people this is only a quarter of what we spent to fuck up the entire Middle East again.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I also happen to know that quite a few of those terminated employees were later hired back once someone eventually realized that they, you know, did something useful. So much efficiency...

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mark Dubowitz in six months: “yeah, but *true* war with Iran has never been tried…”

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something something reaping sowing

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It shouldn’t be hard for people to remember what national socialism really entailed. It’s right in the name: socialism, but reserved for the nation, i.e. the true volk. And then brutal repression for everyone else.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember the Hatch Act.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just to be clear, “Putin-linked Russian oligarch” is an inherent understatement. If you’re a Russian oligarch, you owe your fortune to Putin, and keep it because you do what Putin tells you to do. They’re quite literally state agents.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, fuckface, since you’ve already essentially cut off all aid to Ukraine…what’s the saying… you don’t have the cards.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The bit about formulating new questions hits particularly hard. I’ve always thought it was doing students a massive disservice for advisors to just give them a topic for their dissertation. That’s much more true now. (Caveat: collaborative research outside the diss is another question entirely).

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

True, though we’d probably be much better off right now if we hadn’t been so able to mobilize to a bunch of incredibly stupid shit.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I agree with this but also shudder to think what an absolute goat rodeo it’d be if congress had to actually deal with such a crisis

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It may end up proving useful that Vance is a soulless opportunist who will eagerly and repeatedly undercut Trump to serve his own interests, but is also so utterly bereft of juice that, despite being VP, he’s probably below replacement level among plausible GOP nominations in a national election.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Shocking that the move fast and break things crowd aren’t shaping up to be terribly responsible stewards of skynet

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I actually bluesky has a potentially important role to play as a forum for re-stigmatizing being a nihilistic dirtbag among the terminally online left.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeeeeah the IR/foreign policy analysis lit would say this is about what you should expect with this type of leadership amid this type of institutional collapse. The important question is how the hell this leadership came to power and why the institutions have utterly collapsed.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Oh buddy do I have some bad news for you.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jeez talk about the pot calling the kettle weakened by impossibly stupid wars of aggression

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today in “the other side also knows you’re playing a two-level game and can manipulate that to your disadvantage, dumbass”

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Real 4D chess to provoke a trade war with your biggest trading partner two months before a critical election

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Most major universities that do this offset the lost revenue by admitting more students. This both 1) hobbles regional universities & liberal arts colleges, and 2) means college doesn’t actually cost less, since the resulting housing shortages spike the cost of living and eat up any tuition savings.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I sure as shit don’t feel bad for her but she’s pretty clearly unwell and I’m not sure that “hounding a deeply unwell person to the point of despair” is always a political winner.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

MAGA gutting infamously woke fields like *checks notes* Economics.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

…and getting aggressively rebuffed.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today in “we already know how to solve virtually all our actual policy problems, the hard part is overcoming political resistance of oligarchs and racists”

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Really messing up my PBJ game here

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This would be a good argument for, e.g. funding religious studies departments. But that’s not what they’re doing. They’re destroying religious studies (and higher ed more generally) while force-feeding kids scripture in order to further an overtly Christian nationalist agenda.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The sign we should all start tapping when someone brings up the “legitimate concerns” about trans girls in youth sports. You just failed the “don’t be a fucking mark for fascists” test.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some concepts never lose their explanatory power and the offense/defense balance is one of them.

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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’ve got an old working paper called “Lola the Lollipop Fairy, Capitalist Exploitation, and the Military Industrial Complex: A Marxist Critique” if anyone wants a copy

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