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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Top candidate question: "do you support SCOTUS reform?" (A) Top SCOTUS nominee question: "What are your views on significantly, and yes - retroactively - curtailing Presidential pardon power?"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Paid in beer" has to be a top-3 form of payment. Might even be the winner when it comes to being paid to do a hobby.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We've decided personnel before deciding the nature of the operation" doesn't scream 'solid strategic planning,' either.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me: "Oh, look, @isanet.bsky.social sent an email about discussing the new Institutional Relationships policy. They didn't attach it, though?" Me, a few minutes later: "Huh, it isn't listed in the policies section of the website, either." Me, reviewing the meeting minutes: "Ohhh. Got it. 🙄"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In exchange for my pin number, though, Muse would've corrected my post to "hang a painting," so it's all equal

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It" doesn't want to do shit. It's a tool. Does a hammer "want" to frame a painting? And the only helping here is Meta helping itself to your data.

A screenshot from the linked article, reading: "Muse wants to help. It's an AI agent, a tool that goes out into the world for unsupervised tasks."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SCOTUS will clarify that when they said "return the issue to the states," that they didn't mean all the states.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dude, you're in charge. Send yourself. Go pick a fight with the Buckingham Palace guards and give us all a good laugh.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great news for the "'Happy Birthday' is my favorite song, since everyone sings my name and it's all about me" crowd, I guess?

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The court's job is to call balls and strikes (as requested and preferred by Trump)."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fuck it, prosecutions as part of SCOTUS reform.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In fact, the paperclip has always been on the org charge. Questioning the paperclip's place on the org chart is an antisocial and irresponsibile behavior.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The big brains at BCG want to add Clippy to your org chart (after you pay them a few million, ofc).

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyways, example "honestly, I've lost count" that the "center-right" will always lurch far-right when push comes to shove.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When I first saw this and heard the warmonger bit, I thought it was a (very poorly done) Democratic Party ad. The reality is infinitely worse.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can feel myself growing more superstitious every time the broadcast mentions the "Jet's no interception streak."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quick note about that (blatantly fucking illegal) ad: one of the hallmarks of a competitive authoritarian system is the uneven playing field, where the regime uses state resources to 'stack the deck' against the opposition.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hearing Rakestraw and Vaki mentioned on the broadcast, in positive situations, seems like a very nice sign for this Lions team.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At this point, the NATO coffin is 90% nails.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She is very claw-happy for someone so innocent!

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm afraid I'll never be as dedicated to anything as this foster kitten is to eating every wire and cord in the house.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I low-key hate when the attitudinal model holds up.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don't worry, law folks, I'm not saying you're *that* bad

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

President Trump-Rubio are reportedly preparing to unleash sweeping sanctions to cripple International Criminal Court. One potential consequence: The release of some of the world's worst criminals held by the Court. Case 1: Philippines' Duterte held for crimes against humanity

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Proposed U.S. Sanctions Against the ICC Could Lead to Detainees’ Release

A list of individuals currently in ICC custody awaiting trial or judgment, who could be released if U.S. sanctions dismantle the Court.

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Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Hands off the ICC, and all those other institutions that protect the international legal order." Finally. The words I've been waiting to hear from the Prime Minister of the ICC's Host State for a long time. Great speech, @robjetten.bsky.social #UNGA81 www.rijksoverheid.nl...

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sacking Schnell - and in doing so, drawing a clear institutional red line on LLM use - would actually be an important part of the conversation.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sort of big brain negotiation and diplomatic skills that get a fella a spot on the "Board of Peace."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whatever challenges AI creates, I don't think we answer them by reinventing Grotius.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

+31% for giving democracy the Old Yeller treatment? Ouch.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The thing about Gavin Newsom, the trick to understanding what he stands for and why he does what does, is that he fucking sucks.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not a great sign that the Netherlands is seemingly scrambling for a response now when the US has been signaling this for months (years, really).

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MP Broache @mbroache.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In case you're wondering how #ICC States Parties might respond to the Trump administration's latest attacks on the Court, check out my @fpajrnl.bsky.social piece (from 2023) w/ @kylereed.bsky.social on responses to the Trump I sanctions against the Court academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

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Who Stands Up for the ICC? Explaining Variation in State Party Responses to US Sanctions

Abstract. On September 2, 2020, the United States sanctioned two International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, under an executive order issued 3 months pre

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The messy part is when that describes a majority of actors 😅

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Welcome to the Pentagon, where we've installed the world's strongest - and dumbest - fog of war machine.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My favorite 'defense' of the rational actor model goes something like - "Okay, but the rational actor assumption holds once you account for different interests, preferences, and the actor's identity!" Yea. That's called constructivism, welcome to the party.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More seriously, bluesky's policy here borders on "incitement is fine, as long as you don't @ anyone." Which is, to be technical, a big fucking problem.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great, it's the Ed Sheeran of trust and safety.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They can self-regulate in the same way I can, in theory, stop after just one chip. It's theoretically possible. Technically in the realm of reality. It also won't happen, because that isn't how the world works.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just as scientifically valid (which is to say, not at all) as the one, too.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yea, it's great to get that huge overview of the field but also...you can get a pretty nice read of it at a 1,500 person conference, too? 🤷‍♂️

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wouldn't be shocked if one limit is that US universities are less willing to rent out space like that (and it would require moving to a term break). But if the alternative is "hotel based conference attended by the 15 departments who can pay sky high registration & hotel partner fees..."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It likely forces a slightly smaller conference overall but...is that a bad thing? Fully rhetorical question - love EISA

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anyways, the "association funded through a massive annual conference, underwritten by shockingly bad hotel deals" seems like an increasingly questionable financial model.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reading the ISA September newsletter and...uh...are we comparing a shit association budget situation and 9/11?

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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