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Rodger Payne

@rodgerp.bsky.social
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Prof of international relations at U of Louisville and co-director, Center for Asian Democracy. SABR member, Jayhawk hoops fan, film buff, & beer snob. Pictured: Committee meeting in the Netherlands as depicted by Rembrandt.

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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 4h
Classic Charlie Chaplin bit.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 7h
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Former VP Mike Pence: “President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.”
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Maybe Russia should try it. The US, of course, has a 2+ year wait for a new presidential election.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump Admin hires private equity guy at DOD. Months later, guy's former employer gets a $281 million *no bid* contract to consult for him. Pro Publica is running circles around every other news outlet when it comes to chronicling the obscene level of corruption going on right now
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It says something that: a) GOP SuperPACs have thrown a bazillion dollars at the Texas senate race; and b) Talarico was off the campaign hustings for more than ten days and the combined effect on the race appears to have been… zero. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate...
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The message here is that Ukraine should stop defending itself against Russian aggression. NATO allies must love that message.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There's a good chance a lame duck Trump is going to find it harder and harder to seem powerful and will say increasingly ridiculous things.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism?
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Remember when it was Al Qaeda/ISIS putting execution videos online
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The measures included murders, assaults, thefts, mass shootings, terrorist attacks, hate crimes, drug-related deaths, unemployment, bankruptcy filings, credit scores, traffic fatalities, impaired driving, workplace injuries and deaths and losses from major climate disasters.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Personal & residential safety carried the most weight in the study, accounting for 40 of the 100 possible points. Financial safety, road safety, workplace safety and emergency preparedness each accounted for 15 points.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 10 states at the bottom of the overall ranking were: Georgia Alabama Colorado Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas Florida Texas Louisiana Mississippi FWIW: all but Colorado were Trump states in 2024.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These are the 10 safest states in America, new report says: Vermont Massachusetts Maine New Hampshire Connecticut Utah Minnesota Indiana Rhode Island Hawaii FWIW: all but Utah & Indiana were Harris states in 2024 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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These are the 10 safest states in America, new report says
WalletHub ranked all 50 U.S. states for safety. See which states made the top 10 and which landed among the 10 least safe states.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dude has a bachelor's degree in Political Science, a law degree from Yale, and Honors in BS.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
like, if gaddafi had declared that all apples are now oranges and that all libyans calling them apples were internal enemies, it’d be covered in the press as a wacky but dangerous move from an unserious and dangerous clown dictator
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Made man in the eduroam Mafia.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is such a good and important idea from @andycraig.bsky.social.
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PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@osinttechnical.bsky.social The White House is "monitoring" reports of a suspected plague outbreak in the Russian city of Irkutsk after a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died Friday -Axios Multiple hospitals in the area have been quarantined, with local censorship reported.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Health authorities in Siberia have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague. She accidentally broke a test tube containing live bacteria. She was hospitalized with symptoms of severe pneumonia and died. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every Republican, including Trump, who tries to fall back on “stopping Iran from having a bomb” should be reminded that intelligence assessments, both before and after the war began, were that Iran was "not building a nuclear weapon” and the program had been suspended since 2003. …
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Vance defends Gabbard as 'critical part' of Trump team after president dismissed Iran nuke threat comments
Vice President JD Vance expressed support for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after President Donald Trump claimed he "didn't care" about her previous Iran comments.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Counter: Are we certain that the ideological clowns are out?
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He just had that convention in Texas urging people to vote for Republicans as if he was personally on the ballot.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Box score reveals that he was struggling and not playing in a game with a lot of other future major leaguers. www.milb.com/gameday/chie...
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Gameday: Chiefs 7, Cubs 10 Final Score (06/26/2022)
Follow baseball results with FREE box scores, pitch-by-pitch strikezone info, and Statcast data for Chiefs vs. Cubs at Four Winds Field
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South Bend Cub Pete Crow-Armstrong, June 2022. I basically attended this game just to see him.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Guessing that someone saw the data that the UK is now about as wealthy as Mississippi, America's poorest state.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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UofL Center for Asian Democracy @asiandemocracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pakistan shuts down roads into the capital in preparation for the PTI’s protest march. The march will demand the freedom of the party’s former leader, Imran Khan, from prison. Khan remains Pakistan’s most prominent opposition leader despite his imprisonment. www.aljazeera.com/news-analysi...
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‘Source of anxiety’: Pakistan cracks down before march to free Imran Khan
The government has blocked highways to the capital and set up container barriers in preparation for the PTI protest.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday Schmitt was at least quite misleading if not outright lying. The false gotcha is always a bad look.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Experienced this same phenomenon in the Netherlands earlier this year -- in January and February!
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is probably well-known by now but Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since the 1930s.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like vintage Daily Show material.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well when you put it like that it sounds stupid doesn't it
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
70% of Canadians defined national security and defence, as including climate and pandemic preparedness People don't have a narrow idea of defence. It isn't just guns and ammo. They think security means more than just countering terrorist threats progressdevelopment.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
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Sovereignty is the means not the end
What can we learn from a unique exercise that listens to Canadians talk about foreign policy?
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is tone deafness. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Obama: Government is ‘so much less corrupt than probably it’s ever been’
Former President Obama says in his just-launched literary-focused podcast that the federal government is “so much less corrupt” than it was in the past. “People are always surprised when I tell them t...
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Once more: Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since the 1930s
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Presidential Executive Orders" have no force outside of the Executive branch. Someone teaching at Hawaii can't be "non-compliant with them." This is jibberish capitulation BS.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Informative thread on blowback consequences of Trump's media bans.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big shot: That Pete Alonso homer probably ended Yordan Alvarez triple crown hopes and may have ended Blue Jays playoff hopes too.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Musk seems to have genuinely thought the government was Twitter. This was one of the rationales for hiring him - he dramatically cut Twitter’s personnel and underlying costs, and no big deal! But one major difference is that unlike a tech firm, personnel for the federal government is a minor cost. Because federal employee salaries make up only about 5% to 6% of spending, you can fire a huge proportion of them, and barely put a dent in federal spending.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 21/09/2026
Executive Director of The Steady State, Steven Cash, breaks down NSPM-7, which he calls the scariest government document he's ever seen, and how it repurposes the intelligence community to treat Americans as potential domestic terrorists.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The phrase they're looking for is "evil lair."
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