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Steve Saideman

@smsaideman.bsky.social
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#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 1h
New Guns and Butter: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6q3Pz... Sally's apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies, some discussion of Carney's NYT interview, and, yes, a bit of Q&A with the mysterious cameraperson who has been helping me bake since last fall. #GunsAndButter
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h
oh nothing just raiding my ethnic cleansing fund so I can illegally prop up my corrupt autocratic personality cult fund, why do u ask
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 4h
…online conservatives were ready to pump the 'scandal', and then it all fell part–and you could see it happen in real time. Since "Hawkeye" Schmitt is a full bore fascist–and that's probably why he appeals to JD Vance–we should be very happy with this outcome.
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A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 4h
In other words, Congress refuses to do its duty. Not just a broken branch. A bygone branch. (At least, part of it...) Willingly surrendering the People's power -- our power -- to a wanna-be king.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 13h
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 8h
Most historians today argue that the key policies that made possible the US’s economic resurgence under Reagan were mostly initiated by Carter: military buildup, deregulation, taming of inflation, support for the strong $, etc. Reagan’s main policy innovation—tax cuts for the rich—was a net negative
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 19h
My belated post on Carney's interview with the NYT and his "extreme tail" concern about an American attack saideman.blogspot.com/2026/09/carn...
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 21h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 20h
The law and order party, folks
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 20h
My latest: Why are hitman movies such a perennial genre? I make the case that they're workplace competency porn. medium.com/the-berger-d... #booksky #movies #thepopeshitman #thrillers
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The Hitman Genre as Workplace Competency Porn
It’s nice that they’re good at their jobs.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h
Check this out! Today, Democratic leaders in the Senate are holding a shadow hearing about the Trump admin's mass delegalization campaign. @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social is on the ground in DC preparing to livetweet the hearing. Follower her thread for more. 👇
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
Best Sen Schmitt meme yet
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 21h
this has been a repeated pattern by this court and some others--hey, give Trump's policy a chance while it hurts real people or buildings or the rule of law, and then we can pull things back when the case is reviewed in full. That is, I think, the opposite of how injunctions are supposed to work.
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 21h
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 22h
While obviously not on the level of ordering war crimes, this policy change will do real and lasting harm of a different kind. The U.S. service academies have benefited tremendously by being able to attract and retain top academic talent to teach future leaders. That ends with this memo. 🤬
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 22h
Hegseth on this is following project 2025. The GOP doesn't want the military to be able to engage in critical or strategic thinking.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 22h
To be, um fair, to Schmitt, he thinks Jack Smith is a dirtbag because Schmitt is a dirtbag and like the rest of the GOP projects, thinking everyone else are dirtbags. That and Smith pursued the facts which is what, um, dirtbags do?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
Look, I’m not going to suggest everyone call Eric Schmitt’s congressional office and tell them they need to check the battery in their carbon monoxide detector, because that would be RUDE
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 22h
The joy of this is not only does Schmitt himself suck but he obviously has shitty staff. The GOP idea of merit is bassackwards.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 22h
A reminder that the hacks on the Supreme Court gutted the 14th Amendment, letting Trump run again. Colorado tried... and Roberts and his band of hacks got in the way.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Diesel Fuel For @rawstory.com Go behind the scenes of my creative process at nickanderson.substack.com.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 22h
The partisan hacks prove that they are indeed white supremacists.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h
👇🧵🎯 Blue states/Democrats have also defunded public higher education for 50 years, & they parrot the same lazy, evidence-free, right-wing talking points about education as jobs training as red states/Republicans. They just do it without the authoritarianism. That must change. Maybe this is a start.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 23h
While my election prediction record sucks, I think any Dem would be salivating to have either one of these on the GOP ticket at any point in the future.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h
The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's ironic because the Trump admin completely vindicated gender studies as a field. Like we're all living through some sort of unethical gender studies experiment.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 23h
this is a terrific statement.
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 23h
It's good Carney has a strong political hand to engage with external challenges, as his popularity gives him an edge dealing with someone like Trump whose numbers are in free-fall. But this aura of invincibility really sucks when trying to contend with problematic aspects of his domestic agenda.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026
Rising residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism have created an environment where white supremacists feel emboldened to target and intimidate First Nations in their communities. It’s disgusting and completely unacceptable.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 23h
I wish Klobuchar had asked Grassley to weigh in on if the Hawks and Hawkeyes are different teams. Really nicely done by her.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h
They’re not defending Eric Schmitt so much as defending the conspiracy theory defense of Trump’s coup attempt. By mixing up sports teams when lying to discredit Jack Smith, Schmitt made an error that cannot stand: instantly disproven on something so easy to grasp that insinuation doesn’t work.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hahahahaha come on! If you ever wanted a better example of MAGA media presenting an alternate universe to its base, you'd be hard pressed to find one.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ah, Canada.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So much projection even when it is as dumb as this
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
abolish, prosecute, sue
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great ad
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are they hunting them too?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Always remember that Rufo is a fucking fraud, explaining his deep racism with faux intellectual bullshit that makes other racists think there's an actual, tangible basis for their racism rather than them being just irrational, hate-filled dickholes.
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