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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

top notch mascottin'

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

lol, and who the fuck is this?

"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting," one senior reporter told Semafor.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

No one else has this analysis

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21/02/2025

They could try "I don't have the authority to mass fire these workers without cause and neither do you"

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We have literal concentration camps for immigrants and it’s barely getting any coverage at all

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here's the acting head of FEMA just unliterally deciding that Article I is fake earlier today. The Constitution is not in effect.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/02/2025

Posters on this app have had a better grasp on our political reality than basically everyone by employing this One Weird Trick - taking the President seriously when he tells everyone the things he’s going to do

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

this is where the rubber meets the road. NIH doesn't just fund research univs and hospitals in blue states. if anything they're most important to regional economies in the reddest states and districts.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

DOGE plans to slash about as much ($4B) from NIH, and hence from universities and medical centers, as the government gave SpaceX ($3.8B) last year. It's not about the money and government "waste." It's never been about the money or government "waste." www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. Tesla and SpaceX benefit from it

Over the last 16 years, Musk's business deals with the government total nearly $20 billion, according to federal contracting data.

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Kian Razi @kianrazi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If Sullivan goes, every billionaire with a bruised ego gets a legal kill switch for journalism. Hope you like your news pre-approved by the people it’s supposed to hold accountable.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Yes, seriously, to them. In his 2023 book Hegseth called West Point "a Marxist indoctrination camp churning out little Che Guevarras"

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 04/02/2025

Trying to get my groove back :/

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

The only group for whom this is sustainable is the news media establishment who can’t see an emperor BF-naked in front of them.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

Bears repeating that this isn’t sustainable. Not for the Canadian/Mexican publics infused with anti-American sentiment or the MAGA faithful who will want Dear Leader to put up or shut up with his signature policy and the manna it rains down from heaven. This equilibrium has a short shelf life.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

Trudeau saw what Mexico did and sold Trump the optics of what Canada was already doing.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

Don’t worry; they got some teenagers and ChatGPT for the job.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is a doubly bad sign about the havoc that appointees like Patel, Hegseth, and Vought could wreak. We were told Wiles was going to discipline and organize the second term Trump operation. Instead it's just maniacs running wild while grandpa signs things and watches television.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 03/02/2025

who wants to take a guess as to how many news stations carried any, at all, of the Dem USAID protest/rally that included several members of Congress when you perceive that "Dems aren't doing anything" you need to understand how much work the word 'perceive' is doing there & what biases that factors

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025

they do not seem to think that civil society is real and their mental model of the world holds that people are drones who will do what they’re told

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This makes ZERO sense. Sovereign wealth funds exist to invest a nation’s foreign currency holdings from running trade surpluses. The U.S. has a net negative foreign reserve balance, with U.S. dollars held abroad, as a function of its reserve currency status.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If a U.S. attorney is talking to Musk like this, then he really is the president. “I ask that you utilize me and my staff…”

Elon Musk tweets a letter from the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

Caveats being: 1) we know in the IR literature that leaders horny for a deal are likely prone to take bad deals. That could be a problem for the U.S. for something important. 2) who’s to say target publics in places like Mexico don’t punish their leaders for the optics as this repeats.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

I’m sure Trump will eventually figure this out, but world leaders have seen his shtick before and know he’s prone to bite on the optics over the substance.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The FP of this administration exists to fuck itself over. >think that spending money on these countries is bad/waste. >other sources of investment are sought (China) >complain that this is unacceptable but also refuse to counter with investments.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I love living in the 40th year of the Reagan administration

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/02/2025

Get on board

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 03/02/2025

I'm teaching a seven-class seminar on challenges to European security cooperation. Any recommendations you'd add? It is kind of a public opinion-forward seminar, but that's because I also want them looking at quantitative stuff.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Threats aside, Vance is also just full of shit. The U.S. seized 19kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year, or 0.19 percent of the total fentanyl seized. Meanwhile, in 2023, Canada seized 27,000 prohibited weapons at the border. The U.S. seized 459 weapons coming from Canada.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/02/2025

Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?

Musk saying he’s shutting down illegal money launderers and it’s Lutheran Social Services

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 02/02/2025

south korean politicians were literally scaling fences to protect their government and our senators are sending out pre-scheduled tweets about the super bowl while an unelected foreign billionaire seizes control of the treasury.

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

Destroying the state is bad actually

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

eeesh. this tweet is from one week ago.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 31/01/2025

An interesting read to reiterate a nagging problem when wringing hands about what the Democrats could have said or done. Look at the media environment around you and ask who is going to help the Democrats deliver their message the same way they’d help Republicans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

not to downplay the ugliness of this but this is the equivalent of busywork. they are giving him executive orders to sign so that it feels like he’s doing something.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

You may remember that during his first term Trump insisted on replacing NAFTA with a new free trade agreement USMCA, which he signed and which as I read it forbids him to do this.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 30/01/2025

These people bullshit their way through everything else, including a failed coup, so I don't see why they couldn't bullshit their way through this aviation scandal by spamming "DEI". Why wouldn't this work? Everything else has worked.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When Trump says something as transparently idiotic as “DEI made the planes crash“ his supporters are not responding positively because that is what they believe. They are responding positively to seeing someone so brazenly tell the lie they want to hear.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

more like: his remarks followed his reflex to seize on occasions of public distress and fear as opportunities to deny accountability through escalating racist and partisan demagoguery

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 30/01/2025

Do I know anyone on this app in Seoul? I'll be in Seoul in mid-March for a travel grant/project initiation and I'm trying to make as many local contacts as I can.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 30/01/2025

Echoes of a talk I attended not too long ago, in which the paper author presented an RCT of various experimental prompts about individual EU states negotiating outside FTAs w/ the argument from the chair and author that this earnestly reflected a "pure" causal effect. Yeah, IDK, man. Money is nice.

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Steven V. Miller @svmiller.com · 30/01/2025

I've been around the block long enough to know a power play, especially when resources (i.e. journal real estate, jobs) are scarce. For some people, you get to use that coveted word when you have money and the almighty RCT absolves you of having to think about endogeneity in the real world.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/01/2025

right on cue yes killing all international collaboration on automation will definitely fix the fact our domestic bullshit machines are over valued and controlled by giant manbabies

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DeepSeek fallout: GOP Sen Josh Hawley seeks to cut off all US-China collaboration on AI development

This week the U.S. tech sector was routed by the Chinese launch of DeepSeek, and Sen. Josh Hawley is putting forth legislation to prevent that from happening again.

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