I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Imagining the poor email pinging around for a decade and a half, thinking to itself "She hoped I'd find him well. I will find him well, I know I will. I WILL find him."

Imagining the poor email pinging around for a decade and a half, thinking to itself "She hoped I'd find him well. I will find him well, I know I will. I WILL find him."

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

The next book covers Noem and prairie dresses and home decor and Noem’s late dog: share.google/23ZOgfb0lZen...

Having Luke keep the uncommon last name of the parent who wanted to kill him, even when he was in "hiding", was in fact poor OpSec

Know anyone looking for a Director of Student Accessibility Center job? My university in upstate NY is hiring! Review of applications begins immediately for start date ideally over the summer. I'm on the hiring committee and would be happy to answer questions or direct them to the right person.

You may have heard of the “passport affair” in Dutch football. In a new Substack post I explain what it is about, what today’s court ruling means, and why the controversy exposes the Netherlands’ increasingly outdated and inconsistent approach to dual citizenship. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Slightly diminish a book Critique of 14-karat Reason

Gritty Remake of Crocodile Dundee. To be clear, I mean it would be about a reporter finding the semi-mythical Gritty in the Australian Outback and introducing him to city life by bringing him to Philadelphia.

"He's right, the rule just says 'thoroughbred,' doesn't say it has to be a horse!"

Air Bud VII: Kentucky Corgi

Wait did the horse win?

Having myself shown up to the airport at 6am to find that the airline I was booked on had gone out of business overnight the night before (Air Polonia) I can confirm that anyone you know booked on Spirit Airlines is not having a great day.

Delighted with how the cover designer at @oupress.bsky.social nailed "effervescent" for @flowerdarby.bsky.social's "The Joyful Online Teacher," the newest book in our "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series.

cf this beautiful line about writing by @themountaingoats.bsky.social "Set a scene and put some ghosts in it, then get excited about the ghosts"

Today is Ed Balls Day.

cf this beautiful line about writing by @themountaingoats.bsky.social "Set a scene and put some ghosts in it, then get excited about the ghosts"

Oh no Ed Balls day is tomorrow and I haven't even started my shopping

Geert Wilders’ election victory in November 2023 turned out to be a poisoned chalice: it saddled him with a party he could no longer control. Seven MPs broke away to form a new group in a coup orchestrated by his one-time close friend, Gidi Markuszower. wordsforpress.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/g...

Not going to say anything to further jinx this thing's decades-long journey home but I think we are on track to have one heck of a story in another year or two, someone please remind me of this.

Pascal: Let us weigh the gain and the loss involved in wagering that God exists. Let us estimate these two probabilities; it you win, you win all; if you lose... Pascal's Buddy from College: Hey Blazey Boy Kalshi has God's existence at +530 should I buy it?

With some quotes by yours truly

This year for Halloween I’ll be going as the ECJ, you know, as a last resort

This is great and also so much more wholesome and less absurd than I expected

It’s a long game for his biggest video yet: ”Mr Beast gives ex-employee all his money (because a judge ordered him to)”

Hey #LearnedLeague friends, I have a 1DS quiz up today, come join a walking tour of Rotterdam!

Globe headline writers get it

Step one: You put your six in a box

Writing a thing for a thing (not finished yet!) on LLMs and social science teaching, but this reference list so far is a really neat resource stats.andrewheiss.com/pinky-lychee/

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...

It's so great to see three of my favorite scholars quoted in one piece: @sldelange.bsky.social & @gabrielagreilinger.com @ @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @jonhenley.bsky.social sure knows how to pick 'm! 👏

Nice to get back home and find this in my mailbox 🎉

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

That's the thing about competitive authoritarianism: The “authoritarianism” is serious – and so is the “competitive” part. Politics hasn’t ended in such regimes. The rules have been changed significantly, giving a massive advantage to the ruling regime; but the political conflict isn't over.

Andrew's and @annemeng.bsky.social 's work on incumbancy madame reevaluate my understanding of democracy more than most recent work on democracy/autocracy It helped spur me onto a new project on democratic resilience. Lots of work in the past 10 years purported to show popular demand for autocracy

I agree with the growing chorus championing the applied liberal arts degree as a response to AI, but I also want to point out that the value of the liberal arts degree this is not new. This is one of the 1st things I wrote for @insidehighered.com in 2013. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

The oldest child getting a $2000 Jeopardy clue you didn't get sure feels like a turning point.

"My brother in Woden"

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority! Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.

No I think you misunderstood me, I'm *issuing you a citation* for the deep magic. I mean just look at this place, there's furniture you can just walk through, that's a huge security vulnerability, this is not up to code. Honestly sometimes it feels like you just vibe-coded Narnia into existence

Ugh, I hate this part, it always feels so easy until here

Ugh, I hate this part, it always feels so easy until here

Not only have I never heard of hubris the whole idea sounds pretty unlikely

Helpful cheat sheet.

In my article for @talkingpointsmemo.com, I tried to explain the prospects for de-Orbánisation after Sunday's election in Hungary to a U.S. audience, in fewer than 1000 words [by invitation] 🗳️🇭🇺⬇️