Fed conduct is unconscionable www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Here we go again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

🛰️Starlink now dominates global satellite internet. But as the company expands across the Global South, can countries trust one company with their connectivity? @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social tells @npr.org it’s a question of sovereignty and privacy🔊

The aesthetics of strong man rule www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

No President owns the White House. Not Trump nor anyone else. It's the People's House and the public should decide whether to demolish the East Wing for a ballroom fantasy or to preserve its historical legacy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

How shameful www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Article ALERT: doi.org/10.1080/1058... Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – Political Communication How do domestic online influence operations vary across countries, and why?🧵

Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.

Trump’s normalization of military troops patrolling the streets of America’s cities against the wishes of elected politicians and their citizens is a shocking abuse of constitutional norms and a staggering departure from precedent.

President Trump’s TikTok deal puts the company's U.S. operations under U.S. control. But it doesn’t do much to address the economic or security concerns that motivated the deal in the first place, says @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social. More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...

Is Trump abandoning America's tech war with China? What signals can we glean from the TikTok deal? My thoughts in the @foreignpolicy.com piece below 👇 👇 bit.ly/3KownII @carnegieendowment.org

More evidence of Chinese-Russian mil collusion www.reuters.com/business/aer...

What does this mean? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

👏👏👏 Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us www.nokings.org

When John Yoo questions Trump’s dividing line between war and crime you know the country is in a heap of trouble

‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...

Obama is right. The stifling of free speech is shocking and dangerous After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able to hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.

Princeton Student Held by Iran-Backed Militia Is Released, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...

If you don't like the law, change the law. Trump opens door to selling drones to Saudi Arabia & sidestepping MTCR www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Comes as little surprise Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...

“Fuck you guys, go home!” “Leave!”

Hang on Susan Monarez! Trump Administration Live Updates: Health Secretary Tries to Oust C.D.C. Director, but She Refuses to Leave www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Just a note that whoever puts this Banksy sandwich guy on a yard sign is going to move a lot of yard signs (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via Axios)

??? State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Subbing one far right bomb thrower for another at the FBI www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“He got played again,” said Ivo Daalder, who was ambassador to NATO under President Barack Obama. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Should we be surprised that Elon Musk destroys USAID to find cost savings while exploiting a tax loophole so SpaceX never has to pay taxes? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for the military to take on a much larger role in domestic security, writes Risa Brooks. “This new orientation is dangerous for the U.S. military and for the country it serves.”

Insanity

I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook

Big win for National Endowment for Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Threats of the militarization of cities—, including DC which has been fighting for self determination for generations, isn’t a “distraction”. It’s a massive, giant, red trial balloon For what an American president can do YOUR city if you feel like it. I need people to wake up.

This is appalling. It is unfathomable to me that Kennedy isn’t fired immediately www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/h...

Ugh these tactics are despicable. Routine for an autocracy but totally without precedent in a liberal democracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Read this piece where we explore the serious implications of synthetic media in conflict -especially when it begins to further destabilise an already fragile information ecosystem like Iran’s, amid wartime conditions where access to truth can mean the difference between life and death.

The Iran-Israel war signals a major gap between the sophistication of AI deception and analysts’ ability to detect it. @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social & @samgregory.bsky.social explain how the info war is changing and its consequences @carnegieendowment.org ⬇️ carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Glad to collaborate with @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social on this exploration of AI war propaganda in the Israel-Iran war and the gaps growing in our capability to detect and respond carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Pentagon claims Hegseth did not share classified material over Signal. IG finds that Hegseth forwarded email classified SECRET: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New piece out by @gbengasesan.bsky.social - Shrinking Civic Space, Digital Funding, and Legitimacy in a Post-Truth Era He describes how fundamental shifts threaten digital democracy, social innovation + international relations. Take a read! 👇👇👇 carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Shameful www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Trump's lifting of export ban of NVIDIA H20 GPUs reverses course on US tech war strategy. Did pressure from Jensen Huang lead to shift? Or is it quid quo pro in exchange for China to ease critical mineral restrictions? Appears to be a bit of both...

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

New piece from @jethronorman.bsky.social describing how digital tech is fundamentally reshaping foreign fighter participation in war. Part of @carnegieendowment.org series edited by @warmatters.bsky.social and myself! 👇 👇👇 carnegieendowment.org/research/202...