I’m thrilled that the Kennan Institute is back as an independent institution and delighted to have joined as a non-resident fellow www.kennaninstitute.org

Jesus I see what you've done for others

For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

This UNGA speech...

there we go: we've finally gotten to the important part of this speech: how he once bid to renovate UNHQ for $500 million, but they decided to go in a different direction, with terrazzo instead of marble and no mahogany. that was the moment, he said, he knew they didn't know what they were doing.

Whoever "broke" the teleprompter for Trump's UNGA speech...I see you.

Can't wait!!

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

🔍 Researching African politics? 📢 Call for Papers: APCG Online Colloquium Present your unpublished work, get feedback & connect with peers. 🗓 Deadline: September 8, 2025 👉 More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...

Special delivery today! Can't wait to dive in, @hofrench.bsky.social

I see parallels in Higher Education decision-making right now. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

If you're looking to put language about academic freedom on your syllabus this fall, here is some template language we developed at the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom @aaup @aft.org academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/putting-ac...

"This isn’t bringing a knife to a gunfight. This is looking at the sky for fireworks when the bullet casings are landing at your feet.” I guess bars run in the family @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Thank you @warcticantarctic.bsky.social! Perfect timing if anyone wants to meet over coffee in Bologna for next week's @europeanisa.bsky.social's PEC.

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

I mean this from my heart. That is the experience of every Black woman in corporate America. White people agreeing with you behind the scenes but leaving you out to swim alone and fight everybody’s battles with ZERO public support

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

That “summit” was the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse.

One reason why we haven’t seen much “debate” about our economic statistics is because they have moved to being a part of the bureaucracy. They are professionalized and carried out in a routine and systematic fashion. They’re transparent. That isn’t by chance, but by design.

in case you want to know what we're saying, we got a lyric video for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6C...

Super impressive effort from journalism students at Franklin College in Indiana covering their state capitol. Not a capstone course, <100 majors, basically one editor. #aejmc25 www.thestatehousefile.com

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Any suggestions for those of us who might have thicker thighs and waists than those in the photos? Todd Shelton doesn't seem to go past a 40 waist.

My latest episode for It Could Happen Here. I interviewed Bushra Khalidi at Oxfam about aid in Gaza and how it's being used. open.spotify.com/episode/1YLb...

900,000 people live in Al Fashir - it is one of the largest towns in Sudan. And they are starving because of the siege. news.sky.com/story/it-is-...

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

ROMAN'S FIRST CAREER WALK-OFF ‼️

Had a blast playing drums with Jake Blount on this track for Rhode Island PBS. Check it out here if you like: youtu.be/Zj4nW3t23V4?...

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

What an pleasure to join @ethanz.bsky.social for what may be the final episode of the Reimagining the Internet podcast. Congrats and thank you for creating space for essential discussions about AI governance--including auditing, the role of expertise in democracy, and the "Three Fallacies" of AI.

I can't recall a moment the last few years where there were so many good albums to consume simultaneously. Hip-hop is alive!

Between Let God Sort em Out, Alfredo 2, Summertime Butch 2, Until the Night Comes, Don't tap the glass, and Late to my own funeral; Late July 2025 might go down as one of the great rap release weekends ever.

An important reminder that any global order doesnt necessarily die by losing the adherence of the few superpowers, but by the indifference of everyone else who adopt "pole politics" and a law of the jungle that ultimately condemns us all in this era of global crisis foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/11/b...

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

They just added Uno as an official table game in Vegas, they might have to beef up security because folks about to start putting belt to ass on them tables. 😂

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Go, @dadakim.bsky.social!

Folks, the words I come on here to post—whether from Audre Lorde, or Morrison, Douglass, Baldwin, Brand or Bond—are not idle or ornamental. They are meant to teach, as well as to give us all inspiration to carry on, to keep going forward in the struggle. Each of us continues it as/when we can.

“Girlfriends [the tv show] celebrates its 25-year anniversary with a free art exhibit in L.A.” (Line Hotel in Koreatown - 6/27-6/29) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

American power relies on cooperative international support Trump takes for granted but is destroying. My @foreignaffairs.com piece:

In this brand new piece for @foreignaffairs.com, I draw upon my biography of Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, to expand on some thoughts about what Chinese Communist Party history can teach us about China today. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xi-jin...

Finally. A Middle East military action that is comprehensive, violent, and wholly decisive. With no risk of escalation or retribution. Just one and done, like we’ve been promised for three decades. 🙃

No Congressional approval and we find out we're at war with Iran from a freaking social media post. Just straight up Mad King

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

The big news here: UN members stand together in support of global development, agreeing to an imperfect but collectively backed outcome document for the upcoming Financing for Development Conference. The US stands alone against global development, the sole country to withdraw from the process

New installation at the Africa Center in Harlem replaces flags of African nations with the statement “When the war is over I will make space for your feelings” and the word “Sudan.” Excellent.