Huawei has built around 70% of Africa’s 4G networks, partnering with governments and companies in the continent’s largest economies, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Chinese investment and construction in technology in Africa, 2005-2025

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

My latest: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

You don’t need to be credentialed to cover an agency.

Resignations assist autocrats — remain on duty until fired, and contesting the firing. Make it harder.

We just witnessed Russian MiG-31 fighters in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes. Just before, we had drones in Poland and Romania. European NATO members have to choose now between whether they are letting Russia’s inching work or showing that NATO's border holds.

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this

In using American soldiers for political ends, Donald Trump is testing the boundaries of the law, the morale of the armed forces and a tradition of bipartisan support for that institution econ.st/3KsRGbQ Photo: Getty Images

No Laughable www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Seismic shifts afoot.

The Trump Administration's actions off Venezuela are laying down the precedent for a Chinese blockade of Taiwan. Discuss.

this is a gloriously stupid new take on a book that is a constant generator of stupid takes

One of the banners awaiting the workers upon their return to Incheon Airport

We have 4 board seats coming open - including to replace me as President. I hope some of our great members that have the time and drive to support the community nominate themselves!

The Trump admin argues coddling Ru is worth it for the "economic opportunities". But the economic benefits to be gained from Ru are negligible compared to the economic damage from alienating European allies, which are everything Ru isn't: rich and reliable.

Vigilantes are driving talent out of our force. I’d propose that anyone wanting to force someone out of their voluntary commitment of service to defend our country be required to replace them.

In case you want to be verified here… bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Between this and the fact that he's threatening people who he thinks mocked Kirk's death, I am suddenly very, very grateful to no longer be on active duty.

Of military relevance, South Korea just last month pledged big investments in US shipyards. ROK is a world- leading shipbuilder and the US hopes for technology and efficiency transfers from the

Even before Moscow sent drones into Polish airspace this week, Russian sabotage operations in Europe more than tripled from 2023 to 2024, as the West supported Ukraine in fighting the Russian invasion. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...

One of the things I have come to appreciate is that a good deal of Rome's success came from the fact that, as rapacious and opportunistic and bellicose as they could be, they mostly avoided giving unnecessary insult to their allies. A virtue rare in antiquity as today; we used to be good at it.

This is how you drive talented people out of the force.

Thank you for your example, @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social

Recent domestic deployments of the National Guard against the will of local and state officials threaten to: ❌Critically undermine the Guard’s mission readiness ❌Politicize our non-partisan military ⏳It’s time to end the D.C. deployment. NotTheMission.org

Denmark announced earlier Friday that it will be purchasing MBDA's SAMP/T system rather than the Patriot system.

Nicely done, America

Why would the Governor of Tennessee need the President to deploy the National Guard? The state can do whatever it wants with their National Guard, even law enforcement. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Good point, @emptywheel.bsky.social

Spencer Cox: "I want you look at how Utahns reacted the last two nights. There was no rioting. There was no looting. There were no cars set on fire. There was no violence. There were vigils and prayers and people coming together to share their humanity. And that I believe is the answer to this."

Nice to see an R governor declining to use the military for law enforcement. Well done, Governor DeWine.

This is a good idea that will benefit administrations of both parties. Confirmations take 3x as long as during the 1980s. Strict scrutiny for top appointments and bloc approval for the 1,250 or so lower level. Ending single-Senator holds would also be good.

"Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?" -- Protest sign at airport where South Korean workers, including engineers with work visas, were returned www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Thread of damage done and still to come for DC because of Trump policies, from @abenewman.bsky.social

Burn bridges with important ally and damage a major manufacturing investment in the US at the same time. And for what? It’s as if the purpose of all this is simply to dismantle our country.

"According to WELT [...] five drones were on a direct flight path toward a NATO base before being intercepted by Dutch Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

I think the biggest takeaway for me—though this might be superficial for others—is that the military, & even the most elite units within it, reflect and refract American society, and that whatever rots within it will putrefy in those rarified spaces. Elite impunity, addiction, bloodlust, violence.

Absolutely unnecessary and egregious international incident.

NATO’s response to the drones over Poland must be accompanied by spine from Donald Trump. Despite having promised to end the war in Ukraine in a day, he has let Vladimir Putin lead him by the nose

Extraordinary report by Leo Lewis @urbandirt.bsky.social in FT, who has seen the Japan-US MOU on investment. It’s extortion basically. Japan commits to invest hundreds of billions in the US. Trump decides the investments. US keeps 90% of the profits.

Sixty thousands! “The general also reported that during August, Ukrainian drones struck more than 60,000 Russian targets.” www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Important analysis from @zackcooper.bsky.social, one of the most insightful Asia analysts.

So the National Guard deployment to DC is costing $1 million a day.

In this scary moment, it matters for each of us to affirm that political violence is wrong and will destroy our democracy.

Is this lethality?* *someone please make a meme for me.

Russian drones in Poland had additional fuel tanks to enhance their range. This is highly unusual and another indicator towards a planned nature of this incident.

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Thankful to see SOMEONE, ANYONE standing against this absolute travesty www.cbsnews.com/news/democra...

“even if it consolidates its territorial gains and keeps Ukraine out of NATO, Russia will have won only a pyrrhic victory, mortgaging its future for the sake of a few bombed-out square kilometers. In other words, Russia is effectively losing the war in Ukraine—not to Ukraine, but to everyone else.”

And when they say well 'those people' don't have as much of an attachment to the United States or our values, remind them the most decorated combat unit in American history was a regiment formed almost entirely of 2nd-gen. Japanese-Americans recruited out of *internment camps* for goodness' sake.

Broadcasting shackles isn’t deterrence; it’s a costly signal—to the world—that talent isn’t welcome. That’s terrible branding for a country competing for people and capital. If you want prosperity, you attract it, you don’t humiliate it.