This polling data is really important, not least because it is a sober reminder that the government in power in DC does not make policy by public opinion poll. The other party that might want to hold power ought to think hard about what this means.

honestly wild that I, a citizen of the United States, do not know if we have conquered Venezuela or not, and I have no confidence that the print or broadcast media are capable of telling me the answer

Many people do not know that Mearsheimer wrote a whole book about a military thinker who was catastrophically wrong about everything all the time, but then rehabilitated himself anyway books.google.com/books/about/...

The countries you liberate always enjoy donating their natural resources to American companies. That’s just science

Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address. First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it. 1/

War, the State, and Man

just watching all my US follows casually scrolling through Bluesky while they wait for the first pot of the day to brew

Feel free to update your beliefs about every single person and institution involved

What in the ever loving fuck has he done

Shits, bits, stabes, ceebs / All were types of cryptocurrencies

You wanna read a new (hopefully improved, thanks to very helpful comments from a bunch of very smart colleagues) version of paper called "The Political Economy of Shitcoins"? Of course you do. @tompepinsky.com & I are at your service. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The technology oligarchs have concluded, correctly, that if you do not apply the law to them, then they can do literally whatever they want.

Happy New Year! The following things are older than the mayor of New York: Home Alone Blood Sugar Sex Magik Microsoft PowerPoint Bud Dry Moldova

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

You should never idolize a politician. They work for you, and you should hold them to account. You are allowed, however, to celebrate the new year by bathing in the warm salty tears of any identity politics bigot.

Then again the Breakfast Club is on

This is actually a game, and I honestly do not care who wins

This video was the perfect distillation of the band, the scene, and of the song itself m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNCM...

The etymology of the word “cooties” is from the Malay word “kutu”, which means “louse”

My position has been quite consistent over time. The Urals are little more than a speed bump

It is also utterly illogical why a "be strong in Asia" foreign policy strategy would involve surrendering Ukraine to Russia. Anyone care to look at the map of Asia?

“Good ol’ rock. Nothing beats rock!”

My greatest wish is to have seen this live. Very, very few bands combine the crunch with the groove

A corollary to this principle is that finding a single hallucinated citation should lead to an automatic rejection. Automatic. This should be a matter of policy. And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!

Thank you for existing, Dietrich’s Meats and Country Store of Krumsville, PA

the Bethlehem Special: scrapple on an onion bagel

‘Tis the reason for the season

I think I need to say that I — a Princeton Univ. Press author that also co-wrote a Covid-19 book on how politics failed us— didn’t review this manuscript. Anyway, if you want to know why over a million people died in a tragedy of choice, see Pandemic Politics: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

“The only times I’ve had to defend democracy are in America, not Indonesia.” Um, really? One thing that I have learned from studying religion in Indonesia: it's an distraction to focus on faith, doctrine, or practice. The politics of religion is about authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...

This thread is worth your time

"It did not advance the ball." What the ever-loving hell is this? What game is being played where the point of journalism is winning a contest?

The Free Press

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Journal editors: I suggest manually clicking on DOI links in the references section of submitted manuscripts. You may be surprised by what you see. Gen AI has lots of uses, and one of them is generating fraudulent citations.

This. We’ve left the sane world behind. Are we going to rebuild structures and processes to reimpose discipline on the discussion of intelligence? Or on [fill in your favorite policy area]?

An underappreciated dimension of our media and politics environment is that every policy principal is now terminally online, arguing basic policy matters in public In no sane world, prior to 2016, would anyone want the DNI (or any admin official) to set or defend U.S. policy or objectives this way

Shoes are the brown M+Ms, you dummies. It's a perfect test of whether not you've invited a maniac inside your home: will they take off their shoes like a human being who lives in a society of other people, or demand the right to track in the outside dirt to protect their vanity

My fellow Americans, we need to demand Japanese single serving pour-over technology. It has already spread to Indonesia.

the way the first dude says "hell fuckin' nah" just scratches something in my brain.

How about, local citizen who cares about his community steps forward to support criminal investigation

It is important to understand that these are all lies. Deans don't tell applicants why they don't get a job that they applied for. The job market doesn't react to PhD defenses with phone calls for interviews. This is all false. These people are liars, and they are lying to you to start a race panic.

Taking an upskirt photo and posting it on X was very successful in demonstrating declining standards of propriety

if Pepe put on glasses and a tie

Bingo. "We are going to have to live here with one another" was the biggest reveal. Anyone who exists even for a moment in non-coastal elite spaces knows that "We refuse to live here with you, get out or disappear or die" is a commonly-expressed belief. I mean... look around.

you guys are making me want to watch the Trump speech (derogatory)

This is truly awful news. The Carolina Asia Center, one of the affected centers, is a wonderful interdisciplinary space supporting some of the most important and interesting work being done on Asia and Asian America. But hey, still paying milions to a famous football coach to go 13th *in the ACC*

I'll wait for the popularists to tell me why THESE polls don't count

here’s a free version: neat_research_panel <- data.frame( id = 1:100, treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE), outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5) )

(1) anti-woke politics is largely grift aimed at members of the educated class who feel like cultural outliers in their particular milieux; (2) practitioners of anti-woke grift are so generally incompetent at the adult work of running anything that even sympathetic academics eventually peace out