Cc: @jcbradbury.com. Need some op-eds in Raleigh and Charlotte newspapers!

How about we fund public education rather than subsidizing private, for-profit companies? How about it @joshsteinnc.bsky.social?

The level of money laundering is gonna go thru the roof.

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

Wonderful.

What’s more impressive is that she’s been “very concerned” for about 75% of them.

It’s remarkable how much Brian Finlay accomplished at such a young age. I met him the first time I presented at the UN and he was gracious, supportive, funny, and whip smart. Was also willing to share a punch bowl of some strong cocktail in Manhattan afterwards. RIP. www.stimson.org/2026/stimson...

Awful news. It’s hard to imagine how much better academia as a whole would be—smarter, more effective, kinder—if more of us were as giving, committed, and curious as Raúl was. Damn. Descanse en paz.

“People say gas prices are hurting them.” “We talk to the CEOs of oil companies all the time and they’re doing just fine.”

It’s a huge problem for US democracy that members of one of the two parties thinks obscure sports trivia is qualifying for public office.

Psst. Proportional representation in multi-member districts is the only real answer to the ills of gerrymandering. Pass it on.

Cc: Pope Leo.

Can I block any skeet that has the word Bluesky? I find all of the navel gazing—ensconcing! Liberating!—really boring and self-serving. I grew up where dudes stood around and talked about their cars. That was boring & self-serving. Self-analyzing our use of a platform feels the same to me. Blah.

The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

This is an important effort and one that more academics need to recreate for our own fields. Especially if it includes peer review, a kind of Wikipedia of violations across many sectors would be useful for the media, activists. Immigration, finance, environment, development, human rights, etc.

The right-wing Board of Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill continues to undermine one of the country’s pre-eminent institutions of higher education. Shameful and terribly short-sighted. www.wunc.org/education/20...

“Dear Reader, someone with experience at the FBI surely can find employment elsewhere. That’s your best option.”

Another day, another “Oops, I AI’d” story. I suppose I’m naive, but isn’t the answer to most of this to actually read the stuff you’re referencing? Worried about accidentally AI’ing? Then read.

Man who refuses to wear a suit insists that we need a ballroom.

Oof.

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Yep.

Any chance anyone out there has had a consulting report generated by Huron Consulting? W”My university is looking in particular at the administration of research grants. If you have a report you’re willing to share, I’d love to compare across institutions. #academia

Looted Art and the politics of restitution alert, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social!

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Authoritarian personality cult watch

FWIW, the OPEC article Jeff links to is one of my favorite ones to teach for both grads and undergrads. Had a former undergrad this week ask hopefully if I still included it in my IPE syllabus, which I do. Great to teach research design, need to test “common sense,” role of beliefs, and oil politics

Since I’m in the middle of writing a final exam question based on your article, @jeffcolgan.bsky.social, I’m eager to hear your take on this! United Arab Emirates Says It Will Leave OPEC in Blow to Oil Cartel www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/w...

Silly soldier. Insider trading is only for those at the top of the chain of command (and his family and BFFs).

I said this exact thing about bad student research. The ones really winning from AI are the bad researchers and writers who don’t use AI, because I give them so much more credit now!

Check it out, @sarahkbowen.bsky.social .

I think hardcore AI proponents fail to reckon with the speed at which this particular industrial revolution is happening. Yes, we’ve come thru industrial revolutions before. But this one is happening at super-computer speed, not spinning jenny speed. And that matters for disruption. 1/2

If your party leaders are worried by the news of a Hungarian autocrat’s electoral shellacking, it says a lot about your party.

Orban crushed. Very good news for not only Hungary, but Europe — and all of us, in terms of global resistance to the far right

Here’s what to know: “the Trump administration and the Kremlin” are rooting for the same guy.

The President of the US is openly threatening genocide. Really praying there are some leaders high up in the military command who have the legal and ethical fortitude to resist this.

Teaching students to ask a question, find and consider evidence, and craft and clearly articulate an argument is at the core of all teaching. It is a slow, messy, non-linear process, but a skill that can be taught. AI short circuits that learning. As Karamanis writes, failure is the curriculum.

How great is the war going? So great we don’t even need an Army Chief of Staff, that’s how great.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Alt headline: Stephen Miller wonders why Texas is passing up chance to create a still larger permanent underclass of black and brown people.

There’s a lot of good evidence that this administration is corrupt to its core.

I wasn’t affiliated with V-Dem but I spent a year as a Fulbright scholar with the @qoginstitute.bsky.social housed in the same dep’t. What a remarkable place to do a postdoc! Collegial and intellectually stimulating atmosphere. And Gothenburg is a fun place to live! If you’re on the fence, apply!

From @investopedia.com: “Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in his semiannual testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in March 2022 that every $10 per barrel increase in the price of crude oil raises inflation by 0.2% and sets back economic growth 0.1%.”

It’s hard to keep up with all of the craziness at this moment. But can we pause for a moment to imagine how loud the calls for impeachment would have been had Michelle Obama or Jill Biden been asked to preside over a UN Security Council meeting?

The ghouls pushing AI tools with no ethical guardrails will be thrilled to see their technology creating a permanent underclass that has been robbed of the ability to think systematically and critically.

A war of Trump’s own making. Look at this chart and then look at those pictures of a girls’ school that we’ve destroyed.

No coverage of this war should exclude this context. Ideally it would be upfront. Trump decided, contrary to evidence, that the JCPOA was bad. And now we’re at war.

Regret to inform you that @matthewdownhour.bsky.social is still correct

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