“Donroe Doctrine” sounds like something Scooby Doo would say.

A note on the Venezuela attack. When I began thinking about joining the military, in the lead up to Iraq in 2003, I thought that even in the worse case scenario, Iraq would be better off without a dictator.

We are the world's bad guys. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...

Trump now literally plagiarizing from the neocon playbook on Iraq:

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Surely they have put more thought into what it means to “run Venezuela” than what we heard at the news conference. Right? Right?

In one sense, good. We’re getting noticed. In another, oh the framing. Not only does the piece use “freakout”, “panic”, “fear & loathing,” but its opening paragraph (below) concedes too much to misleading analogies to & assumptions about previous panics allegedly sparked by technological change.

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

Trump Absent-Mindedly Snacks On Constitution

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Bad things happen when you hire opinion hacks to run media outlets Bad things happen when you hire non-academics to run universities Bad things happen when you hire businessmen to run the government Etc. Etc. Experience & expertise matter. And actual relevant expertise.

Add it to the list. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

Do you follow @benfordham.bsky.social? While you're checking out his page, take a look at his interview with The Storied Teller wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell.... Fordham spoke with WP about his Oct article and how the #history he brings to light led the #US to its current #president. #race #trade

Why did US Southern politicians turn away from #multilateralism after WWII? @benfordham.bsky.social finds that both #economics and racial hierarchy played a role in his October WP article. #race #trade #politics #ForeignPolicy doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This!

Reskeeting with alt text Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable

Some of the people running the world used Running the World as a cover for a sex trafficking ring, instead of a more conventional front like a car service, laundromat, or auto repair shop.

Finding new ways to be evil every day! Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

Behold, Chunk Style and his little buddy. 🎃

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. ➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

if you’ve got strong undergrads who are interested in doing phds in early modern, consider Binghamton English! Our stipends have just radically increased + Bing is a very low cost of living area, and tho not traditionally a strong hub for early modern, our dept is pretty stacked right now +

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

This is a great piece.

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Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

"Expanding his authority"? Jesus H. Christ. There are people at the NYT who know better than this. Lots of them. Some of them should check the headlines, sub-heds, and "social sells."

I thought Congress had the power to declare war, but I guess we can add that idea to the growing pile of quaint, obsolete notions about how the U.S. government works. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Coates fucking kills it, as always: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

“New York will give pharmacists cover to dispense COVID-19 vaccines this fall in the wake of uncertainty over federal immunization policy, a state official said.” From Jimmy Vielkind: gothamist.com/news/hochul-...

@governor.ny.gov New York needs this right now

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

against-a-i.com Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social

"What if ...we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

These two things cannot both be true: 1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution. 2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.

Our book, "Wheat at War", will be available this Friday (link soon). What's it about? In many ways, the book's narrative is captured in the below graph (indeed, this graph appears early in the introductory chapter).

New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again "The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

So... yeah. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/writing-th...