I mean, it is almost as if a well-trained and professional diplomacy is actually, potentially....quite useful?

YESSSSS!

Yep

Life under the Clicktatorship: the FBI Director is off watching hockey at the Olympics, and the administration is trying to send hospital boats to a country with universal health care even as they are gutting health coverage. Great content, owning the libs etc.

This should be of interest to many of the Historical IR crowd!

THIS is the content I need in 2026!

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

George Washington (1732–1799) was an American military leader and statesman who commanded the Continental Army, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and became the first U.S. president. Revered as the “Father of His Country,” he shaped the nation’s early identity and institutions

William Howard Taft was the 27th U.S. president and later the 10th chief justice, the only American to hold both roles. Born in 1857, he rose through judicial and administrative posts, shaping law and government with steady, pragmatic leadership.

AP: How Jeffrey Epstein used the glamour of the Nobel Peace Prize to entice his global network of elites apnews.com/article/epst...

In the play "Oslo", about the peace process of the same name (and do check the financing of at least one production of that play), the character Mona Juul states: "In Norway we take nepotism to an entirely new level". Oh, the irony!

L’excellent collègue @halvardl.bsky.social explique les ramifications, et les raisons sociologiques, de l’affaire Epstein en Norvège. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I couldn’t agree: more Økokrim needs to investigate Rød Larsen and Juul.

Apropos Børge Brende:

This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.

I think that @seva.bsky.social has something here.

"Tar De livsløgnen fra et gjennomsnittsmenneske, tar De lykken fra ham med det samme"

I want five bands you can't fucking stand: 4 Non Blondes Blind Melon Hanson Spin Doctors A-ha (This was my very specific early 90's and Norwegian take).

Trump's gratuitous smear of Danish soldiers who fell in service to America have the entire nation in a state of outrage, continuing now for many days. American media ignore this.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

TRUMP TODAY: There was an election in Texas? What? TRUMP YESTERDAY:

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

I blant MÅ man bare tenke tilbake til oppveksten når man skriver kronikker. M/ @bdecarvalho.bsky.social klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

In the early 1930s, some Norwegians claimed Eastern Greenland for Norway. Norway lost resoundingly in the Hague. In the ensuing parliamentary debate, a Labour-representative, critical of the claim, referred to the claimants as “Greenlandnationalactivistfascists”. Just wanted to put this out there...

I just thought everyone should see this

If this is the end result, Trump will have terminally weakened the closest US friendships in the world, for nothing. Nothing at all. The US already has this. Pathetic.

Tyrone: Hey, baby. Maybe you can help clean *my* pipe... *whips out his cock* Tiffany: The United States reaffirms its commitment to collective security but maintains control over Greenland is a core national interest. Tyrone: First of all, Tiffany, that's contrary to the spirit of collective sec

"And so the King of Mexico calls me and she's like "Mister Trump, I need you to fix my plumbing and then I..." Meanwhile in a LA porn studio, Tiffany is a little confused as to why she's supposed to talk about NATO and global trade before the gang bang, but it's interesting reading.

A woman shows one inch too much boob and she's a slut but this guy can just walk up to the podium and read a fucking porno script and still be president of the United States.

The script of that Carney speech is going to end up on a lot of IR readings lists...

Eh, Belgien premiärminister citerar Gramsci för att beskriva den situation som Trump skapat.... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

And if my fellow middle-aged white men are at a loss as to what they should say, remember that "I'M SORRY ABOUT WHATEVER WENT WRONG WITH YOUR PENIS" always works.

In 1940, the USA accepted my grandparents, my father and his three siblings as political refugees from the Nazi occupation of Norway. Thankful for this since childhood, I never thought that my own government might in my lifetime honour that debt to US citizens facing their own government.

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

The families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Yeah, I don't know how you write a piece that features Niall Ferguson of all people and then pretend "they wanted a university without cancel culture"

When I travelled a lot l met loads of Canadians with Canada flags stitched on their backpacks. "Why the flags?" I would ask, "so people don't think we're American and shoot us in the back" was the usual response.

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

“Lebensraum: is it prudent fiscal policy?” 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Again, one thing I was completely wrong about is that I believed there was a baseline level of professional pride & integrity below which supposedly serious journalists would not sink in the face of the far right authoritarianism.

It's also wild that this hasn't ended Trump's presidency immediately. We used to be a serious country, where things mattered. Or maybe we never were, & it's just the mask being fully ripped off. Hard to tell, frankly. Observationally equivalent. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The spirit of X-mas present. Keep on enjoying, stay safe and warm and get some good sleep!

Because it’s not getting reported on enough: Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, father of two, was the hero who bravely tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters and took away his gun. He saved lives during a major terror attack. Say his name, and honor the lives of the victims of the shooters

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

New @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" #HistIR 🔽 Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

Apologies for X-posting. Special Issue alert: The December issue of EJIR is now live. The editors are REALLY proud of this collection. 10 articles at the cutting edge of History and Theory in International Relations. If you get this in your stocking, you have been a GOOD academic this year!