Yeah but good luck getting the ticks to take it

Inability to adjust pedagogy against the interests of trillion-dollar corporations, the indifference of key decisionmakers, the hostility of many policymakers, and a fiendishly clever artificial intelligence? Skill issue

The United States of America is an awesome place. When my wife and I where living in the US, we didn't own a car. So we would each rent a car, go to a drive through, very conveniently eat in our seperate cars, while having a dinner conversation over the phone. It's an amazing country.

Jezus, hoe Haagse agenten tekeer gaan tegen kinderen die hun handen al in de lucht hebben of tegen de muur staan. En maar blijven knuppelen.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

#civmilsky: I had an RA come up with a list of the Trump Admin's violations of American norms of civil-military relations. I'd like to get feedback on it and have it serve as a public good. Especially handy when folks say this is not so bad docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/

‘No way to detect this.’ Say doctors treating women’s symptoms as anxiety.

an autocrat successfully fragmenting his coercive apparatus to deter coups: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! same autocrat realizing a fragmented coercive apparatus cannot wage war and will instead eat itself: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Props to the WSJ, they managed to pack almost every Trump decision-making pathology into a single story. It’s all here: 1) Short attention span 2) Impulsive behavior 3) Knowledge deficits 4) Gambling for resurrection 5) Belief in the madman theory www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

as @marietjeschaake.bsky.social has been arguing for a long time, the European answer can only be a European techno-infrastructure. However, that must be publicly owned and democratically accountable! Europe cannot simply build its own technofascist counterforce!

“Waarom zo persoonlijk?” Daarom zo persoonlijk. Mooi stuk van @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social. www.groene.nl/artikel/voor...

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

whomst among us hasn't looked at a pope and thought, hmpf, weak on nuclear weapons

A primer on Hungary’s electoral system. Hungary has a mixed-member pseudo proportional electoral system. 106 elected in first past the post constituencies 93 by proportional representation in closed lists 1/

I love @jdryan08.bsky.social's description of it as the Heroditus Trap

This is not the rhetoric I expect from a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Wow, guys, I used Attie to code that edit button that Bluesky has been denying us all this time! You can test it out here: edit-button-production.up.railway.app/jcsalterego....

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

This bridge is a primary civilian artery linking southern Lebanon—a main agricultural region—with the rest of the country. Its destruction isolates southern communities and cuts off the flow of goods to the north. Israel plans to annex the southern territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone.”

Moscow's had a pretty good week, thanks largely to Trump's Iran misadventure. Oil prices are booming, sanctions are suspended, Iran is hewing even closer to Russia, the US is even more diplomatically isolated from Europe, and now Russian intel + tech are throwing sand in the gears of US war effort

Oh hi, just a political scientist who studies war, and yes, putting Marines on Kharg Island would, in fact, be "boots on the ground in a combat situation." Thanks for coming to another of my TED talks.

I’m sorry, you are right. I should have included the possibility of Iran mining the Strait of Hormuz in the war plan. It is a critical shipping channel that Iran can block and cripple the world economy. I failed to take that into account. That’s on me.

IIFFM #Sudan found 'hallmarks of #genocide' in the attacks on El-Fasher. BUT this is in the context of almost 3 yrs of such violent, ethnically/racially targeted crimes, where non-Arab communities are targeted for rape & killings. A resurgence of the early 2000s genocide. news.un.org/en/story/202...

You know how American intelligence was pretty excited to do to the USSR in Afghanistan what Soviet intelligence did to the US in Vietnam?

These are all answers given by trump and his various sycophants in the last five days to the question, "why are we doing this?"

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

How are those security guarantees looking to, well, everyone?

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

I think the last time the USA created regime change solely through bombing was in Cambodia, when a massive carpet bombing campaign so destabilized the country that the Khmer Rouge came to power and wiped out the Royal government—the American ally. Genocide followed.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

This is a really good piece by Aziz Huq and @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social. I've been highlighting similar themes in my recent power-of-the-purse scholarship. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

Quite the chart

allllll together now: BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

these people have a moral rot

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Journalisten moeten zorgvuldig zijn in hun taalgebruik en zaken omschrijven zoals ze zijn. Het zijn geen “strengere” asielwetten, ook wl zeggen politici dat. Ze doen niets met de criteria voor asiel. Ze maken verblijf en opvang van mensen erbarmelijker, terwijl die vaak genoeg al erbarmelijk zijn

something the research on genocide, ethnic cleansing, & communal violence shows us is that the processes tend to stop where local officials & local people refuse to participate in them. there may be obstacles to refusal—being threatened, being overpowered—but violence isn’t inevitable once it starts

when we say complex processes of repression & violence are highly contingent & dynamic, we mean they depend on active choices people make—nothing is inevitable. we know from lots of research that people can interrupt violent processes by making choices that reflect their values. this is an example.