In another @foreignaffairs.com piece, @justinscasey.bsky.social compare current wave of "reactionary populism" to the rise of international fascism in the later 1920s and 1930s. Here we argue that the genie isn't going back into the bottle, and pro-democracy forces need to adjust to that reality. /🧵

www.celiac.ca/tax-fairness... Amazing idea. Needs to be higher though.

Brezhnev's Trump impression

“Ideological Topography in World Politics: A Guide to the End of the Unipolar-Homogenous Moment.” by @justinscasey.bsky.social & @mrldolan.bsky.social in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social (2023) #AutumnReading

Fun fact about me for prospective employers: I just started my aged egg nog for the office holiday party

If you want to understand the importance of the media in (U.S.) politics, just compare the media framing today with that during Biden about a year ago on two issues: inflation and age/cognitive decline of president. 🚨

Embracing radio in general and WPRB (their fund drive is on now!) in particular

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

"Kindly take 10 minutes to provide us your thoughts about generative AI in the classroom -"

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

More grist for my mill; another example of domestic battles over bias ultimately threatening a valuable geopolitical asset (the World Service)

The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.

The world wants me to publish and be creative and then sends an army of leaf blowers to destroy my quiet and steal my leaves :(

I have an idea.

Love using this line in class/when grading

VOTER FRAUD A poll worker tried to prevent me (a celiac) from voting by dropping a crumb of muffin on my ballot

finally some good news

Radio Free Asia will shut down its news operations on Friday for the first time since its founding in 1996, removing one of the few independent journalism outlets in Asian countries with limited press freedoms. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Me when I am sending students paper sources from google scholar and I keep having to prove that I'm not a robot by selecting pictures of motorcycles

when the next journal on the list has formatting recs that raise the word count drastically

you do not, in fact, need to engage seriously with people with toxic ideas.

To prospective employers: Sorry I'm not published more I've had to optimize my workflow by replacing all of my toxic dissertation-era work habits with productive, sustainable ones.

Me after my first cup of coffee in weeks explaining why ideology is power political to the random undergrad from another institution who emailed me for an interview for an assignment

how many counter-protestors (the "Yes, Kings")

>saw a guy wearing a NATO flag at the DC protest

“You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that" I talk through the keyboard and mouse, it understands, and I magically don't feel the urge to toss the entire computer outside. Simple! Just go the Wii route and add bad motion controls

Citing over 4 lines of text about the Warsaw Pact. My editor is complaining about my bloc quote.

Republicans in the 1950s were mad that the Soviet's so-called "Hate America" propaganda campaign falsely accused the US of planning to build concentration camps for dissidents and undesireables. Now they are mad that the No Kings protests are criticizing their actual concentration camps.

Hot (from climate change) & Bothered (from all the sexual AI slop that will get shared)

how the email finds after the endoscopy

Trump is not an isolationist, not a realist, and not interested in "great power competition." Read @dhnexon.bsky.social: "The Mirage of Great-Power Competition" open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...

I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

Look, we’re both very sorry about the widening gyre.

Debates over typical labels (radical or extreme right esp.) gloss over the fluidity, overlap, and cross-pollination between them. Eco's concept of Eternal Fascism - emphasizing how certain ideas can clump together and snowball into fascism - allows us to imagine how these barriers are dissolving

is this going to affect my just barely affordable gluten free rummo?

The biggest takeaway from this chart is that most people the New York Times treats as legal experts were wrong about Trump Term 2 because they were too complacent, and rather than question that broader complacency and talk to people who got it right, NYT will continue treating them as go-to experts.

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one. @justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

Lots of amazing AI content coming out for teaching students about palingenesis and what that means soon

Um, didn't Depeche Mode write a song about this?

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

We continue to live in hell.

its the podcast ads

No one has ever Responsibly Statecrafted as much as Trump, many people are saying.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Hands off red, white, and blueland!

It’s publication day 🥳 my book is officially out in the world thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social, and I celebrated by giving it the 6+1 treatment at the @duckofminerva.bsky.social.