The metaphor I've always reached for to describe this country is that I'm trapped on a sinking ship that half the passengers keep pouring water into. Great minds!!!

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

out: VHS/betamax example in: this

Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos

(2016) (Portal opens) Me: mark carney, governer of the Bank of England, what are you doing Carney: America’s haunted Me: what Mark carney: (grabbing a gun and jumping back through the portal) America’s haunted

The problem of living in chaos is that it makes you crave for stability but makes you behave more erratic.

- become leader of a declining superpower - promise major changes - dumb policies make the economy worse - allies start to leave the empire - be donald trump - pic unrelated

Beijing watching a completely mentally unstable U.S. President reorient all U.S. foreign policy to coerce Brussels:

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

Ignoring the horrific failures of democratic governance at every level and the rise of a cruel, desultory tyranny to blot out the American experiment, this administration has been really beefing up my slide decks for international security courses

“But the biggest effect (of the rise of LLMs) is that peer review now becomes more about discernment or taste.” This is a really great piece, and I’m only half-joking when I say, “Welcome to theory!”

Analysis | Joe Biden would not have invaded NATO allies, cut off child welfare, or sent armed forces to kill Americans. But he would have given very few press conferences and spoken in a halting voice. The voters got it right.

Some have pointed out that the whole letter would have fit in the alt text window, so here is a version with the whole letter in alt text.

Loud yard friend

"The Democrats masterfully reversed reality" yes. the democrats are famous for their compelling, reality-shifting narratives 🙄

These guys are in the goddamn 1920s. They think that the world is composed of racial blocks and “empire” is a viable path to maintaining white supremacy. IT FAILED.

This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns.

Realism! Restraint!

Have acquired the means to produce salt air foam for margaritas. Evening out the balance of power with Oyamel.

this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead

propaganda works

missed this when it came out but FP sent a year in review and this was a subscriber pick. I think it's wrong for two reasons: 1) as the new NSS demonstrates, the US is promoting a fracture *within* the west and 2)kleptocratic transnational networks do not care about civilizational differences

Restraint!

At least these people haven't been sacked. I can survive without my childhood vaccine schedule but I would die without norad santa www.noradsanta.org/en/

Grading papers and checking the insurance website to see if they cover trepanation

Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

I'm at the Pizza Hutt. I'm at the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. I'm at the combination Pizza Hutt and the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts.

Fantastic piece of journalism by the AP. A map of the 145 Russian sabotage and disruption incidents across Europe. These are not random acts. "Russia wants to drain Europe's investigative resources with its sabotage campaign, officials say." apnews.com/projects/rus...

Mfw insurance didn't cover the therapist I want to see but during the 20 minute intake they told me about Time Blocking and its working great

and just like that in less than 24 hours I have an intro to comparative syllabus

Fruitcakes turned out! Excited to brush golden rum on them every other day for reasons

My doctorate in IR is flashing red. Is anyone else having this?

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas! me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong

Hey white house you missed dis and misinformation

"If you ignore the material that contextualizes what the NSS actually means by a strong Europe and key allies, it's a perfectly normal document" -- like 75% of the foreign-policy commentariat.

if elected president i promise to be just as corrupt as our current leadership, perhaps even moreso. but I will also reinvest the entire defense and policing budgets into creating what i call The Health Cigarette

revising the nds:

1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

looking forward to my water color class

If Pete Hegseth was drunk when he ordered the second strike on the Venezuelan sailors, then he cannot be held accountable for their deaths.

Me (having just beat hard 2 fire emblem with permadeath) with the new Tactical RPG's hard mode

Recently published a piece with @e-international.bsky.social about misdirected efforts to blame video games for the bombing of a school in Jakarta earlier this month. www.e-ir.info/2025/11/25/v...