This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

“Every member of Biden’s Gaza team… continues to make it abundantly clear their solidarity lies with their accomplices, not their victims.” @harrisonmann.bsky.social explains how former Biden advisers are influencing Democrats’ foreign policy as if Gaza never happened. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/biden-geno...

It’s not just Gaza, though that’s enough. It’s how Biden team basically adopted Trump’s entire Middle East policy - embrace Abraham Accords and try to get Saudi in, ignore human rights and democracy, no return to JCPOA - and now pretend to be an alternative. Why in the world let them do it again?

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I got to play this last night and it is Good.

This is our version of service journalism. Save this one as an easy reference for when you’re called upon to address how things got this bad:

NEW: 30 lawmakers led by @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social press Trump to share intel on Israeli nuclear program “The concerns about nuclear escalation are shared by some inside the Trump administration, who say Israel’s red lines may not be adequately understood” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Speaking to Congress last week, Hegseth said that Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will "turn the lights back on in manufacturing towns across this country." Check out the reality of declining job creation and economic mobility in the arms industry here: transitionsecurity.org/labor-of-the...

UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds

NEW: The White House has sent Congress a new letter providing more formal notification of its view that the War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock for the Iran War is no longer ticking. 1/n

Everything about the GOP’s treatment of the “60-day clock” is pure Calvinball nonsense, but this is a doozy.

If only there was some kind of recent -- even ongoing -- evidence about whether restricting societal vulnerability to assured retaliation promotes strategic stability...

We usually think of the resource curse in terms of oil. But what if compute is the new crude? If AI allows states to generate massive wealth without needing a productive, tax-paying middle class, the democratic social contract starts to look very fragile. My latest for @foreignpolicy.com.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

"The might-is-right attacks by the US and Israel raise profound questions for the world’s non-nuclear nations in the value of adhering to the NPT." Yes - for all their fearmongering about the TPNW, it's the nuclear-armed states that are shredding the NPT. theconversation.com/a-new-nuclea...

I can't remember the last time I was this excited for a book I think will be as silly as this one. Has the potential to be a first ballot "I've got tenure and you can't stop me" hall of famer.

tbh the pope is just one of the roughly 8.3 billion people alive on earth today who don't need to read Michael Walzer.

Mike Johnson thinks "just war doctrine" means doing war and nothing else.

Everyone who wrote "sure Gaza is bad, but the war has massively improved Israel's strategic position" pieces in 2024 should a) donate any earnings from that piece to WFP and b) shut up forever.

These objections are 100% correct, and also the protesters are making a strategic choice! Gaza protests had clear demands about campus divestment from Israel, and there was a theory that the Biden admin was moveable on the issue. (1/2)

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will enable more idiotic wars in the short term & be a social + environmental disaster in the long term. $1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex would make the Pentagon's climate pollution about the same as the entire country of Spain.

If this is going on with business schools — say it with me — policy schools are in deep shit.

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

For what it’s worth a lot of the people (normies) we spoke to today in St. Paul explicitly connected what trump has done to them and Minnesota with what the administration is doing to Iranians today

it’s really shocking not to hear more against the war from so called climate groups. Not the most important reason, obviously, but if you can’t be against mass death, you should be against the carbon cost of war. Grateful for this analysis

Naked expansionism by nuclear-armed states is such an underdiscussed development of our time

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

Do these people hear themselves speak?

Our statement on news that Donald Trump wants $200 billion of taxpayer money for his disastrous war in Iran:

Hell yeah

We’re told there’s no money for universal healthcare or to end hunger in this country. But somehow $200 billion more for war will likely move through Congress without question.  Not another penny for another endless war.

"If solidarity has been so often withheld from the Irish, it has never been withheld by the Irish" Look, we were told there would be consequences to electing Mahmood Mamdani’s son, and

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u... I don't actually know Professor Trisko Darden personally and I don't know if she's on here but as a fellow political scientist I want her to know she can go stick her head in a bucket if she feels she was constrained by other people providing their pronouns to her

A lot of the people Akbar writes about in this are staking their careers on the hope that no one remembers the work they did to abet a genocide. Akbar's book is a vital part of the effort to ensure that no one forgets.

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023 (1/4)

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

The stupidest people on earth entered into highly technical negotiations, misunderstood everything, and then decided to launch a murderous war and cause a global crisis rather than ask a single question. Never let it be said that feminist IR theorists are overstating their case.

Wars of choice murder countless people today—and drown the homes of countless people tomorrow. —Each 5-year delay in peaking carbon emissions will cause an extra 8 inches of sea-level rise by 2300. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I get the sense that some liberal natsec types just want those to their left to get on board with “US empire but good” and I’m sorry but that’s not going to happen. And I don’t just mean that politically - I have serious doubts about whether restoration is even possible, let alone desirable.

I mean it's just extraordinary that all these fund managers, analysts etc had no idea that any huge shock to the energy complex will absolutely mess with the US gasoline price regardless of how "self-sufficient" they are with oil

The international stabilization force for Gaza was always a pipe dream, but this feels like the nail in the coffin.

NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!' you sent us a lot of your questions. we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.