Oxford & Harvard profs develop a new GHG emissions inventory system to mirror the way that financial accounting is done, where liabilities are passed down to the buyers. Did they know that it would help polluters evade disclosure? That Exxon & others would use it to sow chaos?

What appears unprecedented isn't as unprecedented as we think it is. In my latest for the International Policy Journal at @cipolicy.bsky.social, I write about how the abuses we're seeing under the second Trump admin are an unfortunate consequence of decades of unaccountability for similar 🧵

(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.

I hate polling questions like "What is the most important issue to you?" A ridiculous thing to ask someone. I have no clue how I would answer that. Basically meaningless data.

the running theme of Trump 2.0:

Have we checked his popular knapsack with many different locations?

"If each of you don't bring another 5 people into this pyramid scheme, it'll collapse!"

Hardly the biggest problem, but that's a lot of defense small business loans that are going to default.

This is huge, and something we can push every governor, mayor, and sheriff in the country on.

The first screening is Tuesday -- sign up now!

Holy hell, what an obituary

Nice of them to provide cover art for the next edition of Megan Black's excellent The Global Interior. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

It’s the “not war by virtue of not planning” theory of constitutional war powers

We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements. It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.

American culture was fascistic even back in the ‘90s. Nobody understood this as well as Paul Verhoeven, who made Starship Troopers to point that out to us. Unbelievably timely film to revisit on The Bang-Bang Podcast w/ @samratner.bsky.social @andrewfacini.com www.bangbangpod.com/p/starship-t...

I can't help but think of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, and how Schwerner's last recorded words before being shot were reportedly, "Sir, I know just how you feel."

China is so emotionally devastated by the attack on Venezuela that they are accurately describing the United States, says Biden’s ambassador to China

Once again tapping the sign: bombing drug cartels in Mexico is appalling and appallingly stupid. www.winwithoutwaredfund.org/policy/simul...

This is a silly op-ed in multiple ways, but the funniest is the implication that World Cup attendees need to be protected from foreign threats and not the Trump regime itself breakingdefense.com/2026/01/gold...

For those just catching up, the administration today (falsely) declared that the paramilitary secret police have absolute immunity and that the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional. Disregarding legal constrains on the use of lethal force both at home and abroad.

Shoutout to Sen. Kaine and to the massive public rejection of this moronic, illegal war that pushed this over the line.

We dealt with ~175,000 of them when we abolished the Confederate Army — we’ll figure it out for 20,000 when we abolish ICE.

really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces

"Avelo spokeswoman Courtney Goff confirmed Avelo will be withdrawing its participation in the DHS program with the planned closure of its base at Mesa Gateway Airport (code AZA) on Jan. 27." - Congratulations to the activists and organizers who made this happen. www.theledger.com/story/news/2...

I, personally, think that depositing another $500 billion of tax dollars that could be spent on literally anything else directly into the pockets Anduril et al sickos to enable lawless killings abroad would be Bad.

abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point

Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.

Try to wrap your mind around this utterly disgusting statement coming out of DHS today. I cannot fathom the depths of moral degeneracy that would compel a human being to say this after what happened today.

Help us name a new show and book club for critical international relations! open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

In the spirit of not just newsposting all the time: My wife and I are hosting an impromptu Federico Fellini Film Festival at our apartment in Los Angeles this year, and if you're around and like film, you should come! If you're interested, sign up here: forms.gle/u6bTNBSEASaN...

Interesting: "Beijing’s total nuclear warhead arsenal likely remained in the low 600s, the report says, similar to last year’s figures, “reflecting a slower rate of production” — down from the estimated 100 additional warheads a year since 2020." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

HOW DO U THINK MADURO GOT ON THE HELICOPTER, SENATOR? TELEPORTATION?

Are you telling me none of the millennials on this website for millennials watched Girls?

The voice of my favorite form of revenue generation... or at least a voice of a form of revenue generation. From the NYT review of congestion pricing:

Listen, if you're a member of Congress and you believe that Donald Trump should have unfettered power to kill and kidnap people when and wherever he wants, you should just say so on the record and deal with the consequences [losing your job because no one agrees with you]. This is tiresome.

Mood. www.sup.org/books/politi...

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

And this article by @soyounglee.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social "The presence of capitalintensive resources-such as oil or minerals-raises concerns about how the benefits of acquiring the territory would be distributed within the nation." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

In hindsight we were probably never going to win a shooting war against our own emotional state

Emmanuel Macron, famed election respecter, has logged on.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Tell me again how the US must stand up to “revisionist” countries - a category that for some reason does not include the US

this would also be abhorrent with congressional authorization 👍

Trump expanding his ambition from making the world safe for gutter racism to making the world safe for gutter colonialism.