Weak.

This is such a perfect antithesis of what Trump represents, and I think the 2028 Democratic nominee would be well advised do double down on this. There’s no more “return to normalcy” such as Biden represented in 2020; but “return to decency” is a path forward.

Every one of these deals exceeds the severity of the Clinton Foundation and Hunter Biden controversies by orders of magnitude. And there are already dozens, probably hundreds.

And yet Feliz Ano Novo = Happy New Year again! #portuguese

It’s a World Cup year!

This is such an important point. PhD students are essentially the cheap labor on which the entire edifice of higher research rests. These foreign students don’t tuition, but they forego several years of lucrative work they could get in the private sector. Many Americans don’t want to do that.

Has got to be “Smells Like Teen Spirit”… I remember exactly where I was when I first saw it, and that tapping foot, on MTV Brasil.

Vão reclamar no Brasil com certeza, mas a verdade é que a idade do Lula é um problema sério, e o pessoal finge que não vê. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Vão reclamar no Brasil com certeza, mas a verdade é que a idade do Lula é um problema sério, e o pessoal finge que não vê. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Poilievre is arguably the biggest political loser of all time, from a sheer win probability perspective.

Interested in what my poli sci friends would say, but based on the Brazilian experience, impeachment can be an amazing tool of congressional power, a permanently loaded gun threatening the president. But it seems like it can only have live ammunition under PR and a multiparty system…

Eu diria que isso aqui é quase tão importante quanto a prisão de Jair e dos generais. Antes de aderirem à próxima tentativa de golpe, os subordinados também terão que levar em conta a possibilidade de acabarem na cadeia.

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

The easiest way to see that this is the result of market forces is to note that every high-caliber research center anywhere in the world will soon come to hire foreigners, as they tap the global market for talent.

Concordo.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Awesome thread.

I don’t want to ruin the Christmas spirit, but it has to be said: Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas has the most atrocious bassline ever recorded…

It’s great that @economist.com is talking about our paper in their piece on “slop” as word of the year — not so great that they don’t cite/link to it… www.economist.com/culture/2025...

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

This speaks to the conversation I had here the other day with @brendannyhan.bsky.social and @mayasen.bsky.social, in the context of higher ed.

Really perceptive piece, by two of my brilliant @jhu.edu colleagues, @himself.bsky.social and @radchenko.bsky.social.

It's good to reminisce sometimes... (via Yellow_blackjack/reddit) #NBA

Another way to frame this is that capturing the (news section of the) WSJ is prohibitively expensive.

Saiu na Folha @folha.com

This is 1 1/2 hours of Americans completely befuddled by the experience of autocratic governance. Just trying their hardest to see some sort of coherence, when it’s all about an autocrat, and everyone else trying to flatter/bribe/steer him toward their goals. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Scary "US-has-turned-into-Latin-America" thought of the day...

This is pretty cool, worth reading...

This is the closest thing to the Frederic Weis "Dunk of Death" that I've seen in an NBA game.

Nessas horas que eu percebo o quanto tempo faz que saí do Brasil... Ravi?? Sério? Não sei nem pronunciar isso, qual é a sílaba tônica??

Life under competitive authoritarianism. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

This would be a great feature!

This is what captured media looks like.

Que ano inesquecível para a torcida do Palmeiras!

America is confronting its first instance of monarchic succession, which is also the rather unusual case of monarchic succession in which the monarchy could be voted out in three years.

This is very good.

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

For someone who grew up in (the top decile of the income distribution of) a developing country, it is hilarious to see what Americans think is the bare minimum for a middle-class life. Kids sharing a bedroom? Oh, the indignity…

The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics jokes are writing themselves at this point…

Americans have turned out to be very bad at certain aspects of resisting authoritarianism that seem to come very naturally to people who've had more prior exposure to it.

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

The thing about guns in this country is that sad human stories routinely turn into horrific tragedies engulfing whole communities.

Let’s hear from Bloomberg News on how the US experiment with Peronism is going…

Must-read from one of the very top experts on migration economics and policy...

"Deal represents a bet on political connections powering profit opportunities"

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Other countries have done better... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

There is a history book to be written about the role of Harvard Law and Yale Law in the creation of this authoritarian moment in America. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Excellent piece, must-read.