A new scourge besets a Lexington that only barely survived the ice... www.kentucky.com/news/local/c...

This is exactly what I was saying on @stephaniemiller.bsky.social this morning. We used to pity athletes in countries like the USSR and China who couldn't speak freely about their country's problems.

⚡️ US boards Venezuela-linked shadow fleet vessel in Indian Ocean. The vessel is part of the "shadow fleet," a group of tankers used by Moscow to export oil in violation of international sanctions, according to Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR).

Just made all of my old courses more accessible by switching them to "unpublished." So now everyone has the same level of access.

"Trump voters urge him to tone down the rhetoric and focus more on domestic issues, especially clearer pathways to legal status for law-abiding immigrants", proving they unaccountably had no clue who they were voting for.

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

So... folks do understand that university-mandated accessibility rules almost always result in faculty refusing to post material on university sites and students having dramatically curtailed access to course materials, yes?

Tales from the Finance Domain: Bond Markets Are Now Battlefields www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/tale...

Progress!

Ah, back when blogging was fun... www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2009/10/no-s...

That so many of the folks who claimed to care so much about campus free speech in yesteryear are suddenly uninterested today when the problem is just flagrantly, obviously worse (but entails costs in their social circles) tells me they are hypocrites, and I will not listen to them again.

Can you have a censorious, hair-trigger climate around speech on campuses that is bad for the spirit of free inquiry on which both campus teaching and research rely? Yes. Is direct state repression of speech from the barrel of a gun worse? Also, yes. Obviously. I mean, c'mon.

Well that was terrific.

I get it… and at the same time I think it would have been immensely and enduringly destructive for 14 year old me to have access to social media.

Been working on this on the piano... I feel like it's a song that has found its moment... youtu.be/xEMy34qhQe4?...

The Tulsi Secret www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...

These people think there are only so many slices of American pie to go around.

What about that 5 year old citizen, Congressman? The five year old citizens who are Liam’s classmates want their friend to stay. The five year olds I know take matters of fairness very seriously, and want to grow up in a country that treats even people who don’t like like them as human beings. 1/2

LGM Podcast: The Superb Seahawks? With @erikloomis.bsky.social and @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social

LDP undefeated world champions of “everything is broken, vote for us to fix it, we’ve only been in power 90% of the time, we are the anti-system option”

oh hey a new frankenstein adaptation i wonder why that feels relevant right now?

The Eight Great Powers of 2026 - www.19fortyfive.com/2026/02/the-...

White House takes down racist meme of Obamas posted on Trump social media kentuckylantern.com/2026/02/06/r...

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Bond Markets Are Now Battlefields foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/f... @charlesdainoff.bsky.social @geoffreyfw.bsky.social

New by me, @charlesdainoff.bsky.social and @drfarls.bsky.social Some of our ideas from Waging War With Gold foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/f...

LGM Podcast: The Superb Seahawks? With @erikloomis.bsky.social and @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social

Taps the sign...

The major flaw with the claim that Trump's foreign policy is "realist" is the fact that it is so deeply ideological. There is no "realist" case for driving South Africa into China's embrace, rather than competing for its partnership. The only reason Trump is doing so is based on racist memes.

Everything about tonight’s Pitt alarmed and troubled me.

When he's dead Evangelicals will go back to pretending they cared about the morality of politicians and I'm telling you it will be the most shameless shit you've ever seen

for donald trump's sake i hope nobody brings up politics at the olympics, an infamously politics-free zone

Via @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social The billionaire boys club strikes again. Frankly, killing the Washington Post seems far worse than what Musk did to Twitter. Florida Man murdered the Washington Post because he hates its reporters and readers www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/flor...

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The terms of the US-India trade deal are flatly insane. I can't believe anyone in DC believes that the Indians can do this or that the Indians will even try very hard. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/c...

Barr pulls ahead… www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

The Diplomacy and International Commerce of Sports www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...

I spoke on The Horn, the podcast of the International Crisis Group, on 'Uganda after Museveni': Uganda's political future, and the 'succession/transition' question: www.crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/u...

There's a good Arms Control Wonk podcast about this...

Bad Bunny, ICE, and Boycotts: Donald Trump’s War on Sports Diplomacy - www.19fortyfive.com/2026/02/bad-...

Blue Dot Podcast, featuring @erinpetrey.bsky.social! youtu.be/SwO4o5tcOvI?... Check out the most progressive candidate for KY-6...

At least he'll have the total destruction of his powerful law firm to look back fondly on www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I'm curious about the bureaucratics. ODNI doesn't have collection or investigative capability of its own, not much analytic (big picture stuff at the National Intelligence Council). Sounds like Gabbard driving FBI (Justice) work? Wierd. ODNI does write the Presidents Daily Brief 1/

This morning, literally 30 seconds out the door: “Dad, do you think you could bring my black shoes to Louisville tomorrow?”

Kentucky’s community college system and a public university have agreed on a way to make it even easier for their students to transfer general education credits. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/briefs/kctcs...

The Trump "negotiations" with Iran didn't get off the ground, presumably for the same reason as previous ones: the US demand is essentially that Iran capitulates, agreeing to forfeit its national interests, and in exchange the US leader who broke the last deal without cause might honor a new one.

Washington Post reporter laid off while freezing in a war zone by one of the world’s richest people.