The corruption of Trump 2.0 is staggering even when compared to most autocarts elsewhere.

David Lake and Jeff Frieden have a new paper analyzing the Trump Administration’s trade policies. They put them in historical perspective and summarize their expected impact. Well worth a read. Link: blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/...

These "freezes" would not happen in a system without an electoral college. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

The party of “personal responsibility,” once defined by “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” now says it’s perfectly fine for the powerful to loot others’ resources—simply because they can.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Trying to think of how "your kids have access to a machine for producing images of child pornography increasingly hard to distinguish from the real thing, and they can do this on a computer you own" isn't a free hit for a newspaper campaign.

@nytimes.com way of saying, these guys have not really thought things through and are making shit up on the fly.

By now, journalists should have learned how to deal with government officials claiming they didn't know or hear about nutty things that Trump said or did.

“Non interventionist” MAGA is not going to turn on Trump because of Venezuela. This operation aligns with their vision of dividing the word into spheres of control/ influence. They don’t think this is anything like wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Good thread!

Re Venezuela -- With this corrupt administration, it’s increasingly unclear where U.S. interests end, and Trump’s personal interests begin.

It's not complicated for democratic leaders to state that ... (a) While Maduro is a vicious dictator who stole the last election, (b) The world is less safe when countries feel they have a right to invade neighboring countries and kidnap their presidents without probable cause.

How dare a president of a sovereign state conspire to possess machine guns?

The time to make this "decision" was long before removing Maduro.

How can the US government be a legitimate mediator in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine when it holds that superpowers have the right to invade other countries and pluck out their president for no good reason?

I'm old enough to remember the attacks on Obama because of his association with Rev Jeremiah Wright, who said something something about state-supported violence.

A reminder that in 1649, the English Parliament tried and convicted King Charles I for treason against his own people, but in the 2020s, SCOTUS put President Trump above the law.

He understands us. He represents us He is commuted to bringing prices down.

The silver lining of his genuine obsession with his legacy is that it's clear he knows deep down that he is no longer the president after the 2028 elections.

Announced two days after Netanyahu met with Trump in FL. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

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MTG has not changed. The NYTimes has.

Nick Sirianni’s win record makes it hard to demand he be sacked even as the 🦅’s offense looks like shit.

Nothing is worse than powerful people who seek to evade accountability dishonestly by playing a marginalized minority card.

Vermeule is not trying to convince anyone. He is merely beefing the arguments that Thomas and Alito will make whom we all know already how they plan to vote.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

One of the most conservative organizations in the world, again, selects a leader who seems more moderate, passionate, and reasonable than most leaders of conservative political parties.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate.

free speech absolutism for me but not for thee

Trump's new obsession with naming things after him while in office is not exactly a sign of confidence that history will judge him positively. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

If Joe Biden or Barack Obama had invited in a random CEO & hundreds of people w/o any security clearances or even federal jobs to cancel billions spending & destroy federal agencies established by law & Congress, it would be a nonstop national scandal, & we wouldn’t be hearing about “transformation”

Criticizing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians? "Antisemitism." Right-wing figures spewing actual bigotry about Jews controlling Hollywood and Finance? "Just asking legitimate questions about power." The double standard is deafening.

They sure want the number of foreign students to drop to zero.

A bit of escapism: I predict that Alcaraz will not be able to be a serious rival to Sinner without Ferrero.

Some of the responses to Rachel's thread are beyond depressing, and suggest that many on this site think that merely believing that Jews have a right to a sovereign state makes them a legitimate target.

This year, on average, our electricity bill is up 9%.

Call for Pitches: In Development Issue 1 (2000 USD per piece). I know Lauren well, and she's excellent. www.indevelopmentmag.com?utm_source=n...

Where You Earn Your PhD Matters Where You Earn Your PhD Matters By Benjamin Jepson, Penn State University, and Pete Hatemi, Penn State University We collected data on every tenure-track (TT) faculty member in the 122 PhD-granting political science departments in the United States to identify which…

In order to rebuild faith in the justice system we will go after our political enemies using made up allegations.

Irony is when a journal takes *many* months to review your manuscript, but after it gets accepted, the journal expects you to turn around proofs within 24h.

Thinking about all those workers fired for not being sufficiently sad and respectful following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Saddened by the horrific mass shootings in both Sydney and Brown University.

One sided cease fire…

This article is journalism malpractice. Reporting on Trump’s mafia style unconstitutional threats to defund the state as normal political “pressure campaign”. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

Authoritarianism does not tolerate genuine federalism.

He is 100% running …

This project began in a "let's catch up" lunch meeting at APSA several years back. We did not realize at the time how hard it would be to collect the data necessary to answer a simple RQ: Does publishing disaggregated electoral results deter voting aggregation fraud?

this makes clear that "we are at war with narco terrorist" is a spectacle, a charade, a simulacra of an anti-drug policy.

That’s one way to describe ISF air strikes that targeted tent area for displaced people in Gaza, which killed two kids.