“And that’s why I’m cravenly endorsing a republican in the Alaska senate race to ensure that this authoritarian menace remains unchecked”

I show it every semester -- same reaction!

This SDE clown doesn’t need a nazi tattoo, he IS a nazi tattoo

Liking this pope more and more every day

Waiting for the same Very Serious People in the media, WH, & GOP who scolded Dems to "lower the temp" after Kirk's death to condemn this & other examples of racist, authoritarian, & violent rhetoric (incl. Kirk's) w/the same intensity & self-righteousness www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Everyone in this administration is competing for the SDE Poster child award

Good for the generals. No one is impressed with this insecure, limp, utterly weak display of warrior cosplay. Certainly our enemies aren't (nor our dwindling number of allies). Typically pathetic, which makes it even more dangerous.

Sadly true but needs to be said, from @paulwaldman.bsky.social : "We Were Right: The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?" paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...

Excellent must-read from Coates (esp. for those who claim to prize "debate.") www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

As with everything about this criminal clown show of a presidency, at once abhorrently authoritarian and laughably stupid. "You have a lot of hate in your hate!"

One can argue with their prescription, but have to hand it to WSJ editorial writers for nailing the Freudian insecurities underlying the "War Department" nonsense (& really everything about Trump/MAGA ftm): "(S)peaking loudly and carrying a small stick" www.wsj.com/opinion/depa...

These days, it's Sleater-Kinney covering "Fortunate Son" during an encore at the 9:30 Club in around 2003 and dedicating it to our last blue blood disaster of a president.

Yeah ok: first song that comes to mind at the thought "I'm glad I heard that live," go

Of course he ended up voting for it in the end. Because if it walks like a little bitch, and squawks like a little bitch, well...

So basically Clarence Thomas, the same Thomas that allegedly sexually harassed Anita Hill and other work colleagues by describing in detail the porn he watched, crafted a ruling that will force judges, including he and his SCOTUS brethren, to watch porn. Well played, sir www.vox.com/scotus/41806...

The New York Times' "100 Best Movies of the Century" series is a fun diversion from The End Times. Impossible to feel good about a top 10 list when you must leave out so many great films (hardest omissions for me: Beau Travail, Moonlight, Mulholland Drive), but FWIW here's mine:

"If it stays on the path Trump has started down, the United States risks becoming too brutal to love but too irrelevant to fear." Depressingly important analysis of Trump's disastrous foreign policy from @kschake.bsky.social‬: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Bill Clinton told David Maraniss that based on his reading of the Bible blowjobs didn't count as adultery.

Homan, ICE goons, and MAGA allies maybe should watch this interesting doc:

And they'd be punished by the presidents at GW, NYU, and Columbia

CC GW president Ellen Granberg & the other university mucky mucks who once again forgot their mission & First Amendment principles in punishing a student for the temerity of speaking her mind: "(D)on’t call that higher education. Call it what it is: cowardice" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I was on stage for this. Some disagreed vocally/strongly w/the speaker as was their right. But IMHO this was not hate speech. No one was harmed. It'd be a travesty of cowardice, bullying, and hypocrisy for #GWU to punish her. Sadly that'd be on brand for this GW admin. gwhatchet.com/2025/05/17/g...

And guess what? They are going to hire the locals who used to work for us and glean all sorts of info from them. A nice counterintelligence bonus.

This sadly all-too-believable breach of operational security by the dangerous dunderheads running national security for this clown show of an administration reminds me of a sign at the PRT in Mosul when I was there in 2009:

I am also happy to add my name to this letter advocating for the value of higher education and encouraging university leaders to be vigilant in its defense against current threats from the White House and its allies.

"Public Diplomacy and National Security...." a great conversation with Drs. Katherine Brown and James Pamment, two contributors to the new "Handbook on Public Diplomacy" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFuf... @ipdgc.bsky.social #publicdiplomacy

What: Me & @profmiskimmon.bsky.social talk #AI, #publicdiplomacy + #strategicnarrative with @adaystew.bsky.social When: 25 March 12 PM EST Link to register and join: form.jotform.com/250565460458...

GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication is hosting a series of upcoming webinars around the recent publication of the book I edited, Handbook on Public Diplomacy. I'll be talking to some of the amazing authors about their work and contemporary PD issues and challenges. Join us!

New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on why Riyadh talks were very bad, why Rubio's appt was doomed from the start, and why U.S. diplomacy is in crisis (hint: giving away the store is not diplomacy). To paraphrase @dandrezner.bsky.social, I wrote sharper today. goodauthority.org/news/why-hig...

🚨Publication Alert🚨: Handbook on Public Diplomacy, out today! An amazing array of authors. Check it out! www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/han...

Was David Duke busy?

It's hard to imagine a braver, more honorable person than a trans person willing to lay down their life in service to their country. To be told they aren't "honorable, truthful, and disciplined" by the most dishonorable, untruthful, and undisciplined person to ever be president is a bit rich.

This Post editorial arguing Biden's presidency will be seen as far more successful than current CW would suggest seems spot-on. Still, the delusional decision to stay in the race was catastrophic and one he and especially his staff will never totally live down. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Worked together” doing a lot of … work here.

“There are criminals, known criminals.” Like… the Felon president and half his proposed cabinet?

Looking forward to these performative deleting Twitter posts to stop

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Honestly, one of the few upsides of last night is seeing folks emerge from the woodwork with a hammer and sickle in their profile, or “socialist” in their description, writing screeds like this. Because I’ll be happy to block and never have to listen your self-righteous twaddle again.

Bang up job vetting, CNN

Important to point out how awful this hack was, but don't let it obscure the MANY other racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, and demagogic things that were said by other speakers, including Trump. To say nothing of the bat-shit crazy stuff, like Trump threatening to put RFK Jr at FDA and let him run wild

The craven decisions by the LAT and WPost to pull their endorsements of Harris are especially wrong given that Trump has for years attacked the press and endangered reporters with his "enemy of the people" rants, threats to revoke broadcaster licenses, and general disrespect for the 1st Amendment

I always thought Kamala should go on Rogan, but now more than ever:

Finally some sanity in this movement. Hope it's not too late -- both in terms of potentially depressing the vote for Harris and in squandering any chance of getting a seat at the table in a future Democratic administration.

This is what happens when the measure is not substantive progress for actual, existing human beings but the size of the dopamine hit that comes from being more radical than the next guy.

Of course if she had said, "Well there are many reasons why millions of people support Trump, especially including partisanship, but in some cases it's also because his racism aligns with their own values" it would have been a "Deplorables" moment and dominated headlines

100%. Any liberal not voting for Harris is telling on themselves. Absolute idiocy.