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We are officially an oligarchy, ICYMI
Mr Robot is watching…
maybe Dort is of draft age and, like Bucky & Steve before him, rush to the front lines and see the radicalized look as he jumps on that grenade …
What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since
"This [war in Iran] is a game of endurance."
Iran expert @alivaez.bsky.social speaks with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about whether Iran’s government can survive U.S. and Israeli attacks.
Watch here: zeteo.com/p/ali-vaez-t...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is planning a series of upcoming commencement addresses in Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Folks...
www.cbsnews.com/news/wes-moo...
JCSU is in Charlotte. If you can pick up free media there, which is a little easier because none of the local tv stations are owned & operated by the national networks, you could get at over 350,000 South Carolina households.
Who wants to read an overview of how Trump's SOTU rhetoric about the economy has held up over the past two weeks? www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Here’s the Democratic superstar of Senate candidates: North Carolina’s @roycoopernc.bsky.social with an anti-tariff message focused on helping rural North Carolinians.
www.instagram.com/reel/DVjmm2I...
I would like to report Mating Season.
Mississippi has the highest Black population share of any state but there have only ever been four Black justices in the state’s history, and none of them have ever served at the same time. A judge recently took issue with the state’s “bleak” history.
“War-a-Lago”
By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com
For starters, the startup ecosystem is maybe just not set up for it. They're overcapitalized on equity and have no good access to debt. Founders want quick exits--with high returns--for successful tech tests. But climate tech is just infrastructure, which is long-duration and medium-return.
Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...
Qutoe: “I see few world leaders standing up for the rule of law in the face of blatant lawlessness. That is a great tragedy, and it is that failure that may ultimately spell the end of the postwar legal order.”
The US–Israeli war against Iran is “clearly and unequivocally unlawful.”
We spoke with OONA A. HATHAWAY (@oonahathaway.bsky.social), Professor at Yale Law School, about the international legal order and Europe’s reluctance to call the attack on Iran illegal.
verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...
Good piece on the importance of on-shoring motor manufacturing for various uses including e-transport and why focusing on rare earths and mining isn’t enough. Having a viable EV sector in America will create capacity for defense applications. www.powermag.com/blog/the-mag...
Next Dem trifecta should massively expand and reform of the professional civil service in State Dept and Foreign Service to significantly increase the talent and professionalism of the FP community
(tricky part is not putting it first on the chopping block when Rs retake the House in 2030 😔)
Two books. David Harvey’s The Story of Capital and Chelsi West Ohueri’s Encountering Race in Albania
Came home to two new books. Skimmed a few chapters of Chelsi West Ohueri’s and i can see it working for a few different classes: ethnographic methods; ethnographic writing; race; anthro of Europe…
Central NJ friends, I urgently need help with signatures to qualify for the ballot. Come help, get swag!
I need at least 500...but we have to overkill, or else face legal challenges. Sign up to help in Princeton, Montgomery...or another town in NJ-12.
Earn a hat! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.
Trump was just asked if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks by Iran within the United States:
“I guess… Like I said, some people will die.”
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
Bam!
Let’s get Basil from Fawlty Towers to do the next batch …
Or, just get Manuel to do it since Andrew Sachs was from Berlin !
Where’s Artemis Gordon when u need him?!
Didn’t know this about his grandfather. Not a simple oysterman.
There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...
