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US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Who says art can no longer inspire?
“Based on what my son in law told me I started a regional war…”
As a historian I’m wondering how we will ever narrate this madness.
This is very good, and I’m wondering if you think this raises the possibility that Hegseth and others could be tried in US courts for war crimes or what legal framework might even be for doing so.
Sober in its analysis and devastating in its implications.
The US has engaged in direct combat with China once- 75 years ago, when China was still one of the world’s poorest countries, and just emerged from a devastating civil war and revolution in which many millions died. And still got fought to a standstill.
Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris. trib.al/TNOqWQK
Hegseth gives the same energy as Ben Stiller’s gym owner character in Dodgeball.
This sounds like my 21 year old nephew describing chest and arms day at the gym and a Call of Duty session to his friends.
This is a landmark book in international relations - and relevant now more than ever.
Well deserved, and such an incredibly important book. Congrats!🎉
For Americans who don’t know or read much about Indonesia, this is a decent overview of Indonesian President Prabowo.
Online already - and with the Adrian Vickers approval! You've got to watch it this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXuO...
Congress and the White House are preventing us from buying Chinese made electric cars that are better, cheaper, faster charging, and with longer range for the money than anything on US roads. They will eventually come here, but by then the gap btw them and US built cars will be vast.
Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
That explains it.
Trump: “ it’s fun to extra-judicially murder people for no reason.”
Israel is the only country in the world whose military and terrorist settler groups routinely murder US citizens with total impunity.
Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed more US citizens since 2022 than Iran’s military, and Trump is at war with Iran. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Queer Eye for the Straights Guy was just waiting there for you.
Booker has always been a bought and paid for servant of Wall Street and NJ investment firms and their super rich employees. Maybe the only truly consistent commitment of his political career.
This is what happens when you replace actual analysts with 4Chan lurking incel meme lords who don’t read, speak other languages, or know anything about history, geography, economics, or politics.
Its not exaggerating to say that Israel, the US, and Russia are the world’s most flagrant violators of international law and i don’t think any other country is even close.
So Trump’s pitch for Republicans this fall is:
1. I stole $1700 in tariffs from your family, and you’re not getting it back.
2. So what if oil/gas prices double and the world economy is in turmoil? Affordability is a Democratic hoax. Suck it losers!
3. Look at my amazing ballroom!
Could work.
Fragmentation is the worst part of Twitter/X’s implosion as the de facto public square. I don’t have the time or energy to stay up to date across multiple social media platforms + maintain subscriptions to legacy media + subscribe to all the independents i want to read.
This cant possibly be true bit of course it is.
At a DC cafe listening to three kids in what seems like their 20s complaining at the same time about Trump *and* about having to fly economy class for an international flight. One cheerfully offers “I’ve never flown economy class. I just use my dad’s credit card.”
The thing is, he is positively Lindsey Graham like in his utter, slobbering shamelessness and sycophancy. He clearly doesn’t care that old JD has video criticizing literally every position he takes now.
I don’t know if anyone has so relentlessly and persuasively chronicled America’s localized and vernacular fascism as Seth. He also rips a mean pun with only the occasional stinker.
To attack Cuba
