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New, from me: Trump's retribution against Anthropic is over the top. But it should cause Democrats to think about how they will deal with contractors like Musk or Ellison when they return to power.
What do you do with vendors working to oppose you? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/procuremen...
Immigration causes an increase in per capita patenting activity (primarily by _native_ inventors), per capita wages (including wages of _natives_), and productivity--with _positive_ spillovers for nearby counties.
CC: Trump, Miller, etc
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key questions for journalists to ask: did the military consider any of the risks to human life or the environment when bombing an oil facility in/near a city of close to 10 million? if US did it, was it a result of hegseth's rejection of the law of war?
More than 400 desalination plants are in the Gulf. More attacks on such plants would be devastating--one of the many worries running through my mind over the last few days as this war widens. 90% of Kuwait's drinking water, for ex, comes from desalination. Low's piece below is a good refresher.
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
This March as we celebrate International Women’s Day – we celebrate Women in Politics and International Relations
Explore inspiring collaborations between female students and their supervisors, shared in their own words: www.politics.ox.ac.u...
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Thanks to @annemwolf.bsky.social for editing the handbook, which is a great resource for understanding the politics of authoritarian rule.
How do everyday people in authoritarian regimes think about politics? And how do the public's attitudes shape the way autocrats govern? Tony Zirui Yang and I have a new chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics that reviews academic research on these questions: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Foreign influencers help authoritarian regimes: while they may not sway domestic audiences already saturated with propaganda, they can reshape the perceptions of more credulous foreign publics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Iran seems set on a strategy of deliberate escalation, trying to threaten as large a swathe of the region as possible, to increase political and economic pressure for a ceasefire.
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The DFG (German Research Foundation) has a programme funding stays of up to three months at German academic institutions for researchers in early career phases and of all disciplines from MENA (www.dfg.de/en/news/news...) and Sub-Saharan Africa (www.dfg.de/en/news/news...).
People explain the real impact of politically-motivated changes to the settlement rules on their lives, the Home Office responds with "We make no apology ..." IME people in power who use the "no apology" formula know full well that they are doing something very wrong
Peep this from @anthlittle.bsky.social & @tompepinsky.com. We CAN learn even from biased estimates if we do exactly what @stablemarkets.bsky.social is saying.
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• ~3.2M Afghan refugees are currently in Pakistan
• ~3–4M Afghans are estimated to be in Iran
• Afghanistan already has ~6M+ internally displaced people
• Gulf states host ~30M+ migrant workers
If multiple fronts destabilize at once, even small % moving becomes major regional migration event.
Sadly not surprising, but this is really failing to meet the moment as leader of the opposition.
Reports of attacks on American facilities in UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. Missiles also reported aimed at Saudi Arabia
Qatar & Bahrain’s airspace has been closed.
Here in the UAE, there are reports of explosions heard in Abu Dhabi & airspace is now closed.
Many people who live in these countries fled wars in Iraq, Palestine & beyond. News like this is traumatic for them. Keep them & all civilians in your thoughts.
Needless to say, POTUS's airing of grievances on social media against Iran does not provide a predicate for using military force under either US or international law.
A lawless, unnecessary war of choice—waged on the whims of one man.
Following up some of my morning thoughts: "Labour’s basic electoral problem comes from the fact that left-leaning voters are indeed choosing to vote against rather than for parties. The problem is that progressives aren’t just voting against Reform. They are now actively voting against Labour."
@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Over the past eighteen months, the political science consensus on the nature of Labour's vote has been absolutely correct - and yet also completely ignored by pundits and strategists who continue to get it wrong.
Good that some Labour politicians draw the right conclusions. I am a broken record on this but Labour is repeating the same mistakes that other social democratic parties made in Europe. Some fragmentation is unavoidable but this is mostly the result of the strategic mistake to abandon progressives.
The Paramount/WB merger is a consequence of government corruption and everybody involved should be prosecuted and the eye-popping fines should be clawed back from shareholders
Interestingly, Netflix pulled out after Sarandos had a meeting with Trump today. Presumably Trump had a part in this.
The CNN domino falls, and the media landscape is getting very competitive authoritarian-y… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
