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Professor of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University. I wrote a book: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253481/

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Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error

10.03.2026 23:13 👍 697 🔁 120 💬 20 📌 8

lol

11.03.2026 02:21 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am so sorry for your loss.

10.03.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

And plenty for fruit baskets and crab! But curing cholera or treating HIV, nah, fuck them share.google/b6oQCka7dBX3...

10.03.2026 22:01 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Kristi Noem's $220M Horseback Riding Ad Dwarfed the Budgets of These 2026 Oscar Nominees Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem used $220 million in taxpayer money to create a minute-long anti-immigration ad. That's more than the combined production and marketing budgets of nearly every 2026 ...

No money to save lives through USAID, plenty for this garbage. Freaking monsters. people.com/kristi-noem-...

10.03.2026 21:49 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

This is the future of the party.

10.03.2026 20:11 👍 129 🔁 35 💬 9 📌 1
If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! President DONALD J. TRUMP

If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! President DONALD J. TRUMP

mr president i don't think this is going to be effective

10.03.2026 19:47 👍 1471 🔁 148 💬 53 📌 236

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

10.03.2026 19:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the strategic genius in action:

10.03.2026 18:37 👍 394 🔁 53 💬 8 📌 1

this site has the juice

10.03.2026 19:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A twitter thread from 2017 on paper bc someone printed it out and put it on their door and it’s all we have of it

Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave
Around the department:
Americanists: how bad can it be really?
Comparativists: dictatorship, purges
International relations: nuclear war

Paul Musgrave @ profmusgrave 
Replying to himself
Americanists: haha but seriously
IR and comparative: who is joking

A twitter thread from 2017 on paper bc someone printed it out and put it on their door and it’s all we have of it Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war Paul Musgrave @ profmusgrave Replying to himself Americanists: haha but seriously IR and comparative: who is joking

Time for the official polisci meme™️:

10.03.2026 18:39 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

TRULY completely unforeseeable

10.03.2026 18:32 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

THIS IS FINE

10.03.2026 18:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

excited for those who flipped out over Biden's inflation to come to terms with gas at $10/gallon

10.03.2026 18:28 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

yeah what the hell do you have against waffles anyway

10.03.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor ALT: a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor

live shot of how the war is going

10.03.2026 18:27 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
10.03.2026 18:26 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

this is fine

10.03.2026 18:26 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 1
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10.03.2026 17:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

buddy every fucking day

10.03.2026 16:29 👍 356 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 0
As an extension of the administration’s argument for further destroying any would-be Iranian nuclear operations, Witkoff warned in a Fox News interview this week that Iran “controlled 460 kg of 60%” enriched uranium at the facility — a level that would bring Iran roughly one week away from being able to have weapons-grade material.

However, during negotiations, the Iranians told Witkoff and Kushner that they would turn over that uranium as part of a new nuclear agreement with the U.S., according to the Persian Gulf diplomat who spoke with MS NOW. The Iranians also told Witkoff that the country enriched the uranium after President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA brokered by the Obama administration.

As an extension of the administration’s argument for further destroying any would-be Iranian nuclear operations, Witkoff warned in a Fox News interview this week that Iran “controlled 460 kg of 60%” enriched uranium at the facility — a level that would bring Iran roughly one week away from being able to have weapons-grade material. However, during negotiations, the Iranians told Witkoff and Kushner that they would turn over that uranium as part of a new nuclear agreement with the U.S., according to the Persian Gulf diplomat who spoke with MS NOW. The Iranians also told Witkoff that the country enriched the uranium after President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA brokered by the Obama administration.

launch witkoff into the sun

www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

10.03.2026 14:18 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

What could possibly go wrong?

10.03.2026 13:35 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

I know our expectations for this administration are in the basement but it is INSANE they started a war without a plan for the Strait of Hormuz.

10.03.2026 10:50 👍 1770 🔁 449 💬 77 📌 28
09.03.2026 23:22 👍 807 🔁 91 💬 14 📌 0

“Muslims don’t belong in American society,” says GOP Rep. Andy Ogles.

Made me think of my rabbi, after post-9/11 bigotry, saying that Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and anyone else called unamerican for their religion has a moral obligation to push back.

This country was founded on religious liberty.

10.03.2026 00:51 👍 310 🔁 44 💬 11 📌 1

ah, the first pasta post system

09.03.2026 23:49 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0

This site has the juice.

09.03.2026 23:57 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was going to quote something like "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them" but no, he is just plain fuckin stupid.

09.03.2026 22:40 👍 628 🔁 92 💬 21 📌 0
Much Ado About Nothing: The Birth, Life, and Death of the No Labels Party in a Purple State | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core Much Ado About Nothing: The Birth, Life, and Death of the No Labels Party in a Purple State

Pleased that "Much Ado About Nothing: The Birth, Life, & Death of the No Labels Party in a Purple State" (@bowtiepolitics.bsky.social, @whitneymnz.bsky.social, David McLennan, Susan Roberts & me) is available in @pspolisci.bsky.social.

#ncpol #polisky

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09.03.2026 18:59 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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After slashing federal jobs, Trump administration ramps up hiring The hiring push is unfolding under new rules designed to give the White House greater influence over the government’s 2 million-person civilian workforce.

Oh, good grief.

"We probably have some skills that we now need to hire back, quite frankly,” Scott Kupor, the head of the Office of Personnel Management, said...

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

09.03.2026 18:33 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0