“Good Trouble Lives On” protests ripple across all 50 states today, tens of thousands gather for civil liberties, voting rights, and justice in John Lewis’s name. When civic structures fray, public action holds the line. A pulse check on democracy in rollback.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NATO just pledged 5% of GDP on defense by 2035, a Cold War-level leap. But Europe’s alignment with U.S. goals hides fractures: Spain’s opt-out, Italy’s accounting tricks, and worries over social spending. The real question: what kind of world is Europe building?
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
I'm en route to my favorite conference of the year! It's a great program and I'm looking forward to the panels and to catching up with my SHAFR pals! 🗃️
Mamdani’s win is a reminder that storytelling is strategy—especially when it’s rooted in place.
The U.S. dropped 30,000-pound bombs on Iran’s nuclear sites—and barely scratched the program.
Tactical success. Strategic failure.
You can’t bomb resilience out of a nation.
And you definitely can’t bomb nuclear ambition.
This is a familiar American mistake—power mistaken for outcome
Send them all my way! Sounds super informative.
Right now, we are seeing a test of ceasefire credibility in the age of brinkmanship.
Who wins when everyone claims to be defending?
Latin American leaders are pushing back hard on U.S. strikes in Iran.
This isn’t just anti-imperial instinct.
It’s history—echoes of the Cold War, when Catholic bishops in Brazil and Mexico framed peace as sovereignty.
The Church is still in the room, even when we don't see it.
I'm really excited about using some deep (religious and political) philosophy to try and understand more contemporary things
Yes, the US bombed Iran, but watch the Vatican’s next move. During the Cold War, the Pope(s) quietly pressured both the US and USSR. Could Leo XIV be nudging Washington and Tehran back to the table?
Trying to fuse these two thinkers, currently, into my main argument of the dissertation: religion is a heavy-hitting undercurrent of policymaking and political discourse.
The Church Committee Report is, to date, the most detailed articulation of the government's playbook for disrupting, surveilling, and crushing political movements. It was written in 1975 but could not be more relevant or useful in 2025.
My latest article on the Vatican's quiet, yet powerful, intelligence legacy.
www.duckofminerva.com/2025/05/the-...
