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Politics adjunct prof @ American University. Formerly lots of things in government and politics. Obama Admin alum.

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The very obvious problem with this implementation of popularism, as a purely political matter, is that you are *constantly* raising the salience of your worst issues!

05.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 708 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 5

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

04.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 9982 πŸ” 1235 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 41

Stelter has to know better. His example shows there's literally only one news show where they've learned there's a price if they censor - by trying to!

01.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

01.03.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 8030 πŸ” 2084 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 34

It's almost like the FIFA Peace Prize wasn't real

01.03.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ya think?

01.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

People who didn’t grow up in New England don’t understand the place the Blizzard of β€˜78 has in our historical understanding. It’s up there with like, 1776 and the Magna Carta for world foundational events.

24.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 530 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 13
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15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)

15.02.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 8577 πŸ” 1319 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 101

The Cole was bombed in 2000.

06.02.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

05.02.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 15315 πŸ” 4643 πŸ’¬ 445 πŸ“Œ 250

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

03.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

An Ishtar-level calamity

01.02.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Lincoln Memorial is IMO the sacred temple of our democracy. Civic blasphemy.

31.01.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 217 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 2

I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

27.01.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 2618 πŸ” 453 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 44

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

25.01.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 2480 πŸ” 596 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 17

"Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." (All the better that a few beats later is "Are my eyes really brown?")

23.01.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reagan had a sign on his desk. Donald Trump has another one. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/no-nobel-n...

21.01.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Each week, when you read the credits, his is the name I expect to hear you say, all these years later. Just a total association since the earliest days of your show.

Thank you for sharing this. And I plan to take your advice.

17.01.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

15.01.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 10383 πŸ” 2338 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 131
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

Really working their way through the ol' First Amendment.

14.01.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 1080 πŸ” 330 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 25

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

06.01.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 11235 πŸ” 2530 πŸ’¬ 429 πŸ“Œ 313

Exactly this thought as we barrel into a new semester.

04.01.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There it is

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

04.01.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, I have hit the wall. I do not want to be a β€œpolitical communication” scholar anymore.

04.01.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 686 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 4

"Sovereign state" is doing a lot of work in this statement from China. Taiwan is less secure today because of what the US did.

03.01.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

"Broadcast News" answered this for Bari Weiss on behalf of real journalists almost 40 years ago: "Who the hell cares what *you* think?"

(Also, if you haven't seen "Broadcast News" or it's been a while, it's time again.)

youtu.be/2zTqIJeCd3c?...

03.01.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
31.12.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

30.12.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 39071 πŸ” 9131 πŸ’¬ 393 πŸ“Œ 220

SCOTUS equivalent of "clean up in Aisle 3"

23.12.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:

23.12.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 2454 πŸ” 509 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 81