LUCE: “.. Long after oil prices have stabilised, the world will recall his administration’s glory in the imagery of ‘lethality’ .. Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death.”
@edwardluce.bsky.social
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I wrote this primarily to piss off Knicks fans (not really). danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-the-b...
Me, last week: "The main thing I’d want to get across to people about Donald Trump and his administration right now is that however unprepared you might think they are for war, the chances are very good that it’s much worse. Much, much worse."
Can I just repeat myself for this week's post?
Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
A federal judge ruled late on Sunday that the Trump administration could not immediately overhaul the process through which migrants can appeal rulings by immigration judges, pausing major changes that were set to take effect on Monday. The changes proposed by the Trump administration would dramatically streamline the process, clearing the way for more deportations. Under the new policy, all appeals would be automatically dismissed unless a majority of the Board of Immigration Appeals, the body that reviews decisions by immigration judges, voted to reconsider the case within 10 days. Unlike the federal courts, the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals are part of the Justice Department, existing within the executive branch. In a 73-page opinion released two days after lawyers presented their case in court, Judge Randolph D. Moss called the proposed change “a fast-track mechanism for disposing of the vast majority” of immigration court appeals. He ruled that the government had violated a “notice-and-comment” legal requirement that mandates the government to give the public an opportunity to weigh in before major changes to federal rules. Judge Moss’s order appeared to leave the door open for the administration to try again, following the correct procedures.
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One of the things I remain most surprised about is that I had thought Project 2025 Heritage types were going to come in prepared to hit the ground running with *procedurally correct* regulatory changes, to avoid the first-term screw-ups around the APA.
Trump: "The result will be lower…oil and gas prices for American families. We've done that. We've done it, we've brought it very low. This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We're getting very close to finishing that, too."
Great how Europe is redeploying some of its best equipment away from Russia to deal with a crisis created by our "security guarantor."
if you're going to TACO, just hurry up with it and don't leave any ambiguity about whether Israel or Iran could drag you back in
NEW piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on the disastrous consequences of Trump and Rubio dismantling U.S. diplomacy. Managing the Iran War will be much harder; so will picking up the pieces. Diplomacy is a tool of war AND of peace.
(Loosely based on thread below.)
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Would be ironic if Trump's war with Iran takes down the Paramount-Warner Bros merger he wants so badly.
Gulf state sovereigns are backing the deal, and there have been reports that these countries are rethinking all their US investments/financing www.wsj.com/business/the...
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.
Nothing says Gulf War Three is going well more than *checks notes* ordering a mandatory evacuation of Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...
By now there’s enough independent, third-party data analysis of AI’s impact (or apparent lack thereof) on the current job market that there’s no reason not to include some skepticism about the executive claim when you write it up.
Yep.
Buck stops with the president, but the National Security Advisor is in charge of running through this stuff before the shooting starts…and the WH CoS is supposed to make sure that process is working right.
Imagining Zelenskyy biting his tongue in an effort not to say, "You don't have the cards."
All wars create unexpected second and third-order effects. One of the appalling things about the Trump administration is that they don’t seem to have thought through the expected effects either. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
"The country has also detained a U.S. citizen, which has not been previously reported..."
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Trump's probably going to get the "Maybe don't destroy the global economy for a goal you have no interest in actually achieving" speech tomorrow, and hopefully it works, but it's probably already too late.
I've been trying to swear less online. Long time since I've posted "motherfuckers"
Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.
Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
A lot of these Great Britain WBC baseball players seems to have been born in the US, which is totally fine BUT I think they should be required to speak with a thick comical British accent any time they do TV interviews.
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Trump blames deadly strike on school on Iran. "We think it was done by Iran." But Hegseth does not back him up when asked if that was so. "We're investigating," he says. A @nytimes.com analysis indicates it was likely hit by US airstrike. @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Had to doublecheck the date on this
