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Daniel Drezner

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Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.

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Daniel W. Drezner is an American political scientist. He is known for his scholarship and commentary on international relations and international political economy.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Feb 6

Sigh. We fucking warned you.

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Paul Musgrave ® @profmusgrave
Around the department:
Americanists: how bad can it be really?
Comparativists: dictatorship, purges
International relations: nuclear war
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Americanists: haha but seriously
IR and comparative: who is joking
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Jacob T. Levy @jtlevy • 2017-10-10
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Theorists: "We will go and view the city of tyranny, and once more take a look into the tyrant's soul."
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Daniel W. Drezner @ @dandrezner • 2017-01-12
Political theorists: oh, so now you want to talk to us, do you?
Paul Musgrave @@profmusgrave
Around the department:
Americanists: how bad can it be really?
Comparativists: dictatorship, purges
International relations: nuclear war
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8h

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8h

11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 9h

Pam Bondi is going to announce tomorrow that Jerome Powell tried to ram Donald Trump with his car

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"

Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

TWO. Two chances this Supreme Court had to make the right call. One was the simply call January 6 what it was: An insurrection. Even the liberal justices couldn’t do that. The other was to not make sham and politically-motivated investigations an “official act.”

And here we fucking are.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11h

How it’s going

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 11h

“Jerome Powell was No Angel, associates say” — NYT, probably

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 11h

First time Powell has seemed legitimately pissed in public about all this.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h

This piece is very well reported and written. It’s clear-eyed, precise and gives important context. And yet it’s a great illustration that there’s this fundamental, unbridgeable formal constraint that makes it essentially impossible to plainly call this what it is.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell

www.nytimes.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Really interesting timing on the Fed subpoena, given that Lisa Cook has her SCOTUS hearing in a few weeks.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12h

THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES, RANKED:

1) Organized gangs of wine moms
2) League of Women Voters
3) Daughters of the American Revolution
4) Packs of wild dogs that have taken over major cities
5) China

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14h

“organized gangs of wine moms”

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12h

Wine moms will fuck your shit up, man.

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14h

“organized gangs of wine moms”

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine loving anything as much as Tom Brady loves saying "Wow"

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14h

“organized gangs of wine moms”

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14h

Infuriating. Heartbreaking.

Somali-American schoolchildren have come home in tears, saying that classmates had called them “garbage.” Strangers with no evident connection to the government have walked into cafes and Somali-run businesses and demanded to see people’s papers.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h

Separate from the obvious misogyny of the last few days, it’s been striking to watch the right wing media apparatus really confront the role of normie middle-aged women as a leading and increasingly radical force of opposition to trump

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 16h

Ladies you “Zumba-ed” too hard!

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DELUDED WINE MOMS ARE COMMITTING DEADLY CRIMES, NOT SIMPLY 'PROTESTING'

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STOP THE MADNESS: "What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn't even protest. It's just crime," writes David Marcus.
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Fucking Bitch Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Guilty admission: sometimes I do miss being on Twitter. Today’s Facebook memory reminder.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17h

This is an actual quote, as opposed to my synopsis.

Mea Culpa @wfpremo.bsky.social · 17h

ROMO: "He's running on adrenaline now. But that hand is going to hurt him later."

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Mea Culpa @wfpremo.bsky.social · 17h

ROMO: "He's running on adrenaline now. But that hand is going to hurt him later."

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17h

A synopsis of CBS’ first-half coverage:

NANTZ: Josh Allen is banged up Tony!

ROMO: He’s hurting, Jim!

[Shot of Allen sitting calmly on the sidelines]

NANTZ: This affects the whole game Tony!

[Allen throws completed pass]

NANTZ: Is his throw affected, Tony?

ROMO: They may need to amputate Jim!

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration

Government data show the Trump administration’s policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?

NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.

T: What you said is not what happened

N: It absolutely is what happened

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

As I mentioned yesterday, they’re trying to get around the limits which in Section 527 of the annual appropriations bill. That bill says it’s limited to funds “made available … by this act.”

What this memo says is we are going to deny access, but only using funds from OBBBA (so a different act).

SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Homeland Security by this Act may be used to prevent any of the following persons from entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens, or to make any temporary modification at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed by a visiting Member of Congress or such designated employee, compared to what would be observed in the absence of such modification:
(1) A Member of Congress.
(2) An employee of the United States House of Representatives or the United States Senate designated by such a Member for the purposes of this section.
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to require a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for the purpose of conducting oversight.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”

what the fuck

have we tried turning the country off and back on again