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Dan Nexon

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"'A man without a plan is not a man.' Nietzsche." Professor in the Department of Government and SFS @ Georgetown. I study international order, power politics, & empires. dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 8d

It has been suggested that i pin this piece, but I never actually posted it myself. So 👇

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 9d

The State of the Republic is Grim

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I am writing threads that really should be the nucleuses of posts here. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days: I say “seems” because it is possible that, behind the scenes, they are taking necessary steps. These include creating […]

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1d

The offices now being cut are the parts of government we use to take care of each other. This is a consistent theme with Trump, starting with the destruction of USAID.

The Office of Special Education. The CDC on-the-ground operations. Attacking vaccines.

They want to divide us. Don't let them.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 2d

It's fun to teach the Melian Dialogue from the perspective "the Melians are entitled assholes who deserved to die" but I don't think it should generally be treated as a guide to policy...

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10d

❗️Putin's logic:Poland has provoked Hitler who wanted to find a peaceful solution:

Poland made many mistakes.Germany offered to resolve the issue of Danzig&the Danzig Corridor peacefully.The Polish leadership at the time categorically refused&,in the end, became the first victim of Nazi aggression

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 2d

On the blog, Prof Neil Buchanan, who has been predicting authoritarianism from Trump for nearly a decade, marvels at how even he was insufficiently pessimistic in imagining the myriad ways in which this administration could be cruel and lawless. 👇

How Could Even the Most Pessimistic Predictions Not Be Pessimistic Enough?

When writing a column like this one, it is no longer possible to provide a manageably short list of the unprecedented things that are happen...

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

Why is offshore wind “a disaster?” Because Trump hates it and Utah is landlocked?

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 2d

NEW -

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - https://cup.org/3WCwC5v

"decades after the fall of the GDR, the attitudinal effects of authoritarian socialization persist"

- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract about a study on the effects of authoritarianism in the former German Democratic Republic, focusing on gender disparities in education and authoritarian values post-reunification. The text emphasizes methodological approach and historical analysis.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

Harvard is the MIT of Central Cambridge.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

MIT is the new Harvard
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, let's always try to emphasize the festival dimension of mass protest

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Like sometimes you need scrappers to scrap but like it's a lot harder to get the turnout you need if you frame protest as equivalent to a street fight (and plays into Republican framing about protests)

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Shower Cat Love @shower-cat.bsky.social · 2d

In all seriousness, protests in other cities should adopt this as well. Let the frog be the symbol of peaceful (though slightly rude) resistance.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

guys can we do frogs everywhere? please i need a frog uprising

you know…before we croak

we need a jump in activism

a ribbit revolution

vive les grenouilles libres!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

No, not like that. Like Alexander VI!

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2d

So ... Catholic *traditionalists* want a pope who doesn't involve himself in global politics?

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

If we're going to destroy the planet via generative AI, the least we could get for it would be some quality memes of Protest Frog humiliating Pepe.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

guys can we do frogs everywhere? please i need a frog uprising

you know…before we croak

we need a jump in activism

a ribbit revolution

vive les grenouilles libres!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Area man surprised to discover that other countries have agency & domestic politics, too 🇨🇳

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says he was blindsided by new Chinese trade restrictions. He is “calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America.” Market not happy.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

The only times I ever engaged on xTwitter with MS he was saying deeply, profoundly wrong things about U.S. defense production, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Given his abysmal track record in the areas that he's *supposed* to be an expert on, I don't know why TAP would take him seriously.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

How about a compromise: stop laundering MS's reputation and also don't listen to DA? I bet DA would agree to that.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

remember when Matt Stoller was quoted repeatedly during the election season insisting that Trump 2.0 would be a continuation of Lina Khan's antitrust legacy and that we should take men like JD Vance and Josh Hawley seriously?

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

When Pam Bondi tried her hand at insult comedy this week, four Senators asked her about antitrust corruption. It's a real point of vulnerability, and the pressure has led to a few better outcomes. More importantly, states and the public are squarely attuned to fighting corporate power. From me:

How Antimonopoly is Enduring Despite Trumpian Corruption

Public pressure and partisan attacks have yielded some new cases, and citizens are waking up to corporate power’s harms.

prospect.org

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

www.csis.org/blogs/smart-...

Fake CIA Vaccine Campaign: When the End Doesn’t Justify the Means | Smart Global Health | CSIS

In early January 2013, a dozen deans from America's premier public health schools wrote President Obama a letter protesting the CIA's use of a faked vaccination campaign in the hunt for Osama bin Lade...

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

This dovetails nicely with @cjcmichel.bsky.social's review of Gilded Rage in @thebulwark.com

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

Got to hand it to the committee for giving the prize to a) someone who has publicly praised Trump in b) a way that is also a massive subtweet attack on Trump.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

Remember:

– Your symbolic kit for these rallies should be red, white, and blue.
– if you plan to use these rallies to push some other cause, please stay away.

And no, that won't prevent the Far-Right Cinematic Universe from misrepresenting the rallies. Their fan base isn't your audience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

There's no reason why you should have! I don't look at the alt text unless I can't read the image. I was more curious about the "experiment" of embedding commentary there.