Dan Nexon
@dhnexon.bsky.social
Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Dan Nexon
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· Oct 4
It has been suggested that i pin this piece, but I never actually posted it myself. So 👇
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This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
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What a bizarre situation, with the dominant Putinist/fascist faction of the Trump Dictatorship (including Vance, his sidekick Driscoll, and Trump crony Witkoff) facing off with the smaller Rubio faction (which is supported by non-traifors outside the White House). 1/
U.S. Army secretary warned Ukraine of imminent defeat while pushing initial peace plan
The meeting last week was just the latest example of a long-running rift inside the Trump administration over how to end the war in Ukraine.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
What a bizarre situation, with the dominant Putinist/fascist faction of the Trump Dictatorship (including Vance, his sidekick Driscoll, and Trump crony Witkoff) facing off with the smaller Rubio faction (which is supported by non-traifors outside the White House). 1/
This is the great lie of mass deportations.
You are not just empowering individuals.
You are empowering lawless goons.
No magic transformation occurs when assholes put on paramilitary uniforms. At scale, Miller and his thugs recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken souls.
You are not just empowering individuals.
You are empowering lawless goons.
No magic transformation occurs when assholes put on paramilitary uniforms. At scale, Miller and his thugs recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken souls.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is the great lie of mass deportations.
You are not just empowering individuals.
You are empowering lawless goons.
No magic transformation occurs when assholes put on paramilitary uniforms. At scale, Miller and his thugs recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken souls.
You are not just empowering individuals.
You are empowering lawless goons.
No magic transformation occurs when assholes put on paramilitary uniforms. At scale, Miller and his thugs recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken souls.
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But here’s the thing:
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
“He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection.
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
But here’s the thing:
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
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Stephen Miller’s family fled pogroms in Russia and escaped to America, where the people who said his family would never assimilate didn’t have veto power over their settlement. Now he pretends every other immigrant family is different than and inferior to his because he’s a bigoted hypocrite.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Stephen Miller’s family fled pogroms in Russia and escaped to America, where the people who said his family would never assimilate didn’t have veto power over their settlement. Now he pretends every other immigrant family is different than and inferior to his because he’s a bigoted hypocrite.
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"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
If Germans, Jews, Saxons, Britains… not to mention bloody “Christians”… can be assimilated into Romans and Greek philosophy, law, and language, then people from Bactria sure as hell can be.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If Germans, Jews, Saxons, Britains… not to mention bloody “Christians”… can be assimilated into Romans and Greek philosophy, law, and language, then people from Bactria sure as hell can be.
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Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
Two National Guard members were tasked with serving the nation. One is dead as the other fights for his life after shooting | CNN
On a day when many families gather across the country to give thanks, a National Guard member’s family is mourning her death after an ambush-style shooting in Washington, DC, as her colleague fights f...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
These fascist thugs should just say “white people” and stop pretending that classical thought, golden-age Islamic philosophy, renaissance authors, enlightenment thinker, American pragmatists, English liberals, &c has shit to do with their know-nothing race war.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
These fascist thugs should just say “white people” and stop pretending that classical thought, golden-age Islamic philosophy, renaissance authors, enlightenment thinker, American pragmatists, English liberals, &c has shit to do with their know-nothing race war.
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Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
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Yep, one way to tackle the illegal immigration crisis is to make your country as awful and dogshit as possible so its unappealing to immigrants
This is gonna have apocalyptic effects in places like southwestern Ohio, where we’ve got a higher percentage of foreign medical grads doing the work than the 25% that this article cites…
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yep, one way to tackle the illegal immigration crisis is to make your country as awful and dogshit as possible so its unappealing to immigrants
Full lustration.
Indemnification.
Indemnification.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Full lustration.
Indemnification.
Indemnification.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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"Europe does not want war with a nuclear-armed Russia and so has to figure out how to respond in a way that deters Moscow but does not cross any Kremlin red lines."
Europe needs to change its attitude. We need to be willing to run greater risks. Moscow will only be deterred if it fears escalation.
Europe needs to change its attitude. We need to be willing to run greater risks. Moscow will only be deterred if it fears escalation.
I hate that this is necessary, but it is. So it’s good that things are moving.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia
Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.
www.politico.eu
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Europe does not want war with a nuclear-armed Russia and so has to figure out how to respond in a way that deters Moscow but does not cross any Kremlin red lines."
Europe needs to change its attitude. We need to be willing to run greater risks. Moscow will only be deterred if it fears escalation.
Europe needs to change its attitude. We need to be willing to run greater risks. Moscow will only be deterred if it fears escalation.
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
I’m proud to be an American, because at least I know my country is making foreign-policy decisions based entirely on elite personal enrichment, extremist ideological fantasies, and a declining narcissist’s obsession with a bullshit prize.
3 pillars of Trump peace-making are bluffing, might-makes-right deference to big powers, and putting profits before principle. Alas, from Versailles to Munich and Minsk, history is full of bad peace deals guided by those strategies. My column, The Telegram
economist.com/internationa...
economist.com/internationa...
The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war
Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history
economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’m proud to be an American, because at least I know my country is making foreign-policy decisions based entirely on elite personal enrichment, extremist ideological fantasies, and a declining narcissist’s obsession with a bullshit prize.
I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
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Paging, ERCOT, paging, ERCOT.
What say you, Texas grid that nearly collapsed in 2021…
What say you, Texas grid that nearly collapsed in 2021…
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Paging, ERCOT, paging, ERCOT.
What say you, Texas grid that nearly collapsed in 2021…
What say you, Texas grid that nearly collapsed in 2021…
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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Were former Japanese Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan security policy amateurs? Conversely, was Abe Shinzō an expert? How and why do reputations for expertise and amateurism emerge and spread? For some answers, see my new article with Björn Jerdén.
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
The narrative construction of political competence: challenging the expert/amateur binary in Japan’s foreign and security policy - International Politics
Whether expertise or amateurism is attributed to political leaders can play a pivotal role in their success. This article analyzes the dissemination of such reputations, focusing on the perceived fore...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Were former Japanese Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan security policy amateurs? Conversely, was Abe Shinzō an expert? How and why do reputations for expertise and amateurism emerge and spread? For some answers, see my new article with Björn Jerdén.
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
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also they mostly aren't "peace talks," they are talks about how to re-open US/Russia business deals
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
also they mostly aren't "peace talks," they are talks about how to re-open US/Russia business deals