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Kyle Haynes
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Political scientist studying security, conflict, bargaining, US foreign policy, etc. Scored on by Geoff Cameron. Personal account. Opinions mine alone. https://kyle-haynes.weebly.com/
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Don’t make it a profit-driven enterprise dependent on commercial publishers, i.e. properly fund universities. Boom fixed it.
my meanest take is that I will trust academics on radicalism and political organization when they have fixed through collective action the academic publishing system.
a hot take about academia: it is both too activist and not activist enough. the endless focus on problematizing critiquing, etc etc often degenerates into navel gazing, while there is often a lack of high-quality outcome oriented empirical work on "what could make social institution XYZ work better"
Would love to see this plotted next to Google search trends for “inflation”
Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.
I have genuinely never been prouder to be associated with Purdue ✊🏼
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
I begin every course by telling students — I remember virtually none of the content I learned in college. And not that much of what I learned in grad school. But I learned how to read, write, and most importantly think creatively and critically. If you can do those things, AI will never surpass you.
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
If only there were a large body of research on whether disarmament demands ever torpedo peace agreements by creating massive commitment problems.
President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. could step in to disarm Hamas — “quickly and perhaps violently” — if the organization did not do so itself, a potential vulnerability in the ceasefire agreement.
Trump says U.S. will disarm Hamas if it does not do so itself
Hamas has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it would disarm, but Trump suggested he had received verbal assurances the group would.
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Very clearly just leaving themselves some minimally plausible legal rationale for reimposing constraints on the executive if/when Dems ever retake the White House.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
Right??? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills over here!
Yes, you see, she “had to” do this. She had no agency in this matter whatsoever. There is no plausible scenario wherein an attorney could simply refuse to do this thing. Truly, woe is her.
What is this lede??? Being a fascist stooge is hard work? Pity poor Lindsey Halligan, an inept corrupt attorney who should be disbarred.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
No worries it’ll be super easy to put Humpty Dumpty back together. Establishing the rule of law in the first place was a notoriously smooth and guillotine-free process.
I didn’t know you could fit a judge’s robe over a hotdog suit
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Strike the word “common” and it’d still hold
Lulz I was about to say it’d just be a state-level thing and MD or VA would never pass such a law but apparently they got married in fucking Nebraska so yeah it’s definitely not implausible that he’d end up nullifying own marriage.
Ok but Trumpism goes well beyond all that, basing its claims for unchecked authority on the need to recapture a mythical national golden age by suppressing ethnic minorities and imposing strict racial and gender hierarchies.

That’s the fascist part. Not all the bog standard authoritarian shit.
The problem is summarizing things repressive states do - all of them - and then say "well, fascist states do it too." Attack the press? Yes. Cult of personality? Sure. And on and on. But that's like comparing the USSR in 1980 with the USSR in 1930. The same, on the face of it, but VASTLY different.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social would love to hear why this is wrong. Is it simply that Trump does not have the state capacity/some checks on power remain? Are we drinking Diet Fascism?
Maybe not the most absurd thing here, but if you claim your max squat is 25% higher than your max deadlift then not only have you never lifted weights, but you’ve never been in the same room as other people lifting weights.
Honestly how many women are out there deciding who to date by how much they can bench?
Love the quick pivot from dropping his own gun and pointing it at bystanders to tough-guy, I hope no one got my pratfall on camera, wide stance. Perfect encapsulation of the malevolence and incompetence at the heart of this entire campaign.
Oh yeah I’d click that bait
Not impossible if you just start giving people money from the tariff shelf along with their meds. Negative prices. Boom. Eat it losers.
So the case hinges on interpreting “just kind of accepted it” after the fact as having “authorized” something. Lulz good luck with that.
4/ Cruz also appears to fudge it in letter to DOJ.

He described McCabe as having said Comey "approved—effectively authorizing the leak after the fact."

What is that?? Comey supposed to know that's the meaning of authorized? And when McCabe had his own authority to disclose. Good luck with that.
This was always a big part of the concern with Trump and NATO. It’s not that NATO is the best security order imaginable, but it’s kept the peace for 80 years. As importantly, it’s the status quo. Abruptly kneecapping it creates lots of uncertainty & power vacuums that lead to lots of dangerous shit.
It would be very funny if after all the (misplaced) fear of Trump kicking of WW3 the Europeans did it instead.

*EUROPEANS PRIVATELY TELL RUSSIA THEY’RE READY TO DOWN JETS
I agree with the sentiment but labeling the graph simply “military spending” and then measuring it as % of PPP-adjusted GDP is just wildly misleading. No, China doesn’t spend more than the US on defense. Just…no.

Also, don’t use PPP as a cross-national measure of power. Again…just don’t.
One of the most important charts in the world - from
Rush Doshi in the New York Times.

Without its allies, the United States is woefully behind China in metrics of raw economic power.

Too bad the US president does not seem to get it.

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Caring about this problem also doesn’t mean the only policy response is to coddle young men. It’s perfectly fine if your considered response is that young men need to be told, loudly and consistently, to suck it the fuck up like every other demographic has had to for the past few millennia.
Really do think this dismissive attitude is just dumb. It does actually matter if the demographic most likely to kill people, which is men ~16-40, are feeling alienated. Yes, even if you think it’s their fault, yes even if other groups are suffering as much or more. They’re the ones who pick up guns
oh no we are doing won't someone think of the loneliness male epidemic because somehow it's still the fault of not those men discourse again
Lmaooooo nobody should ever ask me where anything is ever again because always and forever I will respond, simply, “check the tariff shelf”
Trump: "The other day, it was very interesting, they found $31 billion. They said, 'Sir, we've found 31.' I said, 'You mean positively, right?' They said, '$31 million more than we knew.' And they said, 'We don't know where it came from.' I said, 'Check the tariff shelf.'"