Paul Nadeau
@pauljnadeau.bsky.social
Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Adjunct associate professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics/Asia Pacific Initiative, should be GM of the Quebec Nordiques. Usual disclaimers.
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Paul Nadeau
@pauljnadeau.bsky.social
· Apr 4
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
To be fair, this is more or less how a lot of commentators are framing his trade frameworks, and not just in the U.S.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
To be fair, this is more or less how a lot of commentators are framing his trade frameworks, and not just in the U.S.
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There's a lot riding on the 2026 midterm elections, but it probably won't make a difference for tariffs. Regardless of who's in power, either party could find that they like the tariff revenue, the income from investment commitments, and, maybe most of all, their coercive power. My latest for IOG:
Trump’s Tariffs Might Be Here to Stay – No Matter Who’s in Power｜News from the Institute of Geoeconomics(IOG)
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 24)
instituteofgeoeconomics.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
There's a lot riding on the 2026 midterm elections, but it probably won't make a difference for tariffs. Regardless of who's in power, either party could find that they like the tariff revenue, the income from investment commitments, and, maybe most of all, their coercive power. My latest for IOG:
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This is a government agency tweeting “We are going to get rid of all the nonwhite people in America.” It is the biggest story imaginable. The news will probably ignore it
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is a government agency tweeting “We are going to get rid of all the nonwhite people in America.” It is the biggest story imaginable. The news will probably ignore it
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Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
My Japan-raised 6-yo just 6-7'ed me
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
My Japan-raised 6-yo just 6-7'ed me
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::Four faces staring intently::
::a pair of chopsticks poke an egg yolk, it explodes::
Everyone: EHHHHH!!!!!!
::a pair of chopsticks poke an egg yolk, it explodes::
Everyone: EHHHHH!!!!!!
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
::Four faces staring intently::
::a pair of chopsticks poke an egg yolk, it explodes::
Everyone: EHHHHH!!!!!!
::a pair of chopsticks poke an egg yolk, it explodes::
Everyone: EHHHHH!!!!!!
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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marxism for me is the ultimate "love the band hate the fans" school of thought. the Tool of ideologies
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
marxism for me is the ultimate "love the band hate the fans" school of thought. the Tool of ideologies
5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Moose (including one swimming)
2. Bald eagle (including one swimming)
3. Black bear (not swimming)
4. Beaver (obviously swimming)
5. Osprey(s) (diving but not swimming)
1. Moose (including one swimming)
2. Bald eagle (including one swimming)
3. Black bear (not swimming)
4. Beaver (obviously swimming)
5. Osprey(s) (diving but not swimming)
5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Alligator (I grew up in Florida)
2. Manatee (see above)
3. Bald Eagle (one wanted to steal the salmon I caught in AK)
4. Moose (also AK, also holy moley are they big)
5. Marines (in Afghanistan)
Hon mention: sneks, deer, so many deer, turkeys...
1. Alligator (I grew up in Florida)
2. Manatee (see above)
3. Bald Eagle (one wanted to steal the salmon I caught in AK)
4. Moose (also AK, also holy moley are they big)
5. Marines (in Afghanistan)
Hon mention: sneks, deer, so many deer, turkeys...
Okay this is a neat one. 5 animals you've seen in the wild
1. Elephants that just surrounded our truck in Botswana.
2. Leopard taking a kill into a tree also in Botswana.
3. Huge elk in GSMNP.
4. Black bears both hiking in GA and CA.
5. Dolphins off the coast in SC.
1. Elephants that just surrounded our truck in Botswana.
2. Leopard taking a kill into a tree also in Botswana.
3. Huge elk in GSMNP.
4. Black bears both hiking in GA and CA.
5. Dolphins off the coast in SC.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Moose (including one swimming)
2. Bald eagle (including one swimming)
3. Black bear (not swimming)
4. Beaver (obviously swimming)
5. Osprey(s) (diving but not swimming)
1. Moose (including one swimming)
2. Bald eagle (including one swimming)
3. Black bear (not swimming)
4. Beaver (obviously swimming)
5. Osprey(s) (diving but not swimming)
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Pete sowing: haha yes lethality kill them all
Pete reaping: man wtf do you mean these are war crimes
Pete reaping: man wtf do you mean these are war crimes
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Pete sowing: haha yes lethality kill them all
Pete reaping: man wtf do you mean these are war crimes
Pete reaping: man wtf do you mean these are war crimes
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
There's a lot riding on the 2026 midterm elections, but it probably won't make a difference for tariffs. Regardless of who's in power, either party could find that they like the tariff revenue, the income from investment commitments, and, maybe most of all, their coercive power. My latest for IOG:
Trump’s Tariffs Might Be Here to Stay – No Matter Who’s in Power｜News from the Institute of Geoeconomics(IOG)
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 24)
instituteofgeoeconomics.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
There's a lot riding on the 2026 midterm elections, but it probably won't make a difference for tariffs. Regardless of who's in power, either party could find that they like the tariff revenue, the income from investment commitments, and, maybe most of all, their coercive power. My latest for IOG:
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The only thing they actually care about defending — other than their own wealth and power — is naturalized hierarchy: the idea that some people — by virtue of their parentage, sex, skin color, language, or whatever — are born to command, while others are required to obey.
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The only thing they actually care about defending — other than their own wealth and power — is naturalized hierarchy: the idea that some people — by virtue of their parentage, sex, skin color, language, or whatever — are born to command, while others are required to obey.
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The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
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Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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 5:30 AM
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.
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 3:04 AM
Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.
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this is getting some traction on the other place, but might as well bring it over here
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
this is getting some traction on the other place, but might as well bring it over here
Am I Japan-brained or are major U.S. media outlets consistently getting this ordeal ass backwards?
Zhong Sheng article in CCP’s paper People’s Daily urges US to rein in Japan over Taiwan – Reuters: ‘“China and the United States share a common responsibility to jointly safeguard the post-war international order and oppose any attempts or actions to revive militarism,” the article said’
China's top paper urges US to rein in Japan over Taiwan
China urged the U.S. on Thursday to rein in Japan and prevent any "actions to revive militarism" in an editorial published by the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, as a war of words with Tokyo ...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Am I Japan-brained or are major U.S. media outlets consistently getting this ordeal ass backwards?
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Huh, I wonder if there were any other parts of the world where increases in state capacity and technological complexity came decades or maybe even centuries before broad increases in input-legitimacy-based state accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Huh, I wonder if there were any other parts of the world where increases in state capacity and technological complexity came decades or maybe even centuries before broad increases in input-legitimacy-based state accountability.
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December
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So the Trump administration wants Japan to be “crystal clear” about Taiwan in July…
but by November it’s asking Tokyo to shhhhhh because Xi might throw a soybean tantrum.
This isn’t “strategy.”
It’s foreign policy run on noise-cancelling headphones.
but by November it’s asking Tokyo to shhhhhh because Xi might throw a soybean tantrum.
This isn’t “strategy.”
It’s foreign policy run on noise-cancelling headphones.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
So the Trump administration wants Japan to be “crystal clear” about Taiwan in July…
but by November it’s asking Tokyo to shhhhhh because Xi might throw a soybean tantrum.
This isn’t “strategy.”
It’s foreign policy run on noise-cancelling headphones.
but by November it’s asking Tokyo to shhhhhh because Xi might throw a soybean tantrum.
This isn’t “strategy.”
It’s foreign policy run on noise-cancelling headphones.