In chart form (with a slightly different basket of comparison agencies) bsky.app/profile/empt...

Journalists for outlets with national distribution fly a lot. Although, as the son of a journalist who used to work the state Dept beat, perhaps I overestimate the avg?

People are commenting “welcome to turkmenistan” all over Kyrgyz social media —and I have to say that the measure is indeed more extreme than anything we’ve seen in Kazakhstan or even Uzbekistan in recent years

A new hidden curriculum of sorts...

I don't really know how they're supposed to thread the needle between the plain language of the law (which requires these things) and the EOs/political minders.

Imagine what Schroedinger's lame duck could do

I like the idea of probabilistic limits. Say 25% chance of being term limited out, every term after you've served more than 10 years in a given institution, and you find out 3-6 months before the end of the term, so you aren't a lame duck for long and campaign less early in your term.

The hope is that the fact that something is a note signals to reviewers that such a paper just needs to make a big contribution on one dimension (empirics/theory) to be good enough to publish. Not sure it will work...