Elizabeth N. Saunders

Hard to think through problems when we are in a mode where the current problem gets eaten by a bigger problem within hours.

The Brewers are the 2025-6 Knicks

Thank you to @abenewman.bsky.social for delivering the 17th Annual Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations. In his lecture, Professor Newman illustrated what happens when the classic security dilemma meets a world of weaponized interdependence.

Please read our roundtable of @profsaunders.bsky.social's excellent book, "The Insiders’ Game," with @proflupton.bsky.social, @andypayne.bsky.social, @jordantama.bsky.social , @jjjcameron.bsky.social, Tyler Jost, and an introduction by @jlpweeks.bsky.social. issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Jer...

Brazil is… wow. Nationally, regionally, hemispherically, globally important election result. A choice against democratic backsliding. May it be a significant point in an international trend.

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

Knicks lent their comeback sauce to the Brewers, it’s temporary.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

No joke.

a genuine and giant thank you to Brazilian voters

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Musk's DOGE detonated a "trust bomb" inside our natsec institutions, as @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social & I wrote in Feb '25 (headline not ours; our emphatic answer: yes). Now he's intervening directly in a way that gets Ukrainians killed and exposes allies. www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Not a surprise from this administration, but both unlawful and incredibly destructive of effective governance. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

that's the first branch of the united states government that he's talking about there

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

A disgrace.

imagine if somebody had told you a year ago that the knicks would open the 2026-27 season with a ring ceremony followed by a game against lebron james and the philadelphia seventy sixers

This totes clears everything up. www.politico.eu/article/marc...

Winning political message alert!

Tracy Morgan in the building

Elon Musk shouldn’t be able to order anything.

But let's not forget how keen cliques around Trump and in Rubio's State Department have been to encourage the break-up of Canada

How did you find out the young man’s identity, @wsj.com? hmm?

Show me the lie

Don’t look away from how shocking this is. Yes, unsurprising. Still shocking.

"It’s hard not to see all of this – moments when race becomes most salient, the 'toxicity of the national brand' and the geography of where that brand is most troubled – as connected when you look at the big picture."

Unfortunately for Trump and Putin, the Ukrainians have proven that they have a big say in how things go in Ukraine.

Of course. I mean, of course. Will he also give Xi Taiwan while he's at it? www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Can't get numb to this: it’s still absolutely shocking, if totally unsurprising, that Trump is actively helping Russia and harming Ukraine.

Can the denial and wishful thinking about Trump and Russia finally stop now? But he’s trying for peace! (Telling Ukraine to surrender, trying to enrich his cronies) But he told others to sanction Russia! (Just a show—no follow up) But he’s sanctioning Russia! (No, Congress did and he removed it)

Zachamucci

Of all the howlers, this is among the biggest.

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