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#ForeignPolicy, #NatSec, IR, international development. Diplomat/FSO, dad, ex-Army SOF intel. Currently in 🇳🇱, previously 🇹🇷🇧🇷🇩🇯🇮🇶🇦🇫🇩🇪 Português/Français/Türkce. Repost =/= endorse. Views my own.
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Rough year for self-evident truths

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

submitted 39 days ago • 33 comments

So the Mexico-US-Canada World Cup is going to be interesting, huh

submitted 56 days ago • 225 comments

Well, my Washington Post subscription just lapsed. What are some good alternatives to putting money in Bezos’ pocket?

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

When @propublica.org first published data and reporting on the tens of thousands of Native American human remains and artifacts held by museums and universities, compliance with the nation’s 30-year old repatriation law shot up. Today, we update the data to show where thise institutions stand now.

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Every Day is Ethics Day. I know it's hard.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Today is the Day of Remembrance. Eighty-three years ago today, FDR signed Executive Order 9066. It gave military authorities the power to create “military exclusion zones” from which any class of citizens could be removed.

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

TikTok is a weapon. www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 87 days ago • 311 comments

💯🇺🇦 Mark Rutte: "Let’s not be naive about Putin. One has only to look at what happened in Bucha. Therefore, if a peace agreement is reached, it must be sustainable. We must ensure that he never, ever conquers even one square kilometer of Ukraine again."

submitted 86 days ago • 29 comments

When Russia sends ballistic missiles with 500kg warheads into residential buildings full of sleeping families, understand that this is what they will gladly do to Warsaw, Berlin and any US city, and plan to do. The only thing now standing in their way is Ukraine. And Ukraine needs help, urgently.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Every dollar spent in aid saves around 15 dollars in deployments.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 90 days ago • 49 comments

Very accessible video guide to some basic, handy, free OSINT tools for visual/data investigation

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

“I'm on @bsky.app far more than any other.”— @mcuban.bsky.social “I truly prefer a moderated platform. It makes for better, more nuanced engagement.” “Not getting beat up with hateful posts makes it a lot more inviting and rewarding to post. The signal to noise ratio is 100x better than X.”

submitted 92 days ago • 55 comments

Apropos of nothing, a reminder that homosocial reproduction is a thing which we understand well. sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/s...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades. icymi, from 2020

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

This picture, from the J20 inauguration protests, continues to shape how I think about public perceptions of crime and disorder in big cities.

submitted 102 days ago • 5 comments

The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care. But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix. The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.

submitted 103 days ago • 1498 comments

here's a thing I made a few months ago that seems relevant still

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment