Thrilled to share I've been accepted into the Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org Education Ambassador program for 2026–27! 🎉 Excited to dig into foreign policy resources and bring global affairs into the classroom this year.

A presidential national security directive is the legal engine behind terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters, writes @mindyhaas.bsky.social, who says the directive "reorients the machinery of national security toward the policing of belief" theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...

The Trump administration’s global campaign against ‘radical left terrorism’ is built on a national security memo without congressional approval

Almost a year after President Trump authorized preemptive law enforcement measures based on political or ideological beliefs, a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters has begun.

theconversation.com

New piece in @theconversation.com: Rubio's "Antifa summit" is framed as a new start. But counterterrorism tools (NSPM-7) already put left-wing activists away for decades—worth asking what that means for civil liberties. theconversation.com/rubios-inter...

Rubio’s international ‘antifa summit’ takes place after Trump’s national security policy has already sent left-wing US activists to prison for decades

Almost a year after President Trump authorized preemptive law enforcement measures based on political or ideological beliefs, a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters has begun.

theconversation.com

Today in @foreignaffairs.com, @reidpauly.bsky.social and I reflect on why Trump’s belligerent approach to coercion so often fails, and what it will take to repair the damage that Trump is inflicting on U.S. statecraft:

The Lost Art of Coercion

Why Trump’s belligerence is a sign of weakness.

foreignaffairs.com

🕵️‍♀️☢️ New review out in IJIC: David Tremain's "Fallout" revisits the Gouzenko defection and the exposure of atomic spy Alan Nunn May—and how it reshaped the early Cold War alliance between the US, UK, and Canada. My take: doi.org/10.1080/0885... @socintelhist.bsky.social

Fallout: Exposing an Atomic Spy

Published in International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Read the documents here: “Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

“Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War

Washington, D.C., July 1, 2026 - A pamphlet published 50 years ago by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to celebrate the United States Bicentennial and highlight the role of secret intelligence op...

nsarchive.gwu.edu

New article with Katie M. Whipkey out today in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social! "Dangerously Provocative: Co-optation to Undermining of Women's Groups by U.S. Intelligence Agencies" Free eprint: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TCQZN...

Dangerously provocative: co-optation to undermining of women’s groups by U.S. intelligence agencies

This article examines how U.S. intelligence agencies, particularly the FBI and CIA, monitored and targeted women’s groups from the early 1900s to the 1970s as part of broader campaigns against Comm...

tandfonline.com

"I am more terrified than [during] any of the previous national security crises since 2017 that Trump has been involved in," @profsaunders.bsky.social says on the pod. The lack of constraints on him this time are something new. Listen to her extended warning here: newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Angry Trump Erupts at Media as GOPers Quietly Start to Break over War

As Trump’s threats grow more unhinged, a political scientist explains how Trump may have boxed himself into a place of maximum destructiveness on Iran—and why the GOP must urgently rein him in.

newrepublic.com

Last April, President Trump claimed tariffs would benefit the American economy in a big way. One year later, can you draw what really happened? Find out ⬇️ reut.rs/3Q9YMF7

Draw it yourself: Checking Trump’s tariff claims a year later

Trump claimed tariffs would benefit the American economy in a big way. Can you draw what really happened?

reut.rs

Since the 1950s, US military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case best known as the nuclear “Football,” which includes information on emergency procedures, nuclear war plans, and communications arrangements with DOD and key allies. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush

A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency pow...

nsarchive.gwu.edu

Excited to present at two intelligence studies panels on Monday's #ISA2026. First, at 8:15am, I'll present coauthored work on how U.S. intelligence agencies targeted women's groups differently across the first and second waves of feminism based on their usefulness to U.S. foreign policy goals.

Just published on APSR First View: War and Responsibility by M. PATRICK HULME (@mphulme ) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

War and Responsibility | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

War and Responsibility

cambridge.org

Following the Jan. 3 capture of President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces, Patrick Hulme, Katherine Irajpanah, and Andrew Kenealy evaluate shifting congressional opinion on U.S. military action in Venezuela, and what it means for presidential war powers. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/meas...

Measuring Congressional Sentiment Toward the Maduro Strike

What does the military action mean for war powers under Trump?

lawfaremedia.org

Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada by Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt www.mqup.ca/just-watch-u...

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Alright, alright, alright! The Christmas presents have arrived early this year!

A largely-overlooked Trump presidential memorandum pushes the limits of his authority by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions. buff.ly/66NLeUr via @mindyhaas.bsky.social

Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms

A new Trump administration policy threatens free speech and association by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions.

buff.ly

So proud that my latest piece, "Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms," is headlining today's newsletter from @us.theconversation.com ➡️ Read more here: theconversation.com/labeling-dis...

Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms

A new Trump administration policy threatens free speech and association by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions.

theconversation.com

The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. The Department of War, Department of Justice, and the White House all failed to provide lists of the groups being targeted to The Intercept. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...

Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.

The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.

theintercept.com

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 9mo ago

President Trump's memo on national security and domestic terrorism (NSPM-7) has dangerously broad sweep. "There's a whole swathe of civil society that could easily be designated and basically shut down," says the Brennan Center's @faizapatel.bsky.social.

Gift link. (I object to the New York Times calling this a "crime crackdown." The Trump regime is bringing violence to my city, Chicago, not fighting violence.)

Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown? (Gift Article)

As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

nytimes.com

For those of you not attending the No Kings march in DC today, come see our IS-ISSS panel on domestic politics and public opinion!

Modern-day rat lines! And that much harder for the ICC (or others) to seek justice. The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice

nytimes.com

The Palestine Branch: A den of torture in Assad’s Syria The prison’s labyrinthian underground chambers have yet to reveal all their secrets, which are critical for bringing justice and Syria’s future stability. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

The Palestine Branch: A den of torture in Assad’s Syria

Branch 235, also known as the Palestine Branch, was one of the most notorious prisons run by the Syrian military intelligence services during the Assad era. Located on the outskirts of Damascus, its…

france24.com

Should the US release secret intelligence for strategic gain? A roundtable debate in @h-diplo.bsky.social with Melissa Graves, David Gioe, @mindyhaas.bsky.social and me: issforum.org/roundtables/...

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-5 on Gioe and Morell, “Spy and Tell”

Roundtable Review 17-5 David V. Gioe and Michael J. Morell, “Spy and Tell: The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage,” Foreign Affairs 7:4 (2024): 138-152.

issforum.org

Excited to see Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention, in the wild at #APSA2025. My contribution: Israel's Mossad and Covert Action: Immigration, Counter-Proliferation, and Assassination. Edited by @rorycormac.bsky.social @magslong.bsky.social @markstout.bsky.social

Anyone have a free Saturday afternoon in Vancouver? Come to my panel, Overt and Covert Interference in World Affairs, at 4pm in VCC West 215! Also featuring Alex Downes, Rob Schub, and five amazing papers on foreign interference.

“If the unitary executive theory is subject to exceptions for contexts in which the practical consequences of eliminating an agency’s independence would be too extreme, then it’s not much of a theory.” Today’s “One First” on #SCOTUS’s deeply flawed ruling last Thursday in Trump v. Wilcox:

153. Living by the Ipse Dixit

A constitutional principle like the "unitary executive theory" isn't worth all that much if the Supreme Court can conjure new, unprincipled exceptions to it by simply asserting that they exist.

stevevladeck.com

New from 404 Media: the CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan website. Was part of the network of sites the CIA used to communicate with sources. Iran discovered the network, imprisoned people. Later dozens died in China after exposed www.404media.co/the-cia-secr...

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site

The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

404media.co

Announcement from Columbia's History Lab: 🗄️ HistoryLab AI 📁 history-lab.ramus.network 🗃️allows natural-language queries of over more than 5 million primary source records -- CIA files, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volumes, and State Department cables.

Forthcoming volume in December with @lucatrenta.bsky.social www.rienner.com/title/Killin...