Paul Nadeau
@pauljnadeau.bsky.social
Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Adjunct associate professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics, should be GM of the Quebec Nordiques. Usual disclaimers.
Ukrainians literally rose up against an exploitative oligarchy of corrupt billionaires! They did the thing DSA! They firebombed the Walmart and chased the Capo out of the country. His Godfather has been trying to punish them ever since and you're too tankie to pick their side!?
If you want to make a parallels between DSA and the Tea Party and/or MAGA, you're stupid and unserious but holy hell these DSA people are not ready for prime time
Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 8h agoRemnick: So we shouldn't send weapons to Ukraine? DSA co-chair Megan Romer: No! Remnick: So, just allow Russia to overrun Ukraine entirely? Romer: We should be sending huge teams of diplomats. We should figure out how to negotiate.w
I think one reason the public has such a shallow understanding of the extent of the damage Trump is doing is that *US political & media elites* have such a shallow understanding. Douthat's pleasant upper-middle-class life hasn't been unduly disturbed, so really, what's the big deal?
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoalso, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less
Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoalso, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less
When I see screenshots of political Twitter nowadays it’s become so weirdly bigoted that I don’t even know what the fuck people are even talking about, it’s like the kind of racism cadence people had in 1870
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterdayThis US election cycle is going to have unprecedented levels of racist and Islamophobic "jokes" just like the run-up to Mamdani's election Anyway.
Been thinking about this a lot as so many Democrats ~my age & older fret about why The Kids These Days are supporting “socialism” & DSA candidates. Spending one’s days around 18-22 year olds quickly makes clear they have ~no frame of reference of a “normal politics” that looked like the Obama years.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d agoThis year's first years' were born in 2008. Last years' modal first political memory in Intro to IR was either Obama 2012 or Trump 2016. Students have ~no memory of "normal 🇺🇸 politics" pre-Trump, let alone the Cold War, post-Cold War, Iraq 2003, the GFC, etc. Important to benchmark when teaching.
Going to start making a new presentation to add to my rotation, "No America is not going back "normal" (whatever tf that means) no matter what happens in 2028 you naive nincompoops"
The idea that deep institutional damage can be easily rolled back seems like a very odd take for a conservative. The damage to the civil service system is huge, and legislation is needed to reassure future hires they won’t be fired on a whim.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoalso, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less
I say this in full seriousness: their dude falls asleep in meetings so how is he supposed to understand superintelligence.
Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · 2d agosee this is what I find confusing about the rationalists. no, Donald Trump, a president who invested the US in Nvidia and who is singularly devoted to the stock market, will not broker a no-more-AI treaty with China, a country with probably very little interest in such a thing. it feels like cope
I do not understand how this is the hottest team in baseball.
Red Sox@redsox.com · yesterdaySunday at Fenway.
"Based on satellite imagery and land-use data, Shiraishi analyzed where and how the canopy coverage is declining in Tokyo. He discovered that, over the 10 years through 2023, tree cover fell by 38% on public land and 57% on private land."
As Japan’s concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
Increasing tree coverage in Japanese cities could have myriad benefits as the planet warms. But canopy coverage in Tokyo and beyond is headed in the wrong direction.
japantimes.co.jp
Sitting in Aroostook County now and wondering if Canada would be willing to take us back...
Patrick Lacroix@querythepast.bsky.social · 2d agoHappy Webster-Ashburton Day! From 2017: montrealgazette.com/opinion/opin...
From “Economic Foundations of Strategy,” by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner, in The New Makers of Modern Strategy.
That last sentence, man (this collection was published in 2023)
"Sure we lost that SCOTUS case. What this executive order proposes is, what if we pretend we didn't."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoStephen Miller: "The president is using his authority as commander as chief to sign an executive order using the new ruling the Supreme Court issued to expand the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies ... "
Not to put this one person on blast but I find these sorts of takes really frustrating. China isn't guaranteeing anyone's shipping. China isn't able to guarantee *China's* shipping right now. The PRC responded to the War in Iran by reducing oil imports by roughly 40% and spending down reserves.
Jimmy Jim James@jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social · 5d agoThe USA just lost a naval war. China is becoming the respected provider of Freedom of Navigation. Whlle the USA becomes untrustworthy, yesterday Roland Oliphant The Telegraph reported Oman would pass Straight of Hormuz Toll Money to Trump
no, actually, an executive order cannot "expand the category" of people excluded from birthright citizenship, we literally just went through this www.axios.com/2026/08/06/t...
Can't be a great sign for Takaichi for this guy to be putting this out there like that
The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · 4d agoPrime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration lacks the discipline that characterized her political mentor's approach, one of the late Shinzo Abe's closest allies says, as doubts about Takaichi's governing style grow. 👉 ebx.sh/WeYSd6
The reason I'm skeptical about US economic statecraft is the constant insistence on "the sanctions will continue until morale improves" despite decades of evidence to the contrary. This could be a chance to reverse a trend, but with the bureaucracy steeped so deeply in coercion, I'm still skeptical
Vali Nasr@valinasr.bsky.social · 4d agogreat piece by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: "Peace With Iran Won’t Last Unless It Benefits Ordinary Iranians" prosyn.org/P742xyO
It’s not clear to me why this isn’t a bigger scandal than Hillary’s Emails. It’s far worse than anything Lois Lerner was even accused of doing at the IRS, but generating a fraction of the coverage. Why?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
if we all lived in a shared reality, it sure would be tough to make this argument while the president you serve is trying to win himself complete tax immunity and establish a $2bn slush fund
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoJD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
"Steep duties on Canadian lumber, wildfires and sawmill closures have cut supply and pushed up prices" share.google/COnpKJtSqQd9... Kicker: the tariffs helped caused the US SAWMILLS to close, too:
At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.
Might be it...seems to remove certain Iraqi actors from secondary sanctions on the IRGC
Counter Terrorism Designations Removals and Update | Office of Foreign Assets Control
ofac.treasury.gov
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d agoU.S. REMOVES IRAN-RELATED SANCTIONS -TREASURY WEBSITE.
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
