You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

Mamdani's New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here's how to prepare | Fortune

Here's how Mayor Mamdani's tax agenda could reach the Teterboro ramp — and which airports, ownership structures, and strategies offer the most protection.

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3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

New York’s rich lash out at ‘shameful’ Mamdani plan to tax second homes

The city’s wealthy property owners say they are sick of being vilified

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GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US. Motherfucker WHAT??

Very proud of Hermann Derwanz for winning this prize — congratulations!

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical IR by a Graduate Student Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller The award goes to ... 🥁 Hermann Derwanz, “The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade”

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

For the New Statesman, I wrote about this thing we call capitalism. By way of Borges and Braudel, I review the mappings and musings in Sven Beckert’s and Branko Milanovic’s brilliant new books. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

How not to talk about capitalism

The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”

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👇 #HistIR

Quentin Bruneau@qbruneau.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

What transforms our societies more? predatory inter-state orgies of violence or capitalism red in tooth and claw? Holders of the means of production or holders of the means of destruction ? Fantastic essay on a critical debate esp in our current age : www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

Quentin Bruneau@qbruneau.bsky.social · 8mo ago

While some have long sought to trace every major global transformation back to the internal dynamics of capitalism, others put more emphasis on the competitive states-system we inhabit. Here, I revisit the Q of how we should think about the relationship between capitalism and the states-system

I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

New book, coming soon! Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026) It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

amen.

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · last yr.

UK tightening student visas during a uni funding crisis at the moment some of the biggest spenders on higher education are looking around for a new destination would be an impressive example of governing by polling against the economic interests of the country

Now is the moment for a multilateral defence bank on.ft.com/44pLMAa

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

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China has Made in China 2025, an elaborate industrial policy, designed by an army of competitive bureaucrats and a financial system subordinated to them. The US at this point has a guy with instinct, now afraid of the bond market

We are pleased to announce that @qbruneau.bsky.social 's STATES AND THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL is the Winner of the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the @hist-isanet.bsky.social‬ section of the International Studies Association. buff.ly/A3KP6vj

IR Book of the Week! "Ethnos of the Earth" by Jaakko Heiskanen. As empires collapsed and nation-states emerged during the 20th Century, "ethnicity" gained traction as a means to talk of the "stateless" without recognizing self-determination

Ethnos of the Earth

Cambridge Core - Global History - Ethnos of the Earth

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Delighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 2y ago

The @isanet.bsky.social Convention is upon us; time for a happy countdown: Congratulations to @qbruneau.bsky.social for the 2025 Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical IR for his masterful book, "States and the Masters of Capital" published with @columbiaup.bsky.social! Stay tuned for more..

👏Congratulations to @politicsoxford.bsky.social's Edward Keene - jointly awarded the Joseph Fletcher Prize from @isanet.bsky.social for The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations!: ow.ly/jVi050UK4b8

My deepest thanks to the anonymous reviewers & the people who contributed to this work, including @qbruneau.bsky.social, Julia Costa López, John de Bhal, Mathieu Delaveau, @karimeltaki.bsky.social, Clémence Fourton, Johanna Gautier, Sonia Gavory, Kaoutar Ghilani, Ross J. Gildea, Eric Haney,... (7/8)

A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3

Tomorrow is the first session of the New School and @lpeproject.bsky.social Night School. @akapczynski.bsky.social and @corinneblalock.bsky.social on how law structures socio-economic power, and how (or if) it could be used to challenge the same. 6 - 8 PM ET. Please register at the link below.