No, taking other countries’ sovereign resources is illegal
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3h agoTrump Brags He’s Taking ‘Billions of Barrels of Oil From Venezuela’ Because ‘To the Victor Belong the Spoils’
Sara Mitchell
@sbmitche.bsky.social
Professor, international relations, Spartan & Cyclone alumni, studies conflict, institutions, and disasters; mother of awesome rehabilitation counselor
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3h ago
My article about student-designed simulations in a Climate Politics course, “Putting Students in the Simulation Designer’s Seat” is out in the world! LMK if you want to read and don’t have an institutional subscription to JPSE
Journal of Political Science Education@jpseeditors.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat happens when students are tasked with designing political simulations as well as participating in them? @andrewbiro.bsky.social tried this in his Climate Change Politics course and assesses the benefits of this kind of assignment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trump can defeat or abuse you, but he can't take your dignity. To lose your dignity to Trump, you must give it to him voluntarily, which so many have been willing to do.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections
I'm hiring an Associate Director for the Center for Qualitative & Multi-Method Inquiry: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114... Run IQMR, work on QDR, help run events around methods @maxwellsu.bsky.social - great for recent MA or PhD interested in alt-ac 1/2
Associate Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI)
Work collaboratively with the Director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI). Lead the planning and logistics for the annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research...
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Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
This administration is staggeringly corrupt. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
“tariffs hurt everyone: foreign exporters, US importers—both businesses and consumers—US foreign relations, and the US economy writ large”
Peterson Institute for International Economics@piie.com · 2d agoPart 2: One of the biggest impediments to "optimal" tariffs improving national welfare is that it is US households & businesses who have borne most of the burden of Trump's tariffs in practice. Read here:
I remember what happened to Lost when the writers started crowd sourcing plot ideas 😭
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d agoPENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
Prime minister visits quake-hit southern Japan as cleanup begins in intense heat
Prime minister visits quake-hit southern Japan as cleanup begins in intense heat
Residents in Japan’s quake-hit southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto put out heaps of debris for collection as the region baked under intense heat.
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Marriage rates have been declining for years, @faith-hill.bsky.social writes. Now sex and dating are, too. Is this the end of romance?
The Great Romance Slump
Why are so few young people finding love?
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Election Madness is live! Check out our elections for the 2026 midterms. This is a free game that gets students interested in U.S. elections. It is simple to understand and easy to play. Can you pick the winners of 24 elections this fall? Will you beat our experts? Please share. election-madness.org
election madness
predict elections, beat your friends and beat the experts
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It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
“The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump’s family business.” File under ‘no surprise that the Trump family is involved in money laundering’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump
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POST EDITORIAL The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing
Opinion | The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing
Trump pushed legal limits with boat strikes, alienating allies, but traffickers adapted.
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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago
Wrote about this. www.offmessage.net/p/andrew-tat...
The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
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Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6d agoHad the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition.
""Tenure ... contributes to curriculum that drifts from the mission of educating our warfighters to the research priorities of the tenured academics." Nope, not really. What we teach and what we research are generally driven by different dynamics, but far right's hostility to academics is known 1/
I know I have RTd this several times, but: the WHOLE POINT of the State Department is that it’s supposed to be full of people who deal with other countries, and who could therefore be expected to look at that map and know IMMEDIATELY that it was wrong.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Delighted that the new @isanet.bsky.social Research and Policy Section Stephen J. Del Rosso award for excellence in bridging the gap between research and policy is now live: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa... Please check it out and submit nominations by September 15.
The Stephen J. Del Rosso Award for Excellence in Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy [RAPS]
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Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning
RBADVISERS: “.. The Fed focuses on core inflation, maybe because they don’t drive or eat. .. For the rest of us, the headline GDP Deflator is the now highest in more than 40 — 40! — years when excluding the post-pandemic oddities.”
Death toll in China landslide climbs to 51 as land search ends, 10 remain missing
Death toll in China landslide climbs to 51 as land search ends, 10 remain missing
The death toll from a landslide in southwestern China this month has risen to 51 after search crews ended a search on land, local authorities said Thursday. Ten people remain missing.
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Interesting theories about why China may have tapped into its (alleged) secret oil/gas reserves
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 7d agoAmerica’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis, and no one knows how the country is doing it—or why, Rogé Karma argues.