Mark Healey

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

The whole Trump administration is just rooting around in complicated systems - regional balances of power, state legitimacy, funding for global health - and ripping wires out, and they've frankly been lucky that they've ripped out so many wires without electrocuting themselves. Won't last forever.

Here’s CBS “news” casually referring to Iran’s nuclear weapons as if Iran has nuclear weapons. They couldn’t possibly sink lower.

Adam Tooze: The Trump trade is dead. Long live the anti-Trump trade. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.

Welcome to New England!

Love that his office spelled it that way 3 separate times in the press release

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Here is how the Dec-Feb 2025-26 period compared to the 1991-2020 normal period. 🔥🔥🔥

Tl;dr: Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, & then it's Saturday. Groundhog Day for "Mike Johnson, John Thune, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, etc. enjoy dinner while everyone's angry at Chuck & Hakeem."

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War People will die and nothing will be accomplished

My thoughts

open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Same here, querido. Fuerza!

There are no new laws, or more court orders, that can solve the problem of a president & an administration that systematically & completely ignores the law, court orders, & the Constitution.

COMMENTARY Trump's Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars He has my support in 2024 because I know he won't recklessly send Americans to fight overseas. By J.D. Vance Jan. 31, 2023 2:21 pm EST

Probably been posted already

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

Somehow, I'm starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize 🤔

It's just too bad Congress isn't around to see this

here it is. from the new yorker long ago.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

The cover of this week's Lancet, featuring RFK Jr:

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

I mean, we'd love to have you ;) But on the buy in part, yes, sadly not the case.

The potential for catastrophic mayhem is HIGH, though our institutional bias is towards conflict avoidance, high rotation in leadership, and slow degradation as an overall strategy.

Our leadership is currently trying to shift us to RCM on a super-accelerated timeframe, with a weak president, an interim provost, zero remaining trust from faculty in institutional leadership, and almost none of the conversations about common purpose you suggest.

So there's been some discussion about budgets and program cuts and I thought it might be helpful to shed light on a few things. Yes, budgets are moral documents, but as any moral community, universities are complex 🧵

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

yikes