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The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Awww, thank you Peter!

In political science, there has been a long and frustrating debate over what about democracy, precisely, leads to growth. Of course, it’s multi-causal. But I always emphasize the information environment. Markets can’t work when info is bad. Info is likely to be bad in authoritarian circumstances.

Historian here that is the Soviet Lada in this tweet! The big ugly GOP bill is really taking America backwards and making America bankrupt!

Speaking of this, I genuinely cannot get over the fact that Anduril reinvented the Coyote Block 2 but is charging 5 times as much for it.

THESE ARE THE SAME FUCKING THINGS LUCKY. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KEEP GETTING GLOWING PROFILES IN NEWSPAPERS

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, New Documents Show

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

An annex to the Durham special counsel report was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Epstein files

gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Authoritarians are attacking universities. Here's how it's going at one public school. I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

‘1984’ is upon us

Brown is acceding to government oversight of course evaluations, where they can investigate anyone they want for "antisemitism" based on student complaints.

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I am flattered 🥰

Thanks so much, Olivia!

Fantastic. Thanks so much!

Thank you! Also, I’ve been trying to find good things to read on the history of the idea of work/labor - any recs? To include both development of wage labor and development of labor theory of value, etc … much obliged!

What’s the book??

CNBC: The EPA is moving to rescind this endangerment finding on carbon dioxide and greenhouses gases. Is that a danger to public health?

MAKARY: To be honest, I don't know enough about that issue

CNBC: You're in charge of our public health! Can you look into it for us?

The list of names on the review of climate science presented to the US energy secretary reads like a who's who of paid lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry. Because it is.

132. ‘Fear, honour and interest’; how have generations of IR students failed to notice that this is an extremely tendentious statement, the Athenians trying to bullshit their way out of some justifiable accusations, not a universal principle of inter-state relations?

Yes, it’s yet another example of how a rule of law system depends to a certain extent on good faith, and how such a system can be exploited and undermined without technically breaking the rules.

it's been upgraded, BC is now a WATCH (yellow)
Revised EQ magnitude: 8.7 😬

Good chart of what all the alert colours mean, here
www.weather.gov/safety/tsuna...

Info for californians/other US west coasters

Friends in Hawaii are getting tsunami sirens - please get inland and stay safe! Don’t forget your pets!

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

Also, I mean, someone in the building has to be the bureaucrats. You can’t have an effective large, joint, expeditionary standing force without a bureaucracy.

As both Kori and Peter point out, it’s not necessarily inappropriate, but I agree w Heidi that it’ll be perceived in the military as a personal loyalty test (different from a professional loyalty test).
Also implies SecDef is unlikely to be a buffer bt the military and presidential politics.

Other ppl making this point

bsky.app/profile/samu...

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

New news on this front

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

From my linked in feed.

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

Aguilar is a retired Green Beret lieutenant colonel and West Point graduate who started his career as an infantry platoon leader in Mosul with the 172nd Stryker Brigade in 2005-6, joined SF in 2008, was in 3rd SF Group as of 2015, and in 2017 competed for Best Ranger as a USASOC major.

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation https://on.ft.com/4o5I46b