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Carol Saivetz

@carolrs.bsky.social

Senior Fellow, Security Studies Program at MIT. Interested in Russian foreign and security issues

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Latest posts by carolrs.bsky.social on Bluesky

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

18.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 7384    🔁 2205    💬 81    📌 99

If you're an elected Democrat, take note that reading Bluesky would've alerted you to this shift starting to happen months ago while your centrist consultant said then and still says now that everybody loves Trump on immigration.

No, they don't, especially not people who might vote for you.

11.07.2025 12:29 — 👍 1675    🔁 448    💬 39    📌 17
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Russia Is Unwilling to Aid Iran After the US Strike Despite fiery rhetoric, Russia has offered Iran no real support after US strikes, revealing Moscow’s weakened position, competing interests, and reluctance to jeopardize ties with Israel, the Gulf, or...

“Despite fiery rhetoric, Russia has offered Iran no real support after US strikes, revealing Moscow’s weakened position, competing interests, and reluctance to jeopardize ties with Israel, the Gulf, or Trump,” writes SSP’s @carolrs.bsky.social.

nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-...

30.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads.

WATCH AND SHARE:

#MAGAKidnappers

18.06.2025 20:55 — 👍 5713    🔁 2951    💬 220    📌 309
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Page One in Des Moines.

@jemsinger.bsky.social

31.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 27490    🔁 7141    💬 1564    📌 756

And he successfully damaged or killed the agencies that he thought were investigating/harming his interests. Think FAA.

30.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ah, but of course.

#OligarchEra 🤡

@washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

07.05.2025 18:23 — 👍 5526    🔁 1862    💬 354    📌 208

A sad and terrible loss for our field.

07.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A terrible loss for our field.

07.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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May the Fourth be with you.
Attack the Death Star every day.
(bit.ly/theInnerHive)

04.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 534    🔁 171    💬 14    📌 18

Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it.

Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.

This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.

06.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 5198    🔁 1249    💬 404    📌 82
Opinion | A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase? Navarro says tariffs will raise $600 billion a year for the government, but he says this is a tax cut.

‘nuff said.

And from the WSJ no less

“Americans are being told to accept the pain of higher prices, a slower economy, and shrinking 401(k) balances in the name of Mr. Trump’s project to transform the American economy into what he imagines it was like in the McKinley era of the 1890s.

01.04.2025 10:40 — 👍 859    🔁 230    💬 34    📌 5

Presumably this stuff is all still within the statute of limitations too.

26.03.2025 11:31 — 👍 582    🔁 143    💬 11    📌 0

This would seem to be important

25.03.2025 18:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Since the DNI and the CIA Director have both testified that there was no classified information in the @theatlantic.com’s “Houti PC Small Group” thread, there is no reason for the magazine not to release the entire thing. I call upon it to do so.

25.03.2025 15:53 — 👍 6897    🔁 1680    💬 159    📌 94

Does she even know what a weapon of mass destruction is???

23.03.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tongue in cheek???

23.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cartoon of the Day: Puppet-in-Chief An exclusive cartoon from Michael de Adder

Michael de Adder nails it again. (click to see the full cartoon)

07.03.2025 22:39 — 👍 6835    🔁 1596    💬 159    📌 35

Any normal judge worth his ethics would be beyond embarrassed by this brazen display of corruption.

05.03.2025 13:24 — 👍 738    🔁 179    💬 23    📌 5

I’ve never seen that before. Meanwhile, the R’s are cheering every sentence.

05.03.2025 02:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think about where we’d be instead. I could cry

02.03.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's hard to even comprehend how disgusting this is.

28.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 181    🔁 34    💬 8    📌 1

This is great! It’s starting. But, R’s seem much more afraid of Tr*mp than their constituents.

27.02.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope you’re right.

13.02.2025 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s dangerous approach to peace in Ukraine [FREE TO READ] European leaders need to speed up efforts to take control of their defence

Sharp @financialtimes.com editorial. Do read: “European leaders must use all means they can to try to talk Trump round to a more robust stance. But they must get their act together, too, in taking control of their own and Ukraine’s defence.” on.ft.com/4hC0BU3

13.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 138    🔁 29    💬 8    📌 4

How stupid!

12.02.2025 22:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten:
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally

12.02.2025 17:32 — 👍 5945    🔁 2151    💬 246    📌 141
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www.google.com/search?q=state capture nyt

An important read. This is where we are!

08.02.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Time’s new cover is pushing big on the whole “Elon Musk is the real President, not Trump” messaging

08.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 166    🔁 36    💬 9    📌 3

Like Tr*mp knows culture. Can you imagine?

07.02.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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