Patrick A. Mello

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

YouTube video by International Studies Association (ISA) Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA is now on #YouTube. 📺 Thanks to everyone at #ISA @isanet.bsky.social for making this possible! 🙏

YouTube video by International Studies Association (ISA) Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA is now on #YouTube. 📺 Thanks to everyone at #ISA @isanet.bsky.social for making this possible! 🙏

Congrats, Steve, Phil, and David! I'm glad to see this is out, but I wouldn't have minded if it weren't frighteningly timely. 😱

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation.

This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region.

The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

Thanks for the wonderful turnout for this event: 86 people from 27 countries! 🌐🎉 The #QCA recording will be made available by @isanet.bsky.social via their channels.

History has focused on Watergate, but many people are unaware that the second article of impeachment against Nixon was for his abuse of "the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies," as John Dean put it in the famous memo.

Social and political phenomena rarely have single-cause explanations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA offers a structured approach to causal complexity. On Sep 17, @isanet.bsky.social hosts a free virtual introduction to the method of #QCA - sign up here: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

Social and political phenomena rarely have single-cause explanations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA offers a structured approach to causal complexity. On Sep 17, @isanet.bsky.social hosts a free virtual introduction to the method of #QCA - sign up here: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Sep 17, 2025, 10 AM to 12 PM (ET). ISA logo. Background: 4 marbles stuck in a maze.

In #IR, #Social & #Political phenomena rarely have a straightforward explanation. Join us for a seminar on Qualitative Comparative Analysis, a structured approach to understanding these complexities, and learn how to apply these methods to your own #Research in #InternationalStudies: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

Nun auch in gedruckter Form: der ZfP-Sonderband (Janusch/Dörfler) zur Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie. Mein Beitrag aus außenpolitischer Perspektive ist hier frei zugänglich: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

So much flows from this core mistake to not prosecute Trump for insurrection in spring 2021. By the time they changed course it was too late. Media and public attention had moved on from Jan 6. And Trump had begun to reassemble Republican support.

Luckovich on orange cabinet meetings in 2017 and 2025. It's the same obsequiousness on display to cosplay government and provide reality TV sound bites to the orange ego and the faithful. Editorial cartoonists cut it to the essence.

An intensive week of #QCA at the 29th ‪@usi.ch Summer School comes to a close. It was a pleasure to be working with such a motivated group! Good luck with all your #QCA projects!

Back again.

🚨 Last chance to register this week 👇

You can now watch the recording of our info session on ISA's Dissertation Completion Fellowship @isanet.bsky.social #PhD
youtu.be/RICVv5R5318A

ISA's Dissertation Completion Fellowship The ISA Dissertation Completion Fellowship is open to applicants from across the social sciences and humanities working in the broad field of International Studies.

Interested in applying for the 2025 ISA Dissertation Completion #Fellowship? Watch ISA's info session with the Committee members as they discuss and answer questions on eligibility criteria, submission details, and how to build your application.

🚨 Last chance to register this week 👇

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The way to empower a mob boss is to pay tribute to a mob boss. That’s what Paramount has done.

✨Frisch erschienen: der Sonderband zur (ersten) Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie @nomosverlag.bsky.social. Freu mich, mit einem Beitrag zum Wandel deutscher Außenpolitik dabei zu sein. Open access hier: doi.org/10.5771/9783...

Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.

The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...

Trying desperately to sound savvy and failing.

Glad to say that, in addition to the German 'Lehrbefähigung' and 'Lehrbefugnis', I now also obtained the Dutch Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs (#BKO) 🥳

✨Frisch erschienen: der Sonderband zur (ersten) Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie @nomosverlag.bsky.social. Freu mich, mit einem Beitrag zum Wandel deutscher Außenpolitik dabei zu sein. Open access hier: doi.org/10.5771/9783...

There are still some places for the #QCA workshop.👇 Please share and repost. 🙏

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV.

To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.

Tomorrow, we'll have an online session on the @isanet.bsky.social Dissertation Completion Fellowship 👇