Petia Kostadinova

Today’s insanity included me shepherding players during a fire alarm at the rink, minutes before the graduation ceremony for the 2011 birth year players. Followed by a nail biting overtime where we held off a tie against a team to which we had lost dramatically three times this season.

Patrick’s second goal yesterday prevented the other team’s goalie from having a shutout.

Three games in 24h against much stronger teams. Two goals for Patrick, including a signature breakaway against the first seeded team in our group.

…and there it is.

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.

If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

I discovered liquid bandage recently. Very effective!

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

👀 Check out this special issue of #BJPIR - European responses to the Russia-Ukraine War - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025)

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NEW: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Indian oil companies are reportedly significantly reducing direct purchases of Russian oil in the short term, and the European Union (EU) passed its 19th sanctions package against Russia, primarily targeting the Russian energy sector. 🧵(1/8)

Notre Dame is investing in democracy research in lots of exciting ways, including these hires. Happy to talk to senior folks about working at Notre Dame and living in South Bend. (Spoiler: There are lots of good reasons I've spent my entire career here).

This is bad

👇🎯 As with university presidents, the Democrats' current Congressional leaders have spent their entire career advancing & being selected for leadership positions based on qualities/skills that were rewarded in a political system that simply no longer exists in the United States of America.

The excuses Westerners make for Ru society’s consistent/broad support for the attempted conquest of Ukraine are endless! After « they don’t know the truth » and « they are afraid of repression », we now have « they have to make a living ».

US higher ed basically started to copy the German research-university model in the early 20th century. Then Germany tore it down themselves.

Not unrelated, one reason Germany lost the race for the A-bomb is that Hitler thought theoretical physics was essentially Jewish

More Random Data! More random data questions for student analysis - focusing on continuous/numerical variables this time.

PLEASE GIVE ME MORE WACKY DATA! Crazy questions make memorable examples! My students will thank you!

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Speeding tickets! Cookie consumption! Feeling thermometers about cats and dogs and people who eat anchovies straight from the tin!

10 essential reads on African politics for summer 2025. From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

Here are 10 essential reads on African politics for this summer.

From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

goodauthority.org/news/10-esse...

I like that the NYT story on Mamdani's college application is sparking dialogue on how race is a political expression. ~100 years ago, Minnesota expelled Finnish labor organizers by declaring them Asian and Alabama let a Black man marry a Sicilian woman because Italians weren't "White."

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Democracy, 1865-2025

There’s not one rule that says you can’t use kittens

We're also going to find out that RFE/RL, USAID and the rest of the American soft-power apparatus was also load-bearing.

It turns out a radio station is a lot cheaper than if you have to intervene to fight a war or control refugee flows.

A *lot* of this stuff is load-bearing.

The US Supreme Court rules that there is no law and there is no constitution

No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work Atomic weapons are highly complex, surprisingly sensitive, and often pretty old. With testing banned, countries have to rely on good maintenance and simulations to trust their weapons work.

Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing future may seem outlandish to some, but only because no nation has detonated a nuclear weapon in conflict since 1945.

Our 2023 story on if old nukes would actually work.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Call for Participants: APSA Working Group on American Civics Undergraduate Course Requirements | Deadline: July 7, 2025 Join the working group here! Application Deadline: July 7, 2025 The American Political Science Association’s Departmental Services Program seeks faculty and department leaders to join a new working group supporting political science departments whose programs and courses help their university or college meet externally mandated American politics and civics undergraduate credit requirements. Nine states already require undergraduate students at public higher education institutions to take course requirements, while many state legislatures and regents boards across the U.S.

Call for Participants: APSA Working Group on American Civics Undergraduate Course Requirements | Deadline: July 7, 2025

Assassin was Trump voter

No Kings protest sign with a Ukrainian flavor

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Chicago is showing up.

I once confronted then-Rep Keith Ellison at an event in '16, and asked if he understood that Democrats ideally want to work with Republicans, but Republicans ideally want to jail Democrats. His quick reply was "brother, don't I know it, you have to convince Chuck Schumer, I've tried"