Adnan Rasool

How Biden’s Thrifty Food Plan Change Broke SNAP’s Cost Controls A 2021 “technical reevaluation” turned into a $180 billion entitlement expansion. Congress should reverse it.

Lastly a long term push that will take another year or so to flesh out; devolving SNAP to states. This shutdown was a good testing ground for that thought experiment www.cato.org/blog/how-bid...

Not trying to be an alarmist, I am just asking folks to educate themselves as to what is coming

Obamacare’s Chronic Conditions We have been witnessing lunacy. Senate Democrats repeatedly voted against a short-term, “clean” resolution to reopen the federal government because they insist, amidst massive deficits and dangerous d...

3. Lastly cutting down subsidies for healthcare and privatizing the notion of care and how it's handled. The focus is not to talk about healthcare, but talk about care as a whole and focusing on individual responsibility for it. www.heritage.org/budget-and-s...

How We Can Prepare Young People for Meaningful Work and Flourishing Lives America is aging rapidly. By 2034, there will be more seniors than children for the first time in our country’s history. Meanwhile, the federal debt has exploded and will be the equivalent of a second...

2. Creating a reliable and malleable workforce that can support the deindustrialization efforts and will be tethered to their employer and location of employment. This is a key part of the districtization architecture. www.heritage.org/markets-and-...

Overregulation Has Put Small Banks at Risk Regulators learned exactly the wrong lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, which itself was largely caused by regulatory failures that incentivized the financial sector into originating and securi...

1. Gutting regulations for banking industry. This gets couched within the idea that affordability is an issue, hence longer mortgages and auto loans. But to do that, you need smaller banks to take on more risk. www.heritage.org/government-r...

While I understand the need to panic and freak out, I plead with you all to just sit down and read in depth the following articles because this is the blueprint for whats coming. It will help folks prepare themselves, those around them and their communities.

Three key initiatives -

With all due respect, their constituents voted for them to make sure ACA was gutted. They are literally just sticking to the commitments they made to their constituents.

🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇

Additionally, I know we do not like really talking about that, but salaries at a good teaching institution (taking into account living costs and location) are roughly the same as they are at some research institutions. The premium is no longer what it used to be.

It is good to have data for something all of us have known from the start. One of the ramifications for this is that programs out of the top 20 keep trying to train students for R1/R2 jobs, but realistically the jobs they will end up getting are at teaching institutions. They need training for that

I was in #Pakistan during the wave of terrorism about 15 years ago. I was a journalist back then, and I cannot stress this enough, the way it desensitizes you to violence because it would just not stop. It was relentless, and I am scared that time is coming back with rising tensions w/ #Afghanistan

Witnessing this process, it has also made me wonder where exactly the disconnect between faculty and admin begin. That is a question I constantly think about because a large part of my job is to talk to faculty to understand what my peers need to grow and thrive.

I ll be honest, I did not think I was going to end up in Admin this early on, but now that I am here, it has been fascinating listening to candidates for these roles share their trajectories and talk about their vision. This is something no one trains us on, ppl r expected to figure it out

So, one of the things I have been busy with over the last year or so of my social media hiatus is administration and rural development. This month, our institution is having campus visits for three finalists each for the Provost position, the Dean of Business and the Dean of Ed/Behavioral Sciences

Given that I rarely interact on social media any more, it feels like walking into a conference after not attending for years. Ngl, it's a weird and kinda nice feeling. Does not change the fact the world is still on fire...

Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Washington DC Jewish museum Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

This is just disturbing. I have no other words to say on this. This is just disturbing.

I see a lot of communities dealing with the "Sunk Cost Fallacy" in terms of their choice of President. Hey, y'all voted for this. You knew this would happen and wanted it. I am personally here to remind folks of the choices they made.

Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines

Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten.

Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON THE BEST AGREEMENT EVER SIGNED WITH A CLASS, and THEY ARE A MARVELOUS CLASS, every classy CLASS... just the way we like it here folks... Some even say they may be the best class, but I don't know, I know them well.. THIS IS THE BEST THING that could have happened

Also for the record, from what I remember, the US would not sign a trade deal with the UK till it hammered out a trade deal with the EU. So, all of this is pretty vibes to me, plus frankly 99.9% of Americans have no idea about what a trade deal is and what it should look like, so you can make it up

The India - Pakistan conflict is not a joke. I genuinely do not think people are fully understanding the seriousness of this mess. This current flare up started with the hostage taking of the Jaffar Express and since then it has devolved to a full blown conflict. South Asia cannot sustain a war.

Also, one other life change I have made in the last few months is I have no filter now. I just stopped having a filter sometime in December, and since then it's been great.

So ever since I backed off social media a while back, I have honestly not missed it. I have a lot more time on my hands to do things and actually spend time on stuff that needs to be done. But crucially, I feel just better and not stuck in a cycle of doom scrolling. It is so nice.

Y'all that Hawk Tuah girl was on to something... rug pulling a coin is not a crime anymore

Connor, if they could read the constitution and actually abide by that, do you think we would be here?

Cause they are realizing their long-term diminishing power, hence they are future planning.

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection

Yes. Going after the courts is a top priority of would-be autocrats: not just Turkey, but Poland, Hungary, Mexico, Israel, etc.

It's always about "bringing the courts under the people's control" and "reforming" by limiting judicial constraints and making courts answerable to the incumbent only.

So the way this whole thing works out is, courts need to be discredited. So expect a lot more aggressive attacking on courts, and then reconstruction of what courts are good and what are not. And then call for purges and what not. This is like Turkey all over again after 2016. But this is way worse.

In the America they are creating, Vance does not stand a chance for obvious reason.