Nate Schenkkan

He wrote a book about how to dismantle the Civil Rights Act in 2023 and cowrote Project 2025 as well, it's not like he had a cringe phase ten years ago he's regretful over. His *recent* blog posts about trans people are that they're disgusting and pitiable, and his stuff on race is still abhorrent

💥🗳️ Bombshell poll in Hungary: 55–35 lead for Péter Magyar’s TISZA over Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz-KDNP – enough for a supermajority in parliament.

The survey was conducted by Medián, widely seen as the country’s most reliable pollster, for @hvghu.bsky.social.

Fieldwork: Feb 18–23, 1,000 respondents.

“…just 2% of all college students—including 3% of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views…71% said their professors create a classroom environment that supports both students who express unpopular opinions and those who may be upset by such views.”

This is a Cavs-Knicks post, you sickos

Big night on TV tonight

Tongue in cheek posting, but this fact drove Russian nationalists insane in the 19th century

There is no border between Europe and Asia

February 23, 2026 — On a February 20 episode of “HAF Reacts,” Hindu American Foundation’s Managing Director for Policy and Programs Samir Kalra said the following about the recent guilty plea of Nikhil Gupta and his role in a conspiracy to assassinate U.S.-based Sikhs: “Man, if you’re gonna do a job, fucking do it right, too. I mean that’s the other thing. Why did you send such a sloppy person to do the job? And again, I’m not advocating it should have been successful, but come on, I mean, that was, like, worse than the D-team. Like when you walk into a strip club in the middle of the day, you get like the worst dancers that are there, right? You gotta go to like, prime time at night to get the best dancers, not during the daytime. And that’s like, this kind of operation! You have, like, the daytime dancers that were part of this operation. If you’re going to do it, freakin’ do it right. If you’re going to have somebody indicted, at least be successful in your operation. Shame on India or whoever was ordering this hit or whoever was involved in it for doing such a horrible, sloppy job.”

as ever, the Hindu nationalist apparatus in the U.S. is a real piece of a work (h/t @hfhr.bsky.social)

Like these are in fact just clowns

Tucker Carlson claims a ‘demon’ attack left him bleeding in bed Former Fox News host says he was ‘physically mauled’ by unknown entity in assault that left him with ‘claw marks’

Re Tucker Carlson discourse, I just always think of that time he said he was attacked by a demon in his sleep www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I need progressive foreign policy people to continually ask Ro Khanna his views on Modi, democracy, and human rights in India before they continue fawning over him

Assuming this is international development, I know some of you on here used to

long shot, but anyone here work in development finance? if so, i have a question for a story.

reach out via signal: marisakabas.04

"I can excuse torture"

"but you draw the line at"

"no I was just establishing my credentials"

Every time the Canadian government says it is adding sanctions, reporters need to ask how it is improving our almost non-existent enforcement regime.

How Russia’s fatalities compare with Ukraine’s After four years of fighting, our modelling reveals a grim toll

So, maybe 400k Russians killed. About 650k have moved aboard during the past four years. Inward migration lower than before. (End-2025 ~4m legal migrant workers, 2015 it was 7m.)🇷🇺

Total labor force ~76m.
How Russia’s fatalities compare with Ukraine’s
economist.com/graphic-deta...

Did not have 2026 as the year of hockey whiplash on the bingo card

It is obliquely included in references to Trump II's interventionism and imperial/colonialism. But ultimately what Trump II is calling into question is the Westphalian understanding of state sovereignty, independence, self-determination and the assumption of non-intervention that goes along with it.

The ways in which Trump II is deviating from the liberal aspect of the liberal international order have been widely covered.

But it's been less explicitly remarked how much it is deviating from the inter-*national* aspect of that order, that is the Westphalian pillar underpinning it.

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.

If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

This is true in electoral politics. But it's also true, perhaps more importantly, in between elections.

During that time, elected authoritarians are constantly pushing to consolidate power and undermine the opposition. Whether they get away with it depends on what others in society do.

I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*.

I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.

From Moscow to MAGA AfD’s Markus Frohnmaier and the Transnational Far-Right Convergence

MAGA is launching a transnational far-right project “Alliance of Sovereign Nations”. Hosted by US Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, the launch will feature US Speaker Mike Johnson, Markus Frohnmaier (AfD 🇩🇪 ), & António Tânger Corrêa (Chega 🇵🇹 ). Read more on Frohnmaier here:

It's good we have delegated authority for major decisions on global trade to one person

In 2024 Rufo offered $5000 to anyone who could prove Haitian migrants were eating pets.

Then he turns around and wonders why the brains of so many people on the right have melted into conspiracy slop

Many of you did not heed the PSA

Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world's largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.

Freedom money

That’s a W

Additionally, not all academia is about "science" in the STEM sense; the humanities are not designed to discover and convey data.

The humanities connect you with other human beings through the culture they produce. Its the act of *human connection* that is the whole point.

PSA: salt goes down *after* the snow stops and you have shoveled. If you put salt down *before* the snow stops, you are melting the snow, which will then become ice.