Daniel Drezner

Thank you for confessing to your willingness to commit a federal felony.

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.

Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

It sounds like they’re describing a toddler having a tantrum.

this is the Dr. Strangelove War Room

The MAGA Foreign Policy Evolution "Already it was impossible to say which was which."

So I've been pondering the end of Animal Farm as of late... danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-maga-f...

It also appears to have been written by a third-grader.

Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.

Macron warned US could ‘betray’ Ukraine in leaked leaders’ call, Spiegel reports According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.

“We cannot leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Mace considers leaving Congress to spend more time with public restrooms

This is very convincing to me, a guy who got hit on the head and forgot how most fentanyl ingredients were coming from China.

this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

So a few things:

1) The initial boat strike was illegal;

2) The two survivors were trying to continue their drug run by clinging to wreckage?!

3) The initial boat strike was illegal.

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

One of the many things about this crowd that amazes and/or horrifies me is that they think they’re the first people to even encounter a situation or problem. There’s no history or experience. There’s just a guy with an MBA and a haircut saying, “I bet no one’s pushed this button before!”

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

- MTG resignation Jan 5, special election date TBD
- TX-18 special (Dem) Jan 31
- NJ-16 special (Dem) April 16
+ Mace resigning?

= Potentially a temporarily 218-215 House next year, depending on how timings line up. A margin of no more than two defections or three abstentions. If nobody else goes.

UMich: Both groups are falling again now, but the gap has widened, with lower-income consumers feeling meaningfully worse about the economy BofA

Conspiracy theory: “They’re hiding the inflation data!”

Boring reality: “We sent the data nerds home for six weeks and they couldn’t collect it.”

As usual, never attribute to malice what can be explained by budget dysfunction.

The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.

"They aren't doing regime change, they just want to change the regime. You understand."

Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill The speaker is working behind closed-doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.

🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access.

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I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Reminder: Mike Johnson stalled the swearing-in of @repgrijalva.bsky.social for 50 DAYS — to protect billionaire pedophiles.