Sean Aday

These days, it's Sleater-Kinney covering "Fortunate Son" during an encore at the 9:30 Club in around 2003 and dedicating it to our last blue blood disaster of a president.

Yeah ok: first song that comes to mind at the thought "I'm glad I heard that live," go

Of course he ended up voting for it in the end. Because if it walks like a little bitch, and squawks like a little bitch, well...

The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.

So basically Clarence Thomas, the same Thomas that allegedly sexually harassed Anita Hill and other work colleagues by describing in detail the porn he watched, crafted a ruling that will force judges, including he and his SCOTUS brethren, to watch porn. Well played, sir
www.vox.com/scotus/41806...

The New York Times' "100 Best Movies of the Century" series is a fun diversion from The End Times. Impossible to feel good about a top 10 list when you must leave out so many great films (hardest omissions for me: Beau Travail, Moonlight, Mulholland Drive), but FWIW here's mine:

Dispensable Nation America in a post-American world.

"If it stays on the path Trump has started down, the United States risks becoming too brutal to love but too irrelevant to fear." Depressingly important analysis of Trump's disastrous foreign policy from @kschake.bsky.social‬: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Bill Clinton told David Maraniss that based on his reading of the Bible blowjobs didn't count as adultery.

Homan, ICE goons, and MAGA allies maybe should watch this interesting doc:

And they'd be punished by the presidents at GW, NYU, and Columbia

Opinion | Graduates speak their minds. Universities freak out. In punishing students who make pro-Palestinian commencement speeches, schools lose their way.

CC GW president Ellen Granberg & the other university
mucky mucks who once again forgot their mission & First Amendment principles in punishing a student for the temerity of speaking her mind: "(D)on’t call that higher education. Call it what it is: cowardice" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

GW investigating student speaker’s call for divestment from Israel at CCAS graduation Officials said Cecilia Culver, an economics and statistics graduate, read remarks that were “materially different” than the speech she submitted to the University ahead of the ceremony, and officials ...

I was on stage for this. Some disagreed vocally/strongly w/the speaker as was their right. But IMHO this was not hate speech. No one was harmed. It'd be a travesty of cowardice, bullying, and hypocrisy for #GWU to punish her. Sadly that'd be on brand for this GW admin. gwhatchet.com/2025/05/17/g...

And guess what? They are going to hire the locals who used to work for us and glean all sorts of info from them. A nice counterintelligence bonus.

This sadly all-too-believable breach of operational security by the dangerous dunderheads running national security for this clown show of an administration reminds me of a sign at the PRT in Mosul when I was there in 2009:

I am also happy to add my name to this letter advocating for the value of higher education and encouraging university leaders to be vigilant in its defense against current threats from the White House and its allies.

YouTube video by IPDGC Public Diplomacy and National Security: Lessons from 21st Century Conflicts and Emerging Challenges

"Public Diplomacy and National Security...." a great conversation with Drs. Katherine Brown and James Pamment, two contributors to the new "Handbook on Public Diplomacy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFuf...
@ipdgc.bsky.social #publicdiplomacy

Public Diplomacy Handbook Webinar 2 Please click the link to complete this form.

What: Me & @profmiskimmon.bsky.social talk #AI, #publicdiplomacy + #strategicnarrative with @adaystew.bsky.social
When: 25 March 12 PM EST
Link to register and join: form.jotform.com/250565460458...

GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication is hosting a series of upcoming webinars around the recent publication of the book I edited, Handbook on Public Diplomacy. I'll be talking to some of the amazing authors about their work and contemporary PD issues and challenges. Join us!

U.S. diplomacy is in crisis. U.S. diplomacy in Europe and Marco Rubio's bilateral talks with Russia aren't really about ending the war in Ukraine, or a lasting peace.

New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on why Riyadh talks were very bad, why Rubio's appt was doomed from the start, and why U.S. diplomacy is in crisis (hint: giving away the store is not diplomacy). To paraphrase @dandrezner.bsky.social, I wrote sharper today. goodauthority.org/news/why-hig...

Handbook on Public Diplomacy ‘This volume is what a handbook should be. It offers wide-ranging topics, distinguished authors, theoretical and practical insights, and addresses diverse interests of academic and professional commun...

🚨Publication Alert🚨: Handbook on Public Diplomacy, out today! An amazing array of authors. Check it out!
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Was David Duke busy?

It's hard to imagine a braver, more honorable person than a trans person willing to lay down their life in service to their country. To be told they aren't "honorable, truthful, and disciplined" by the most dishonorable, untruthful, and undisciplined person to ever be president is a bit rich.

Opinion | Biden’s presidency is unpopular now. History might be kinder. His more popular initiatives might live on and flourish.

This Post editorial arguing Biden's presidency will be seen as far more successful than current CW would suggest seems spot-on. Still, the delusional decision to stay in the race was catastrophic and one he and especially his staff will never totally live down. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Worked together” doing a lot of … work here.

“There are criminals, known criminals.” Like… the Felon president and half his proposed cabinet?

Looking forward to these performative deleting Twitter posts to stop

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