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Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 3d

It shows that this is the JD Vance peace plan. Vance and Witkoff out maneuvered Rubio and got Trump on board. He may change his mind again.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 4d

“In Thucydides’ time, it was Athens that successfully challenged the pre-eminence of Sparta.”

The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 4d

Two things struck me about this false flag hoax. First, the extreme cost she went to, cutting herself extensively. Second, she may be mentally ill, but she had an accomplice. Someone else thought this was a good idea and helped her do it. www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/e...

Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement

A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.

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Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 7d

The Wisconsin State Journal of my dreams. Front page above the fold article on ancient canoes discovered in Lake Mendota. Also, planned Amtrack station downtown.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 9d

Time to brush up on the jazz chords.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10d

To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab

How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11d

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 13d

I will pretend not to know something I obviously know, and would be derelict not to know, and you will pretend that’s fine.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 13d

Mike Johnson: Hey, that’s my excuse! Definitely am interesting model here. I will tell an obvious lie and you will pretend to believe it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Under Fire for Tucker Carlson Remarks, Think Tank Chief Pleads Ignorance

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Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 14d

Wait till they see my slide in which I say MAGA is critical race theory for white people.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14d

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."

www.wfyi.org/news/article...

IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation

A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14d

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."

www.wfyi.org/news/article...

IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation

A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...

www.wfyi.org

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 20d

“Pinkerton workers complain about low pay, working conditions” headline number 274.

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 20d

Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.

Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.

Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 20d

Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.

Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.

Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 22d

Robert McNamara often expressed remorse over his role in the Vietnam War.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 24d

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u... Not a big media critic but if the last two words were replaced by “punish people who voted against him,” it would be more accurate and amply supported by his own words.

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda

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Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 24d

When you go to extra innings in the seventh game, you know the teams are evenly matched. Hats off to both an thanks for a great series.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27d

A new song, "Winnipeg," from my side project, the Lost Wax Process. Check it & more of our music out at lostwaxprocess.bandcamp.com/music.

Behind every seemingly blue sky
I just can’t hide all the clues
Another departure, another memory
 Another flight away from you

Winnipeg, by Lost Wax Process

track by Lost Wax Process

lostwaxprocess.bandcamp.com

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · 28d

Is this some kind of Halloween/ April fools day mashup?

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · Oct 27

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Oct 26

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · Oct 27

The schooner Brilliant. #MysticSeaport

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Oct 26

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · Oct 26

Chippewa Falls c. 1900.

Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social · Oct 25

Ahh hah! Naturally. Bad as this is, a potential silver lining is that if Trump starts saying the troops were paid when in fact they were not, that becomes an important and self evident lie to a core constituency.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 25

Breaking News: Timothy Mellon, a banking heir, is said to be the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 25

Breaking News: Timothy Mellon, a banking heir, is said to be the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

nyti.ms