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Daniel Drezner

@dandrezner.bsky.social

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Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.

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Daniel W. Drezner is an American political scientist. He is known for his scholarship and commentary on international relations and international political economy.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Feb 6

Sigh. We fucking warned you.

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Paul Musgrave ® @profmusgrave
Around the department:
Americanists: how bad can it be really?
Comparativists: dictatorship, purges
International relations: nuclear war
2017-01-12, 9:18 AM
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Americanists: haha but seriously
IR and comparative: who is joking
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Jacob T. Levy @jtlevy • 2017-10-10
Replying to @profmusgrave
Theorists: "We will go and view the city of tyranny, and once more take a look into the tyrant's soul."
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Daniel W. Drezner @ @dandrezner • 2017-01-12
Political theorists: oh, so now you want to talk to us, do you?
Paul Musgrave @@profmusgrave
Around the department:
Americanists: how bad can it be really?
Comparativists: dictatorship, purges
International relations: nuclear war
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 10h

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Sage, the Way, and Zen
Shakespeare
Religion and Modern Secularism
Creative Fiction Writing
International Political Economy

Pleasantly surprised how many of these classes proved useful later in life.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 11h

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)

Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 11h

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 Senate passes bill to resolve shutdown clash, punting on DHS for two weeks

71-29.

Now to the House—expected to vote Monday.

This deal funds most of the government through Sept and gives DHS a new deadline of Friday, Feb. 13 as Democrats push to restrain ICE/CBP.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Senate passes bill to resolve shutdown clash, punting on DHS for two weeks

The House is not in Washington and plans to vote when it returns Monday. That means a government shutdown this weekend, which will have little impact if it remains brief.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 12h

A new statement from Epstein survivors:

"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14h

Oh look, it's Melania emailing Ghislaine, praising a profile of Jeffrey Epstein, and signed Love, Melania.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

www.justice.gov

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updog sinclair @jonchristian.net · 14h

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge

futurism.com/future-socie...

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island

Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.

futurism.com

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 17h

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

A different kind of April fools

*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 18h

Well surely this will dial the temperature down.

Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h

Bondi says she personally directed the arrest, WH smears and cheers.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h

Bondi says she personally directed the arrest, WH smears and cheers.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

Hobbes all the way down

jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 21h

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."

Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex
Pretti's stock has gone way down with the
just released video of him screaming and
spitting in the face of a very calm and under
control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking
in a new and very expensive government
vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the
taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a
display of abuse and anger, for all to see,
crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer
was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be
under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

The Journal touches on it in its article about how Gabbard is looking for "election fraud," but she is also already spreading delusional, nonsensical claims about how the Russia probe was a set-up. In case you for some reason hoped she would be sober and objective in considering 2020.

Exclusive | Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud

The director of national intelligence earlier this week joined the FBI search of an election center in Georgia.

www.wsj.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has violated judicial orders 96 times in Minnesota alone: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

“Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future.”

Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

Opinion | The Havoc That One Disgruntled Student Can Wreak on a University

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

Opinion | The Havoc That One Disgruntled Student Can Wreak on a University

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Photo of a woman with her hands behind her back, staring down the camera with a determined look. A coward in an HSI jacket has his face turned away.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.

ICE’s No. 1 Ally

The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.

www.theatlantic.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

... what?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”

Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’

The wizarding worldview is naïve.

nyti.ms

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 2d

I think TikTok is telling the truth about the content "censorship" creators saw this week reason.com/2026/01/28/t...

TikTok users say they're being censored after new owners were announced. The company says it's a tech issue.

Zero-view TikTok posts sparked censorship fears, but a data center outage offers a far simpler explanation.

reason.com

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.

ICE’s No. 1 Ally

The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.

www.theatlantic.com

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Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · 2d

Next "No Kings" march is set for March 28, with a flagship event in Minneapolis

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... by @natashakorecki.bsky.social

Next 'No Kings' march on the horizon with flagship event in the Twin Cities

The liberal grassroots group Indivisible simultaneously announced nationwide "Eye on ICE" trainings in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

www.nbcnews.com

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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 2d

On one hand, I get this point that I've seen made several times

OTOH, the issue w/ these long-term charts is that it implies that all other conditions in the US and world economy are constant. But they are not. 10-year Treasury yield was 1.5% in 2012, its 4.2% today, for example.