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Daniel Drezner
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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.
V 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 708 Retweets 944 Likes Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave • 2017-01-12 Replying to @profmusgrave Americanists: haha but seriously IR and comparative: who is joking t189 © 194 L 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." 01 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 L789 • 236

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 7h
Timely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBVj...
Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 | Teaser Trailer
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 7h
I just appreciate the appropriation of Heinlein for the very opposite of what he would have wanted.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h
Absolutely terrible numbers for Trump.

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Donald Trump’s approval rating
Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 9h
On the one hand it's telling that Fico of all people said this. On the other hand I wish there was some actual detail and/or examples of their conversation to explain why he said this. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
European leader spoke of shock at Trump’s state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting
The Slovak PM, a Trump ally, told leaders at last week’s EU summit he was concerned about the way the U.S. president spoke to him, European diplomats said.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 9h
Two democratic members of congress being assaulted reminds me of the time Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 9h
I'm sure the heterodox civility cops will be all over this one

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11h
100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.
juliettekayyem.bsky.social Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 19h
I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11h
the true danger of AI is all these systems are being used by dummies who were raised on police procedural TV shows

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h
While talking about Alex Pretti, Trump suggests he feels even worse about Renee Good because her parents were Trump fans.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 19h
Wow. This might be the nicest thing any political scientist has ever said about me!

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 19h
I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Daniel W. Drezner, Alan Richardson

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 19h
Visual metaphors are my passion

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 20h
And @juliaazari.bsky.social!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h
"According to allegations in the lawsuit, brought by Jon Joyner and eventually followed by other CBP employees seeking remedy for discrimination, Bovino canceled a job posting and then surreptitiously hired a white supervisor into the role over a number of other qualified applicants."
One Bovino After Another - The American Prospect
Which came first? Col. Steven J. Lockjaw or commander-at-large Gregory K. Bovino?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h
ICE personnel will help protect US delegations at the Winter Olympics in Italy, a US embassy source said, confirming local media reports and prompting anger among some Italian politicians reut.rs/3M9PJ5o
US ICE agents to support security at Winter Olympics in Italy, source confirms
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel will help protect U.S. delegations at the Winter Olympics in Italy, a U.S. embassy source said on Tuesday, confirming local media reports and p...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 23h
Amazing how long ago Venezuela invasion and Greenland threats seem. Cycles of manmade chaos.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 23h
Lowest consumer confidence since 2014:

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 23h
As a fully paid-up member of the International Fellowship of Foreign Policy Pundits, I endorse Peter’s message.
petersagal.bsky.social Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23h
I’ve been saying on this site and on the old one for years that pundits are great, opinion-slinging is a noble profession, but none of them could eat without journalists providing facts on which to opine. Weiss is firing the sharks and hiring more remoras.
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Turns out that Bari Weiss's all hands at CBS today is to announce she's bringing on some anti-vax guys and Niall Ferguson. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/b...

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Christopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social · 23h
Today's a good day to revisit Stephan and Chenowith (here their 2008 article). www.belfercenter.org/sites/defaul...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23h
A federal judge in Minnesota is ordering ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court Friday to defend why his agency is ignoring court orders and the due process rights.

The Bush appointed Chief Judge threatened Lyons with contempt, stating that, “the Court’s patience is at an end.” trib.al/jBEg7gX

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 23h
Thank goodness Politico’s reporters granted this White House official anonymity so they could get such a candid take on the trip details. 🙄
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A White House official, granted anonymity to share details of the trip, said that Trump will discuss “how this administration has and continues to deliver economic prosperity for the American people, despite whatever contrived scandals the mainstream media and Democrats would rather focus on instead” during the Iowa visit. “Inflation has cooled, economic growth is accelerating, and real wages are up for American workers,” the official said. “President Trump has always been most in his element when he’s interacting with everyday Americans.”

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23h
I’ve been saying on this site and on the old one for years that pundits are great, opinion-slinging is a noble profession, but none of them could eat without journalists providing facts on which to opine. Weiss is firing the sharks and hiring more remoras.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 1d
Turns out that Bari Weiss's all hands at CBS today is to announce she's bringing on some anti-vax guys and Niall Ferguson. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/b...
Zoom in: The new list of contributors includes mostly podcasters and independent writers who will now have access to a large audience across CBS News' platforms, including television. Some of those personalities are existing columnists and contributors for The Free Press, including conservative historian Niall Ferguson and Patrick McGee, who covers the tech industry and China. The new lineup of contributors also features popular science podcasters Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia, prominent New York chef Clare de Boer, best-selling cookbook author Caroline Chambers and journalist Casey Lewis, who writes a Substack focused on Gen-Z and Gen Alpha trends. Huberman — a Stanford neurobiology professor who hosts a massively popular health podcast and has nearly 8 million followers on Instagram — has faced criticism for oversimplifying and sometimes misrepresenting complex research. Dr. Mark Hyman, another new CBS News contributor, is closely aligned with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the MAHA movement.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d
My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...
When I was being driven around the Cities in lightly falling, fluffy snow, the whole scene was rendered in real-life grayscale. I had a shameful, selfish thought: This is the opposite of a color lead. My editor sent me all the way out here for this? I thought of all the useless video I had taken, and then of the terabytes more of data on a thousand other phones. All the interactions that didn’t escalate, or even turn out to be ICE action. All those videos are evidence of the terror, too—evidence of the wearying watchfulness that an occupation wrests from people. How occupations colonize memory as much as space. The shots of ICE agents leaving a scene, of storefronts that aren’t blasted through, of apartments whose doors remain whole—all of that is abundant but unaccessible proof of what can be accomplished without leadership, just community and will.

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Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social · 1d
What does the purge of Zhang Youxia suggest for leadership succession after Xi?
It might push the horizon of leadership transition further into the future, because Xi cannot trust even high level cadres?
Who might Xi see as sufficiently reliable to control military going forward?

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d
The past week shows this is not a regime with the stomach for mass violence against US citizens.

That will also weigh heavily on security forces' calculus regarding unlawful orders moving forward.

All political figures of conscience must now push for accountability, and transparency in the camps.
Crackdown Chief to Leave Minneapolis as White House Distances Trump From Uproar
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d
INDIA-EU DEAL: MODI SAYS DEAL IS BIGGEST IN INDIA'S HISTORY