Drake Long
@drmlong.bsky.social
Senior Associate, China Warfighting Initiative, Marine Corps War College.
Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan, ASEAN. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan, ASEAN. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
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Drake Long
@drmlong.bsky.social
· Jul 10
FYI if you’re a researcher working on the seabed and have a new paper out, let me know! I am a non-science person trying to understand more and would love to cite for my silly piddly little book.
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A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
Not great optics to tell a bunch of European diplomats (that negotiated the Iran Deal that stopped Iran’s nuclear program) that diplomats couldn’t stop Iran’s nuclear program.
I think in general what a lot of foreign policy folks in admin don’t possess any self awareness.
I think in general what a lot of foreign policy folks in admin don’t possess any self awareness.
February 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Not great optics to tell a bunch of European diplomats (that negotiated the Iran Deal that stopped Iran’s nuclear program) that diplomats couldn’t stop Iran’s nuclear program.
I think in general what a lot of foreign policy folks in admin don’t possess any self awareness.
I think in general what a lot of foreign policy folks in admin don’t possess any self awareness.
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I just published a thing on a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans that I had to sit on for years to wait out the statute of limitations. 😬
flaminghydra.com/r/48d9cc1b?m...
flaminghydra.com/r/48d9cc1b?m...
Party down / Assigned seating
Tod Seelie on a cop crackdown against a New Orleans krewe; Jack Pendarvis has a drink with Kent Osborne
flaminghydra.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I just published a thing on a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans that I had to sit on for years to wait out the statute of limitations. 😬
flaminghydra.com/r/48d9cc1b?m...
flaminghydra.com/r/48d9cc1b?m...
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it's funny following this discourse while being on the philosophy job market and hence being aware of just how many jobs every year are specifically earmarked for conservatives
Maybe it’s just because I’m in PPE circles where these are prominent, but the basic premise doesn’t even make sense. There are loads of right wing (be it libertarian or conservative) funding bodies for the humanities and social sciences already. Things like IHS and Mercatus on the libertarian side
The Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.
February 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
it's funny following this discourse while being on the philosophy job market and hence being aware of just how many jobs every year are specifically earmarked for conservatives
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God, great piece from @damemagazine.bsky.social about living with institutional failure. I'll freely admit I'm furious at times just thinking about the institutions that should have at least tried to do something and instead contented themselves with the sidelines or outright collaboration.
The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine
What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.
www.damemagazine.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM
God, great piece from @damemagazine.bsky.social about living with institutional failure. I'll freely admit I'm furious at times just thinking about the institutions that should have at least tried to do something and instead contented themselves with the sidelines or outright collaboration.
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👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.
Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."
The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch
The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.
share.inquirer.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.
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completely agree
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
completely agree
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F-47 fighters, Trump class battleships, Golden Dome missile defense... I hope we get conquered by Guatemala and sold to a fruit company at this point.
Dawg my Navy is so fucking embarrassing
Trump-class battleships are ‘exactly’ what the Navy needs, SWO boss says - Breaking Defense
The Navy ran into design challenges with its next-generation destroyer, emphasizing the need for a larger battleship, according to Vice Adm. Brendan McLane.
breakingdefense.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
F-47 fighters, Trump class battleships, Golden Dome missile defense... I hope we get conquered by Guatemala and sold to a fruit company at this point.
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I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.
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Predatory old men like Lawrence Krauss are why younger women are overwhelmingly becoming left-wing.
Why on earth would you be in a party led by Donald Trump and populated with elites like Krauss?
Why on earth would you be in a party led by Donald Trump and populated with elites like Krauss?
Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Predatory old men like Lawrence Krauss are why younger women are overwhelmingly becoming left-wing.
Why on earth would you be in a party led by Donald Trump and populated with elites like Krauss?
Why on earth would you be in a party led by Donald Trump and populated with elites like Krauss?
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Everyone is 12
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Everyone is 12
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How well do you know these 25 figures from Taiwan's martial law era, aka the Kuomintang's reign of #WhiteTerror?
Take the quiz (Mandarin only) ➡️ taiwan-memory-quiz-452711040965.us-west1.run.app
Take the quiz (Mandarin only) ➡️ taiwan-memory-quiz-452711040965.us-west1.run.app
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
How well do you know these 25 figures from Taiwan's martial law era, aka the Kuomintang's reign of #WhiteTerror?
Take the quiz (Mandarin only) ➡️ taiwan-memory-quiz-452711040965.us-west1.run.app
Take the quiz (Mandarin only) ➡️ taiwan-memory-quiz-452711040965.us-west1.run.app
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ok I'm a curling fan now
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 AM
ok I'm a curling fan now
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Every AAR of Taiwan's HK Exercise by the US said "fix your fire coordination or we ain't coming," no one enjoys blue-on-blue. The new US-TW Fire Coordination Center has many implications, me, @wentisung.bsky.social and Bryce Barros dive into it (cont. in reply)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUB...
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUB...
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Every AAR of Taiwan's HK Exercise by the US said "fix your fire coordination or we ain't coming," no one enjoys blue-on-blue. The new US-TW Fire Coordination Center has many implications, me, @wentisung.bsky.social and Bryce Barros dive into it (cont. in reply)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUB...
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUB...
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A UK student in the US went to a protest for five minutes. ICE subpoenaed Google for his private details. Google complied.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 AM
A UK student in the US went to a protest for five minutes. ICE subpoenaed Google for his private details. Google complied.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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there is absolutely no moral difference between what chomsky did here and denying the holocaust. none.
This is Noam Chomsky talking about Cambodian refugees accurately describing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge that they’d escaped from.
This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.
This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.
"refugees are frightened and defenseless, at the mercy of alien forces. They naturally tend to report what they believe their interlocuters wish to hear."
February 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
there is absolutely no moral difference between what chomsky did here and denying the holocaust. none.
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“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi
A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com
news.usni.org/2026/02/06/t... One of the best journalists covering naval affairs rn
Taiwan to Construct 10 Light Frigates for Air Defense, Anti-submarine Missions - USNI News
Taipei will construct 10 light frigates for air defense and anti-submarine missions between 2028 and 2040, according to recently released procurement documents. The procurement of the 2,500-ton warshi...
news.usni.org
February 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
news.usni.org/2026/02/06/t... One of the best journalists covering naval affairs rn
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This is very similar to the AI videos my dad sends me thinking it's real.
There's a huge market for AI women giving testimonies that appeal to men/what they want hear, even further reducing the chance they will question if it's even real.
There's a huge market for AI women giving testimonies that appeal to men/what they want hear, even further reducing the chance they will question if it's even real.
Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?
February 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM
This is very similar to the AI videos my dad sends me thinking it's real.
There's a huge market for AI women giving testimonies that appeal to men/what they want hear, even further reducing the chance they will question if it's even real.
There's a huge market for AI women giving testimonies that appeal to men/what they want hear, even further reducing the chance they will question if it's even real.
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Just, in some deep way, the kinda people who sign up for this.
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Just, in some deep way, the kinda people who sign up for this.
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"Separatist social media messaging aims not only at an Albertan or Canadian audience, but also at persuading a U.S. audience that Albertans are oppressed and really do want out."
@popovaprof.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
@popovaprof.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News
Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"Separatist social media messaging aims not only at an Albertan or Canadian audience, but also at persuading a U.S. audience that Albertans are oppressed and really do want out."
@popovaprof.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
@popovaprof.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...