Sean Aday
@adaystew.bsky.social
Sean Aday is Assoc Professor of political communication and international affairs at GW. My work focuses on media coverage of war and foreign policy, and public diplomacy. Tweets are my views, not GWU's
I show it every semester -- same reaction!
They had never heard about her emails or grabbing em by the pussy
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I show it every semester -- same reaction!
This SDE clown doesn’t need a nazi tattoo, he IS a nazi tattoo
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This SDE clown doesn’t need a nazi tattoo, he IS a nazi tattoo
Liking this pope more and more every day
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Liking this pope more and more every day
Waiting for the same Very Serious People in the media, WH, & GOP who scolded Dems to "lower the temp" after Kirk's death to condemn this & other examples of racist, authoritarian, & violent rhetoric (incl. Kirk's) w/the same intensity & self-righteousness www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Waiting for the same Very Serious People in the media, WH, & GOP who scolded Dems to "lower the temp" after Kirk's death to condemn this & other examples of racist, authoritarian, & violent rhetoric (incl. Kirk's) w/the same intensity & self-righteousness www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Everyone in this administration is competing for the SDE Poster child award
I never knew a tough guy who had to tell you how tough he was.
Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"
October 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Everyone in this administration is competing for the SDE Poster child award
Good for the generals. No one is impressed with this insecure, limp, utterly weak display of warrior cosplay. Certainly our enemies aren't (nor our dwindling number of allies). Typically pathetic, which makes it even more dangerous.
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Good for the generals. No one is impressed with this insecure, limp, utterly weak display of warrior cosplay. Certainly our enemies aren't (nor our dwindling number of allies). Typically pathetic, which makes it even more dangerous.
Sadly true but needs to be said, from
@paulwaldman.bsky.social :
"We Were Right: The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?" paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
@paulwaldman.bsky.social :
"We Were Right: The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?" paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sadly true but needs to be said, from
@paulwaldman.bsky.social :
"We Were Right: The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?" paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
@paulwaldman.bsky.social :
"We Were Right: The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?" paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
Excellent must-read from Coates (esp. for those who claim to prize "debate.")
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Excellent must-read from Coates (esp. for those who claim to prize "debate.")
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
As with everything about this criminal clown show of a presidency, at once abhorrently authoritarian and laughably stupid. "You have a lot of hate in your hate!"
September 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
As with everything about this criminal clown show of a presidency, at once abhorrently authoritarian and laughably stupid. "You have a lot of hate in your hate!"
One can argue with their prescription, but have to hand it to WSJ editorial writers for nailing the Freudian insecurities underlying the "War Department" nonsense (& really everything about Trump/MAGA ftm): "(S)peaking loudly and carrying a small stick" www.wsj.com/opinion/depa...
Opinion | Can Trump’s ‘War Department’ Win a War?
What matters isn’t the name but the erosion of U.S. hard power.
www.wsj.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One can argue with their prescription, but have to hand it to WSJ editorial writers for nailing the Freudian insecurities underlying the "War Department" nonsense (& really everything about Trump/MAGA ftm): "(S)peaking loudly and carrying a small stick" www.wsj.com/opinion/depa...
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
July 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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.
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Yeah ok: first song that comes to mind at the thought "I'm glad I heard that live," go
July 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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...
July 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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...
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...
www.vox.com/scotus/41806...
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.
www.vox.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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...
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:
June 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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:
"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...
Dispensable Nation
America in a post-American world.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"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...
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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.
A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
June 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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.
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.
Getting an explainer on CNN just now that this is "not necessarily at odds" w Trump promising not to get into any Mideast wars.
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
June 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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:
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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
Not for the first time, I’m struck by the fact that if the perspectives in Haaretz were those of foreign students at U.S. universities, the Secretary of State would lock them up and try to deport them.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
Why Israel's Gaza campaign has made the war unjustifiable | Editorial
***
www.haaretz.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
And they'd be punished by the presidents at GW, NYU, and Columbia
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...
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...
Opinion | Graduates speak their minds. Universities freak out.
In punishing students who make pro-Palestinian commencement speeches, schools lose their way.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
gwhatchet.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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...
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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.
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
April 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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:
March 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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: