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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Aug 11

Trump's decision to take over the police despite historically low crime and no protests etc. The President literally requires NO provocation to impose emergency measures.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Jun 19

As a Ukr specialist, I have mixed feelings on Iran: 1 A hatred of the IRI that is totalitar and supprts Russia BUT 2 an appreciat of why a small-med sized country wld want nukes in a world where nukes virt the only deterrent to invasion. Not defeating Russia encourages nuclear proliferation.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Jun 12

thanks!!!

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Jun 12

thanks! yeah sorry. I am not adept at these things.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · May 30

www.crimsoncourage.com

Crimson Courage

Crimson Courage is a growing community of Harvard alumni from all schools and decades united in standing up for academic freedom at Harvard and beyond.

www.crimsoncourage.com

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · May 23

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · May 22

Far less egregious imo than the many many Dems who fought to keep Biden on the ticket when it was obvious that he was incapable.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · May 9

true!

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · May 8

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines

www.nytimes.com

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 23

newrepublic.com/post/194245/...

RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.

newrepublic.com

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 22

How could a pope who was so good in so many areas have been so awful with regards to Russia? Genuine question. Does it have something to do w Latin American left?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 21

The newsrooms of 21st century America exist in a parallel factual universe where questions are raised and raised again, sometimes prompting concerns, sometimes prompting further questions, but never, ever answers.

NPR @npr.org · Apr 21

Every day it seems new conflicts arise between President Trump and the courts. Prompting another round of the question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?

Clash between Trump and the courts sparks questions of a constitutional crisis

Every day it seems new conflicts arise between President Trump and the courts. Prompting another round of the question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?

www.npr.org

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 18

really awful. CTV has acted in an incredibly irresponsible manner.
pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...

CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

pressprogress.ca

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · Apr 13

Look, I have my criticisms of the Trump administration.

But when RFK Jr ends autism by September, the libs are going to look pretty foolish for having doubted him.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 12

really hard to advise ANYONE to get educated in the States right now.

Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Apr 11

One of the best non-PhD students I’ve supervised just chose a European PhD program over very good US programs—he didn’t want to face the risks of staying here as a Chinese national. The US is losing top talent due to poor leadership.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Apr 11

This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet.

It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him.

And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

Charles Cavendish @ccavendish.bsky.social · Apr 11

From what I'm seeing in Europe, the real game changer here isn't really the Trump admin itself, but how quickly American elites - political, corporate, institutional and academic - just failed to respond and resist in any meaningful way.

US prestige culture, as seen from abroad, just evaporated.

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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · Apr 10

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... first overt threat to directly terrorize American citizens and control targeted opponents. We are headed to a one man authoritarian state.

Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him

Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor both served in Trump's first term. Krebs questioned Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Taylor criticized his conduct in office.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 9

How many in the Trump administration do you suppose bought a bunch of stock just before Trump announced he was caving on tarriffs? The opportunities here for insider tradiing are truly astounding...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Apr 9

EVERY time EVERYONE stand up to Trump, he caves

Paging university presidents/chancellors

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Apr 9

And today, on tariffs, we see 3.

EVERY time a few strong countries or people stand up to Trump, he caves.

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Apr 9

Big Bully Politics (TM) can create 3 responses:

1. The bullied give in, the Big Bully wins and pushes harder.

2. The bullied fight back alone, and are crushed, and the Big Bully wins and pushes harder.

3. The bullied fight together and defeat the Big Bully, who loses his aura of all-powerful.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 8

a billion frozen from Cornell!!!

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 2

But how can you say that it predicted the collapse of dmocrsacy when many whio itilize this perspective ewould see no difference between the US under Biden and the US under Trump? Genuine question.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 2

Sort of. But many Marxists see no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. But that is obviously wrong imho..

Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 2

true. But almost everyone studying the USSR in the 1980s viewed the country as in decline. And the hiyper centralization of the party meant that Gorbachev had the capacity to destroy the system single handedly.

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · Apr 2

I know that this is the least of our concerns. But the failure of political science to in any way anticipate the breakdown of democracy in the United States is truly astounding.

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