Mlada Bukovansky
@mladabee.bsky.social
Hopelessly academic slow scholar and outdoor enthusiast.
NPR and NYT earnestly asking John Bolton's opinion is kinda amusing.
January 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
NPR and NYT earnestly asking John Bolton's opinion is kinda amusing.
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
Apparently, stimulating terrorism is an all-purpose international and domestic strategy for the current administration.
January 8, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Apparently, stimulating terrorism is an all-purpose international and domestic strategy for the current administration.
The headline says it all.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...
Rubio Stresses U.S. Plan to Coerce Venezuela Rather Than Govern It
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
The headline says it all.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...
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Fiona Hill, former White House advisor on Russia, spoke at Trump's impeachment hearing about a touted 'arrangement'between Russia & USA which would 'give' the US Venezuela if they let Russia take Ukraine :
January 4, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Fiona Hill, former White House advisor on Russia, spoke at Trump's impeachment hearing about a touted 'arrangement'between Russia & USA which would 'give' the US Venezuela if they let Russia take Ukraine :
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Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
Guess it’s time for a new season of Occupied.
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Guess it’s time for a new season of Occupied.
The actual decimation of institutions is more distressing than the nostalgic, glossy, and highly generalized veneration of same by previous critics, but sometimes I waver.
December 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The actual decimation of institutions is more distressing than the nostalgic, glossy, and highly generalized veneration of same by previous critics, but sometimes I waver.
“Declaration of Vengeance” — it’s a technical term, bro.
December 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“Declaration of Vengeance” — it’s a technical term, bro.
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
If you don’t smoke, how do you know which way the wind is blowing?
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you don’t smoke, how do you know which way the wind is blowing?
Funny how the coverage of people losing their SNAP benefits doesn’t juxtapose that with how much tax those same people pay to the government that’s screwing them.
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Funny how the coverage of people losing their SNAP benefits doesn’t juxtapose that with how much tax those same people pay to the government that’s screwing them.
Notifying people that you’re doing a covert operation is not a covert operation. Unless you’re exceptionally devious.
October 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Notifying people that you’re doing a covert operation is not a covert operation. Unless you’re exceptionally devious.
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Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
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For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
The State of the Union is Grim
open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...
open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...
The State of the Union is Grim
Americans are living in a consolidating authoritarian regime. I'm terrified that pro-democracy political elites don't seem to understand the implications.
open.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The State of the Union is Grim
open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...
open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...
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It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
Magical Thinking 101
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
Here Is the Full Text of the Gaza Plan Released by the White House
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Magical Thinking 101
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
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Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party decisively wins a tense parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims.
Moldova’s pro-EU party wins parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims
Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party decisively won a parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party decisively wins a tense parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims.
Call me naive but I think Spencer Cox is doing the right thing on 60 Minutes tonight.
September 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Call me naive but I think Spencer Cox is doing the right thing on 60 Minutes tonight.
What percentage of our GDP is now based on hate-generation?
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
What percentage of our GDP is now based on hate-generation?
“Periodic reviews of the central bank” isnt exactly a potent rallying cry, but still…
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | Don’t Just Defend the Fed. Reinvent It.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Periodic reviews of the central bank” isnt exactly a potent rallying cry, but still…
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
A short rant about culture wars; of course no paywalls. medium.com/@mladabee/wh...
Why Culture Wars are Unwinnable: a Reminder
The study of historical international relations tells us why culture wars are unwinnable. It is for the same reason religious wars — a…
medium.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A short rant about culture wars; of course no paywalls. medium.com/@mladabee/wh...
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While the spark for the fiery protests in Nepal was a social media ban, a long-standing problem of corruption, inequality, and elite indifference are catalyzing mechanisms. As @mladabee.bsky.social and I have argued, such protests cascade very quickly because of shared grievances.
Streets and Elites: Corruption Grievances in Contemporary Revolutions
Abstract. While oft-ignored, grievances remain a central part of revolutions. We argue that the theorization of grievances requires conceptually unpacking
www.emerald.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
While the spark for the fiery protests in Nepal was a social media ban, a long-standing problem of corruption, inequality, and elite indifference are catalyzing mechanisms. As @mladabee.bsky.social and I have argued, such protests cascade very quickly because of shared grievances.