Whitley Saumweber
@wsaumweber.bsky.social
Oceanographer, ocean policy wonk, Director @CSIS.org Ocean Security Project, Professor of Marine Affairs @universityofri.bsky.social, past @barackobama.bsky.social White House CEQ Ocean Policy Director, US Senate, @NOAA.gov, etc. etc.
Second is this short by @jamellebouie.net which taken together Josh’s piece shows the value of fighting for each small ideal and individual right. Nothing changes until it does. youtu.be/yqcXRQyWczU?...
What I've Learned from Reading History
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 31, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Second is this short by @jamellebouie.net which taken together Josh’s piece shows the value of fighting for each small ideal and individual right. Nothing changes until it does. youtu.be/yqcXRQyWczU?...
@joshtpm.bsky.social with his usual clarity highlights ways that power - and the powerful - accrue rights to themselves while denying them to others, in this case the right to anonymity. Hiding those exercising power - behind a balaclava or citizens united - only serves power and corrupts democracy
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 AM
@joshtpm.bsky.social with his usual clarity highlights ways that power - and the powerful - accrue rights to themselves while denying them to others, in this case the right to anonymity. Hiding those exercising power - behind a balaclava or citizens united - only serves power and corrupts democracy
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I will say tho, that NATO can survive this. Although I’ll be white knuckling my way through it. The first half of the Cold War in particular is plagued with decaying empires squabbling within NATO. The French threatened to leave NATO every couple of years, and then there was that whole Suez crisis…
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I will say tho, that NATO can survive this. Although I’ll be white knuckling my way through it. The first half of the Cold War in particular is plagued with decaying empires squabbling within NATO. The French threatened to leave NATO every couple of years, and then there was that whole Suez crisis…
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2/ let's not forget this. this is all on SCOTUS. these tariffs are comically, absurdly illegal on their face. but even if SCOTUS strikes them down in the coming days they've allowed to be in effect for more than a year, reorder the US and global economies. a one year dictator mulligan isnt democracy
January 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
2/ let's not forget this. this is all on SCOTUS. these tariffs are comically, absurdly illegal on their face. but even if SCOTUS strikes them down in the coming days they've allowed to be in effect for more than a year, reorder the US and global economies. a one year dictator mulligan isnt democracy