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Feb 24 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A blessing be upon them.
May the gods keep them safe.
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Feb 23
The US intelligence community should get a Pulitzer this year for its predictive work on Russian intentions and actions.
We rightly bash them when they get things wrong. But wow, have they performed well in this period! They’ve gotten every major aspect of Russian behavior correct a few weeks in advance, allowing policymakers to think through responses and act quickly when things happen.
Their accuracy has also allowed President Biden wholly to deprive Putin of the element of surprise or trickery.
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Feb 10
I will leave to others to describe the differences between Canadian and U.S. federalism. @maldrevincho has interesting thoughts on the subject. I put this out for those who want to help with pointers on the subject. I will just say this. Canadian and U.S. federalism are VERY...
different. It is customary to treat Canadian provinces as much stronger sovereign entities than U.S. states. This is certainly partly true. No U.S. state, after all, could do what Quebec does on language, for example. But in some respects, Canadian provinces are weaker.
For example, in Canada, criminal law is a federal responsibility, whereas in the U.S., the vast majority of criminal law is run by the states. This is an immense power that the provinces do not have relative to U.S. states. The key point here is that generalizations are gonna...
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Feb 2
.⁦@DemSocialists⁩ sound indistinguishable from ⁦@TuckerCarlson⁩. Maybe he should have them on the show! international.dsausa.org/statements/no-…
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DSA was founded by people who believed in democracy. It's really depressing to see it siding with authoritarians against the democratic aspirations of Ukrainians.
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Jan 19
Male lion or female human?
Vote
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Jan 14
This is important: The purpose of a lot of Russian disinformation/lies is NOT to fool anyone but to act with impunity in violating the rules without purporting to change the rules. Under international law, wars of aggression are illegal. If one means to launch one...
...one has to either (a) confront a problem under international rules and norms (b) or simply lie about what happened. Putin's innovation is that he has realized that it matters not at all if the lie is credible or even plausible. As long as you say it, it works.
@anneapplebaum has been pointing this out for years. It's a VERY important element of Russia's information strategy.
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Jan 12
It has become a talking point among Trumpists and some non-Trumpist conservatives that @staceyabrams--like Trump--did not concede the race when she ran for governor of Georgia in 2018.

It's really not true. Abrams did not concede that the race was fair, but she did concede... Image
...that under the rules as they were written and understood and implemented, her opponent had prevailed and would become governor. This is significantly more than Trump ever conceded until after the violence of Jan. 6. And he has still never really said this even up to now.
I have never studied Abrams's claims about the fairness of the vote in Geoegia, so I am not taking a position on whether her substantive points have merit or whether her position was defensible. I am flagging it because it seems to me very wrong to compare it, even formally, ....
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