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https://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1772321371831353778We have enormous amounts of history on hegemonic control and governance from across the globe, and the consistent lesson is that well-governed hegemons tend to get what they want without breaking with, attacking, or openly undermining their client states.
https://twitter.com/CrownMaybe/status/1768621919589298417The part that elicited the most rage on the left and most jaw-dropping on the right, the when did that son die? part, is, and I say this as someone with more than two decades of experience taking depositions, the hardest part to read.
https://twitter.com/MikeCrapo/status/1757375466049049084Foreign aid is a powerful means of achieving ends we want done in the world at minimal cost in blood and treasure. That's a good thing! Smearing poo in a Russian dictator's face is also a good thing, as are making sure Israel and Taiwan continue to exist.
https://twitter.com/CrownMaybe/status/1744780981540647254Also, I like to talk at length.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1719470461443072050Americans of my generation were taught and internalized that our country had made a promise not to let another Holocaust happen, and to be a safe place for Jews to live; that Jewish Americans should be treated like everyone else.
https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1716476456912785892Rather than just say, "FAFO, dipwad," because after all, the people of Gaza chose Hamas to be their government, I'd simply again note that "proportionality" in war refers to the [licit] military objective and not the casus belli.
https://twitter.com/CrownMaybe/status/1716460378878603451As one of the Men Who Thinks About the Roman Republic/Empire daily, i can tell you with enormous certainty how the Romans made war when non-combatants were in the way or at the end of the objective and the only difference from 10/7 is the lack of regimental standards.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1678345505502371840Joe Biden once tried to get into a fight with, and, lying through his teeth about his academic credentials, got in a shouting match *with a potential primary voter in front of other potential primary voters and the cameras*.
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1677006722349555725It isn't even slightly puzzling to me that Colorado would have stipped to what turned out to be bad facts. Without repeating a thread from earlier, this probably made a lot of sense as a way to get a fast win in what they perceived was a favorable environment.
https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1675895998802014209I'm sure roughly a billion people have done this before but I am trying to finish out an operating agreement with an impossible condition set so what the heck, here we go. Let's play Supreme Court Opinions for Dummies/Angry Lefties/I Repeat Myself.
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1654070024456351745The canons of judicial ethics exist, in large part, to make sure the humans whose causes judges adjudicate can be assured that there is no conflict between the reasoned application of the law and the judge's own interests.
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1650840508124602373Justice Gorsuch's FY2017 disclosure (linked in the Politico piece) may be found here, courtesy of an activist group that's totally free of axes to grind:
https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1650135454400782337As Americans conceive of liberalism -- again, the philosophy, not the cover-word for progressive/eugenic/baby-murdering politics -- they conceive of it as ordered liberty, wrapped in tolerance for their fellow Americans, with an inherent superiority of citizens to state.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1650553436348330003"We Are Reaping a Well-Deserved Divine Judgment," with Thomas Crown, weeknights but never Sundays at 8 ET/7 CT.
https://twitter.com/Gormogons/status/1649955572492500994Also