Read my analysis of the @UN's response to Putin's depredations in Ukraine. It's paywalled - but the main points are below: in short, the UN is constraining Putin far more than meets the eye 1/ worldpoliticsreview.com/un-russia-ukra… First, as @ProfPaulPoast also notes in @WPReview, the UN was never meant to prevent great power war in the first place, but rather force the great powers to work together to constrain the rest. 2/ worldpoliticsreview.com/unsc-reform-pe…

THREAD: My new @WPReview column draws on @HSecurityLab’s new survey data from #Afghanistan to show that paying 9/11 families reparations from the frozen Afghan national reserves is not just unjust, it’s bad for national security. 1/ worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/30618… 1/ The background: after the Taliban takeover, the US froze the Afghan national reserves, throwing the Afghan economy into collapse. As @washingtonpost reporter @sgreports explains, near-famine conditions have resulted through much of the country. 2/ washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

THREAD: So, I'm heading to Prezmysl on the Ukraine/Poland border to assist w/ report back on the refugee crisis. Academic friends on Spring Break who can get on a plane at short notice: you can have an outsized value this week if you do the same. Here's why, and how.

1/ Over 1 million refugees have flooded into Poland. Most are in cars, but many are on foot. Unlike Moldova, where refugee relief agencies have a presence, none of the big NGOs are yet at the Polish border. 2/ foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/27/pol…

by my reckoning, it takes extra brains to marry gutter-talk to scientific jargon. case could be made for some special training in the skill. @apsa workshop anyone?

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1346491796260585474

some people argue that swearing doesn't become professionals or is a sign of linguistic laziness. science says fuck 'em. scientificamerican.com/article/is-swe…

QUARANTINE DAY 25 my bored teenage son is now giving comments on my op-ed drafts. and he is out for blood.

"no."

"what does this add? delete"

"this drags on and is boring"

"i think every instance of you using parentheses should be cut and you should never do it again." 1/ "you have a citation for everything but this. provide evidence"

THREAD: Some of my followers object to my sharing the manifesto of the white supremacist terrorist who just shot up El Paso, a town I recently visited and where I have friends. To those who believe I did this to support the terrorist, fuck you. To those interested in my reasons:

https://twitter.com/charlicarpenter/status/1157787684527595523

1. Short version: I encourage you to read this manifesto so there is no doubt in your mind or anyone you speak to that this is the act of a white supremacist terrorist. No talk of "mental health problems." This is anti-immigrant, white supremacist terrorism.

WEDNESDAY CONCENTRATION-CAMP-TWEETING THREAD: Proof those concentration camp guards I chatted with earlier this week are big fat liars: @AngelCanales @NBCNews @CBSNews @CNN @USAToday @Newsweek @aljazeera @democracynow @texastribune @nealsoftpower @angelcanales @NBCNews @CBSNews @CNN @USATODAY @Newsweek @AlJazeera @democracynow @TexasTribune @NealSoftPower 1. What CPB Officer Sandoval swore to me Saturday, July 20: "There are no children in this facility. I would know if there were children."

What @NealSoftPower Rosendorf caught on camera just hours before: children.

THREAD: While speaking to this guard yesterday at Paso del Norte detention center, who asked I edit his face out of the photo I took: Me: "What should I tell my son about the pictures he's been seeing in the paper, when I tell him I came down here and spoke to you?"

He: "Tell him we're doing our jobs the best we can with the resources we have."