Andrew Kydd
andrewkydd.bsky.social
Andrew Kydd
@andrewkydd.bsky.social

Political science, game theory, music, wooden boats, vintage airplanes and motorcycles.

Political science 68%
Sociology 14%

“Pinkerton workers complain about low pay, working conditions” headline number 274.
Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.

Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.

Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.

Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.

Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.

Robert McNamara often expressed remorse over his role in the Vietnam War.

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u... Not a big media critic but if the last two words were replaced by “punish people who voted against him,” it would be more accurate and amply supported by his own words.
Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda
www.nytimes.com

When you go to extra innings in the seventh game, you know the teams are evenly matched. Hats off to both an thanks for a great series.

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A new song, "Winnipeg," from my side project, the Lost Wax Process. Check it & more of our music out at lostwaxprocess.bandcamp.com/music.

Behind every seemingly blue sky
I just can’t hide all the clues
Another departure, another memory

Another flight away from you
Winnipeg, by Lost Wax Process
track by Lost Wax Process
lostwaxprocess.bandcamp.com

Is this some kind of Halloween/ April fools day mashup?

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

The schooner Brilliant. #MysticSeaport
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Chippewa Falls c. 1900.

Ahh hah! Naturally. Bad as this is, a potential silver lining is that if Trump starts saying the troops were paid when in fact they were not, that becomes an important and self evident lie to a core constituency.
Breaking News: Timothy Mellon, a banking heir, is said to be the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.
nyti.ms
Breaking News: Timothy Mellon, a banking heir, is said to be the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.
nyti.ms

Did not realize that the Presidential Emergency Operation Center is located under the East Wing. The bunker where the NSC met on 9/11.

You can renounce fascism. You can’t renounce being 80 years old.

Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini.
free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t
free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t

Portrait of a marriage.

The East Wing was where the First Lady’s office was. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
www.nytimes.com
Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...

The Caravelle.

Ice in our coolers, not in our streets.

#nokings Middleton!

Go big Green! #Dartmouth #NoCompact

I thought I was clear on this point: No Kings. #nokings

Loving the fact that the background to the voting rights act debate is that gerrymandering to lock the opposition party out of power is perfectly constitutional.

State Department Adviser Charged With Illegally Storing Classified Documents www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
State Department Adviser Charged With Illegally Storing Classified Documents
www.nytimes.com
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com