Aaron Brantly
@afterwestphalia.bsky.social
Assoc Professor, Virginia Tech Dept. of Political Science; Director - Tech4Humanity Lab (http://tech4humanitylab.org) Former #UARPCV Kivsharivka 🇺🇦 Head of Research, Center for European Union and Transatlantic Studies at Virginia Tech. Opinions are my own.
Multiple things can be correct simultaneously. 1. The ACA caused inflation in insurance markets. 2. Congress failed to find an alternative plan to provide health insurance for millions of Americans 3. Democrats have no leverage to protect millions of an Americans healthcare except for a shutdown.
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Multiple things can be correct simultaneously. 1. The ACA caused inflation in insurance markets. 2. Congress failed to find an alternative plan to provide health insurance for millions of Americans 3. Democrats have no leverage to protect millions of an Americans healthcare except for a shutdown.
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This is a very good paragraph.
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This is a very good paragraph.
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth,
October 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth,
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I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech
The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.
www.reuters.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
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My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(sound)
DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
IS OUR RIGHT
PLEASE LISTEN
"When society is under threat comedians are sent away first"
Please understand what is at stake
(sound)
DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
IS OUR RIGHT
PLEASE LISTEN
"When society is under threat comedians are sent away first"
Please understand what is at stake
September 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(sound)
DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
IS OUR RIGHT
PLEASE LISTEN
"When society is under threat comedians are sent away first"
Please understand what is at stake
(sound)
DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
IS OUR RIGHT
PLEASE LISTEN
"When society is under threat comedians are sent away first"
Please understand what is at stake
So… we have entered a period where the 1st amendment is under direct assault by the ruling regime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
So… we have entered a period where the 1st amendment is under direct assault by the ruling regime.
Political violence should never be tolerated and should be universally condemened regardless of political affliation.
September 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Political violence should never be tolerated and should be universally condemened regardless of political affliation.
Political violence is always bad. Regardless of motivation & echoes a decline in civil discourse & should be universally condemned. Rather than divide our nation such acts should have us all asking where we’re going & whether we are amplifying rhetoric that makes violence more or less likely.
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Political violence is always bad. Regardless of motivation & echoes a decline in civil discourse & should be universally condemned. Rather than divide our nation such acts should have us all asking where we’re going & whether we are amplifying rhetoric that makes violence more or less likely.
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For anyone looking for a source on TPUSA’s contribution to threats of violence.
“Academics in the US have faced threats of death, rape and harm to their children after being singled out by ‘Professor Watchlist.’”
“Academics in the US have faced threats of death, rape and harm to their children after being singled out by ‘Professor Watchlist.’”
'McCarthyism’ in the UK: why academics fear shaming for leftwing views
A rightwing US website whose citing of lecturers for perceived liberal bias has led to death threats now has a British arm
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
For anyone looking for a source on TPUSA’s contribution to threats of violence.
“Academics in the US have faced threats of death, rape and harm to their children after being singled out by ‘Professor Watchlist.’”
“Academics in the US have faced threats of death, rape and harm to their children after being singled out by ‘Professor Watchlist.’”
I am opposed to political violence but, it is important to point out that Charlie Kirk developed programming that actively and knowingly directed political violence against academics. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...
Professors Are Targets In Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back
Across the country, in the past year and a half, at least 250 university professors have been targeted in cyber harassment campaigns because of their research, teaching or social media posts.
www.npr.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am opposed to political violence but, it is important to point out that Charlie Kirk developed programming that actively and knowingly directed political violence against academics. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...
Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to be fiction...
September 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to be fiction...
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Kids: Study causal inference
IR scholars have estimated thousands of models to explain war outcomes but never even thought to include the name of the military bureaucracy. Our bad. 🙄
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
September 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Kids: Study causal inference
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This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time.
#CaptainAmerica
#CaptainAmerica
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time.
#CaptainAmerica
#CaptainAmerica
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Soon we will be w/out weather data due to the dismantling of NOAA, without health services due to the loss of the CDC/NIH and HHS, and then we will be without economic data due to the dismantling of gov statistics offices. And the fed will be run be sycophants. The future is looking bleak…
Some thoughts on the rapid dismantling of CDC (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Purging the CDC Could Be a Fatal Mistake
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dismantling decades of trust, expertise and coordination for political gain.
www.bloomberg.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Soon we will be w/out weather data due to the dismantling of NOAA, without health services due to the loss of the CDC/NIH and HHS, and then we will be without economic data due to the dismantling of gov statistics offices. And the fed will be run be sycophants. The future is looking bleak…
Republicans are like a sports team that tries to rig games by buying off refs, changing the rules, and breaking the legs of their opponents. They may "win," but its no longer a game, and everyone loses.
August 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Republicans are like a sports team that tries to rig games by buying off refs, changing the rules, and breaking the legs of their opponents. They may "win," but its no longer a game, and everyone loses.
The United States is no longer a democracy with the rule of Law. We are governed by a wannabe autocratic regime and a sycophantic political party that cares more about political power than constitutionality and moral or ethical behavior. All of this has transpired in 7 months.
August 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The United States is no longer a democracy with the rule of Law. We are governed by a wannabe autocratic regime and a sycophantic political party that cares more about political power than constitutionality and moral or ethical behavior. All of this has transpired in 7 months.
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💙👇🗳️THIS 🗳️👇💙
August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
💙👇🗳️THIS 🗳️👇💙
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The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.