Alix Mortimer
@alixmortimer.bsky.social
I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
🚢 ships
🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
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🚢 ships
🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
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Hadn’t occurred to me before I read rge tone of this but do the oil companies know they’re being volunteered to spend billions of dollars?
January 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Hadn’t occurred to me before I read rge tone of this but do the oil companies know they’re being volunteered to spend billions of dollars?
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So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
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The investment needed to restore Venezuelan production would be many dozens of billions of $. That has to pay off over a long time period. Securing the revenues requires military control indefinitely, itself v expensive. Future regimes in US may give up; future forces in Vz might depose them.
Q: Is it possible that the US ends up administering Venezuela for years?
TRUMP: Well, you know, it won't cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial
TRUMP: Well, you know, it won't cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial
January 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The investment needed to restore Venezuelan production would be many dozens of billions of $. That has to pay off over a long time period. Securing the revenues requires military control indefinitely, itself v expensive. Future regimes in US may give up; future forces in Vz might depose them.
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We had a good run
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It took nearly 30,000 US troops to effectively occupy Panama in 1989.
You can't run a country by, umm, saying you are.
You can't run a country by, umm, saying you are.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
It took nearly 30,000 US troops to effectively occupy Panama in 1989.
You can't run a country by, umm, saying you are.
You can't run a country by, umm, saying you are.
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It’s like a much higher stakes (and higher body count) version of the dying days of the Boris ministry. “It’s probably wise to assume that this particular incident isn’t what does him in, but the unraveling is coming”
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It’s like a much higher stakes (and higher body count) version of the dying days of the Boris ministry. “It’s probably wise to assume that this particular incident isn’t what does him in, but the unraveling is coming”
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Knowing this DoJ they’ll probably fail to get a grand jury indictment and their lead prosecutor will get disbarred for malpractice.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were indicted on charges including narco-terrorism, cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and weapons offenses tied to a federal case.
Live updates: Trump says Maduro captured in ‘large scale strike’ against Venezuela
The United States launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, captured its president, Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country, President Trump said.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Knowing this DoJ they’ll probably fail to get a grand jury indictment and their lead prosecutor will get disbarred for malpractice.
I have a rather haunting future sense about European countries making the similarly strong statements to this they are currently not making, once we also have no choice.
"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter"
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
January 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I have a rather haunting future sense about European countries making the similarly strong statements to this they are currently not making, once we also have no choice.
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Even Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, who has been the most critical of Trump among the EU's national leaders (and has been ostracised by the others because of it), has been cautious in his response.
But this is the strongest reaction we've seen among 🇪🇺leaders so far www.exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicac...
But this is the strongest reaction we've seen among 🇪🇺leaders so far www.exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicac...
January 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Even Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, who has been the most critical of Trump among the EU's national leaders (and has been ostracised by the others because of it), has been cautious in his response.
But this is the strongest reaction we've seen among 🇪🇺leaders so far www.exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicac...
But this is the strongest reaction we've seen among 🇪🇺leaders so far www.exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicac...
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fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
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Key thing to remember is: They want these fascist fortress cities because *they believe existing nations are going to collapse*
These are escape hatches for a post-democracy world they seek to create. I would argue that they have gotten much farther than they should have. See: DOGE, crypto, etc
These are escape hatches for a post-democracy world they seek to create. I would argue that they have gotten much farther than they should have. See: DOGE, crypto, etc
The Financial Times finally covers the Network State cult.
Is this tech fascism?
"I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.
Is this tech fascism?
"I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Key thing to remember is: They want these fascist fortress cities because *they believe existing nations are going to collapse*
These are escape hatches for a post-democracy world they seek to create. I would argue that they have gotten much farther than they should have. See: DOGE, crypto, etc
These are escape hatches for a post-democracy world they seek to create. I would argue that they have gotten much farther than they should have. See: DOGE, crypto, etc
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There was a leak but not to the media
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 AM
There was a leak but not to the media
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These shitheels are making money on these war crimes.
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:58 AM
These shitheels are making money on these war crimes.
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Support Indy if you can - he’s walking every day in all weathers!
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Support Indy if you can - he’s walking every day in all weathers!
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A reminder: don't read or amplify Visegrád24
January 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A reminder: don't read or amplify Visegrád24
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Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.
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Americans, this is the point where you coup your president.
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Americans, this is the point where you coup your president.
There is an “everyone should have therapy” position that I think is over-simplified, but that people more generally scoff at. And then you find large sections of privileged educated society straight up do not know how to help themselves through problems.
I think about this one a lot
January 3, 2026 at 7:27 AM
There is an “everyone should have therapy” position that I think is over-simplified, but that people more generally scoff at. And then you find large sections of privileged educated society straight up do not know how to help themselves through problems.
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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Has everyone whose scroll the illegal image appeared on also committed an offence by downloading it? This is one of those AI worst case scenarios that ought to make everyone aware of the current direction of travel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
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The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
And another totally undeserved lifeline to UKHE
Netherlands joins the 'Universities Shooting Themselves In the Foot to Placate Populists' Club.
Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one.
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
January 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
And another totally undeserved lifeline to UKHE
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You'd think the British government (and everyone else still using X for 'reach') would not want to be known to be frequenting a platform that carries and actually generates child porn. And yet they keep posting there.
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 AM
You'd think the British government (and everyone else still using X for 'reach') would not want to be known to be frequenting a platform that carries and actually generates child porn. And yet they keep posting there.
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Anyone in the West who thinks that pressuring Ukraine into an unfavourable “peace deal” will draw a line under the war is in for a nasty surprise.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Anyone in the West who thinks that pressuring Ukraine into an unfavourable “peace deal” will draw a line under the war is in for a nasty surprise.
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Russia’s only real chances to win anything in Ukraine are political – by convincing the US and Europe that it’s inevitably winning. Take that away, and Russia looks much more vulnerable.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Russia’s only real chances to win anything in Ukraine are political – by convincing the US and Europe that it’s inevitably winning. Take that away, and Russia looks much more vulnerable.