Robert Farley
@drfarls.bsky.social
Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
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Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
The power to destroy does not imply the power to control x.com/foreignpolic...
Foreign Policy on X: "No matter how much destruction the United States can inflict, the power to destroy does not imply the power to control, writes @drfarls. https://t.co/O4BIz4eyZa" / X
No matter how much destruction the United States can inflict, the power to destroy does not imply the power to control, writes @drfarls. https://t.co/O4BIz4eyZa
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January 7, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The power to destroy does not imply the power to control x.com/foreignpolic...
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We should send more presidents to prison. In the five years since January 6th, two other democracies both faced their own version of insurrectionists attempting to overturn elections. Both countries handled it better — and more definitively — than we did. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
Five Ways To Remember January 6th
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
We should send more presidents to prison. In the five years since January 6th, two other democracies both faced their own version of insurrectionists attempting to overturn elections. Both countries handled it better — and more definitively — than we did. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
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someday a future generation of Chinese media will be able to climb the Great Firewall to inform Americans about what really happened on Jan 6.
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
someday a future generation of Chinese media will be able to climb the Great Firewall to inform Americans about what really happened on Jan 6.
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Best podcast I've ever done. But that's because I interviewed @wellerstein.bsky.social!
January 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Best podcast I've ever done. But that's because I interviewed @wellerstein.bsky.social!
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LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility
LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Wellerstein’s The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age challenges standard preconceptions of President Harry Truman’s role in using nuclear weapons. It goes on to trace Truman’s role in developing policy around nuclear weapons, including civilian control and sole authority. It’s an important book. Truman was faced […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility
LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility with @cherylrofer.bsky.social and @wellerstein.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social
LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Wellerstein’s The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age challenges standard preconceptions of President Harry Truman’s role in using nuclear weap...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility with @cherylrofer.bsky.social and @wellerstein.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social
oh FOR FUCK'S SAKE, QUINCY. You people literally cannot pass up an occasion to sell Ukraine out!
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
oh FOR FUCK'S SAKE, QUINCY. You people literally cannot pass up an occasion to sell Ukraine out!
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Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
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www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/02/keep...
Putting up this article from 2017 by @drfarls.bsky.social because I don’t think even liberal Americans realize how much the international balance of power is based on other countries tolerating our shit.
Putting up this article from 2017 by @drfarls.bsky.social because I don’t think even liberal Americans realize how much the international balance of power is based on other countries tolerating our shit.
Keep Mexico Weird! - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A few brief thoughts on Mexico, and especially misperceptions of Mexico that seem common in the United States, but that particularly appear to animate Trump’s thinking. Nothing staggering here. Mexic...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/02/keep...
Putting up this article from 2017 by @drfarls.bsky.social because I don’t think even liberal Americans realize how much the international balance of power is based on other countries tolerating our shit.
Putting up this article from 2017 by @drfarls.bsky.social because I don’t think even liberal Americans realize how much the international balance of power is based on other countries tolerating our shit.
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Put the opposition aside. That's very soft same-party support for a major military action by the President. And it's downright dismal among independents.
The two-day poll showed 65% of Republicans back the military operation ordered by Trump, compared to 11% of Democrats and 23% of independents www.yahoo.com/news/article...
A third of Americans support US strike on Venezuela, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - One in three Americans approves of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country's president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too
www.yahoo.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Put the opposition aside. That's very soft same-party support for a major military action by the President. And it's downright dismal among independents.
Obeying in Advance at the University of Kentucky www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/obey...
Obeying in Advance - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Not good. Three speaker events across three UK departments underwent title changes, including omitting gender, wealth and race-related wording. Some faculty members said they received edited event tit...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Obeying in Advance at the University of Kentucky www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/obey...
Yup.
IR people who decry gender studies or arguments are fish refusing to believe the study of water is important.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Yup.
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1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
popular.info
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
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one of my big takeaways lately is in 2026 we are now basically at 20 years of social media. this is a clear marker. we can now look back and assess the results. i am tempted to say we will determine social media was basically about as socially beneficial as the plague.
it's all just a sign twitter was bad
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
one of my big takeaways lately is in 2026 we are now basically at 20 years of social media. this is a clear marker. we can now look back and assess the results. i am tempted to say we will determine social media was basically about as socially beneficial as the plague.
It occurs to me that Trump Hotel Havana is probably the ultimate goal of this administration. Checks all kinds of boxes for the Boomer crowd.
January 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
It occurs to me that Trump Hotel Havana is probably the ultimate goal of this administration. Checks all kinds of boxes for the Boomer crowd.
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1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Denmark's PM urges Trump to 'stop the threats' of annexing Greenland
The prime minister of Denmark called on Trump to “stop the threats” of the U.S. annexing Greenland after renewed comments garnered international attention.
abcnews.go.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
UK administration takes Obeying in Advance to new heights...
kykernel.com/122146/news/...
kykernel.com/122146/news/...
Identity-based event titles changed, university faculty hesitant to speak with media
University of Kentucky faculty members have expressed concern over the revision of identity-based speaker event advertisements, saying it threatens free speech. Three speaker events across three UK de...
kykernel.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
UK administration takes Obeying in Advance to new heights...
kykernel.com/122146/news/...
kykernel.com/122146/news/...
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Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? Thrilled to have a new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social w/ @mikealbertus.bsky.social showing that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution.
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? Thrilled to have a new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social w/ @mikealbertus.bsky.social showing that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution.
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Joke around the Pentagon during his time as NSA was that no one had ever needed to read his own book more than McMasters.
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Joke around the Pentagon during his time as NSA was that no one had ever needed to read his own book more than McMasters.
Imagine writing the book Dereliction of Duty and then professionally committing yourself to repeatedly making all of the same mistakes you described in your book.
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Imagine writing the book Dereliction of Duty and then professionally committing yourself to repeatedly making all of the same mistakes you described in your book.
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Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
The Dog That Didn't Bark in the Maduro Op
Cuban intelligence runs Venezuela's security apparatus. Where was it when the U.S. snatched the Venezuelan strongman?
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Realism. Restraint.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Realism. Restraint.
Good. Lord.
January 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Good. Lord.