Drake Long
@drmlong.bsky.social
Senior Associate, China Warfighting Initiative, Marine Corps War College.
Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan, ASEAN. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan, ASEAN. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
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Drake Long
@drmlong.bsky.social
· Jul 10
FYI if you’re a researcher working on the seabed and have a new paper out, let me know! I am a non-science person trying to understand more and would love to cite for my silly piddly little book.
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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If you are someone that wears makeup, please be aware that Ronald Lauder - as in Estee Lauder is THE guy pushing #Greenland. Time to boycott!
These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown..
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown..
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If you are someone that wears makeup, please be aware that Ronald Lauder - as in Estee Lauder is THE guy pushing #Greenland. Time to boycott!
These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown..
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown..
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
Some example academic book proposal forms in case they help
A pivotal moment in my academic career, or at least one I remember clearly, was when a very senior professor in the US sent me his book proposal for an acade...
eve.gd
January 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
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2/ You can read all about it in this incredible investigative report. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/07/v...
Who is Valar Atomics? • Utah News Dispatch
Valar Atomics, a company exploring nuclear energy development for Utah, has been criticized by experts for its safety claims.
utahnewsdispatch.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:40 AM
2/ You can read all about it in this incredible investigative report. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/07/v...
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🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/
January 17, 2026 at 1:39 AM
🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/
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January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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“ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump.”
Very Important Moment
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) went on CNN this morning and among other...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
“ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump.”
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In the last 18 days alone:
- Two men in ICE custody have killed themselves (jails are supposed to protect against this)
- Two men died of cardiac-related issues
- One man was reportedly choked to death by a guard
- One man died of fentanyl withdrawal (family question the medical care provided)
- Two men in ICE custody have killed themselves (jails are supposed to protect against this)
- Two men died of cardiac-related issues
- One man was reportedly choked to death by a guard
- One man died of fentanyl withdrawal (family question the medical care provided)
A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention.
My story:
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
My story:
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
January 18, 2026 at 5:40 PM
In the last 18 days alone:
- Two men in ICE custody have killed themselves (jails are supposed to protect against this)
- Two men died of cardiac-related issues
- One man was reportedly choked to death by a guard
- One man died of fentanyl withdrawal (family question the medical care provided)
- Two men in ICE custody have killed themselves (jails are supposed to protect against this)
- Two men died of cardiac-related issues
- One man was reportedly choked to death by a guard
- One man died of fentanyl withdrawal (family question the medical care provided)
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Commentary: Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/15/r...
Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes • Ohio Capital Journal
Repulsive hardly describes JD Vance’s performative spectacle last week justifying the public execution of an American citizen by state militia. The horrific killing was all over social media but…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Commentary: Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/15/r...
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It's increasingly difficult to explain many of Trump's foreign policy endeavors without turning to either variables of personal financial gain or Trump's individual status concerns. Goddard and Newell's neo-royalism offers a framework that I found useful.
January 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
It's increasingly difficult to explain many of Trump's foreign policy endeavors without turning to either variables of personal financial gain or Trump's individual status concerns. Goddard and Newell's neo-royalism offers a framework that I found useful.
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can’t unring this bell very sadly
Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a permissive precedent—signaling to other nudification apps and platform companies that AI-generated NCII can be treated as funny, harmless, or otherwise tolerable, writes Kaylee Williams.
Grok Supercharges the Nonconsensual Pornography Epidemic
Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a dangerously permissive precedent that, writes Kaylee Williams.
buff.ly
January 18, 2026 at 1:52 PM
can’t unring this bell very sadly
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There was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
January 18, 2026 at 12:55 PM
There was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
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The American way of war
We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.
Does Minneapolis have a radio dispatch set up for the people who are following ICE? That's brilliant.
January 18, 2026 at 4:06 AM
The American way of war
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About a third of all self-described Republicans believe that the US should dispense with democratic process and the holding of elections, if this is what Trump wishes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 AM
About a third of all self-described Republicans believe that the US should dispense with democratic process and the holding of elections, if this is what Trump wishes.
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Has someone been talking to Colby? "We shouldn't care about Taiwan's defense more than they care about it" is one of his (incredibly condescending) lines.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Why should Americans risk their lives and spend billions of dollars defending Taiwanese who aren’t clearly willing to make major sacrifices themselves?” our columnist Nicholas Kristof asks.
“Why should Americans risk their lives and spend billions of dollars defending Taiwanese who aren’t clearly willing to make major sacrifices themselves?” our columnist Nicholas Kristof asks.
Opinion | How War With China Begins
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.
nyti.ms
January 18, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Has someone been talking to Colby? "We shouldn't care about Taiwan's defense more than they care about it" is one of his (incredibly condescending) lines.
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Reposting with alt text! This is from the photojournalist who was violently tackled and detained by ICE earlier today.
January 18, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Reposting with alt text! This is from the photojournalist who was violently tackled and detained by ICE earlier today.
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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, I've got @whstancil.bsky.social on to talk about tooling around Minneapolis tailing ICE stormtroopers in his Honda Fit www.leftanchor.com/e/facing-dow...
Facing Down ICE in Minneapolis | Left Anchor
Today Will Stancil joins Ryan to discuss the organized community efforts to stymie ICE ethnic cleansing in Minneapolis. What are these goons doing there, how are people fighting back, and what can oth...
www.leftanchor.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, I've got @whstancil.bsky.social on to talk about tooling around Minneapolis tailing ICE stormtroopers in his Honda Fit www.leftanchor.com/e/facing-dow...
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Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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US President Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 percent until his purchase of the Danish territory is achieved.
u.afp.com/SB4n
u.afp.com/SB4n
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
US President Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 percent until his purchase of the Danish territory is achieved.
u.afp.com/SB4n
u.afp.com/SB4n
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Incredible reporting from the wreckage of a brutal Chinese-run scam center in Myanmar that wreaked devastation across the globe and in the lives of its workers from @hkbeech.bsky.social. Must read.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Incredible reporting from the wreckage of a brutal Chinese-run scam center in Myanmar that wreaked devastation across the globe and in the lives of its workers from @hkbeech.bsky.social. Must read.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
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I want to be clear about what I’m saying here. The only way to restore credibility as a reliable and safe ally is to totally and utterly repudiate this administration. That cannot happen at the ballot box. It has to be done by the Republican Party. That is the only way to regain any level of trust.
I'm game for them deciding that it's easier to get a bunch of quo warranto writs and fail votes to remove the insurrection disqualification.
January 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I want to be clear about what I’m saying here. The only way to restore credibility as a reliable and safe ally is to totally and utterly repudiate this administration. That cannot happen at the ballot box. It has to be done by the Republican Party. That is the only way to regain any level of trust.
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Thousands of people protested in Nuuk, Greenland against Trump's threats to take over their country.
Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was a significant portion of the country's population.
Details: abc7ny.com/post/thousan...
Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was a significant portion of the country's population.
Details: abc7ny.com/post/thousan...
January 17, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Thousands of people protested in Nuuk, Greenland against Trump's threats to take over their country.
Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was a significant portion of the country's population.
Details: abc7ny.com/post/thousan...
Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was a significant portion of the country's population.
Details: abc7ny.com/post/thousan...
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Context: Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
If this isn't a Pulitzer, I don't what is. Amazing story being told here.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
If this isn't a Pulitzer, I don't what is. Amazing story being told here.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Context: Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
If this isn't a Pulitzer, I don't what is. Amazing story being told here.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
If this isn't a Pulitzer, I don't what is. Amazing story being told here.
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Read:
Trump Announces Tariffs Until U.S. Can Make A 'Complete And Total Purchase Of Greenland'
www.huffpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Read: