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Henry Farrell
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Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554. .. more

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Henry Farrell is an Irish-born political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at the University of Toronto and earned his PhD from Georgetown University. His research interests include trust and co-operation; e-commerce; the European Union; and institutional theory. He is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations. .. more

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3h
Libertaria has always been at war with Trumpopia
qjurecic.bsky.social Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h
the suggestion that the libertarian movement has always been anti trump is infuriating, but also a sign that people may have a sense of which way the wind is blowing

Reposted by Henry Farrell, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h
the suggestion that the libertarian movement has always been anti trump is infuriating, but also a sign that people may have a sense of which way the wind is blowing

himself.bsky.social
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 5h
he looks to be thriving!

Reposted by Henry Farrell

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, some libertarians *did* try to warn you about Trump. But you canceled them for it.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Henry Farrell

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.

Reposted by David Lazer, Will Jennings, Ashish Arora , and 20 more

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 11h
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Henry Farrell , and 1 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
donmoynihan.substack.com

himself.bsky.social
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22h
I remember a friend of mine spending $50 or so to buy a direct-mail marketed 'how to become a millionaire' advice book back in the 1990s, and getting sent a pamphlet which advised, in clear but indirect terms, that the money is made by taking advantage of rubes like you.
zakjarvis.bsky.social Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 1d
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Reposted by Jonathan Wolff, McKenzie Wark, Henry Farrell , and 1 more

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Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 1d
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d
It is worth noting though that there is a solid amount of discussion of policy experimentation by the state in The Open Society and Its Enemies that gets buried in later discussion, because it fits with neither Popper's self-conception nor that of his enemies.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d
This is straight-up 1920s technocracy, mainlined in (via his grandfather?) from the Gernsback Continuum www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y1ue4...

Reposted by Henry Farrell, Richard Pettigrew, Lorna Hughes

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
Home Office @ukhomeoffice Follow Illegal migrants living in hotels have been banned from using taxpayer-funded taxis for medical appointments. Under new rules, taxi use for medical journeys will be restricted to individuals with physical disabilities and serious or chronic illnesses. ... TP + ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BANNED FROM USING TAXIS FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS Home Offi... @ukhomeoffi... • Feb 6 The largest number of illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported off British soil in a decade. - NEARLY - 60000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRIMINALS REMOVED OR DEPORTED

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
Abelard Snazz is an inventor "offering to handle complex problems with even more complicated solutions" and he is the secret spirit moving the age that we are living through. The original strip (in RoJaws Tales as Wikipedia tells me) is just lit.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
I have for the last two years been brewing a How Abelard Snazz From Alan Moore's Tharg's Future Shocks Explains Everything You Need to Know About Tech piece in my head.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
Also, if I remember right, Hibernians could be Small (1-4 on D6), or Medium (5-6), but never Large. As a 6'4" Hibernian myself (albeit not one who had hit my full height when the campaign came out), I took strong exception.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
The loveliest version of this I know was Chaosium's Hawkmoon Shattered Isle campaign which was advertised as set on the island of Hibernia, located "east of Granbretan." Clearly, a lot of major continental-plate jigsawing shit had happened during the Tragic Millennium ...
jonathanlhoward.bsky.social Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, Dublin may be somewhat taken aback to discover that it's British, apparently, but I like this. It's monstrously impractical in so many ways, but it has that 1979 John Wagner and Pat Mills coming up with some gloriously ridiculous bit of background for JUDGE DREDD vibe. "Ah, the Nor-Brit Loop."
acjsissons.bsky.social Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely tremendous work here, no notes.

(Apart from to say that this proposal is by the actual president of RIBA)

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
(and I'm sorry to have generated temporary doubt - I _know_ that satirical over-reaction is hard to read on this site, unless you are @scottjshapiro.bsky.social -ing it and visibly committed to the bit all or nearly all of the time)

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
As a general rule, when I seem to be massively overreacting, you should treat it as satire, because (a) it probably is, and (b) if it somehow isn't , I'll benefit from external signals that I am being ridiculous.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
[I may _be_ a sorry person still, but not in that particular way]

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
oh I'm just giving you grief of course. If I genuinely got annoyed at tiny stuff like this I'd be a sorry person altogether.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
on further considered reflection, "professor of international policy" may be the most hurtful bit of all

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
that is a deeply hurtful way of putting it.

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
Norms between adversaries are usually better maintained by mutual deterrence than by mutual forbearance.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
Was it you or Teresa who wrote the essay on those circular paperback racks as a crucial gateway drug to SF? It was just as true in small town rural Ireland in the 1980s as in the American heartland (that and the Gollancz yellowcovers in the town library).

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Henry Farrell, Henry Jones

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

Reposted by Henry Farrell

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Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, Dublin may be somewhat taken aback to discover that it's British, apparently, but I like this. It's monstrously impractical in so many ways, but it has that 1979 John Wagner and Pat Mills coming up with some gloriously ridiculous bit of background for JUDGE DREDD vibe. "Ah, the Nor-Brit Loop."
acjsissons.bsky.social Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely tremendous work here, no notes.

(Apart from to say that this proposal is by the actual president of RIBA)

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d
"The title proudly adopted the motto “democracy dies in darkness” after Trump was first elected. Now the paper is an exhibit of his attempts to smother democracy in broad daylight." is both apt and brutal www.ft.com/content/5ca3...
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post
He is just one of several pro-Trump oligarchs who now control key sections of the US media
www.ft.com

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d
@tnh.nielsenhayden.com has a great discussion somewhere in her collected essays of the crucial role of the paperback swivel rack thing in drugstores (or in the equivalent for provincial Ireland in the 1980s, newsagents) as a gateway drug for reading.

Reposted by Henry Farrell

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 4d
The Purpose Of The Labour Party Is What It Does.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 3 more

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com