Joe Stieb
@joestieb.bsky.social
Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
He's gonna try it, even tho the 22nd Amendment could not be clearer that he can't.
Trump: "I could have the most unbelievable four years -- and I guess I'm not allowed to run. I'm not sure. Is there a little something out there that I'm not allowed to run? But let's assume I was allowed to run. There's gonna be a constitutional movement."
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
He's gonna try it, even tho the 22nd Amendment could not be clearer that he can't.
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If he's not dead, he's going to run in 2028. And Republicans will line up behind it.
Trump: "I could have the most unbelievable four years -- and I guess I'm not allowed to run. I'm not sure. Is there a little something out there that I'm not allowed to run? But let's assume I was allowed to run. There's gonna be a constitutional movement."
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
If he's not dead, he's going to run in 2028. And Republicans will line up behind it.
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You fucking voted to confirm him, you quack!
January 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
You fucking voted to confirm him, you quack!
And according to a recent report, 33 of them have been re-arrested and charged in the past year (aka the dumb-ass all stars).
From a piece earlier this year: Trump wiped away more than 600 years in sentenced prison time for Jan. 6 rioters.
Gift link: wapo.st/4qGmHZY
Gift link: wapo.st/4qGmHZY
January 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
And according to a recent report, 33 of them have been re-arrested and charged in the past year (aka the dumb-ass all stars).
🧵on the sapping of the postwar international system and debate over causes of that sapping
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
This piece by Oona Hathaway on the increasing frequency of inter-state, cross-border war in the last decade is very good, but I have a bone to pick with one claim:
OH argues that in the GWOT, the US "claimed a novel legal right under the U.N. Charter: to defend/
This piece by Oona Hathaway on the increasing frequency of inter-state, cross-border war in the last decade is very good, but I have a bone to pick with one claim:
OH argues that in the GWOT, the US "claimed a novel legal right under the U.N. Charter: to defend/
Opinion | The Great Unraveling Has Begun
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
🧵on the sapping of the postwar international system and debate over causes of that sapping
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
This piece by Oona Hathaway on the increasing frequency of inter-state, cross-border war in the last decade is very good, but I have a bone to pick with one claim:
OH argues that in the GWOT, the US "claimed a novel legal right under the U.N. Charter: to defend/
This piece by Oona Hathaway on the increasing frequency of inter-state, cross-border war in the last decade is very good, but I have a bone to pick with one claim:
OH argues that in the GWOT, the US "claimed a novel legal right under the U.N. Charter: to defend/
Opinion | The Great Unraveling Has Begun
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
This piece by Oona Hathaway on the increasing frequency of inter-state, cross-border war in the last decade is very good, but I have a bone to pick with one claim:
OH argues that in the GWOT, the US "claimed a novel legal right under the U.N. Charter: to defend/
This piece by Oona Hathaway on the increasing frequency of inter-state, cross-border war in the last decade is very good, but I have a bone to pick with one claim:
OH argues that in the GWOT, the US "claimed a novel legal right under the U.N. Charter: to defend/
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...
Our strategy hinges on immiserating Venezuela.
If there's anything we know from the Iraq sanctions experience, it's that regime elites find ways to insulate themselves and it's ordinary people who suffer.
Our strategy hinges on immiserating Venezuela.
If there's anything we know from the Iraq sanctions experience, it's that regime elites find ways to insulate themselves and it's ordinary people who suffer.
Venezuela Braces for Economic Collapse From U.S. Blockade
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:32 PM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...
Our strategy hinges on immiserating Venezuela.
If there's anything we know from the Iraq sanctions experience, it's that regime elites find ways to insulate themselves and it's ordinary people who suffer.
Our strategy hinges on immiserating Venezuela.
If there's anything we know from the Iraq sanctions experience, it's that regime elites find ways to insulate themselves and it's ordinary people who suffer.
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Some truly demonic stuff online
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Some truly demonic stuff online
5 years ago Donald Trump assaulted our democracy in a way unseen since Reconstruction.
He got away with it, and his sense of impunity is so great that he decided to snatch a foreign leader in the middle of the night.
Impunity is his MO because that’s how he’s been treated.
He got away with it, and his sense of impunity is so great that he decided to snatch a foreign leader in the middle of the night.
Impunity is his MO because that’s how he’s been treated.
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
5 years ago Donald Trump assaulted our democracy in a way unseen since Reconstruction.
He got away with it, and his sense of impunity is so great that he decided to snatch a foreign leader in the middle of the night.
Impunity is his MO because that’s how he’s been treated.
He got away with it, and his sense of impunity is so great that he decided to snatch a foreign leader in the middle of the night.
Impunity is his MO because that’s how he’s been treated.
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The impunity is, indeed, the point. Even moreso than cruelty, it is the animating urge of MAGA: the desire to be wantonly, flagrantly, theatrically impervious to accountability
January 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The impunity is, indeed, the point. Even moreso than cruelty, it is the animating urge of MAGA: the desire to be wantonly, flagrantly, theatrically impervious to accountability
This isn’t true at all.
Look at a single SHAFR program, dude.
Look at a single SHAFR program, dude.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
This isn’t true at all.
Look at a single SHAFR program, dude.
Look at a single SHAFR program, dude.
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January 6 was the beginning of the end of everything, not just because of what happened that day but largely because of everything that ~didn’t happen~ after. There is no “unity” without political accountability. January 6 succeeded because our systems failed and we are here.
"To move forward from here without confronting the long-deflating bubble of 'both-sides' journalism, which is profitable for the D.C. book party circuit but ill-suited to maintaining both good government and a public trust in the media, is to ensure that illiberalism will continue to flourish."
The Capitol Riot Killed “Both Sides” Journalism
Trump’s acquittal notwithstanding, these violent events have forever changed the way Beltway reporters should do their jobs.
newrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
January 6 was the beginning of the end of everything, not just because of what happened that day but largely because of everything that ~didn’t happen~ after. There is no “unity” without political accountability. January 6 succeeded because our systems failed and we are here.
That’s even funnier now
January 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
That’s even funnier now
Worth re-upping
Thoughts and prayers to Bridge Colby at this time, he must be staring out a window somewhere.
January 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Worth re-upping
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It’s unspeakable to have an anti-vax regime in the United States.
But that it came about from, and in reaction to, the largest & safest drug rollout in human history (that saved many millions of lives) is pretty tough to swallow.
But that it came about from, and in reaction to, the largest & safest drug rollout in human history (that saved many millions of lives) is pretty tough to swallow.
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
It’s unspeakable to have an anti-vax regime in the United States.
But that it came about from, and in reaction to, the largest & safest drug rollout in human history (that saved many millions of lives) is pretty tough to swallow.
But that it came about from, and in reaction to, the largest & safest drug rollout in human history (that saved many millions of lives) is pretty tough to swallow.
Damn it took like six months to figure out the iraqi mobile biological weapons labs were fake
They just don’t give a shit.
They just don’t give a shit.
it's going Great as the Trump admin has to admit they made up a cartel
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Damn it took like six months to figure out the iraqi mobile biological weapons labs were fake
They just don’t give a shit.
They just don’t give a shit.
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The Washington Post editorial board is officially an enemy of democracy.
January 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The Washington Post editorial board is officially an enemy of democracy.
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The first year of Trump’s second term has done significantly more damage to our position on the world stage than all four of his first put together.
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM
The first year of Trump’s second term has done significantly more damage to our position on the world stage than all four of his first put together.
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This is the boast of a Risk-addicted poli sci major, talking shit in the dorm common room over a bottle of liquor someone else bought, the night before he bombs the foreign service written exam
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
This is the boast of a Risk-addicted poli sci major, talking shit in the dorm common room over a bottle of liquor someone else bought, the night before he bombs the foreign service written exam
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our purely arbitrary betrayal of Canada is one of the things which makes me angriest about Trump II
October 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
our purely arbitrary betrayal of Canada is one of the things which makes me angriest about Trump II
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I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? Oh Lord, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? Oh Lord, oh Lord
January 6, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? Oh Lord, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? Oh Lord, oh Lord
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I'm gonna tell Dan and Ken they need to write a follow-up called Let Us Now Lament Mad Men
January 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I'm gonna tell Dan and Ken they need to write a follow-up called Let Us Now Lament Mad Men
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Ontological security but it's the admin governing to preserve their identities as terminally online MAGA shitposters
I don’t think IR theory can explain what we are seeing
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Ontological security but it's the admin governing to preserve their identities as terminally online MAGA shitposters