Troy Tyler
@troytyler2000.bsky.social
Jimmy Carter Conservatism. Rawlsian —
believing better worlds worthwhile!
I’m interested in utopias, post-liberalism, distributism, municipalities, Neo-Luddism, wellbeing, virtue, fairness & justice. Pro-Unions, cooperatives & mutuals. #NoFarmersNoFood 🏴
believing better worlds worthwhile!
I’m interested in utopias, post-liberalism, distributism, municipalities, Neo-Luddism, wellbeing, virtue, fairness & justice. Pro-Unions, cooperatives & mutuals. #NoFarmersNoFood 🏴
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If you have an interest in #coalition warfare, #generalship, grand #strategy, or the #CBI theater of #WW2, do yourself a favor and check out Eric Setzekorn's excellent "Uncertain Allies: General Joseph Stilwell and the China-Burma-India Theater," published by @navalinstitute.bsky.social:
January 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you have an interest in #coalition warfare, #generalship, grand #strategy, or the #CBI theater of #WW2, do yourself a favor and check out Eric Setzekorn's excellent "Uncertain Allies: General Joseph Stilwell and the China-Burma-India Theater," published by @navalinstitute.bsky.social:
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American historian/author Barbara Tuchman was born #OTD in 1912.
She won the Nonfiction #Pulitzer Prize twice:
+ 1963: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵, a history of the prelude to & the 1st month of #WWI
+ 1972: 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 & 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢, a biography of Gen. Joseph Stilwell #litsky #booksky
She won the Nonfiction #Pulitzer Prize twice:
+ 1963: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵, a history of the prelude to & the 1st month of #WWI
+ 1972: 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 & 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢, a biography of Gen. Joseph Stilwell #litsky #booksky
January 30, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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My piece for ConHome on why so many of the criticisms of Prosper UK miss the mark. conservativehome.com/2026/02/02/d...
David Gauke: Bemoaning the people and prospectus behind Prosper UK is just part of politics - but at least get it right | Conservative Home
This isn’t about putting forward easy simplistic answers to complex problems because we know that rarely works and there's plenty of others filling that space. It's a serious centre right organisation...
conservativehome.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:18 AM
My piece for ConHome on why so many of the criticisms of Prosper UK miss the mark. conservativehome.com/2026/02/02/d...
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"It is apparent that there is still no final and definitive list of that legislation, nor clarity about what should be done with it all."
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social on the challenges the UK faces in dealing with the legislation it adopted while part of the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-boundles...
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social on the challenges the UK faces in dealing with the legislation it adopted while part of the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-boundles...
The boundless mystery of Assimilated EU Law? - UK in a changing Europe
Simon Usherwood explores the issues that the UK faces in managing the legislation it adopted as a member state of the EU following Brexit.
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"It is apparent that there is still no final and definitive list of that legislation, nor clarity about what should be done with it all."
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social on the challenges the UK faces in dealing with the legislation it adopted while part of the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-boundles...
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social on the challenges the UK faces in dealing with the legislation it adopted while part of the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-boundles...
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It's another case study for how market based solutions often involve destabilising knock-on effects not properly anticipated by those hostile to state ownership
I had missed this in the FT from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social, on digital sovereignty, the European digital stack, dependence on US tech—and the example of Solvinity, the cloud company that hosts all Dutch citizens’ digital IDs, acquired by US company Kyndryl last November.
Tech sovereignty is an inherent right of democratic states, not a subscription model provided at the mercy of foreign entities.
Decisions about true value of sovereignty will determine whether countries retain meaningful autonomy or become clients of foreign imperialism.
www.ft.com/content/8fc2...
Decisions about true value of sovereignty will determine whether countries retain meaningful autonomy or become clients of foreign imperialism.
www.ft.com/content/8fc2...
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
It's another case study for how market based solutions often involve destabilising knock-on effects not properly anticipated by those hostile to state ownership
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STAT+: How investing in primary care helped a hospital system get back in the black www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/b...
How investing in primary care helped a hospital system get back in the black
Beth Israel Lahey Health CEO says investments in primary care are key to the organization’s long-term success.
www.statnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:17 PM
STAT+: How investing in primary care helped a hospital system get back in the black www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/b...
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA until ICE murdered him today.
January 24, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA until ICE murdered him today.
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‘The Wars of the Roses foreshadowed the Tudor polity, with its court-focused nobility, gentry more directly answerable to the Crown and monarchy raised to a new level of adulation.’
Chris Given-Wilson on what really caused the Wars of the Roses.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Given-Wilson on what really caused the Wars of the Roses.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Given-Wilson · All the flowers shall bow: Wars of the Roses
Given that the most widely accepted date for the start of the Wars of the Roses is 1455, it is unsurprising that the...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM
‘The Wars of the Roses foreshadowed the Tudor polity, with its court-focused nobility, gentry more directly answerable to the Crown and monarchy raised to a new level of adulation.’
Chris Given-Wilson on what really caused the Wars of the Roses.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Given-Wilson on what really caused the Wars of the Roses.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘If anything, it’s a bit surprising that cows have taken so long to be added to the tool-using club. In 2009, octopuses were seen carrying around coconut shells. At least since Darwin, there has been much tedious wrangling over what counts as tool use.’
Liam Shaw:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Liam Shaw:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Liam Shaw | Scratch that
Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this week,...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 AM
‘If anything, it’s a bit surprising that cows have taken so long to be added to the tool-using club. In 2009, octopuses were seen carrying around coconut shells. At least since Darwin, there has been much tedious wrangling over what counts as tool use.’
Liam Shaw:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Liam Shaw:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
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Forcing 300,000 workers out of their jobs created chaos for struggling families and jeopardized the services we rely on. And there's no evidence whatsoever that all these workers are now cashing in.
The DOGE/Project 2025 cuts have been devastating for America's workers.
The DOGE/Project 2025 cuts have been devastating for America's workers.
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Forcing 300,000 workers out of their jobs created chaos for struggling families and jeopardized the services we rely on. And there's no evidence whatsoever that all these workers are now cashing in.
The DOGE/Project 2025 cuts have been devastating for America's workers.
The DOGE/Project 2025 cuts have been devastating for America's workers.
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You can become disabled or homeless in an instant.
Even if you’re young and healthy.
Even if you have a “good job” and a back up plan.
Even if you think you’re doing everything right.
Disability and poverty are not moral failings.
They can happen to anyone.
Even if you’re young and healthy.
Even if you have a “good job” and a back up plan.
Even if you think you’re doing everything right.
Disability and poverty are not moral failings.
They can happen to anyone.
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 AM
You can become disabled or homeless in an instant.
Even if you’re young and healthy.
Even if you have a “good job” and a back up plan.
Even if you think you’re doing everything right.
Disability and poverty are not moral failings.
They can happen to anyone.
Even if you’re young and healthy.
Even if you have a “good job” and a back up plan.
Even if you think you’re doing everything right.
Disability and poverty are not moral failings.
They can happen to anyone.
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Renee Nicole Good still had a pulse after being shot by an ICE agent.
She had a chance at survival.
ICE didn’t administer aid.
They refused to allow an on scene doctor to administer aid.
They chose to kill her. They chose to let her suffer.
We should all be enraged.
She had a chance at survival.
ICE didn’t administer aid.
They refused to allow an on scene doctor to administer aid.
They chose to kill her. They chose to let her suffer.
We should all be enraged.
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Renee Nicole Good still had a pulse after being shot by an ICE agent.
She had a chance at survival.
ICE didn’t administer aid.
They refused to allow an on scene doctor to administer aid.
They chose to kill her. They chose to let her suffer.
We should all be enraged.
She had a chance at survival.
ICE didn’t administer aid.
They refused to allow an on scene doctor to administer aid.
They chose to kill her. They chose to let her suffer.
We should all be enraged.
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In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
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Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney: “We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future.”
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney: “We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future.”
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The Wine Shop - Edward Hopper, 1909.
Source : Whitney Museum of American Art
Source : Whitney Museum of American Art
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Wine Shop - Edward Hopper, 1909.
Source : Whitney Museum of American Art
Source : Whitney Museum of American Art
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The Gleaners, 1857, realist masterpiece by Jean-François Millet, French artist, a founder of Barbizon school, died #OTD 1885.
Musée d’Orsay
Musée d’Orsay
January 20, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The Gleaners, 1857, realist masterpiece by Jean-François Millet, French artist, a founder of Barbizon school, died #OTD 1885.
Musée d’Orsay
Musée d’Orsay
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‘The Xi ideology is a fusion of Leninist politics, Marxist economics and nationalist foreign policy. Xi Jinping Thought sits in the tradition not of Mao’s quotations but of Deng Xiaoping Theory.’
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the rise of Xi Jinping.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the rise of Xi Jinping.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Stevenson · Climbing the Ziggurat: Xi Jinping’s Inheritance
China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
‘The Xi ideology is a fusion of Leninist politics, Marxist economics and nationalist foreign policy. Xi Jinping Thought sits in the tradition not of Mao’s quotations but of Deng Xiaoping Theory.’
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the rise of Xi Jinping.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the rise of Xi Jinping.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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France is requesting trigger the anti coercion instrument.
The other option - putting EU tariffs on 93 billion in US goods imports, is another option - as I explained yesterday.
The other option - putting EU tariffs on 93 billion in US goods imports, is another option - as I explained yesterday.
January 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM
France is requesting trigger the anti coercion instrument.
The other option - putting EU tariffs on 93 billion in US goods imports, is another option - as I explained yesterday.
The other option - putting EU tariffs on 93 billion in US goods imports, is another option - as I explained yesterday.
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I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
January 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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We now have confirmation that US troops specialised in Arctic warfare are being mobilised for repression of domestic dissent in Minnesota rather than betrayal of allies in Greenland
About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go.
News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
January 19, 2026 at 8:13 AM
We now have confirmation that US troops specialised in Arctic warfare are being mobilised for repression of domestic dissent in Minnesota rather than betrayal of allies in Greenland
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Often been baffled by how blind so many American analysts are to how much US global freedom of action depends on good relations with Brazil as the only other power in the Western Hemisphere that if riled could cause serious trouble
V NYTimes opinion, by President Lula da Silva:
"We will not be subservient to hegemonic endeavors. Building a prosperous, peaceful and pluralistic region is the only doctrine that suits us."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
"We will not be subservient to hegemonic endeavors. Building a prosperous, peaceful and pluralistic region is the only doctrine that suits us."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | Lula: This Hemisphere Belongs to All of Us
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Often been baffled by how blind so many American analysts are to how much US global freedom of action depends on good relations with Brazil as the only other power in the Western Hemisphere that if riled could cause serious trouble
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It's a small thing, but it fills me with civic pride to walk through the giant park near my house and see Hmong families having cookouts, Somali parents pushing their laughing kids on the swings.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
January 19, 2026 at 11:35 PM
It's a small thing, but it fills me with civic pride to walk through the giant park near my house and see Hmong families having cookouts, Somali parents pushing their laughing kids on the swings.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
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I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
ICE is allegedly hunting for Hmong people in Minneapolis and as I watched video of the incident lo and behold @whstancil.bsky.social was on the scene
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487