William Adler
@williamadler78.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University. I wrote a book: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253481/
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William Adler
@williamadler78.bsky.social
· Jan 19
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it's "whatever Trump says"
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And a reminder that they actually killed hundreds of thousands of people by illegally dismantling USAID.
Same day they are trying to kill kids by removing vaccine recommendations, a reminder that they also wanted to kill people by destroying medical and scientific research
Federal Appeals judge affirms prohibition of arbitrary cuts of research infrastructure rates (i.e., the IDC rate slash announcement of early Feb. 2025).
As the ruling explains, NIH's X/Twitter statements contributed to the federal government's loss in court (!!)
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
As the ruling explains, NIH's X/Twitter statements contributed to the federal government's loss in court (!!)
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
And a reminder that they actually killed hundreds of thousands of people by illegally dismantling USAID.
Scifi and fantasy, soft spot for Star Trek
Food and cooking
Chicago sports teams but not the Blackhawks because I don't like hockey and racism
Food and cooking
Chicago sports teams but not the Blackhawks because I don't like hockey and racism
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Scifi and fantasy, soft spot for Star Trek
Food and cooking
Chicago sports teams but not the Blackhawks because I don't like hockey and racism
Food and cooking
Chicago sports teams but not the Blackhawks because I don't like hockey and racism
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they're doing it for gender, imo
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 1:57 AM
they're doing it for gender, imo
Same day they are trying to kill kids by removing vaccine recommendations, a reminder that they also wanted to kill people by destroying medical and scientific research
Federal Appeals judge affirms prohibition of arbitrary cuts of research infrastructure rates (i.e., the IDC rate slash announcement of early Feb. 2025).
As the ruling explains, NIH's X/Twitter statements contributed to the federal government's loss in court (!!)
🧵
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
As the ruling explains, NIH's X/Twitter statements contributed to the federal government's loss in court (!!)
🧵
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Appeals Court Upholds Prohibition on Trump’s Medical Research Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Same day they are trying to kill kids by removing vaccine recommendations, a reminder that they also wanted to kill people by destroying medical and scientific research
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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
3 years and change
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
3 years and change
The official MAHA platform
January 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The official MAHA platform
what in the William Walker is this
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
what in the William Walker is this
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I predict that 2026 will be a big year for the “Hey Ed!” series.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I predict that 2026 will be a big year for the “Hey Ed!” series.
Did they drive Sky Marchini off the site?? Damn.
January 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Did they drive Sky Marchini off the site?? Damn.
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A crazy guy with a hammer shows up at a politician's home?
I'm sure they'll dismiss this with crude jokes just like they did when it happened at Nancy Pelosi's home and her husband was assaulted.
I'm sure they'll dismiss this with crude jokes just like they did when it happened at Nancy Pelosi's home and her husband was assaulted.
A man accused of using a hammer to smash the windows of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home was in custody Monday.
Secret Service seizes man accused of hammer attack on JD Vance's home
A man accused of using a hammer to smash the windows of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home was in custody Monday. The man was suspected of trying to break open windows of Vance's Cincinnati home with a hammer just after midnight Monday and was "physically detained" by Cincinnati Police Department o...
bit.ly
January 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
A crazy guy with a hammer shows up at a politician's home?
I'm sure they'll dismiss this with crude jokes just like they did when it happened at Nancy Pelosi's home and her husband was assaulted.
I'm sure they'll dismiss this with crude jokes just like they did when it happened at Nancy Pelosi's home and her husband was assaulted.
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This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
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This but unironically, as illustrated by (ahem) Calvin and Hobbes and also Ann Nocenti’s run of Daredevil
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM
This but unironically, as illustrated by (ahem) Calvin and Hobbes and also Ann Nocenti’s run of Daredevil
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Tried to tackle why Trump's actions in Venezuela feel like both a familiar and unprecedented disaster goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/why-trumps...
Why Trump's capture of Maduro seems both unprecedented and eerily familiar
Not long after the news broke that a US operation had removed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their home and brought them to the US to face charges, a new version of the classic ...
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Tried to tackle why Trump's actions in Venezuela feel like both a familiar and unprecedented disaster goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/why-trumps...
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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How can this be real life? Determining the fate of a foreign country’s government because you didn’t get a prize?
The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship.
The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship.
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 11:22 AM
How can this be real life? Determining the fate of a foreign country’s government because you didn’t get a prize?
The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship.
The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship.
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What (and I can’t stress this enough)
THE FUCK.
THE FUCK.
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 3:27 AM
What (and I can’t stress this enough)
THE FUCK.
THE FUCK.
Post a famous bathroom scene
January 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
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Awkward
TULSI GABBARD IN OCTOBER: “For decades our foreign policy has been trapped in an endless cycle of regime change and nation-building."🤔
January 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Awkward
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a stark raving imperialist madman who wants to attack a treaty ally
TRUMP: “We need Greenland”
The guardrails are gone
The guardrails are gone
January 4, 2026 at 9:26 PM
a stark raving imperialist madman who wants to attack a treaty ally
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have been on the “trump in a second term is very likely to invade Mexico” beat since at least early 2023: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Subscribe to @zeteo.com to keep reading/supporting our coverage of trump expanding his wars at home and abroad:
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New: Trump admin officials tell Zeteo that Trump is “very interested” in secret plans drawn up last year to send US Special Forces into Mexico.
One official even says Trump recently asked for updates on preparations for a possible operation.
One official even says Trump recently asked for updates on preparations for a possible operation.
After Trump’s Venezuela Invasion, Mexico Could Be Next
Officials tell Zeteo that Trump remains ‘very interested’ in the idea of sending US Special Forces into Mexico, as the president threatens Colombia and Cuba, too.
zeteo.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
have been on the “trump in a second term is very likely to invade Mexico” beat since at least early 2023: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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an absolute propagandist with a hermetically sealed worldview
John Mearsheimer, Oct. 3 2024: "I think that Biden's basic instincts are those of a warmonger, and I think that's not true of Trump. I think Trump is not that interested in fighting wars."
January 4, 2026 at 1:41 AM
an absolute propagandist with a hermetically sealed worldview
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Starting the new year with the dumbest possible takes.
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Starting the new year with the dumbest possible takes.
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New resolution: no more “Imagine”
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 AM
New resolution: no more “Imagine”