Andy Mueller
Andy Mueller
@andymueller.bsky.social
"The universal injunction’s relative novelty"... they have been around for 37% of the Constitution's history. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Watching Out for the Courts, Not for Trump
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t match the Berninis, it matches the Gospels"

RIP Pope Francis

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/w...
Francis Wanted a Church of the Poor and Put It Into Practice
Around St. Peter’s Square, the pope offered services to the homeless and migrants, in ways that often did not go down well with his fellow clerics.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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It occurs to me that the US putting a 104% tariff of China removes a major deterrence to China going after Taiwan. They're already getting hit with economic sanctions.
April 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In engineering, efficiency is a measurable quantity, meaning the output you get for a certain input. With the advent of the Department of Government Efficiency, it's worth diving deeper into the details of what "efficiency" really means.
February 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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My latest piece for @foreignpolicy.com w/
@stevenacook.bsky.social

"Over and over again, the Turks have overestimated their ability to manage and shape crises in the region. There is no better evidence of this than Syria itself...1/2
Erdogan Gets His ‘Leader of the Muslim World’ Moment
Syria's change of leadership has given Turkey’s president the regional influence he has always wanted.
foreignpolicy.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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BREAKING: Satellite imagery confirms the Russian Navy has abandoned Tartus
December 7, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I think this is my first post on Bluesky. I'm as nervous as anyone else about the Islamist takeover of Syria but I'm happy to celebrate a milestone... Wikipedia once read "The Russian naval facility in Tartus is" and, now, joyfully, i the same sentence has been rewritten in the past tense
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 PM