Jeff Stark
@jlstark.bsky.social
Analyst of politics, environmental governance, and conflict in Africa, Asia, and Lat Am. Currently more worried about U.S. democracy.
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
This is completely insane, of course, and can be traced back to Trump’s phobic aversion to windmills.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is completely insane, of course, and can be traced back to Trump’s phobic aversion to windmills.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Kristen Welker will be "interviewing" Todd Blanche on MTP tomorrow.
Do you think she'll ask why Ghislaine got moved and has a puppy?
Will she ask why Blanche ordered the kidnapping of Ras Baraka?
Will she ask about Trump's witch hunt against Comey and James?
Do you think she'll ask why Ghislaine got moved and has a puppy?
Will she ask why Blanche ordered the kidnapping of Ras Baraka?
Will she ask about Trump's witch hunt against Comey and James?
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
x.com/mckaycoppins...
In terms of needless loss of life, almost certainly true.
In terms of needless loss of life, almost certainly true.
McKay Coppins on X: "Seems entirely possible that decades from now, people will look back on the second Trump administration and determine that the single most consequential thing he did as president was dismantle USAID in those first weeks of his term. https://t.co/bIaEXowt3l" / X
Seems entirely possible that decades from now, people will look back on the second Trump administration and determine that the single most consequential thing he did as president was dismantle USAID in those first weeks of his term. https://t.co/bIaEXowt3l
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December 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
x.com/mckaycoppins...
In terms of needless loss of life, almost certainly true.
In terms of needless loss of life, almost certainly true.
@jahimes.bsky.social How about it? Why the pusillanimity?
Did you ask him if his job was under threat if he failed to follow an illegal order? Did you ask him if he knows killing the shipwrecked is an illegal order? Did you ask him if he was promised clemency if he took the fall? What did he say? TELL US. Stop dancing around these questions.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@jahimes.bsky.social How about it? Why the pusillanimity?
It keeps happening.
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CBS News on X: "A U.S. citizen was forcibly removed from her car by federal agents in Key Largo, Florida on Wednesday after she refused to present her driver's license and roll down her window when stopped, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. She was placed in a patrol vehicle while https://t.co/qadTTu1MIW" / X
A U.S. citizen was forcibly removed from her car by federal agents in Key Largo, Florida on Wednesday after she refused to present her driver's license and roll down her window when stopped, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. She was placed in a patrol vehicle while https://t.co/qadTTu1MIW
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December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It keeps happening.
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Sick and disgusting.
x.com/peterbakerny...
x.com/peterbakerny...
Peter Baker on X: "Trump's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. @aishvaryakavi https://t.co/5nrEawIAG3" / X
Trump's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. @aishvaryakavi https://t.co/5nrEawIAG3
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December 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sick and disgusting.
x.com/peterbakerny...
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This is correct. A much larger and more inclusive discussion of AI benefits/costs is badly needed.
x.com/sensanders/s...
x.com/sensanders/s...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on X: "Read my new piece in The Guardian: https://t.co/jSeOV74cak" / X
Read my new piece in The Guardian: https://t.co/jSeOV74cak
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December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is correct. A much larger and more inclusive discussion of AI benefits/costs is badly needed.
x.com/sensanders/s...
x.com/sensanders/s...
When you put psychologically warped, mendacious people in charge, federal agencies become a menace to the public.
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Jonathan Reiner on X: "HHS and its agencies are no longer authoritative sources for health information." / X
HHS and its agencies are no longer authoritative sources for health information.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
When you put psychologically warped, mendacious people in charge, federal agencies become a menace to the public.
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Bringing the war home
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Bringing the war home
@asharangappa.bsky.social has written impressively about the power of social identity. Today we saw that with Trump and Mamdani. Despite all the differences and the political positioning, New Yorkers recognize each other and know how to talk to each other.
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@asharangappa.bsky.social has written impressively about the power of social identity. Today we saw that with Trump and Mamdani. Despite all the differences and the political positioning, New Yorkers recognize each other and know how to talk to each other.
The former foreign minister of Lithuania has been right every step of the way — both about the Russians and the Americans.
x.com/glandsbergis...
x.com/glandsbergis...
Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 on X: "There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end. We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely. If you are a" / X
There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end. We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely. If you are a
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November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The former foreign minister of Lithuania has been right every step of the way — both about the Russians and the Americans.
x.com/glandsbergis...
x.com/glandsbergis...
Very few Americans will read this NYT article… but all of them should.
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Very few Americans will read this NYT article… but all of them should.
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA is quite good and worth a visit.
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA is quite good and worth a visit.
Indeed, anti-immigrant bias is unintentionally revealed here. x.com/justinwolfer...
Justin Wolfers on X: "It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics. https://t.co/OPM7x6EENI" / X
It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics. https://t.co/OPM7x6EENI
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November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Indeed, anti-immigrant bias is unintentionally revealed here. x.com/justinwolfer...
One more step in the US becoming a pariah country. x.com/natashabertr...
Natasha Bertrand on X: "Exclusive--The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes they are illegal, sources tell CNN. https://t.co/EsFENxQx6R" / X
Exclusive--The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes they are illegal, sources tell CNN. https://t.co/EsFENxQx6R
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November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One more step in the US becoming a pariah country. x.com/natashabertr...
To state the obvious, Trump hasn’t the slightest idea what’s happening in Nigeria. Here are some facts. Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
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November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
To state the obvious, Trump hasn’t the slightest idea what’s happening in Nigeria. Here are some facts. Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Ruling by judge appointed by Trump. Wake up, people.
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Ruling by judge appointed by Trump. Wake up, people.
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
This is not what people voted for, but it is what is happening at the ICE facility in Chicago.
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is not what people voted for, but it is what is happening at the ICE facility in Chicago.
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Just about an hour apart by the way
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just about an hour apart by the way
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Yes, an important test for the midterms.
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yes, an important test for the midterms.