Steve Saideman

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#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor

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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

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Some folks REALLY need to get out of the DC bubble more.

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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Will wait for a single news outlet to call on Robinson to withdraw from the race.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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The "blitz primary" idea is so dumb that you almost have to wonder if the Biden camp planted it as a threat

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Man i have been saying for a minute that voters everywhere are rejecting fascist shit and it’s only the media that makes us think otherwise, but it’s nice to see that in play right now

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SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

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This and there would be consequences from voters of color

by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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Banner month for the Economist.

It held

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NYT: New evidence shows the Trump campaign was raping everyone in sight, and illegally concealing the settlement payments. For the good of the country, Biden must drop out

Seems bad

Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.

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“3 in 10” means 7 in 10 either are fine with him staying or don’t care either way. That’s the majority. Always report majorities. This is a democracy. Majority rules.

Biden trails Trump by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race trib.al/GlWZVox

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God I hate this framing

Biden trails Trump by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race trib.al/GlWZVox

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From a curriculum standpoint, I get that this can be challenging, but lots of these articles paint a highly unflattering picture of the legal academy insofar as lots of folks genuinely appear perplexed to discover that at a certain level it’s always been Calvinball.

Poor, delicate, beleaguered law faculty thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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1. Voters generally reject fascism when they know that's the choice. 2. Thus, the MAGA freakout at people figuring out what Project 2025 does.

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The lesson that we Americans must learn from France is this: You GO OUT, VOTE IN LARGE NUMBERS, VOTE STRATEGICALLY, VOTE WITH BRAIN, YOU SUCCEED & WIN! Period. End of story. Is the French Left-wing coalition perfect? No, by a mile, but it’s a HELL OF LOT BETTER than the Neo-Nazis in suits & ties.

#France: The coalition of Left did very well. I predicted they’d become the 2nd largest group in the parliament, I was wrong. They are the 1st group now with between 172-192 seats. It’s a cohabitation scenario, & Macron will have to share power with NFP. Big question: will Mélenchon be the next PM?

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The French did it! They really did it!!!

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Still learning from this excellent analysis from @bafriedman.bsky.social: “No man, wargame, or AI can predict if or when Russian (or Ukrainian) moral cohesion breaks.” War isn’t mechanistic. bafriedman.substack.com/p/great-jomi...

Great Jomini's Ghost!bafriedman.substack.com The Beltway Plays at War on the Map

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Oh no, the French two round system working as intended. Poor far right baby.

National Rally leader Jordan Bardella has just made a speech seemingly accepting the exit poll. Lots of whining that everybody ganged up on him and the French people have been denied their wishes. #FrenchElection

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Ouch

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"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

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Powerful reminder how much of politics comes down to elites solving (or not solving) the coordination problem. France, Iran, UK (Starmer purging Labour). Very different situation but US Democrats also facing big coordination problem. And we got Trump because 2016 R's did not solve theirs. #polisky

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UK - rejects far right France - rejects far right Iran - elects a moderate President There is a global pushback against the far right building.

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Idk, maybe listening to folks who said we shouldn’t support people who defend Assad or dismiss women in pink hats out of hand instead of viciously attacking them as tools of imperialism or centrists is instructive here

Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

Saw the Beekeeper on the flight back yesterday, and yes, I would like that character to go around and blow up all of the places where phishing scammers have their hq's. So tired of emails asking to "improve" my website. Fuck all y'all.

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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

Explains why there are few forces facing the Finns and the Baltics these days.

Economist estimates that "between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers were out of action by mid-June—more than Russia’s estimated invading force in February 2022." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?www.economist.com Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone