"I am more terrified than [during] any of the previous national security crises since 2017 that Trump has been involved in," @profsaunders.bsky.social says on the pod. The lack of constraints on him this time are something new.
Listen to her extended warning here:
newrepublic.com/article/2087...
Last April, President Trump claimed tariffs would benefit the American economy in a big way. One year later, can you draw what really happened? Find out ⬇️ reut.rs/3Q9YMF7
Since the 1950s, US military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case best known as the nuclear “Football,” which includes information on emergency procedures, nuclear war plans, and communications arrangements with DOD and key allies. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Second, at 4pm, I'll present a piece written for Intelligence and National Security's special issue on the Church Committee at 50 on what the assassination report can tell us about how the U.S. government recruited individuals for different roles in covert operations.
Excited to present at two intelligence studies panels on Monday's #ISA2026.
First, at 8:15am, I'll present coauthored work on how U.S. intelligence agencies targeted women's groups differently across the first and second waves of feminism based on their usefulness to U.S. foreign policy goals.
Just published on APSR First View: War and Responsibility by M. PATRICK HULME (@mphulme ) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Following the Jan. 3 capture of President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces, Patrick Hulme, Katherine Irajpanah, and Andrew Kenealy evaluate shifting congressional opinion on U.S. military action in Venezuela, and what it means for presidential war powers. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/meas...
Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada
by Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt
www.mqup.ca/just-watch-u...
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Alright, alright, alright! The Christmas presents have arrived early this year!
A largely-overlooked Trump presidential memorandum pushes the limits of his authority by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions. buff.ly/66NLeUr via @mindyhaas.bsky.social
The outcome of this new policy? Chilling views protected by the First Amendment: “Prioritizing investigations into this broad swath of ideologies serves to instill fear, silencing anti-fascist and other messages in opposition to the Trump administration.”
NSPM-7, a national security memorandum issued in September 2025, marks a major turn in counterterrorism policy. The memo labels “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-American” views as possible warning signs, even though data show most domestic political violence originates on the right.
So proud that my latest piece, "Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms," is headlining today's newsletter from @us.theconversation.com
➡️ Read more here: theconversation.com/labeling-dis...
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups.
The Department of War, Department of Justice, and the White House all failed to provide lists of the groups being targeted to The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...
Gift link. (I object to the New York Times calling this a "crime crackdown." The Trump regime is bringing violence to my city, Chicago, not fighting violence.)
My survey experiment from 2017 & 2023 ➡️ information on customary international law significantly decreases support for potentially violative uses of force, especially paired with statements that IOs have found similar behavior violations. Decrease in support partially mediated by morality concerns.
For those of you not attending the No Kings march in DC today, come see our IS-ISSS panel on domestic politics and public opinion!
Modern-day rat lines! And that much harder for the ICC (or others) to seek justice.
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
The Palestine Branch: A den of torture in Assad’s Syria
The prison’s labyrinthian underground chambers have yet to reveal all their secrets, which are critical for bringing justice and Syria’s future stability.
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
Should the US release secret intelligence for strategic gain? A roundtable debate in @h-diplo.bsky.social with Melissa Graves, David Gioe, @mindyhaas.bsky.social and me: issforum.org/roundtables/...
Excited to see Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention, in the wild at #APSA2025. My contribution: Israel's Mossad and Covert Action: Immigration, Counter-Proliferation, and Assassination. Edited by @rorycormac.bsky.social @magslong.bsky.social @markstout.bsky.social
Anyone have a free Saturday afternoon in Vancouver? Come to my panel, Overt and Covert Interference in World Affairs, at 4pm in VCC West 215! Also featuring Alex Downes, Rob Schub, and five amazing papers on foreign interference.
“If the unitary executive theory is subject to exceptions for contexts in which the practical consequences of eliminating an agency’s independence would be too extreme, then it’s not much of a theory.”
Today’s “One First” on #SCOTUS’s deeply flawed ruling last Thursday in Trump v. Wilcox:
New from 404 Media: the CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan website. Was part of the network of sites the CIA used to communicate with sources. Iran discovered the network, imprisoned people. Later dozens died in China after exposed www.404media.co/the-cia-secr...
Announcement from Columbia's History Lab: 🗄️ HistoryLab AI 📁 history-lab.ramus.network 🗃️allows natural-language queries of over more than 5 million primary source records -- CIA files, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volumes, and State Department cables.
A cover graphic with the title Know Your Rights: Expedited Removal Expansion and Conozca Sus Derechos: Ampliación de la Deportación Acelerada
*New English & Spanish #KYR*
DHS has expanded its use of the 'expedited removal' process. Undocumented community members are now at greater risk of being put in a rapid deportation process - without the right to appear in front of an immigration judge.
What changed & how people can prepare 🧵
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...