Yeah sure, inflation came in hot and the war persists with little change towards the status quo ante, but whatever.

Come on Tom, do it. In fact, why don't you do a ranking of them?

Good to know

Guess what, as a county chair I've been able to boost fundraising significantly because I go out and win the trust of voters in my area.

Huh, its almost like spamming your donors endlessly is a poor strategy.

I was shocked the first time I ordered an egg salad sandwich. It was nothing close to what I was used to by making it myself.

Civil-Military Relations in the Prevention of Democratic Backsliding Christoph Harig Abstract Most civil-military relations scholarship implicitly or explicitly sees the military as a threat to democratic institutions and governments. In recent years, however, there have been several instances in which democratically elected governments tried to use the armed forces for undermining democratic institutions. Hence, military leaders may sometimes have to contest lawful political decisions if these potentially threaten democracy. This challenges fundamental normative assumptions in civil-military relations research. The present article therefore asks: Which analytical tools does civil-military relations scholarship provide for assessing the appropriate role of military leaders in the prevention of democratic backsliding? Should there be general, prescriptive normative theories for military leaders’ appropriate behaviour in contexts of democratic backsliding? The article begins by reviewing civil-military relations scholarship’s perspectives on the appropriate political role of armed forces and discusses how these are challenged by democratic backsliding. Building on previous attempts to conceptualise military dissent and the military’s role in autocratization processes, the article argues that military behaviour in backsliding processes cannot be assessed without taking military role conceptions as explanatory variable for military leaders’ ideas about appropriate behaviour into account. Illustrative examples from the Americas then assess military leaders’ reaction to backsliding attempts and their consequences for democracy and civil-military relations. The findings underline that prescriptive guidance for military disobedience should be treated with caution.

Can civil-military relations scholarship provide prescriptive normative guidance for military leaders' appropriate behaviour in democratic backsliding?

My new article in @journalofgss.bsky.social debates this civil-military conundrum

academic.oup.com/jogss/articl... #CivMilSKy

Politico headline: "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal" Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

My Gen X/Oregon Trail siblings got good jobs and houses for dirt cheap. I finished by BA into the financial crisis and my PhD in Covid.

Yeah they weren't happy but thats because they were listening to grunge growing up

Turns out missing out on getting into easy wealth in your 20s makes you permanently angry

I have no idea who he is so I used a Bsky heuristic

dems are not perfect but they got this guy out in the span of a weekend, while the republicans made Hegseth the secretary of defense

Devastating to the ‘both parties are the same’ crowd

Oh, so it's funny to compare oneself to God.

Got it.

Lazy Eye is a criminally underrated song. Easily one of the greatest songs of the aughts

Is ok to call these concentration camps yet?

Republicans could have removed and barred him from office, and still can, at any point in the past 10 years

I missed the "Only the fake news could come up with that" when he's literally the only one that could come up with an alternative explanation

Not a cooler cousin, just more refined

Based on the response the options to understand what he did are

1) Isn't familiar with common American Christian art because he isn't remotely close to religious

2) He's senile because he thought that's what doctors do

3) He thinks he's God and is lying now to cover

This isn't the winning reply he thinks it is

My favorite is "That's going a little too far"

A LITTLE TOO FAR FOR YOU!?

Well, isn't that the term to refer to former chairs of the Comp Auth/Demo APSA section?

I have curated my online media to intentionally not come across punditry

Just looked up who this joker is and *SURPRISE* he's an economist writing about democracy.

The entire point of a democracy is that no party ever has to do what Tisza did to win an election.

How naive of me, of course I should have anticipated the reactionary "centrists" would say "See, these overt attacks on democracy aren't that *big* of a deal because you can overcome them after years of intense work and unprecedented levels of mobilization"

Oh, you'd like to adjust the color settings on your screen? Sorry, best I can do is suggest incorrect text in Word.

You want your sound to work? Best I can do is an annoying suggestion box that pops up in front of your cursor as you're working in Excel