Jeremy Lewis

Professor of Political Science, Huntingdon College (Ret)

[FOIA Nate📄 @FOIANate]

Dug through court cases to find lawyers admitting that the Trump cuts to FOIA offices have made it so they can't meet deadlines. Free link: https://t.co/PEvCIdeuag

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See my review of Piedmont Tire https://t.co/o6Tb6d65Ll via @

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Here’s a look at how I read The @WashingtonPost this year. Get your own 2024 Newsprint at https://t.co/uNAMtDT97R. #WaPoNewsprint

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"Transatlantic Relations from a German Perspective," lunch meeting, 21 July, noon, with Michael Georg Link, German Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, and parliamentarian. Troy University Montgomery, 231 Montgomery St, Montgomery AL; register at https://t.co/ljiy3TTDF2.

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CIA Dir. William Burns offers a strategic view of this "plastic moment" in international relations. Challenges: (1) Rising China and declining Russia, (2) global problems (pandemics, climate crisis), (3) technological revolutions in intelligence. https://t.co/wFxcn0gORX

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2/2 Election-year increases in indictments; majority verdicts in death penalty cases; and prosecutorial misconduct in secret grand jury investigations; they blame all of these for a high rate of false convictions.
#deathpenalty #alabamapolitics

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“As governors, we oversaw executions. We’ve lived to regret it.”
By Robert Bentley and Don Siegelman
Washington Post, May 23, 2023
It’s astonishing to read the regrets of these two contrasting governors. 1/2
#deathpenalty #alabamapolitics

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Almost all of RC48's panels for the World Congress in Buenos Aires have enough registered participants to proceed!
The only change needed was for two panels to be combined into one for Administrative Transformation and Reform of Developing Countries.
Thanks to all who registered!

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Thanks to the Air War College faculty -and students-for lively and opinionated presentations on three regional tours of the world! Africa, Asia and the Baltics. Video, audio, & slide files are here: https://t.co/ABAYuT31Wx

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Of course, a future China-US conflict is contemplated by Thucydides’s Trap …
Understood by my former students of the past 40 years, I hope.

[Ali Wyne @Ali_Wyne]

From @JeremyCliffe's conversation with @GrahamTAllison.

"The future, he says, will be more multipolar than either unipolar or bipolar. 'It's going to be a much messier world, with many, many actors not determined by any [superpower]'s commands.'"

https://t.co/YVuvt2wzrr

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This is ironic. Twenty years later, the PM's correspondence on the first year of the UK's freedom of information act is still being withheld.
Since Tony Blair's memoirs include two passages gratuitously complaining about the FOIA, his views are hardly a state secret.

[Martin Rosenbaum @rosenbaum6]

The gov't files from 2001 released today by @UkNatArchives do *not* include the Downing St file on FOI policy, which for some reason is still closed and retained by the Cabinet Office ...

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A remarkable MAGA focus group, with Elise Jordan on the Morning Joe program. No argument would moderate them. Changing vote counts overnight is suspicious and violence at the Capitol is free speech.
TV needs more focus groups like this.
Some prefer DeSantis to Trump.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I urge you to watch this because it demonstrates the extraordinary success of Republican misinformation on voters in key states.

Democrats have completely underestimated the level of penetration that has happened.

These "voters" ignore facts and spit misinformation.

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Gallup's global survey shows an index of anger, stress, pain and worry has risen since 2011.
Although populism in two dozen countries rose even before then, the two may be associated.
See Jon Clifton, Blindspot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness (book)
https://t.co/aFsZiwdsQx

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Unusually perceptive connection of New Deal's saving American democracy by delegated powers -- to modern policy emergency
https://t.co/x96w1QnVxF

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Most extraordinary and radical Supreme Court term since I arrived in the US. Would have made an exciting course in Constitutional Law. Reverses wisdom: Supremes working incrementally, following precedent, and avoiding major statements of principle.
https://t.co/PUJQlTtVfI

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Save the date for our next world affairs speaker event, in hybrid form: Tuesday 12 April 2022. The topics will be USAID, the decline of diplomacy, the great powers, and war crimes. Announcement coming soon on https://t.co/ljiy3TTDF2.

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Well, it's a long, rich and complex book. Let's hope for a swifter ending this time, and a less destructive plot.

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1) sanctions will hurt Chelsea fans sooner than other consumers
2) owner financing of football clubs, while it does help them win championships and cups, does not imply they will make a profit
Data from The Economist, 3/11/22

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See https://t.co/dSodI2oa40 for ALWAC's forthcoming, hybrid meeting on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, with Dr. Mark Conversino and Dr. Anna Batta as expert speakers. 22 March is the date; you may register for the free online conference, or for the in-person reception at TUM.

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Amb. Daniel Shields on Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific Region: Tues. 22 Feb., https://t.co/ljiy3TTDF2 reception & free Webinar. Shields served in Brunei, Singapore, Manila and ASEAN, working on South China Sea issues. Now a consultant on diplomacy, he speaks Japanese and Mandarin.