Evan Resnick

IR, intl security, US foreign policy; author of Allies of Convenience @ColumbiaUP; @Columbia PhD; Associate Professor @IR_TokyoIU

[Evan Resnick @resnick_evan]

Allies of Convenience | Columbia University Press https://t.co/KT4lCgRvJf via @ColumbiaUP

[union moderate that support Dems, not socialists. @reesetheone1]

Ossoff looks like a genius now.

[Kalshi Politics @KalshiPolitics]

🚨NEW FRONTRUNNER🚨: Jon Ossoff leads the 2028 Democratic Presidential nominee odds for the first time ever

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Perhaps one of the greatest modern miracles of society is how safe flying has become.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Left: Usain Bolt

Right: Insane Dolt

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

“ I like to grab them by the pussy”

MAGA: That’s just locker room talk.

“Trump likes to spend time with Natalie.”

MAGA: Oh my God, that’s the most misogynistic thing I’ve ever heard!

[Oasis Archives🍋 @OasisArchives]

Simply the best cover ever

[Francisco Pérez @platanomics]

Mamdani is what Obama was supposed to be: an East African Muslim socialist with great rhetorical skills that is reviving New Deal liberalism

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

remember when we just randomly had a war with iran for two months for no reason whatsoever? that was weird

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

On the Iran War and the diplomacy surrounding it, I literally don’t take Trump seriously anymore. Every time he opens his mouth, I turn the channel. His words mean nothing. It’s all hot air and projection. When he says Iran agreed to something in the talks (like granting infinite IAEA inspections throughout its nuclear sites or buying American farm products with its unfrozen assets), best to assume Iran never agreed to any of it (yet). What Trump is doing is negotiating in public and hoping Iran does these things, not describing what Iran has in fact committed itself to doing. You might think more people would grasp this dynamic by now.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

When Democrats vote for one Jewish Zionist candidate who dislikes the current Israeli government over another Jewish Zionist candidate who supports the current Israel government, that’s the worst kind of antisemitism.

[Tony Aubé @aubetony]

After a hellish week in a Paris Airbnb with no AC (100°F outside, 108°F+ inside), I started looking into why the French are so opposed to AC.
There's many reasons: bureaucracy, poverty, etc. But the main one is decades of environmental campaigns that convinced people AC is the devil.
The result? You can't escape the heat. Most buses, metro lines, and shopping malls have no AC.
This Monday, 850 schools are closing because classroom temperatures exceed 104°F.
In Nantes, they built a brand-new train station and a hospital without AC for environmental reasons. The station is now partially closed because it's become a "furnace" that endangers travelers. Hospitals are covering windows with emergency foil blankets to protect patients.
The French demonize air conditioning because it creates carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Never mind that France already has one of most carbon-free electricity in the world thanks to nuclear, or that it accounts for less than 1% of global emissions.
They also oppose AC because it "just displace the problem" by dumping heat into the street. Never mind that studies suggest even if an entire city were air-conditioned, the increase in outdoor temperature would be at most about 1°F.
Instead, people are willing to endure 104°F+ indoors to avoid a marginal increase outdoors.
This ideology kills more people than firearms in the United States.
Across Europe, between 50,000 and 70,000 people die from heat every year, mostly the elderly and the poor. Compare that to roughly 44,000 Americans killed by firearms.
For comparison, despite having a similar population, deserts, and more extreme temperatures, the United States has only about 2,500 heat-related deaths per year thanks to widespread AC.
That's what bothers me most. The moralizing posture completely detached from reality.
People feel morally superior for "not polluting." They criticize America and its guns while tolerating policies that kills even more people.
I share this anecdote because I know it's shocking to Americans. Here, schools or hospitals reaching 104°F would be unnaceptable.
The absurdity is immediately obvious to us because we're looking from the outside. We see the gap between moral intentions and real-world consequences.
But we're no different. In America, we have dozens of similar issues where we're just as irrational, and we've become blind to them because the solution isn't politically acceptable.
How do can we bring back logic and pragmatism in our societies ahead of irrational political ideological ?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Lawrence: “In that video you just saw of Donald Trump playing games with the idea of maybe having JD Vance sign the document, the most incompetent Commerce Secretary in history, Howard Lutnick, was standing behind Donald Trump doing his usual Lutnick laugh, at every inane thing Donald Trump says, but the other person, the other person standing behind Donald Trump seemed to KNOW what he was watching. The grim face of future presidential candidate Marco Rubio NEVER broke into a smile. Marco Rubio possibly watching his presidential hopes DISAPPEAR right there…And so Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have spent years lying about the Obama deal with #Iran, and now they have proved two things: Just how strong the Obama deal was, and what complete and utter and relentlessly incompetent losers Marco Rubio and Donald Trump really are.” 😳

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

Just to recap:

We tore up a fine nuclear deal that put Tehran’s nuclear program in a box with strict caps, limitations and oversight (and yes, 10, 15 and 20 year sunsets), which allowed Iran to acquire more and better centrifuges and accumulate a large enrichment stockpile it wouldn’t have otherwise.

Then we complained about it despite Iran’s actions being highly predictable and predicted.

Then we bombed Iran in June 2025 to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, only to go to war again eight months later (despite Trump telling us the program was destroyed), which the Iranians responded to by targeting Gulf energy infrastructure, shuttering the Strait of Hormuz and pushing fuel prices up 50%.

And then four months later, when it was all said and done, we ended up paying Iran via oil sanctions waivers to end the war, re-open the strait (which was already open before the war) and talk about their nuclear program again.

Our foreign policy leaders are morons. And of course nobody will be held accountable for any of it—not the “thought leaders” who sold the military option as a panacea or the officials who implemented it.

[Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 @KwikWarren]

Lawrence mocked “grim faced” Rubio as he watched trump’s stupidity sink his presidential hopes: “trump&Rubio have spent years lying about Obama’s deal w/Iran. Now they’ve proved two things—how strong the Obama deal was&what relentlessly incompetent losers Rubio&trump really are.”

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

8D Chess

[Craig Unger @craigunger]

The best possible outcome of the Iran War would be if it led to the downfall of Trump and Netanyahu.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Loving all the neocon meltdowns - and surprise from the latest group of Trump supporters who realized he just screwed them.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

🤣🤣🤣

[Evan Resnick @resnick_evan]

@michaelturton Perhaps the United States should set a better example as a great power role model by not invading other countries every couple of months…