Not a coincidence that Stop the Steal theories of mass voter fraud involve conspiracies about election administration in Black cities. Working paper from Kevin Morris & Ian Shapiro shows that racial attitudes moderate beliefs about voter fraud. ungated papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great career ideas for my students

Russia is at war with America whether America acknowledges it or not.

“States who have gone looking for non-citizen voters have found shockingly few," says David Becker. He says Ohio announced that in over a decade, it found six possible cases of non-citizens voting. cbsn.ws/3Ux3Y5p

Okay, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has obtained a doc describing a "peace treaty" that Russia offered to Ukraine in March 2022, namely on March 7 -- on the full-scale invasion's day 10, when it became crystal clear that the initial blitz plan was going off the rails and that Russian invasion forces

It sounds like US efforts to prevent escalation are not working, how might we restore deterrence? Russia seems to think it is already at war with the US, how much longer can the US ignore that?

Russian information warfare plans to provoke chaos and violence after the election through fronts for their intelligence agencies. npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-…

🚨BREAKING: @dfrlab has uncovered a Chinese bot network amplifying Russian disinformation campaign known as #OperationOverload, claiming fraud in the final hours of the #USElection2024 dfrlab.org/2024/11/05/rus…

Faked video falsely asserts the FBI is warning people against voting in person using FBI insignia. This is a new stage of the gray zone war against the US. fbi.gov/news/press-rel…

How about respect for the sovereign territory of Ukraine and its will to join NATO? Why should Russia have a veto over Ukraine's interests? Peace is achieved the moment Russia packs up and goes home.

Noted historian Sylvester Stalone, perhaps he is familiar with Washington's farewell address, "the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration. "

Because this is what an innocent person does to prove their innocence washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Perhaps having a podcast doesn't alone make someone knowledgeable about international security matters.

NEW: Putin continues to laud the technical specifications of the recently launched Oreshnik ballistic missile and threaten more Oreshnik strikes against Ukraine as part of an intensified Russian reflexive control campaign aimed at forcing the West & Ukraine into self-deterrence.

Here the UK’s Telegraph, unpaywalled, provides yet another survey of Russian sabotage operations across Europe for those that really haven’t been paying attention. (Including some lightly scrambled quotes from yours truly.) telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/3…

Not to mention a direct Russian threat against NATO itself. If Europe wants to sow the seeds for a much wider war on the continent, including the threat of Russian nuclear weapons use, give Putin what he wants. Don’t make the mistake of Munich 1938 yet again!!

FYI: We dedicate quite a lot of ink in our ISIS book to the jihadist rat lines sent by Assad’s mukhabarat into Iraq. US Special Forces conducted a cross border raid in Deir Ezzor to take out an AQI “border emir” domiciled in eastern Syria under Ali Mamlouk’s protection. This is

I wonder how many people will continue to dismiss the indications and warnings that #China fully intends to invade #Taiwan, almost certainly within the second half of this decade? #Xi and the CCP in Beijing must know that a peaceful 'unification' (not 'reunification') based on

‘First ever analysis of foreign interference and espionage threats’ from the Australian government homeaffairs.gov.au/nat-security/f…

The cruelty is their point.