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Scott Gehlbach
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University of Chicago, Political Science and Harris School. Director, PhD Program in Political Economy. Autocracy/Eurasia/HPE. Broadstreet blogger. Cards fan but o/w Chicago patriot. 🇺🇦
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Now we enter the kabuki stage of passing aid to Ukraine. So it seems to me. So I hope.

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Still, was great to see Glass Onion with 747 other people at Music Box in Chicago. Or any other movie, for that matter.

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Yo, #dictatorsky, here is a Wikipedia page that could use some work. The people need to know!

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Today’s NYT. Not yet law, not obviously constitutional.

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I somehow missed that this was passed. Looks to me like the lower bar might actually be Act of Congress. Could this be passed through reconciliation, I wonder?

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“However obscure the subject…the genre probably looked recognizable to Americans. This was a conversation between an older man who has read a history book and fancies himself an expert and his eager nephew, who is trying to feign knowledge in a subject he failed in college.”

Tucker Carlson Promised an Unedited Putin. The Result Was Boring
Tucker Carlson Promised an Unedited Putin. The Result Was Boring

In an interview that lasted more than two hours, the Russian President aired well-trod grievances and gave a lecture full of spurious history meant to justify his war in Ukraine.

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The overwhelming impression is that Carlson is completely overmatched. Overmatched, in the sense that one is when speaking with a relative who watches Tucker Carlson—simply unable to respond to assertions one is hearing for the first time.

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After not being able to bring myself to watch the Carlson-Putin interview, now I cannot make myself stop.

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Scott Gehlbach
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University of Chicago, Political Science and Harris School. Director, PhD Program in Political Economy. Autocracy/Eurasia/HPE. Broadstreet blogger. Cards fan but o/w Chicago patriot. 🇺🇦
794 followers250 following92 posts