Jason R Weidner is Research Professor at the Universidad de Monterrey. Research: IR theory, global governance, L. America, IPE, environmental politics.
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Jun 11
Really ? Then why is it being bombed ?
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'As Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification, is fond of observing: you won’t be replaced because an AI can do your job, you’ll be replaced because an AI salesman convinces your boss that it can.'
Jun 4
We know LLMs are fabulists. Why do we believe them anyway? timharford.com/2026/06/chatb…
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May 29
RT @JeanJacquesDes7: The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States…
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U.S. “sanctions” don’t apply extraterritorially, there’s no “evasion” here. If Mexico wants to send aid to Cuba via @AMEXCID, the country’s international cooperation institution, then it can and will.
May 10
#BREAKING: Mexico reportedly sent 588M pesos to Cuba’s Sembrando Vida program via AMEXCID, involving a Chinese-linked firm, raising concerns over possible U.S. sanctions evasion.
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Trump convinced dozens of countries to send troops and commit funds to his Gaza plan. The ceasefire collapsed. The mission is closing. Gaza is still rubble. He sold them a plan he couldn’t execute. That’s the whole presidency in one story.
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Apr 26
He looks like my Vice Principal in high school looking for smokers.
Apr 26
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pacing the venue, jaw tight, looking unusually keyed up amid the WHCD incident.
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Apr 24
The Israelis carried out their threat to assassinate Amal
Apr 23
VIDEO | "I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me. They were literally saying they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave south Lebanon."
In an interview recorded before her targeted killing, Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, from the southern village of Baysariyyeh, reflects on the threats she received while covering Israeli aggression in south Lebanon for Al-Akhbar.
"Before 23 September, I definitely didn’t take precautions and I didn’t pay attention to these threats, because I said if I’m going to do what they want, why would I let the Israeli enemy impose its own narrative on me? It brings journalists onto my land and promotes the narrative it wants, while preventing me from moving freely on my own land."
Amal Khalil, along with her colleague Zeinab Faraj, was deliberately attacked and subsequently killed by Israel yesterday in the southern Lebanese village of Tayri. Zeinab Faraj was severely injured and, as per latest reports, remains in stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery.
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One way to understand the current religious/political spat is that Pope Leo's understanding is informed by the Bible and centuries of church debate whereas the Christianity of Trump/Hegseth really comes out of Hollywood revenge fantasies -- it's Augustine vs. the MCU.
“Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service”: publicwitness.wordandway.org…
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Apr 16
RT @cbonneauimages: Another hearty “fuck you” to @NPR for airing the Israeli ambassador saying that they are working on liberating the Leba…
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Vance is truly one of the most dishonest and dangerous politicians I've ever seen. He'll say absolutely anything --immigrants eating your cats and dogs -- nuclear armed suicide bombers in your supermarket -- batshit threat inflation scenarios -- to advance his own ambitions.
Mar 26
Vance suggests Iran could have used nuclear suicide vests: “You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, and they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest is not something that can kill a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”
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Singapore's FM. Very blunt on Trump:
- "the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor"
- "the entire global economy has been taken hostage and we will all pay a price on hostilities"
mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/press-st…
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Reuters confirms why I’ve been saying: the U.S. has been allowing fuel in to Cuban private businesses like foreign-operated hotels but barring it from hospitals and other publicly run institutions.
I’m sure that the NYT and The Free Press, which produced entire articles about Hasan Piker’s hotel, will do a follow up now
Exclusive: US ramps up fuel exports to Cuba's private sector reuters.com/business/energy/…
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Mar 25
In a new major report, the World Bank conceded that its decades-long war on industrial policy was wrong, saying its old advice “has not aged well — it has the practical value of a floppy disk today.”
But this is not an intellectual awakening.
The World Bank's doctrine shifted because the means through which Western nations can maintain their dominance shifted — not because economists suddenly discovered new evidence.
The world’s wealthiest nations are now pursuing industrial policy so openly that it can no longer be denied to the rest of the world.
When the geopolitical winds shift, so does the ideology of institutions where wealthy nations' interests are deeply entrenched.
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Mar 25
A NY Times article reporting that the US helped Ecuador bomb what turned out to be a dairy includes these *very* serious allegations of torture.
Torture _during a military operation in which US personnel participated_.
ALT The farm manager, a 32-year-old man, said soldiers demanded to see the “hidden stashes” on the farm, even as he insisted the farm was simply a farming operation. The workers said the soldiers asked them about specific people they had never heard of. The soldiers let a 66-year-old worker go, then started beating the younger workers, all in their 20s and 30s, they said. One worker said he fainted twice after soldiers dunked him headfirst into a barrel of water and threatened to drown him. The soldiers then loaded four of the workers into a helicopter, poured gasoline on two homes, tool sheds and the cheese-making building, and lit a fire, burning down most of the farm’s structures, according to the workers and a group of residents who arrived after noticing the commotion. Ecuadorean soldiers appeared to fire five shots in the group’s direction as Mr. Garrido, the village board’s vice president, tried to approach to seek answers, according to video recorded by another resident.
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Mar 24
If press reports are accurate, I think the diplomatic proposal put forward by the US is outstanding. It's direct, simple, and to the point:
1. A one-month ceasefire to allow the US and Israel to re-arm, extendable if Israel and the US need additional time to re-arm.
2. Iran unconditionally accepts the US proposal, surrendering its sovereignty, alliances, and ability to defend itself.
3. The war on Iran resumes.
What's not to like?
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Mar 24
The biggest metaphor of life‼️
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We simply need to ignore and shun these Israel-first Democrats. It was always possible to have a modus vivendi with Iran; Obama showed it; Trump destroyed it, with Schumer cheering in the background. Biden green lit Israel's genocide in Gaza allowing Trump back in. Face reality.
Mar 18
I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies.
But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.
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Jason R Weidner retweeted
Mar 17
This is amazing. DHS bought a warehouse in a city called Social Circle, Georgia. When the city council asked DHS how they planned to use the warehouse, DHS refused to answer.
So, the city cut off water and sewer services and put a lock on the water meter, and said that services will remain off “until ICE indicates how water and sewer to the facility will be served without exceeding the limited infrastructure capacity.”
Outstanding. We need more of this! This is how we stop fascism.
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