Father, Grandfather, Professor, Citizen Space Policy, Climate Policy, Transportation Policy, Human Rights, Elections and Electoral Systems ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Hickman https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lzyfsqjyss2pWho lost China? Trump and his Republicans lost China. The Middle Kingdom has also abandoned American for Australian beef. Starting trade wars you are going to lose is stupid. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/soybeans-sacrificed-in-trumps-china-gamble-00583232?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard29 Sep 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzyfsqjyss2phttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lzwt27jjk22iGeoengineering can not "stall" what is already stalled. The UNFCCC has failed as a climate regime. Time to stop pretending that national decision-makers will suddenly come to their senses and save the day. https://davidsuzuki.org/story/costly-geoengineering-schemes-could-stall-real-solutions/29 Sep 2025 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzwt27jjk22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lzw6bayxfc2rTrump is being lobbied by rival foreign policy networks for wars with Venezuela or Iran. Sending troops to Portland obviously plays to a domestic audience of anti-urban conservatives while avoiding the sort of large scale interstate war that he fears going very wrong. #Portland #Venezuela #Iran28 Sep 2025 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzw6bayxfc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lzr5mz6l6223JJ Cale is the perfect soundtrack for THE LOWDOWN https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3128999426 Sep 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzr5mz6l6223https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyziyoe7qs2rNancy Mace pronounces the word 'dignity' as "digny." How undignified.17 Sep 2025 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyziyoe7qs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyoj6jrwkk2rWindshield bias from a Fox affiliate: "female pedestrian was struck by a vehicle." Implicitly attributing agency to vehicles they would never attribute to firearms. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/pedestrian-hit-killed-early-morning-route-50-crash-anne-arundel-maryland13 Sep 2025 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyoj6jrwkk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyoimv7z6k22Conservative extremists only getting a catch-as-catch-can purge and not the violent pogrom they wanted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/12/workers-fired-charlie-kirk-reaction-online/13 Sep 2025 00:14 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyoimv7z6k22https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lylisg5eek2yThis is a good moment to read or reread Amy Knight's brilliant take on one of the most important assassinations of the 20th c.11 Sep 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lylisg5eek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyhh7l7ied2nNepal has the attention of activists in 2025 as Bangladesh and Uganda did in 2024. Regimes around the planet have been implementing three urbanisms to protect themselves from protest turned riot since the mid-20th c. #Nepal https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389596309_Dispersal_isolation_and_surveillance_Regime_survival_urbanisms_in_the_21st_century10 Sep 2025 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyhh7l7ied2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyg6fkg7xc2rDemocratic Party Establishment once again unable to think beyond the same faces and ideas https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/09/mamdani-takes-lead-nyc-mayor-poll-0055195209 Sep 2025 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyg6fkg7xc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lxzcgtvmyk2zFun to know that a vulgar transhumanism informs the musings of the two biggest dogs of authoritarian Asia. Also unsurprising. #Putin #Xi #globalpolitics https://www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-putin-discuss-immortality-life-prolonging-organ-transplants-beijing-parade-china/04 Sep 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzcgtvmyk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lxy6hnzlnc2xHas been a long time, too long, since Romana Didulo was in the news. Always entertaining. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rcmp-richmound-didulo-1.762403804 Sep 2025 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxy6hnzlnc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lxryotu4jc2mAlmost every POTUS wages war. Trump wants a war just big enough to rally public opinion. Problems: 1) keeping the war small; 2) 'Rally Round the Flag Effect' isn't quite what it used to be. #peace #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-builds-up-forces-caribbean-officials-experts-ask-why-2025-08-29/01 Sep 2025 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxryotu4jc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lxphd5xpw225As the early 21st century's 'least of the great powers', India rationally values predictable relationships with other great powers. The USA under Trump is unpredictable. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrwv0egzro31 Aug 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxphd5xpw225https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lwx5ulu5dc2kWINDSHIELD BIAS pops up in the third paragraph where the vehicle is assigned implicit agency: "pedestrian had been struck by the suspect’s vehicle" https://www.kpax.com/news/crime-and-courts/investigation-continues-after-pedestrian-killed-by-vehicle-in-kalispell?fbclid=IwY2xjawMUkoJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHosVu8wKRRKQQSA5oEoIDAX-suMfrmpL8ZdjiNEZeLcQBn9SxgKsDHxjncSX_aem_n-vWTPnbTqKwXvrphsn2BQ22 Aug 2025 00:05 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwx5ulu5dc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lwwciounnc2hhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/394753204_Mathematical_models_to_characterize_the_early_phase_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_Mexico_USA21 Aug 2025 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwciounnc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/spacepolitics.bsky.social/post/3lwwcgco7ek2h21 Aug 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:d2ntctfx2sdpudxwfnyjsblu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwcgco7ek2h