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Prof of international relations @UofLdops. Pictured: bridge with blue sky backdrop. For personal tweets about ⚾️🎦🏀🍺📚🗳️ follow @rapayn01

Louisville, KY
Joined March 2011
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"This matter in my opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security."
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FOR THE LAST TIME FOREIGNERS AREN'T PAYING THE TARIFFS
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At KU, you don’t have to wait until graduate school to do research 55 students have received Undergraduate Research Awards for the spring semester. The awards of $1,000 each are funding a diverse array of mentored research and creative projects. bit.ly/3SEDPkH
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
○ Barbie movie Budget: $150 million ○ US pledge to the Loss and Damage Climate Fund: $17.5 million #COP28
Replying to @RockSea
7/ Now look at the numbers from the US (annual), the richest country, which is historically the worst greenhouse gas emitter and the largest producer and consumer of oil and gas. US military spending: Above $800 billion US pledge to the L&D climate fund: Below $18 million
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
If folks have to pay to be on this site, then I will stop using it. My purpose for being on this site is to provide FREE & OPEN content about international politics & foreign affairs. I know I'm a small fish in @elonmusk's pond, but that's it my redline axios.com/2023/09/19/musk-x-…
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
A well-known custom of deaning is to punish your home department. If you do this job right, you’re never going back there. And the rest of the college will think you are fair-minded!
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
me and my buddies have invented an app that will completely revolutionize not only the way sisyphus pushes the boulder up the hill but also the way it inevitably rolls back down, and we're currently seeking investments from innovation minded folks in financial angel spaces
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Bill Barr: "I think it's a legitimate case. I don't understand the attacks on the department...for bringing this case...There was very grave wrongdoing here...I think it is unfair to say that this is abuse...The abuse was conducted by Donald Trump."
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
Others have pointed this out, but this renaming is stepping on the exact same rake that got him ousted by PayPal. Wrote about this in my book
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We currently have 62 State Department nominees outstanding with the Senate, including 38 ambassadorial nominees on the Senate floor awaiting confirmation! 35 of these ambo nominees are career foreign service officers. 2/
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If you’d told me that between Barbie and Oppenheimer, one would start online discourse about on-screen age gaps and the other would lead to international controversy rooted in 1940s Asian geopolitics, never in a million years would have I guessed which one would yield which.
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Very pleased to receive my copy of The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs, with my chapter 'NGOs and the Responsibility to Protect.' This book is by far the most expansive and in-depth treatment of the subject. brill.com/display/title/6241… @IntlRela @Brill_Law
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
That story about the AI drone 'killing' its imaginary human operator? The original source being quoted says he 'mis-spoke' and it was a hypothetical thought experiment never actually run by the US Air Force, according to the Royal Aeronautical Society. aerosociety.com/news/highlig…
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Did an AI drone 'kill' its imaginary human operator? The US Air Force Colonel at the centre of the story now says he 'mis-spoke', according to an update from the Royal Aeronautical Society. channel4.com/news/factcheck/…
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
“Some Discord members showed The Washington Post video of Teixiera shouting racist and antisemitic slurs before firing a rifle.” washingtonpost.com/national-…
Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more. Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?
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“ProPublica uncovered the details of Thomas’ travel by drawing from flight records, internal documents distributed to Crow’s employees and interviews with dozens of people ranging from his superyacht’s staff to members of the secretive Bohemian Club” propublica.org/article/clare…
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Rodger A. Payne retweeted
I have posted this before but .. 26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.
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Hey @elonmusk what’s this about blue checks going away unless we pay Twitter? I’ve been here for 15 years giving my ⏰ & witty thoughts all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I have to pay for something you gave me for free? What is this-the Colombia Records & Tape Club?🙄
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