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Alexandra Filindra

@afilindra.bsky.social
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Award-winning political scientist writing on the historical origins of gun culture and it relationship to political violence. Loves cheese and her kid. In that order. New book: Race, Rights, and Rifles. A Public Voices Fellow.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who gets to be an armed citizen — and who gets to be a citizen at all? Race, Rights, and Rifles follows that question from the Revolution to now, and shows what believing the answer does to democratic commitments. Audiobook on sale through the end of August: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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60% OFF Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million p...
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My 2c based on recent research: the public is complicit in undermining the rule of law. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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Americans’ support for judicial independence may depend on whether they like the judge’s decision | LSE United States Politics and Policy
When a judge’s decision threatens someone’s identity as a racial conservative or liberal, they become less likely to reject the idea of undemocratic penalties for judges.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New paper! www.frontiersin.org/.../fpos.202... Why did Trump gain among non-Whites in 2024? We argue that it is less Christian nationalism and more who counts as a "true American." We show that Ascriptive Republicanism is a stronger predictor of Trump support than CN. #Elections #IdentityPolitics
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/07/2026
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the EU's content moderation rules after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc
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ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the European Union’s content moderation rules after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Mansplaining the Pope.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
An amazing community note. 👇
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
In the latest sign that Florida Republicans will go through with re-gerrymandering the congressional map when they reconvene on April 20 for a special session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, legislators have advanced a bill to delay the candidate filing period from April to June
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Florida closer to delaying candidate qualifying for redistricting
Florida senators moved the congressional candidate qualifying period to allow for redistricting. The House must now agree.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up.
Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.
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Madyson Fitzgerald @maddyfitz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A stellar series from my stellar colleagues @statesnewsroom.com + @stateline.org!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
You know things are bad when the girlfriend threatens to leave and take his tooth fairy money with her.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026
Every CDC scientist involved in this should be held responsible for crimes against human rights
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“The Brazilian response reflects a hard-earned lesson from the comparative study of democratic collapse: early, forceful, and legally grounded intervention is often the only way to stop backsliding once elites signal a willingness to subvert electoral outcomes”
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Kavanaugh stops on immigration enforcement. And revised Kavanaugh stops. To paraphrase Malcolm, I am not a citizen, if Kavanaugh steps are needed to make me a citizen.
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Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 @lindapatch.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
@corybooker.com has the 60-minute CECOT segment available on his channel. Watch it while you can. In other places, Paramount has taken the video down - "copyright," don't you know. Share. The more who witness, the better. youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
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The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Sure. That is DEFINITELY going to WORK. It is in caps, so it is TRUE.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Can we please contextualize this? This shows that support for political violence as measured is thermostatic and expressive. People on the identity extremes express higher support when their side is out of power.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
SUNNY, BALMY DAY in Chicago. It is ALL CAPS, so it is true.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Siri, how do you define self-dealing?
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Attn: Brett Kavanaugh
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AndrewNK @andrewnk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Another #trumptastrophe
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Is trumptastrophe in the dictionary yet? @merriam-webster.com
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
👇👇👇👇 The Catholic Church is responsible for a lot of culture war crap and all the "gender ideology" nonsense. But on this, Leo is on the right side of the line.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/09/2025
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
this is amazing. it's a great ad for Mamdani, obviously, but it's also an honest to god ad for unions and the power of labor.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/08/2025
Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa used 1 BILLION gallons of water in 2024 - enough to supply all of Iowa's residential water for five days. Researchers in water law and policy explain how companies rarely tell the public exactly how much water data centers consume:
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much
In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
You can check out the Boston Public Library’s unbelievable Special Collections in person at the newly renovated reading room: www.bpl.org/special-coll... We’re also working to digitize even more of these treasures & make them searchable & accessible from anywhere in the world. @bpl.boston.gov
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Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI
The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If you full gerrymandering California to the degree that Texas is gerrymandered, how many additional Dem seats would you get?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
👇👇👇👇
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
W.t.f??
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
CORRUPT AS FUCK
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
‼️ Colleagues: If you're prepping for the Fall term, please let me know how I can help & be in touch if you're teaching immigration, free speech/association, Cold War/McCarthyism, or ideological exclusion/deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press
“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Being transgender is not misconduct. These servicemembers have a reliance argument (contract law) that should succeed in court. Otherwise what’s to prevent any admin from just finding arbitrary reason to dismiss military people right before they retire??
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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50% OFF Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million p...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/08/2025
NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."
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Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack
The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@timgalsworthy.bsky.social what's the book on? I have an article that may be of interest!
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
GOP seem to prize power above everything. They are content to rule without challenge over a country that is discredited, whose vaunted institutions are crumbling, and whose economy will decline rapidly as soon as it is clear that data about it have less credibility than Greek numbers in 2012.
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Why would anyone buy US bonds if the statistics on which their value is based is not to be trusted? Destroying the legitimacy of BLS and the Treasury also destroys the legitimacy of the greenback. The dollar is just a piece of paper.
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WIRED @wired.com · 23/07/2025
thanks anne—and we're not done. if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides). so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We have three days to STOP the rescission packate that will kill PEPFAR. All we need is to delay a vote. If it doesn't pass by 18th of July, the bill is dead. CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/06/2025
Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city. The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU
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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Insert into the city?
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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social
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