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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&#8212;approximately 86 million p...

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am not sure if faculty encourage it. In my experience, many foreign students express an interest in studying their region and i often have to explain why it is a good idea to also study US politics. I was exactly that graduate student.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I will repost but it is free online

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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 · 30/07/2026

Where does he stand relative to roaches? Or Congress? Same thing.

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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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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Filter out of the Evangelical question non-protestants.

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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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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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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Accidentally firing his ass, perhaps. Give that it was holstered in his back. They have no shame.

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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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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It was because it is very difficult to keep a fractionaluzed coalition together and technocratic, deracialized populism was the lowest common denominator. The problem is that it lacks the emotional energy required to mobilize.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Translation: we will kill more innocent people who want to exercise their rights and protect their neighbors.

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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 · 18/12/2025

So, "I would have generalized, not singled out one threat. There were many creeps."

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

That's right! It is not identity politics when a white man with limited credentials holds the job. He earned it. Like everything DT has done is earned.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Hey, give him some grace! The penmanship is fantastic!

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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

"Stock". Nice. Show me you know your eugenics without bringing up eugenics.

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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 · 30/11/2025

Is the floor oak or pine? There is a difference.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Siri, how do you define self-dealing?

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Trump will die one day. Trumpism is much more difficult to suppress because elites have learned that there are no limits and SCOTUS reinforces that notion. Will the "silent majority" the 60-65% of Americans who reject Trump, assert themselves? The time is now.

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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

bsky.app/profile/eva....

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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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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Is there a mirror in front of him?

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Where is the link to this, please?

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