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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen

@alixabeth.bsky.social
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Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at BU and Political Theory Editor at AJPS. 2026-27 Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Safra Ethics Center. I write about immigration, citizenship & the politics of time.

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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quieter but still ugly
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m glad you’re still in the fight.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This book came out 2 weeks before we realized that a pandemic was unfolding. It was not the time to be asking people to rethink immigration enforcement. But I still think daily about how we had a window when maybe we could have done it.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the response is from me it may be 6-9 months even for the queen. 😆
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The sentiment is mutual! That was a fun conversation.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wasn’t wrong!
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This thread has me worried for @nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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Maxwell Palmer @maxwellpalmer.com · 01/09/2026
I'm chairing the search, please reach out with any questions. I'll also be at APSA Th/Fri.
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Maxwell Palmer @maxwellpalmer.com · 01/09/2026
Boston University Political Science is hiring an assistant professor with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (the intersection of artificial intelligence and politics or who use artificial intelligence applications as a methodology). @bupolisci.bsky.social academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32578
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Boston University, Department of Political Science
Job #AJO32578, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, US
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Dr. Matthew Reid Krell @reidkrell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just cited Trump v. Barbara in my current draft and Justice Jackson's concurrence. My only thought is this: citizenship is an incompletely theorized agreement. There's a few things where there's broad consensus, and then others where there isn't.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I am so glad to be back. I missed all of these chats we have!
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We are holding our own here, as much as anyone in higher ed right now. Lots of collegial solidarity. And my mom has finally agreed to try those lenses, though she will surely take her time selecting a provider. Progress! How are you and how is your daughter?
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am indeed back, though blinking my eyes as I adjust to the bright light of reentry.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Flow state… I miss that
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Wow that is amazing. People have so many talents!!
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Omg @yvonnezlam.bsky.social it is wonderful to see you again.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Heyyyy
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
So great to be back in the same space with you Pam!!
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
💜missed you guys too.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Oh no, I am sorry. Miss you too and hope you are ok.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Glad to see social media finally reflecting reality
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I have more power than I realized.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Correlation is not causation, I swear.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Correlation is not causation
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Aw, thank you, Debbie.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My bad. Sorry guys.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Thank you, Anna! I missed you. Congratulations on your book!!!!
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Any day now
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
👋 👋 👋 Apprehensively peeking my head through the curtain to say hello after a year-long hiatus. I missed you guys and I owe a lot of you messages.
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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
International students will stop coming to American universities if their visas are going to be at risk. This will make our intellectual community poorer and also make tuition more expensive for domestic students.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congratulations!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Conservatives and socialists believed in the power and influence of institutions and regarded them as a necessary safeguard against the chaos, injustice and cruelty caused by uncontrolled individualism." Isaiah Berlin, 1949. Could have been written yesterday.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/04/2025
BREAKING: Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework.
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Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session
The Senate plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead
NYT home page: more prominent coverage for "7 Americans React to Sweeping Tariffs" and "A Sticky Miso Salmon Bowl for Busy Weeknights" than for "Anti-Trump Protests in All 50 States"
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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027. Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.
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Hakeem Jeffries threatens lawsuit over delayed Texas special election
One month after Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner's death, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call a special election to fill his seat.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I mean, yes, this is bad, but also, like ... Baserates matter. For most of the market's history, a 2000 point drop would have been like it just got evaporated. Absolute drops aren't the right metric here. (My loyalty to baserates transcends any sort of partisan affiliation.)
Graph of 100 yrs of the stock market. Most of the time, it's below 10,000, if not 5,000.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Others have tried to capture the economic effects of the tariff bomb. Here’s another: Trump has destroyed US diplomacy. Forget the liberal international order. US diplomacy as we knew it is over. Thread: 1/
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In the midst of everything else, don’t miss this story. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
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Republicans Plan to Skirt Senate Rules to Push Through More Tax Cuts (Gift Article)
G.O.P. leaders are planning to use the “nuclear option” to steer around the Senate’s in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The plot thickens, maybe
404 page from Natasha’s link
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Princeton, Tufts, U Mich, Georgetown - some better responses starting to circulate
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Every day cabinet members and GOP leaders are missing a chance to have their great-grandchildren read their names in history books. They could simply say that the mad emperor has no clothes and walk away from a disaster, live on air. And yes, they can afford security.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Everyone needs to call up their Republican members of Congress today & ask them why they’re raising taxes on their own constituents. Make them own this because they do.
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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/04/2025
Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2025
The dam is starting to crack. -4 GOP Senators joined the Dems to rebuke his tariffs -a GOP Senator wrote a WaPo op-ed decrying his attacks on research and higher ed -Rogan & Coulter are questioning his immigration policies -his economic approval dropped to 40% -his right-hand man lost big in WI
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