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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d watch this! Especially if there was an Our Flag Means Death episode

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If we can’t get rid of super PACs, we at least need a law that makes them disclose their donors, amounts, dates, etc

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Shhhhh… we don’t want them to find out about Wolftrap and ruin that, too!

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

World’s largest outdoor screening of My Cousin Vinny

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Truck driver on one side and high school teacher/farmer on the other side.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Somebody’s trying to save their job!

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Someday we’ll be good at the same time and it will be glorious

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I mean… not ALL teams across the commonwealth had great years. But I’m happy for JMU and UVA 🦃🦃🦃

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#OpenAccess from August 2025 - Principled Pragmatism: Big Business and Campaign Contributions After January 6 - cup.org/4l99G7Z - @amydmeli.bsky.social & @fgawehns.bsky.social #Jan6

BJPolS abstract analyzing how financial contributions to legislators from Fortune 500 companies change in response to the policymakers' involvement in election result disputes and accountability violations.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Feeling overwhelmed? Despair? Unending urgency? My friends feeling this… a few things...🧵 1/6

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Oh, that’s rough. What’s the point of preregistration, again?

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Thanks to the Consortium on American Political Economy for awarding me a grant to fund my research project on labor unions and partisanship! I'm excited to work with this group of scholars. You can read more about my research here: www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/grant-projec...

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CAPE Funded Research | Policy or Politics? Labor Unions in a Polarized America

Research Project | Sep 08, 2025

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Florian Gawehns @fgawehns.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New in BJPS: @amydmeli.bsky.social and I investigate how Fortune 500 companies changed their 💰 after Jan 6. We find that they balance the interests of their two audiences by sending signals of disapproval towards those who violate established norms while continuing to lobby key lawmakers.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I’m in the middle of chemo treatments for breast cancer, and I feel every bit of this. Thank you for sharing your story.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

But he’d rather we get jobs putting tiny screws into phones 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

That cross is going to burn right off of her chest someday

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Goddamn if that doesn’t look like a concentration camp

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

At first I thought the photo was of ppl giving nazi salutes 🙃

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I’m thrilled that our paper, “Principled Pragmatism: Access-Oriented Interest Groups and Campaign Contributions After January 6,” coauthored with Florian Gawehns, has been conditionally accepted for publication in @bjpols.bsky.social. We’re looking forward to sharing this with the world!

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This man is a walking, (unfortunately) talking Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My son is home for spring break, so we spent a few hours today running around the monuments, eating all the food, and enjoying the sunshine. And of course we came upon some protesters along the way. I love this place so much.

Trans right demonstration on the Capitol grounds

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 21/02/2025

Congress can reassert its Article I prerogatives--such as its Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 prerogative to "To establish Post Offices and post Roads"--any time it pleases Again, the fatal flaw in the Founders' design is the assumption no branch would roll over for another bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

June is hot on the East coast! Maybe Minnesota?

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How does half of people get interpreted as “few?”

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

He called him “the glue,” didn’t he?

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Even if some were to leave Northern VA, I fail to see how a massive, Trump-linked recession in Virginia could be good for the GOP in elections over the next few years. Dems will be pissed & activated. The economy is going to be in the tank, so the “cost of eggs” voters won’t be happy either.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Update — the order now extends nationwide:

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Virginians -- since our AG Jason Miyares didn't sue, the judges order doesn't apply to us. He's up for re-election this year...

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

IMP FYI for my readers & friends. Keep your eyes on this - and activate clergy & lay leaders to resist, protest and speak out: "Trump and his allies are widening their attacks on religious groups compassionate toward immigrants, refugees, the poor and LGBTQ people." baptistnews.com/article/maga...

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MAGA ramps up attacks on US Christian groups

Donald Trump and his allies are widening their attacks on religious groups compassionate toward immigrants, refugees, the poor and LGBTQ people. The Catholic and Episcopal churches have faced the heat...

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Are they trying to start a recession? It seems like they are

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Campaign Finance Research Group of APSA @cfrg-of-apsa.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We're a research group within the American Political Science Association focused on campaign finance and policy and the role of money in politics. If you do campaign research or want to learn more about it, follow us! And if you're an APSA member, you can join us for free on the APSA website.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Also- a church that doesn’t ordain women is too feminine?

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’ve never been asked to review anything ever 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Goad (Legal Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Good morning fellow legal experts. I am back at the Virginia General Assembly Building in Richmond for the Senate Committee Courts of Justice meeting. Based on today's docket, I'm calling it Fentanyl Day. Quite a few bills from Republicans about stronger criminal penalties.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

These are fun! If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. Translator 2. German/International Studies 3. Polisci/Communication Studies 4. Political Scientist

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

She knew she was making herself a target when she said those things, as other prophetic voices have done for many years. This is what real Christianity should look like.

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Amy Meli @amydmeli.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What’s that movie where the bad guy releases all the worst people from prison and then they form and army and attack the good guys?

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