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Brandon Turner

@bparsonst.bsky.social
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Political Science, Clemson University

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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we've done a lot of dunking on libertarians on here and I have wanted to point out for a long time that while very many *libertarians* revealed themselves to be authoritarians or useful idiots, libertarianism has been *extremely vindicated* in a number of key ways
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
sorry to be that guy, but i cannot fucking believe how much TV a lot of you watch
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i think expanding the court is a bad idea; altering a court whose legitimacy rests on its perceived stability and neutrality bc you think it unduly or unjustly hinders your preferred political program is, i think, both wrong and bad that said, i hope the dems pack the court (or at least reform it)
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two arms marked China and Hegseth clasp over a caption that says "Examining the U.S. military's sensitive parts"
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
inching ever closer to the view that the anti-Pangram crowd is basically telling on itself
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
saw a *lot* of demands for news agencies to suspend white house coverage in light of trump's banning CNN etc from the press pool well, they did it
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
it is worth stepping back occasionally and remarking upon the extent to which deans and administrators of all sorts have turned the job of an academic into **finding and spending** money
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
genuine question: let us agree that departments and, if necessary, faculty senate should be in position to evaluate cases re: what is/isn't germane to course material; speech that seems inappropriate within the university. how do they enforce these evaluations on a faculty member?
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
while i am happy to hear that the administration's latest crackdown on international students will not go into effect today, i do just want to note that, beyond its stupidity and cruelty, it wasted a truly massive amount of time for anyone dealing with international students.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the NYT opinion page has platformed another person with an opinion i don't like
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"trust is difficult to build and comparatively easy to destroy" used to be a conservative axiom
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
before you do a "why isn't the NYT covering this thing" post, go to www_google_com and type in the thing and the letters NYT and see what comes up
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you live anywhere near a uni/college: admission to NCAA women's volleyball is probably free and the vibes are immaculate
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
if you (a) care a lot about hasan piker OR if you (b) think other people care a lot about hasan piker and in fact are ignoring other things happening the world to focus exclusively on him then you are too online
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
reading a 2010 NYT review of a McEwan book "sharp review," i think byline reveal: Walter Kirn 2010 was one million years ago
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It was easy to forget, given her many talents and overwhelming charisma, that she was simply an incredible vocalist. This is not my favorite song of hers, but this might be my single most favorite vocal performance from anyone, anywhere: youtu.be/orfuTrKsYyM?...
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Dolly Parton - Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) (Audio)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the latest round of bluesky-behaving-just-like-twitter (set aside that this has always been the case) reminds one that the single best way to cut out social media toxicity would be developing anti-anonymity norms, moderated or otherwise
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Remember, if you have a Twitter account, you are complicit in fascism and your brain is being turned to fashy mush If you literally run as the member of a party whose official position on eg Castro is illiberal and awful, then you're probably normal and it's just unfortunate
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I forget, is this a "the DSA obviously has nothing to do with actual communism and it's McCarthyist red-baiting to suggest such a thing; DSA is just social democracy which is just left-liberalism" week, or an "in this DSA house we stan Fidel Castro" week? www.dsausa.org/statements/d...
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DSA Commemorates 100 Years of Fidel and Denounces Rubio’s Genocide Against the Cuban People - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Today is the centenary of Fidel Castro, and the Democratic Socialists of America recognize the historic significance of both this day and the man. Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and endures as a s...
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Masha Krupenkin @mashakr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am sorry, but I think this is a very bad take for several reasons. I find it extremely odd that people have decided to rehabilitate Arday, instead of say, pointing to the case of Claudine Gay, who is an excellent political scientist and who *was* unfairly smeared. A couple thoughts (1/n)
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the whole thing is a masterclass from stanley. manages to be wrong about *literally everything* AND to shit all over Durham and Ohio State in the process.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The is blood-boilingly wrong from Jason Stanley. I haven't actually worried about academia during this entire process, until now
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
AI skepticism is fine and good--especially as it relates to artistic/scholarly pursuits--but the current Bluesky trend towards anti-AI as a blanket policy position is mostly very dumb and is precisely the sort of thing Bluesky skeptics warn about to the annoyance of all
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the steady (and surreptitious) adoption of FLOCK cameras by municipal and county governments is very bad.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bluesky understand what an op-ed page is challenge (impossible)
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We're reaching unprecedented levels of Not Reading The Article
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
not telling you who to be mad at, but "mad at the people who cared about the Arday scandal" is just not a serious position
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Woke 1.0" discourse is about as bad as you'd expect, but I'm always struck by the way "sure, there were a few well-meaning vocabulary guides" gets thrown in there remember "Gulf of America"? remember "Freedom Fries"? of course you do! people *hate* that shit!
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
20% of large employer insurers cover elective egg freezing in the US outside of france (as far as i can tell) no socialized health system covers elective freezing
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Guys I get that Ross Douthat and the other guy (Galloway?) are "unremarkable men" and that lends a certain irony, but you get that this irony has literally nothing to do with what they're talking about
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
this is like the tenth time we've done *this specific and stupid discourse*
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i think you're all crazy and i hope we abolish primaries at some point, and i'm looking forward to voting in lockstep with all of you in a few months
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abolish primaries.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can we retire the word "neutrality" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Critics of the AAUP and the Delusions of Neutrality
The AAUP is not and must not be neutral in defense of academic freedom.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I don’t like this one bit. The AAUP doesn’t need to endorse candidates at all. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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AAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate Endorsements
The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good lord. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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AAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate Endorsements
The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I just know I'm gonna get yelled at about this, but since it is squarely within my area of expertise ... Fauci is probably right that Paul has an "unhinged obsession with" him. Nevertheless, that doesn't excuse Fauci from the obligation of testifying truthfully before a Senate committee.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
finally some fresh ideas www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Mayor Mamdani Unveils 30% Discount — Including All Produce, All Meat and Key Pantry Staples — at New Municipal Grocery Stores
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the kyle gordon "spoof" (?) of GRACELAND is just so tired online culture has, collectively, exactly one idea: older people were so fucking cringe
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
i continue to be amazed and, yes, appalled that adults will sit in a room and listen to this man talk about their friend and colleague like this there is no structured space or set of norms on this cursed earth (with the exception of a "roast") where you're supposed to let this stuff slide
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Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A fantastic (and depressing) piece: Administrators love AI not because they’re unaware of student cheating but because they care more about a different goal: letting them operate a university w/fewer instructors. (BTW they stopped caring about the quality of education long ago.)
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
waxahatchee and kevin morby just had a baby, and they announced it on substack big day for educated millennials
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
are we still doing "liberal"? real quick--dismantling the constitutional order, nationalizing the "largest corporations and essential industries," public housing and "universal rent control," abolishing the police--are these liberal reforms? program.dsausa.org
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
keep hearing about these cool left-liberal crossovers but mostly we're talking about stuff like abolishing the Senate and public provision of housing Is it liberal because we're name checking Adam Smith or something
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
muting "Mamdani"
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
conservatives: recognize and embrace "materialism" as one of the central concepts of conservative thinking, or be consigned to embrace ever-crazier mumbo jumbo @janetbufton.ca, yikes lawliberty.org/alexander-du...
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Alexander Dugin’s Platonopolis – Graham McAleer
The Russian ideologue may seem insane, but to fend off his threat, the West should discern the method in his madness.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
an underappreciated reason why so much of the online "conservative" types hate Nolan's ODYSSEY (and Wilson's, and everything else) is that they aren't actually "conservative" in any meaningful sense and, moreover, have no particular insight into or even affection for "western civilization"
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