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Christopher Fariss

@cjfariss.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. cjfariss.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 31/10/2025
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.” americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
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Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do. Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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US withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocates
The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from Washington's global engagement on rights and justice issues.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
May infamy follow him for the rest of his days. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Rubio recasts long-held beliefs with cuts to U.S. human rights reports
The State Department’s annual human rights reports arrive a half-year late with significant cuts and little fanfare from America’s top diplomat.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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American National Election Studies @electionstudies.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If we know where they were sent, but it isn’t to detention: exile. If we know where they are & it’s in detention: extraordinary rendition. If we don’t know where they are, but we know someone’s holding them: kidnapping. Otherwise, if we don’t know where they are: disappearance.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Heparin is just like an iPhone, except it's a bit more compact and you use it to prevent blood clots instead.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A good reminder to follow everything Eunji Kim does. She is so smart and just has an intuitive understanding of how people engage with entertainment media. She’s also hilarious. oh and her new book is coming out in a month: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The American Mirage
How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in America
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Kenny Lowande @lowande.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As someone educated outside the elite doctoral programs, EITM was huge for me. If you want to be good enough at finding stuff out (i.e., "research") to be paid to do it, there's no substitute for being around the best of the best and trying to learn from them.
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Monika Nalepa @monikanalepa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This year we will be in Michigan in August. Apply if you are midway through your PhD program in the social sciences to learn from the best in the discipline how theory and empirical methods come together!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I knew Dan Drezner when his headings were like "Sanctions work somewhat better than you think."
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A competent Democratic Party would have this clip all over the airwaves and social media inside of 24 hours.
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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'll be moderating a panel on Birth Right Citizenship at @umfordschool.bsky.social (and try to bring a comparative perspective). The panel includes legal scholars and historians (see below), join us on FRIDAY March 28th! fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/c...
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Current and Historical Challenges to Birthright Citizenship
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect, even as the initial executive order is blocked nationwide by three federal a...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 15/03/2025
Great way to advertise the book 👍🏼 I didn't know about it but now I do and immediately bought the book. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
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Ex-Facebook Employee Is Blocked From Promoting Tell-All Memoir
Meta has forcefully denied the allegations in a new memoir, “Careless People.” Now, an arbitrator has prohibited the author from distributing it.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 15/03/2025
They will not stop until Americans stand up to them. Today, the Senate Democrats failed that test. Tomorrow, I hope that the rest of us come together to defend our values and principles.
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
vote your vote, but don't lie to constituents. have some fucking dignity.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
...topics such as the Civil War..."??? It literally became a national cemetery *because of the Civil War. We're not a serious country. Or, more accurately, this isn't a serious government
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/03/2025
Trump and Republicans set this up as an unprecedented power grab so they can slash and burn government services on their terms. I’m a firm NO — on cloture and final passage — on this ‘CR’
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Again, if university presidents/leaders want to shape public opinion & the politics of the moment, rather than idly sitting by why Trump destroys free speech & dismantles the entire business model of 🇺🇸 higher education, here is the opportunity to do that. Loudly. Collectively. Publicly. Immediately.
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Finn Klebe @finnklebe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Last week, I presented at my final Conflict & Change PhD Workshop @uclspp.bsky.social. Once again, ECRs from around the world shared their projects. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have been involved as both an organizer and a presenter from the beginning of my PhD! Hope to come back someday. 🙂
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Christopher Fariss @cjfariss.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We find similar evidence from residence of Texas across two different types of natural disasters: doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
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Disaster experience mitigates the partisan divide on climate change: Evidence from Texas
Despite the abundance of real world events and scientific information linking the worsening extreme weather to climate change, public attitudes toward…
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Another paper showing climate shocks lead to support for climate action among conservatives. Analyzing data collected in Florida, the paper finds Republican positions change after personally experiencing loss from climate-exacerbated extreme events. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
You are referring to them criticizing what you’ve done around U.S.A.I.D. by saying foreign aid is not good territory for Democrats to fight for?
Yeah. And you think I don’t know that foreign aid is not as popular as Medicaid? Of course I know that. But there are going to be mass deaths from malaria and H.I.V./aids and other preventable diseases and conditions because of what the United States is doing. So do I have to be thoughtful and sometimes clever about how we go about communicating that? Yes. Am I going to wait for a more popular program? No, because what they are doing here is ignoring a federal law.
Which federal law are you talking about?
The Foreign Assistance Act, and then, of course, every appropriations bill that funds the State Department and foreign-ops budget. They’re ignoring multiple federal laws. And I’m just—excuse me for being quaint about this—but I’m not going to just gloss over that and wait until they touch the Affordable Care Act. That’s the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess. We are constantly being told that something isn’t polling well enough yet. And one of the things that Republicans do well is not allow their pollsters to tell them everything. They invent whole stories and then the polling follows.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Every headline about USAID that does not say "illegal" or "unconstitutional" is a failure
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
that's my basic approach, and i'm not gonna BS them, and if i get evals that complain i was biased, honestly wtf is the point of being a full professor if i can't give my honest assessment of the situation
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Team Trump: An Unholy Gathering of Liars, Dimwits & Lackeys. There is a toolkit embedded in this post with clips from all of their hearings! Please share. Make sure America knows how unqualified and unfit these people are!
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Team Trump: An Unholy Gathering of Liars, Dimwits & Lackeys
Cabinet picks, security advisors, political appointees, oh my!
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/
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Dave Calder @ldsfn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If apostles of Jesus are on the earth, they'd sound like Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde.
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Keith Schnakenberg @keithschnak.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I love this paper
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb. Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
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HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In case you missed it, I wrote an essay for Wired about the weird wonderful world of HTML programming. Includes some digressions into breaking tags, my quiet love of building my own EPUBs, and an argument for why HTML is the most important computing language ever. www.wired.com/story/html-i...
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HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.
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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
@umisrcps.bsky.social now has its own starter pack. Follow all for insights from our affiliates and signature projects, including the ANES. Comment to be added! go.bsky.app/TfMekNA
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Megan A. Stewart @meganastewart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Junior scholars, consider applying if you’re interested! Happy to answer questions you might have!
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Joakim Kreutz @joakimkreutz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It's been a year since I bragged about the article "The women and men that make peace" (and that wasn't on bluesky) but now it is formally available - Open access - in Journal of Peace Research... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, I've been reading up on the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease. As well as being a monumental humanitarian achievement, it's also a fascinating lens into the progression (or otherwise) of data visualization... 🧵
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🎊 We're proud to share the first publication from @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social. The findings in this 🧵, which show how internet access mattered for COVID outcomes, are reported just as net neutrality has been struck down in federal court. @umisr.bsky.social #UMich
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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🎊 Justine Davis and Martha Wilfahrt won the @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social Best Article Award for work on the human dimensions of survey research; they show how enumerators experience insecurity and material challenges when collecting public opinion data, especially in post-conflict settings.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024
God i love @propublica.org so much
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
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