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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026

🚨 FACT: There is a federal criminal law that prohibits any armed agent of the federal government from being at the polls. There is only one exception. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is so batshit to argue that the states should be denied because they used the court system and it took a while.

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Democrats could win in November. Here's why that's bad for Democrats." Just can't help themselves.

CNN headline: "Democrats might win in the midterms — but a whole new set of problems awaits."

Lede: "Frustrations on the left preview pressures that await if the party can flip the House next year."

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 UC Berkeley GSPP is hiring a postdoc. Focus is on using quant-causal methods to study immigration in the US, working with my star colleague @caitlinpatler.bsky.social aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505

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PostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"The police investigated themselves and found no problems" I'm not sure why this continues to be a defense against abuse of power.

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New article dropped! Worked with a group of wonderful colleagues to look into violence among a low prevalence population that gets overlooked. 'Exploring gender-based violence experiences of LGBTQIA+ migrant youth in Canada.' Journal of Gender-based Violence doi.org/10.1332/2398...

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm not really prepared to pay $60 to see the Mountain Goats. Granted, the few times I saw Darnielle were like in 2002, but still.

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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is like that Tom Holland video. Have to watch it every time it comes around.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That picture…

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Great argument against the "tolerance paradox," describing tolerance instead as a peace treaty, that when broken, nullifies the need for both sides to observe it.

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Tolerance is not a moral precept

The title of this essay should disturb you. We have been brought up to believe that tolerating other people is one of the things you do if…

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds

A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Does Riot Fest have Teddy Duchamp's Army? Does Riot Fest have Sleepytime Trio? Does Riot Fest have Small Brown Bike? I think not.

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Implementation Science Journals @implementsci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨Opportunity to join the Implementation Science journals family! The #impsci journals are seeking a Social Media Editor to join our esteemed Editorial Board and increase the visibility, reach, and impact of our research. 👉Apply here now: link.springer.com/journal/1301... #implementationscience

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Implementation Science

Implementation Science is a pioneering, highly-accessed journal dedicated to publishing evidence regarding methods for promoting the uptake of consolidated ...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My student loan payments just went up 2900%. I hate it here.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

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Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding

The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/03/2026

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Food combinations that are greater than the sum of their parts: Coffee and chocolate chip cookies

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I miss Seattle. "You wanna go see Team Dresch play at the zoo?" is a question that happens.

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

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Anna Posbergh @annaposbergh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw. I withdrew.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

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Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

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Christopher Fleming @cmfleming.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I'm not a religious person and I understand the gross power dynamics of the event itself, but it still feels like lying a lot at something called the 'national prayer breakfast' should be frowned upon?

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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/01/2026

Reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Here's the video interview with the women who got arrested by ICE, saved the ICE agent's life after he had a seizure (because the other ICE agents didn't help him) and then got rearrested. youtu.be/atY_aW3isYk?...

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Woman detained after helping ICE agent

YouTube video by KARE 11

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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...