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Consuelo Amat

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SNF Agora Institute Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Views my own.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Once again thinking about this excellent @iojournal.bsky.social article by @sch-ir.bsky.social, for no particular reason. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Assault on Civil Society: Explaining State Crackdown on NGOs | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The Assault on Civil Society: Explaining State Crackdown on NGOs - Volume 76 Issue 3
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Political Science @ JHU @poli-sci-jhu.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Professors @lkspence.bsky.social , @aklawrence.bsky.social , @adamsheingate.bsky.social , @consueloamat.bsky.social and Matthew Kocher organize discussions about democracy in public library branches in Baltimore County as part of the civic engagement initiative “How Do Democracies Survive?”
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Checking out Democracy - Arts & Sciences Magazine
Faculty members from the Department of Political Science visited public libraries to engage local communities and discuss historical context about the fragility of democracies around the world.
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Finn Klebe @finnklebe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
On Friday 12 Sep at 10am @consueloamat.bsky.social and I share new work on the varying logics of org. alliances in nonviolent resistance movements and their impact on prospects for democratization. Looking forward to 5 papers and our amazing discussants @Jess Braithwaite and @janakrause.bsky.social
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
For those outside NYC, Brad Lander isn’t just a mayor candidate, he’s also the NYC Comptroller—the chief financial officer and auditor of the biggest city in the country.
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U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org · 13/06/2025
👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.
Message and screenshot of the www.usip.org homepage, featuring a photo of the USIP headquarters building.
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Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In today’s thread, we will revisit the articles published in Issue 3 of our 2024 volume. We hope you enjoy reading them! #polisky #socialscience #ComparativePolitics #academicsky
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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Trump has handed a free gift to Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Tsinghua, Sciences Po and many other universities who will gladly enroll the tuition-paying foreign students who hoped to study in the US and are now barred. No surer way to make America weaker, poorer, and less influential abroad.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/05/2025
from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
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Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.friendsofusip.org
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Friends of USIP
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“When she asked a local librarian about the Bells, the family that had enslaved Nancy: “Now be careful,” the woman told Jones. “What you’re saying implicates one of Danville’s most important families.” hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
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In 'The Trouble of Color,' historian Martha Jones explores race by digging into her own ancestry
In <em>The Trouble of Color</em>, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family history
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This liberation stuff reminds me of an old Polish joke: The Soviet, they liberated us. They liberated us from meat, they liberated us from milk, they liberated us from everything.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I guess the time has come to introduce Americans and everyone else currently in the US to the old Soviet joke that the USSR had freedom of speech but not necessarily the freedom after speech
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Stanford CDDRL @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📢 Today marks 100 days since the arbitrary detention of Jesús Armas, one of our 2022 Summer Fellows, who remains in isolation at El Helicoide. His case underscores the ongoing human rights crisis in Venezuela. We call for his immediate release. #FreeJesúsArmas #LibertadParaTodosLosPresosPolíticos
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Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is what we are living through: wapo.st/42dj8kl
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DOGE plays hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace takeover
DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, took over the U.S. Institute of Peace after threatening its officials with criminal prosecution.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Wow
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18/03/2025
Georgetown has put together resources for federal workers who may be facing a transition in jobs. These include various seminars and workshops, as well as tuition scholarships providing a discount on many master's programs and certificates. Please spread the word to anybody who might benefit.
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Federal Workforce Transition Resources - Georgetown Graduate School
The Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering resources to assist in federal workforce transitions. Check out our career seminars to learn more.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm....
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
UK PM Starmer to Zelensky: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/02/2025
A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the alternative to the Trump-aligned CPAC was evacuated after a death threat made against several of its speakers who have been critical of President Donald Trump.
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Political conference in DC interrupted by death threats against speakers critical of Trump | CNN Politics
A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the alternative to the Trump-aligned CPAC was evacuated on Sunday after a death threat made against several of its speakers who have been...
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abel @abelwithatable.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽
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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Even after all this time, we should never, ever forget how shocking headlines like this are.
Headline reports he blames Ukraine for the war and calls Zelenskyy a dictator. Top of Trumps head visible. You can tell from the hair.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This should go without saying, but none of this is about efficiency; it’s about breaking the wills of anyone earnest enough to view public service as a worthy calling and, by extension, to undercut the draw of service for a generation.
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
1/Trump Media sues Brazilian Judge as court considers coup plot by Bolsonaro. Read: Long arm of US law used not to promote democracy or human rights but far right nationalism. Stunning turn both for US role in the world and how US law might work in that new paradigm. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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Trump Media Group Sues Brazilian Judge Weighing Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
The lawsuit came hours after the justice received an indictment of Brazil’s former president, who is an ally of President Trump.
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Just published on APSR First View: "Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia" by Erica DeBruin, Gabriella Levy, Livia Schubiger and Michael Weintraub. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Facts are hard www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Fact-checking Trump and Musk's claims that they are cutting government 'fraud and abuse'
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump say they have uncovered massive "fraud" in the federal government. But the projects the White House points to are largely ones that the administration disagrees wi...
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Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Will the Supreme Court constrain the wild Trump?
I wouldn’t bet on it.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
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Political science statement.pdf
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/02/2025
The @telegraphnews.bsky.social says it has the document Zelensky was asked to sign www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
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Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Wow. Hats off to Hagan Scotten.
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14/02/2025
Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
The series of events — in which the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department seemed to guide criminal defense lawyers toward a rationale for dropping charges against a high-profile client — represents an extraordinary shattering of norms for an agency charged with enforcing the laws of the United States.

It also sends a message that, under the Trump administration, the Justice Department will make prosecutorial decisions based not on the merits of a case but on purely political concerns, longtime prosecutors and defense lawyers said.

Prompted by Mr. Bove, the mayor’s lawyers refined their approach until they landed on a highly unorthodox argument, records and interviews show — one that was ultimately reflected in Mr. Bove’s memo to prosecutors on Monday. That memo stated that the criminal case had “unduly restricted Mayor Adams’s ability” to address illegal immigration and violent crime. It also pointedly said that the decision had nothing to do with the evidence or the law.
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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
At least the FT gets the headline right
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
More of this please. And not just in internal emails. hub.jhu.edu/2025/02/11/n...
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Johns Hopkins leaders: NIH cuts put lifesaving medical research and care at immediate risk
University joins lawsuit to halt NIH funding cuts, which jeopardize discoveries, treatments for a range of diseases and illnesses
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Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10/02/2025
Trump orders halt to enforcement of US anti-corruption law www.ft.com/content/f880bfc3-6069-42…
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Trump orders halt to enforcement of US anti-corruption law
US president says move will ‘mean a lot more business for America’
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of  Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
FOUR DEADLY PLANE CRASHES IN FOUR WEEKS: One dead, four hospitalized after two jets collide on runway at Scottsdale, Arizona airport.
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1 dead, 4 hospitalized after two planes crash on runway at Scottsdale Airport
At around 2:30 p.m., Scottsdale officials say a plane crashed but have not confirmed any injuries.
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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law.

We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.
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Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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The Case For USAID
It does us, and others, a world of good
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way.“ www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
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