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Lilly J. Goren

@gorenlj.bsky.social
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Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h
Jesus. I hadn’t even thought about this. This footage is absolutely going to become a meme—the first US government snuff film to be streamed to everyone’s pockets
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23h
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23h
I really hope the NYT is going to update this story because it does readers a disservice to report this event without mentioning Trump’s long history of deranged and racist attacks on Somali-Americans and on Ilhan Omar in particular. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Important 🧵from @jacobtlevy.bsky.social on not being on the other website.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There’s a reason that campaign finance reform was one of the first reforms after Watergate.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Will never not be shocking...
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think it goes back earlier, but agree with this thesis.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my discussion at Boswell Books in Milwaukee with @gorenlj.bsky.social is now available to watch on C-SPAN. www.c-span.org/program/the-...
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The abstraction of a woman’s life. Justice Alito can go jump in the lake.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please show me the statutory or constitutional authority that this man holds to do anything that he is actually doing
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your readers are looking forward to whatever you produce, whenever you produce it. Life is complicated.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Republicans are terrible at making groceries and gas affordable, but they’re extremely gifted at inventing crackpot theories that don’t help anyone in any way.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘The Accused’ Oral History: A Brutal Rape Scene, Traumatized Actors and Producers’ Fights to Make the Movie
Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Sherry Lansing and others reveal the epic backstory of the 1988 film that gave voice to sexual assault victims.
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ill-Kay azis-Nay! @knaverupe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's an especial benchmark of hypocrisy that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have repeatedly injected themselves into politics by criticizing Catholic Democrats who are pro-choice, but have never denied Communion to politicians that support execution (which the Church opposes.)
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.com
ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Madlibs World
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Rick Scott on AI: "Congress can't regulate this. We can't get election security passed or pass a budget, so we're not gonna be the ones to do it. It's gonna have to be done through the administration with talking to these AI companies."
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excellent 🧵on labor organizing, race, racial violence, and, of course power in the United States.
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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To bottom line this for you, the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to deport people without giving them a hearing, and said "we will consider next year whether this violated the laws against torture". They think it's worse to make Trump wait than risk him torturing people.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Third-Country Deportations, for Now
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s remember that Sen. Eric Schmitt is a white nationalist who employs other white nationalists while spreading white nationalist/racist conspiracy theories. missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/m... White supremacists never fail to demonstrate how they’re inferior:
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any chance you might be willing to chat with me about the book on the new books in political science channel on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social? Please 🙏
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
A bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials — including the Kennedy Center — was blocked Monday night in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
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GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center
The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The plan is unconstitutional, the acting on it a crime, the actors requiring impeachment and prosecution.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Critical reporting by @theguardian.com: The SS goes stealth. Their quiet crimes are all around us. Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
of course!
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From lantern laws to Black Codes to COINTELPRO to today: facial recognition turns the border into "a network of surveillance that digitizes colonial logic and sorts bodies into categories of belonging and threat along racial lines," argue Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.
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Black Migrants Bear Brunt of ICE's Facial Recognition Push
The racialized, uneven consequences of these technologies often go unscrutinized, write Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish we weren’t in this timeline.
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