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Helen M Kinsella

@hmkinsella.bsky.social
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U of MN Political Science & Law, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, HHH School of Public Policy: gender, laws of war, violence. Feminist. She/her Minneapolis, MN. helenmkinsella.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump's eyes are getting very heavy
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Helen M Kinsella @hmkinsella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The more we buy into the logic that academia needs to be more like "the real world"--the more we buy into the idea that all we're doing is training students to go out and be good workers--the less we are fulfilling any sort of distinct mission, and the less exciting our work is our students.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From the group that told Tim Walz to stop calling Republicans weird:
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They already made it almost impossible to finish a PhD as an international student, and to come here on a work visa. Now this, a huge deterrent to institutional support of int. students finding US-based work after graduating. I guess white nationalism is worth economic collapse
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Congrats again to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After 18 years of litigation, the Fourth Circuit just wiped away a $42 million jury verdict against CACI for its role in torture at Abu Ghraib—a verdict the same court had *affirmed* earlier this year. Why? Because of #SCOTUS's 6-3 June 23 ruling in Cisco, which eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute:
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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The world’s leading crop art website did a feature on resistance crop art this year: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Russell Vought has been deleting some of your comments on the proposed OMB rule to politicize grantmaking. Particularly ones that mention him by name and that his daughter was treated for CF with an NIH-funded therapeutic.
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Again, <no one> knows the "right" amount of viewpoint diversity, & it is impossible to have full-political spectrum viewpoint diversity & remain serious academic institutions, in a world where one of our two party has totally collapsed into far right authoritarianism: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 21/08/2026
Trump is raising Minnesotans’ bills because they voted against him three times. www.twincities.com/2026/08/18/m...
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Minnesota grant cancellations political, Trump administration concedes
The Trump administration admitted it canceled more than $7.5 billion in federal grants last October “based solely” on whether the projects were planned in Democratic states.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I am not surprised that Curtis Yarvin and Elon Musk — two incredibly dumb men who want to be seen as geniuses — want to destroy all of academia.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 21/08/2026
Thank you to @wcconews.bsky.social for covering the news that we observed our 5,000th detainee boarding at ICE flight at MSP this week.
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5,000th ICE detainee flown from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, flight tracker says
"These are mothers who aren't going to be home tonight for bedtime snuggles with their kids," said Nick Benson.
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Karima Bennoune @profkarimabennoune.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The International Declaration on #GenderApartheid was launched this week as a message of solidarity with women from #Afghanistan on the sad 5th anniversary of the #Taliban takeover & of their brave resistance to it & as a tool for the ongoing struggle genderapartheiddeclaration.org 🧵
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Declaration on Gender Apartheid
In August 2026, to mark the fifth anniversary of repressive Taliban rule and Afghan women’s resistance to it, a distinguished group of international human rights and legal experts - from Afghanistan, ...
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
Trump: "Nobody knows that 'dumb' doesn't have a B" (Dear reader, it has a B)
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off. 

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"...it neatly exposes MAGA’s real position: Mass deportations must be carried out even if they hurt the economy." If you force MAGA to choose between the economy and white supremacy, they're choosing the latter every single damn time, and they'll somehow still get portrayed as "pocketbook voters."
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Erik Ostrom @erikostrom.com · 03/08/2026
Twin Cities friends, note that Earthbound Farms is a subsidiary of Taylor Farms, and their products are carried by the food co-ops.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
AWFUL. Ordering ICE to target an ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy. TPS recipients are the most vetted immigrants here. They have to pass background checks every 18 months. Most Haitians with TPS entered legally also!
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some LOAC issues raised by Trump’s latest version of this threat: —threat of indiscriminate attacks (not against specific military objectives) —threat of attacks against civilian objects (not all those targets will be military obj) —threat of violence intended to terrorize civilian population
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
How about this. No one should go hungry. No one should go unhoused. No one should go without dental and medical care. Or education. Or mental health care. Or whatever they need to live a good life. We don’t need billionaires.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Good article that identifies Joe Gebbia and the National Design Studio as the spirtual heirs of DOGE but also fail to mention that Gebbia posts white nationalist messaging daily. Is that no longer notable? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.
The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/07/2026
Trans people have always and will always exist. Gender-affirming care is incredibly important. It should be a decision between individuals, families, and doctors — not the government.
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The absolute meanest thing I have to say about Ilan Wurman is that he's not stupid. He knows what the law is, he knows what is happening, and he knows what he's doing.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 13/07/2026
#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - Enumerating Civilian Harm: Experience, Ethics, and Erasure - cup.org/4gvGDwL - @tom-gregory.bsky.social, Craig Jones, @hmkinsella.bsky.social, Nisha Shah & Lina Aburas #FirstView
Logo for 'Ethics & International Affairs' with the hashtag '#OpenAccess' on a geometric background.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...
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Cities, states warn of credit impact from proposed federal grant rule
Discretionary termination of grants allowed under the rule would pose a particular risk, issuer advocates said.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Absolute bullshit. They got $30 billion last year. They just killed a father, husband, and business owner and they’re smugly politicking. Shameless and unacceptable.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We're headed towards the largest loss of health insurance coverage in US history. Along with millions losing Medicaid, Obamacare private plans are entering a death spiral--reduced federal subsidies pushed people out, and with falling enrollment, prices rise even higher www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | Obamacare Insurers Seek Big Rate Hikes, Again
Affordable Care Act plans are citing rising healthcare costs and falling enrollment.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So with an extra dollop of illegality on top. (Proportionally is a key requirement of both jus ad bellum and jus in bello.)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2026
the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like
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