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Jessica Weeks

@jlpweeks.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Great 🧵 with many links to what political science research & history can tell us about FIRCs:
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Applications for the 2026 Journeys in World Politics workshop (10/1-10/3) in San Diego are being accepted (due 6/1). The workshop features Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor as senior mentors. Christina Schneider is our local host! Visit the site below to apply. www.saramitchell.org/journeys.html
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Scenes from a personalist regime
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A must-read. Argues that once we take into account how much life as a family of 4 actually costs (health + child care, housing), the source of public economic rage is clear. "As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase"- working literally does not pay off.
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our online special issue, The Future of Global Governance and World Order, is out! It features 15 short essays plus the editors' introduction, all #OpenAccess. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #IOFoGG
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Step 1: Use the attached imagery to recruit a certain kind of ICE officer. Step 2: Unleash them on US cities w/few restrictions. Step 3: Call in the national guard to "protect" them from the resulting "insurrections". Having read some things about dictatorships, pretty sure I know what Steps 4+ are.
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Christina Boyes @christinaboyes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Sign here!: forms.gle/pwB8bG7AjgJ8...
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Journeys in World Politics NSF Grant Revocation Appeal
The purpose of this form is to collect signatures for the Journeys in World Politics NSF grant revocation appeal letter. By sharing your contact information below, you indicate that you wish to be inc...
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Alumae: please help us appeal the Journeys termination! Thank you @christinaboyes.bsky.social @sbmitche.bsky.social
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Finally, they’re getting rid of the woke scholars that populate the field of … diplomatic history?
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Excellent article, w/ cause for both fear and hope. Fear: Things "may feel basically normal...but...this is the way it often feels, even after things have already spun out of control." Hope: Under competitive authoritarianism, "an autocrat, even one who has already stacked the deck, can still lose."
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 29/04/2025
Research universities have propelled innovation and bolstered American power since World War II, writes Sarah Kreps. The Trump administration’s assault on academia is not a principled move—it is a self-defeating one.
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An Attack on America’s Universities Is an Attack on American Power
How academia bolsters national security.
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I tend not to be too alarmist - but it is *extremely* alarming that decisions about U.S. national security are being made in a decisionmaking structure that is starting to look more like a personalist dictatorship than a democracy.
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Poli sci peeps - I'm finalizing an undergrad class session @ the current state of U.S. democracy. What readings would you assign? I'm thinking, a few scholarly writings on backsliding/defending democ, plus some commentary on current events. I have ideas but... the stakes are high and I'd love input.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Moreover, these funds serve the public interest. Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good. And the rewards have been enormous. Everything from the internet to pharmaceutical and health care innovations evolved from such investments. We are richer and healthier for the investment.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is not a drill. Existential threats to both higher education & 🇺🇸 democracy. And already devastating for my colleagues, their students, & research on our campus.
dailycardinal.com
‘This is not a drill’: UW-Madison scholars warn of long-term, unprecedented threats to higher education
A panel of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors and academic experts discussed significant challenges facing higher education Wednesday in the wake of the Trump administration’s sweeping budget ...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is: 1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization 2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy 3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them 4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process 5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Please spread to your poli sci / IR networks!
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Information for the 2025 Journeys in World Politics workshop: www.saramitchell.org/journeysflye... Applications due on 5/30 for the workshop held at the U of Iowa on 8/24-8/26. Our senior mentors are Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor, along with Kelly Kadera, Jessica Weeks, Christina Schneider.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Absolutely not an exaggeration. High crimes and misdemeanors committed and endorsed in the Oval Office on live television.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
No one has worked harder to protect & restore democracy in Wisconsin these last years than my dear friend @jeffmandell.bsky.social. We are very lucky to have him on the front lines.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"...I was looking for guidance about inflation and instead found the telltale signs of an incipient financial crisis. Others, looking at other indicators, from the basis trade to junk bonds to struggles to refinance private loans, are seeing the same thing." I'm no economist but this sounds bad.
paulkrugman.substack.com
The Cost of Chaos: This is Getting Scary
And it’s all on Donald Trump
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The political scientist Erica Frantz describes the regime change the second Trump Administration represents. open.spotify.com/episode/3TPI... youtu.be/fP77tAIkRvA?...
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Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
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