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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

faculty during the first week vs the last week of classes. best wishes to all for wrapping up the spring semester! 🤓

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Thanks to @anncurry.bsky.social for highlighting the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, which has received far too little attention 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

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Opinion | Is It Too Much to Ask to Care About Sudan?

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lucavaradi.bsky.social @lucavaradi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

New paper published in European Societies. "Results showed dramatic levels of ethnic discrimination: a Roma person would need to contact nine landlords to secure a viewing whereas a non-Roma person only two.”with @lindatropp.bsky.social @lioramorhayim.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

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Ethnic discrimination in the Hungarian rental housing market

Abstract. This paper explores the degree of discrimination faced by Roma home-seekers, who are members of the largest ethnic minority group in Europe. We first measure the extent of ethnic discriminat...

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

as @maddow.bsky.social notes, there are *so* many reasons to show up to a No Kings protest tomorrow... doesn't matter where or why, just do it! (and be sure to register, to help organizers and data analysts track crowd size 🤓) youtube.com/shorts/B8dsN...

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No Kings protests were already huge. And that was before...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/03/2026

We’re going to make history next weekend and welcome so many new people into organizing against the regime. #NoKings

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Should we spend $22 BILLION on another illegal war in the Middle East—or on building 100,000 affordable housing units in America? Trump chose an illegal war. What would you choose?

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Trump has already spent more in 9 days on his war with Iran than the USDA spends in an entire year on giving breakfasts to kids in school. So much for America First.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/03/2026

We could really use your help to make No Kings Day as big and powerful as possible. Your support will power the thousands of massive and peaceful events planned across the US and the world. Please pitch in if you can to make March 28 a day of nonviolent protest that will echo across the planet.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/03/2026

The world is watching Trump turn our nation into a rogue state as he threatens our allies, abandons the vulnerable and unleashes chaos that impacts their families directly and indirectly. Iranian civilians went from a brave struggle against their own tyrannical government to fleeing bombs from ours.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 05/03/2026

It’s time to reveal the billionaire donors flooding American elections with potent dark money. I’m introducing the DISCLOSE Act with Senator Whitehouse and Rep. Pappas to make our money-drenched elections more transparent for all citizens.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

From the abstract: "We find clear and consistent evidence that whites who receive their political news from Fox News are significantly more likely to support core tenets of the GRT [Great Replacement Theory] than those who do not." led by: @jesserhodesumass.bsky.social available: cup.org/4d01aYr

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Follow the Fox? Elite Influence and White Support for the Great Replacement Theory | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Follow the Fox? Elite Influence and White Support for the Great Replacement Theory

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/02/2026

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

(between images of a map showing the nearly 2,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

one after another in my feed, this is what cross-party solidarity can look like🙏🏻 @warnock.senate.gov @lincolnproject.us

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026

Warnock: "We heard tonight the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present case he can for the midterms. It was half lies, half grievances. He knows he is quickly losing power."

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’ve gone to every State of the Union since I was elected to Congress—including during Trump’s first term. I’d rather stick needles in my eyes than listen to his manifesto of mistruths.

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

check out this hugely important and informative thread about protest activities across the US by @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is a pogrom

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/01/2026

Those cuts to science, culture, medicine? They aren't just about research, they are about power. Episode Three of Autocracy in America: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education

It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

@nytimes.com editorial board tracks 12 markers of democratic erosion, and where we currently stand in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/01/2026

Americans face a fusion of public power and private wealth to a degree not seen in the past century, if ever. Our latest report outlines nine solutions to combat corruption. Far-reaching reforms are long-overdue. bit.ly/4r62EnZ

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Nine Solutions for Political Corruption

A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@drzilwhite.bsky.social @ericdknowles.bsky.social you (and @pbump.com) might also be interested in a new paper recently accepted for publication, showing that greater consumption of Fox news corresponds with stronger endorsement of "great replacement theory" beliefs (can email if interested)

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social pretty much sums up my views on AI: as with the emergence of many new technologies lauded as transformational for humankind, once released, they are no longer values-driven and become money-driven mechanisms targeting and reinforcing humankind's most base instincts

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

He is turning everything he touches into one of his tacky casinos—at taxpayer expense—while the American people can’t afford rent, healthcare, or groceries. Utterly insane.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"social science has to answer questions that people beyond academia care about..academia can['t] just be self-referential as it grows infinitely. I think there are challenges to understand what’s going on in the United States and the world and to talk about it to broad audiences in plain language.."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“Action absorbs anxiety!” indeed!

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

How quickly we forget the BS excuses Republicans make up for military invasions. Does anyone remember weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?!?! It’s almost always about oil. Another GOP president wants to use U.S. soldiers as pawns for big oil in his sick pursuit for money & power.

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Trump is threatening to attack a country with more oil than Iraq | CNN Business

The United States appears ready for war with Venezuela, a prospect that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this weekend attributed to America’s desire to control the country’s vast oil reserves.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"This moment matters... because they demonstrated something American families and neighborhoods desperately need: the ability to talk to someone you disagree with without treating them like an archenemy" www.interfaithamerica.org/article/this...

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This Thanksgiving, You Should Absolutely Talk About Politics

Here we go again. Another Thanksgiving. Another round of national advice columns telling you to avoid politics at all costs. Keep the peace. Stick to pie. Pretend your uncle’s Facebook posts about im...

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

feels especially poignant this #Thanksgiving in the U.S.

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Dolores Albarracin @dalbarra.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/11/2025

They line up perfectly.

An Oval Office photo of Trump looking adoringly at Mamdani, while a portrait of Reagan looks on. Above the man-ignoring-his-girlfriend meme.

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

“If you’ve always had power, equity feels like a threat.” "Change feels threatening, not because anything is being 'taken,' but because the ground is finally shifting toward balance." @rabbisandra.bsky.social

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

in case anyone in the U.S. is still wondering...

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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔

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