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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/03/2026

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking
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Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen
Prue Leith

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Ora Szekely @oraszekely.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Apparently "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was just Bezos's mission statement.

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Ora Szekely @oraszekely.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The Stories from the Field podcast is now back with a second season!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/01/2026

Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

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Tiara Mack @mackdistrict6.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer. www.brown.edu

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Brown University

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

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Alexis Henshaw @profhenshaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky @oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Are there any civ-mil scholars who are not alarmed by this? Anyone?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/06/2025

During McCarthyism, they went after individuals to force their agenda, now they're going after entire institutions. The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all. We must fight back. #DefendHigherEd

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University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant. Guess the country.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/06/2025

Why, it contains no king.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 09/05/2025

This phone interview contains a detailed description of the wildest fucking shit I've ever heard on television news, hands down

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'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/04/2025

congratulations to Donald Trump on losing the Canadian election

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Marcel Plichta @marcelplichta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Political Science and IR people are going to be extremely annoying about star wars for a few weeks. You cannot stop it, so I recommend you shelter in place.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

to all who celebrate...

description from Huntington library:

"A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave."

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/04/2025

"Hell is realizing that most of the people you voted for, even those you really admired, were not built for a crisis like this and are not coming to save you."

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Meditations on Hell

“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE - - - Hell is not a lake of fire, no...

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Ora Szekely @oraszekely.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is excellent. I'm proud to be a member of the AAUP.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Cannot stress Amy's second point enough. It's both morally wrong and unbelievably dangerous for Jews to allow ourselves to be used as the wedge to overturn basic civil liberties in this country.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Here’s the reality: This government—despite what they’d have us believe—cannot simply do whatever it wants. The moment we accept that bullshit, we become complicit in this blatantly authoritarian move by the president and his administration. With a loud, collective voice, we must say: fuck this!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/03/2025

Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide. Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/03/2025

"Let's understand who our true enemy is. Is it a virile, often shirtless man on horseback who poisons political opponents and journalists and who’s causing the deaths of countless innocent people? Or is it a children’s book about a kid with two dads?"

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Vladimir Putin May Have Launched an Unprovoked Invasion of Ukraine, But at Least He’s Never Asked You to Use a Same-Sex Bathroom

“Has Putin shipped every middle-class job in your town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked your business? Is he teachin...

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Lots of folks are asking what they can do to be helpful in this moment. I like the short list of action items that @choosedemocracy.bsky.social lists on their site. Democratic civil society is about being stronger together. Any effective strategy flows from that. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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What can I do to fight this coup?

If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...

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Ora Szekely @oraszekely.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Political scientists are really, really worried about the United States right now: drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

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Political science statement.pdf

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/02/2025

“Trump’s orders are about controlling ideas that can be discussed in the classroom, limiting & censoring faculty & students, & codifying into law the prejudices of the past. This nation has overcome attempts at authoritarianism before. We will do so again.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders

The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

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Emily Thorson @emilythorson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is why every political scientist you know has been in a state of panic for the past week. This isn't about policy disagreement, it's about the Constitution being destroyed before our very eyes.

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