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Sara Chatfield

@poliscisara.bsky.social
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Polisci prof at U of Denver. She/her. American politics and law, American political development, gender & politics, state politics. Opinions represent myself only. Check out my work: du.digication.com/sara-chatfield/ho…

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dontpushthat.bsky.social @dontpushthat.bsky.social · 2h
My TV ad is raising a lot of questions answered by my TV ad
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3h
paying to go on TV and tell strangers I lied to my children
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2h
Maybe we can stop pretending AI is useful for student learning “if used properly” and start focusing attention and energy on mitigating its massive educational harm? Call me crazy.
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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Curious, isn't it, why conservatives who so often talk about cutting taxes are foaming at the mouth in opposition to Amendment 87, which would cut taxes for 97% of Coloradans. www.denverpost.com/2026/10/13/a... #copolitics
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Amendment 87 is a tax cut for the vast majority of Coloradans. Why do conservatives oppose it? (Opinion)
That’s the problem with Colorado’s current state income tax; the burden is on the wrong Coloradans. This November, we can fix that problem.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 13/10/2026
Colorado & Michigan have become the latest blue states to end Medicaid coverage for trans youth. Solidly blue Colorado will also be IMMEDIATELY shutting off care for all trans kids receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump's rule allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period. This is a complete betrayal.
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Colorado and Michigan Become the Latest Blue States to Quietly End Medicaid Support for Trans Youth as 12 Others Pledge Continued Coverage
In a complete betrayal, solidly Democratic Colorado will also be immediately shutting off care for trans kids currently receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period.
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Tawni Monster Mash-all @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Any politician who will say this and then turn around and cut coverage for the most vulnerable kids in their state isn't worth a shit, and they'll turn their back on you, too, the moment it's convenient for them to do so.
“Regardless of what the federal government does to restrict our personal freedom and our privacy, in a ‘Colorado For All,’ we want to make sure we protect our basic freedom to keep the government out of the doctor’s office,” Polis said.
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Ike Makos @ikemakos.bsky.social · 21h
fixing climate change is “harder” in the sense that “but I don’t wanna” becomes a more insurmountable obstacle the more money you have
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 23h
This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 21h
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Janet Murray is now publicly harassing a random trans woman for choosing to get gender affirming surgery, and her real life friend for donating some money towards funding it. Janet works for the Telegraph and the Mail. This is the state of British journalism. Harassing people for being trans.
Janet Murray on Facebook: NEW: An English teacher at a 28k a year private girls' school crowdfunded for "bottom surgery" in Thailand in during the summer.
And his headteacher's name appears to be amongst the donors.
He wrote about the experience for his Go Fund Me page - which remained live - until the school was approached for comment this afternoon.
My latest for [Un]Captured - link below

Headline from the link: Girls' school head donated to teacher's sex-change surgery fund
English teacher Cassie Westwood's appeal for "bottom surgery" in Thailand listed a donation under the name of his boss, headteacher Caroline Jordan.
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Whoa! Yes I was but didn’t even realize…I figured I had clicked something by mistake. Bizzare.
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Jane Reads-Truth @janereadstruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol, we're about to televise an execution while whinging that code that illegally hacks businesses to collect and sell our information shouldn't be turned off. Pretty soon, A fucking I will have more rights than women in America.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tbh, this is the type of AI hallucination that we should be worrying about. These people are living in a different universe.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/10/2026
I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...
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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All that groveling to fascism by Stanford and they're still on the hit list. Universities don't bring in foreigners to undercut US wages; they do it for the same reason NBA teams do - to beat their competition. Should the Spurs send Victor Wembanyama home too, to make a spot for an American?
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m sorry does Al Qaeda even exist anymore??
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m sorry what the FUCK?
Fort Hood Shooter's
Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj.
Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern US history.Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hm I wonder what it could be…
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
btw if you post about Alito's originalism book, which is bad, you are obligated to also post about my originalism book, which is good bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives ...
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The assertion that "powerful cultural institutions" and the Democratic Party "treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward" has become such a cliche in the punditry that people who say this feel no need to offer examples (or a single example) and journalists rarely ask them to do so.
Slade: I’ll be honest with you: Broad swaths of the American electorate, including members of some demographics that were once solid Democratic constituencies, came to feel extraordinarily resentful that both the Democratic Party and a lot of powerful cultural institutions (higher education, the mainstream media) were going all in on a sort of militant identity politics that treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward.

This created a real siege mentality, where people were inclined to throw their lot in with someone whom they perceived as on their side and who said he would fight the forces that were hostile to them.
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Agreed. My lovely, wonderful mother keeps reading these stories and freaking out that my sister and I will wake up one day and decide never to talk to her again. Some of that is anxiety but also people are actively feeding that anxiety and it’s gross.
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Definition of a Harper's Letter signatory: a free speech absolutist who hates when people protest
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When it's discovered that a politician committed domestic violence they can - resign in shame <------ right answer - pretend to be sorry - deny it - brag about it <----- where we are apparently
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a doctor, I know how dangerous long wait times can be in an emergency. Every second counts when someone’s life is on the line. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/h...
cincinnati.com
Emergency rooms in 'crisis' mean longer visits. It's getting worse
The average visit to a Cincinnati ER is almost 3 hours, new data show. But ER workers worry those wait times are going to keep getting worse.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
ah more of those harmless "brief investigative stops" Kavanaugh told us about ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solidarity with our AFTNJ/College Council sibling Dr. Norma Bowe from Kean Federation of Teachers ✊ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This nurse was assaulted by ICE – and it was caught on video. Now she wants her day in court
Norma Bowe, 69, was flung to the ground at Delaney Hall, the infamous New Jersey detention center. She sees her lawsuit against ICE as one step towards justice
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Only 11% of companies could accurately forecast their AI spending. A separate study found cheaper AI models cost more 32% of the time. So dollars per token is less relevant than dollars per task. AI is like getting a contractor, you know the hourly rate but not how many hours the job will take.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Jill Laufer @jilllaufer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My first solo-authored article, which seems right! 🤓 Many thanks to the editors of THE FORUM on how politics can learn from science fiction, @smotus.bsky.social and @poliscisara.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... PDF link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e6p85...
After The Burn by Jill Laufer snap of article
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026
This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s why I’m thinking independent run. I don’t think anything he or Polis have been doing will go over well with Democratic primary voters but I think they fantasize about this magical moderate voter. I don’t think it would work but it would be very annoying.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Much of the current rush of “civility” trainings and workshops boils down to “you must be civil to (translation: accommodate and not point out the devastating flaws and evils of) our position and agenda”
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why do I somehow feel with all his veto shenanigans this week, Gavin Newsom is gearing up for an independent run for President with Jared Polis? Problem is with those egos, how do they decide who’s top of the ticket?
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had to look it up because I couldn't believe he did this, but yes, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social actually vetoed the Speaker's bill banning former ICE agents from public employment in CA. The Legislature should over ride his veto.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobs
The ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026
The ACLU is suing a a Minnesota school district that has banned every sticker in an attempt to rid its campuses of rainbow ones. The school district is Detroit Lakes School District, and locals are up in arms at the sticker ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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ACLU Sues Minnesota School District That Banned All Stickers To Get Rid Of Rainbow Ones
“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
because it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The political will to do something about student loan burdens may have evaporated but the pain still affects real people's lives
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have you heard about a thing called jury nullification
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Captain America's Detention with Chris Evans
ALT: Captain America's Detention with Chris Evans
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lethal injection is horrific in a very literal way but in a metaphorically fitting one - we embrace it because, while it is slow and likely painful, it doesn’t look as bad to outsiders as a firing squad
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 01/10/2026
Check out the introductory chapter of "A Queer Guide to Saving to American Democracy" by R.K. Maril, coming soon. #LawSky #PoliSky #Democracy #BookSky cup.org/4xQ43lB
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Introduction - A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy
A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy - October 2026
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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