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Pauline Jones

@profpjones.bsky.social
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UM Prof. of Political Science + Director Michigan in Washington study autocracies, believe in democracies, aspire to train future leaders

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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Trump Doesn’t Want You Reading This One
8 wins that ruined the regime’s week—and Trump felt every one
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Donate to Justice for Olympian Davey Hearn, organized by Allen Mayers
Davey Hearn, a celebrated Olympian, is facing an unexpected and challenging situation. R… Allen Mayers needs your support for Justice for Olympian Davey Hearn
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
No question that the extremist SCOTUS majority saw this coming. 2 more Southern states move toward adding Republican House seats - The Washington Post
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3637
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Orban's defeat is a victory for Hungary, the EU, and the US
Victor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary for sixteen years (2010-26), has conceded the election to Peter Magyar and his opposition Tisza party.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS San Francisco” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS San Francisco · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** **Join Indivisible San Francisco, 50501SF, and many local organizers for No Kings San Francisco!** For all up-to-...
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Julie Roginsky (@saltypolitics)
We are at war for reasons that we do not understand, based on false assumptions. We are at war helmed by a commander in chief whose history of lying makes whatever rationale he gives for military acti...
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This should go viral. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
“What began as a tightly framed counternarcotics operation has rapidly expanded into an open-ended assertion of U.S. control over a sovereign nation, with no legal clarity, no defined leadership structure, and no stated endpoint.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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Important Venezuela Update: United States Sets Sights on Cuba for Regime Change
More than 24 hours after U.S.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Xmas from Canada SNL substack.com/@reallyameri...
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Really American (@reallyamerican)
BREAKING: Canadian SNL completely torches Donald Trump and his Press Secretary. The skit highlights how deep they are trying to go authoritarian. Share this widely so everyone sees this hilarious sk...
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Dem sellout is even worse than we thought. It’s targeted at women. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-r...
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BREAKING: Republicans Demand Abortion Restrictions in Exchange for ACA Subsidies
Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions in exchange for ACA subsidies, Grijalva will be sworn in tomorrow, Republicans are furious at Johnson as GOP loses redistricting war, and more
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is how the GOP responds to dissent: Pentagon creating a “rapid response force” to respond to any “civil unrest”. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-p...
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BREAKING: Pentagon Directs All 50 States to Form National Guard Rapid-Response Units to Target 'Civil Unrest'
Pentagon directs states to form rapid response units to target protests, DHS uses fake videos as basis for sending in military, Democrats warn of Trump declaring national emergency over elections
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hand holding a frying pan with a fried egg in it, with the words “This is your university if you sign” at the top. Image is from the 1980s “This is your brain on drugs” campaign.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Boston’s Wu fires back at Bondi, citing Revolution, as other cities slam feds over ‘sanctuary’ warnings
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defiantly responds to Attorney General Pam Bondi's sanctuary city threats, accusing Trump administration of failing to follow the law.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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BREAKING: Donald Trump Unable to Reach Deal with Vladimir Putin
After hours of high-stakes talks, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump concluded their meeting without reaching a final deal — leaving key questions unanswered on Ukraine and U.S.–Russia relatio...
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So racial profiling is legal now? As long as it ICE…. substack.com/@aaronrupar/...
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Aaron Rupar on Substack
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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John Pavlovitz on Substack
I KNOW I DO. Friends, This has been a rough week within a brutal year inside an exhausting decade. If you’re like me, you might find it difficult to know how to respond to the seemingly incessant c...
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Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com · 04/07/2025
🇺🇸 #July4 project 🇺🇸 How does ChatGPT map the Declaration’s 27 #grievances to 2025 executive actions? Scale 0-1 minor · 2 noticeable · 3 substantial · 4 ≈ average 1776 abuse · 5 worse. AI coded (o3). Thread follows ⤵︎ [1/66]
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today is a good day to join the nationwide movement to protect freedom, equality, and democracy. weholdtruths.com/privacy
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Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com · 01/07/2025
Fascism is a movement built on lies. If you use hyperbole in an attempt to defeat it, you validate the idea of lying as a means to an end. It’s fair to say, “if we do nothing, this could become Auschwitz.” But if you pretend it already is, you make the outcome more likely. Always wield truth.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This is what societal resilience looks like!! Budapest Pride goes ahead, defying Orbán’s threat of “legal consequences” - BBC News
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025
MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Detroit showed up yesterday! “No hate no fear immigrants are welcome here!”
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
California senator forcibly removed in handcuffs from DHS press conference - Los Angeles Times. Telling it straight = Time to subscribe to the LA Times!!
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Should not be lost on anyone that the participation of white ministers in the civil rights movement is what changed minds of so many that were accepting of violence against black protestors. This is a potential game changer!! www.threads.com/@bgonthescen...
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Brendan Gutenschwager (@bgonthescene) on Threads
Happening Now: Faith leaders are out demonstrating near a line of police by the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Not just a drill — or is it? Using troops in LA may be precursor for the 2026 elections (if GOP loses of course). Troop deployment is a warning sign for what comes next, legal scholars fear - POLITICO
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
2,000 National Guard troops will be sent to L.A. amid clashes over immigration raids - Los Angeles Times
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?
"I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here.
But no one voted to deport moms."
Vanessa Cowart, one of Hui's friends from church, said she believed Trump's anti-immigration actions would target gang members.
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nytimes In the 20 years since her arrival, Carol served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Missouri. Then ICE detained her, forcing residents to face the fallout of President Trump's immigration crackdown, which was supported in theory by many residents in this Trump-loving corner of an increasingly red America.
Around Kennett, Ming Li Hui — who said she went by the name Carol because few people there spoke Cantonese — was described bv supporters as a hardWhite people waving “mass deportations now” signs at the 2024 RNC
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
More fallout from Trump’s reelection. It’s not just the regime but what it signals about America society. apple.news/AX-1YrmTKRyS...
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American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration — KFF Health News
Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Chris Murphy Nukes Kristi Noem’s Out-of-Control DHS
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is nowhere near a “tussle.” We have crossed the Rubicon. How a deportation case is turning into a tussle over presidential authority - The Christian Science Monitor
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Excited and grateful to be part of this group!
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you Wisconsin!!
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#Signalgate #Whiskeyleaks This administration is Incompetent and dangerous!!
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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Democratic backsliding in the United States is part of a global trend, but it's not inevitable. @profpjones.bsky.social describes how other countries have pushed back on autocracy: cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3417 #PoliSky
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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'll be moderating a panel on Birth Right Citizenship at @umfordschool.bsky.social (and try to bring a comparative perspective). The panel includes legal scholars and historians (see below), join us on FRIDAY March 28th! fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/c...
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Current and Historical Challenges to Birthright Citizenship
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect, even as the initial executive order is blocked nationwide by three federal a...
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The only choice for Dems is Shutdown! www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Senate Democrats' impending choice: Shutdown or surrender
House Democrats say they won't vote for the House GOP's spending plan. Democrats across the Capitol aren't so sure.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“It's a seismic shift. That may read like hyperbole, but what we are now experiencing in terms of transatlantic relations is unprecedented in the 80 years since the end of World War Two.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Germany's Friedrich Merz signals seismic shift in Europe-US relations - BBC News
Friedrich Merz heralds a new era for Europe without the US as a key partner, writes Europe editor Katya Adler.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is what’s going viral on Truth Social. The cruelty is the point!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/02/2025
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
In case there was any doubt where this is heading.
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Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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CNN Anchor Wrecks Trump Defender in Brutal On-Air Shaming Over Jan. 6
As CNN’s Jim Acosta crucifies a MAGA lawmaker over Trump’s January 6 pardons, a press critic reflects on why we don’t see more of this—and how this failing has enabled pro-Trump propaganda to succeed.
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