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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 6h

Sebastian Berhalter was raised in the Concacaf shithousery mines, he's a natural

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U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @usmnt.ussoccer.com · 6h

CAVAN SULLIVAN THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS! #USMNT x VW

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For a while, though, rabbis debated whether a golem counted in a minyan (I guess golem were boys?).

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The State Department’s Office of Remigration, a small unit carved out of its refugee bureau, has pledged at least $410 million in taxpayer money to secure deals with 31 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America, that agree to accept third-country deportees.” [Linda Chavez, @theunpopulist.net]

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The Supreme Court Just Consigned Migrants to Cruelty Far Beyond Their Crimes

Letting the administration deport them for now to nasty third-country dictatorships should shock our conscience

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...

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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HUGE congrats to -- among others -- two amazing historically-minded scholars who just won a MacArthur Fellowship: Ellora Derenoncourt and @arielron.bsky.social!!!!!!! They're amazing.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love her. Also: Chuck Rainey on “Kid Charlemagne” (and “Peg,” and “Josie,” and and and): www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kd...

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Kid Charlemagne

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The files from New York Times v OpenAI are insane. I'm no big city lawyer but seems like it's a bunch of open bragging about theft?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Karl Rove comes off the sidelines www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1. This is the platonic ideal of a Union goal. While the results have changed under Richter, the game model has not. 2. Just holy shit, Cavan Sullivan. Running out of superlatives.

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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 09/09/2026

Charlie Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, which claims it uncovers the most radical left wing professors from universities that are known to suppress the conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda," has been taken down.

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Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impact

This week marks one year since the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While the nonprofit he created, Turning Point USA, is still working to engage young conservative voters ahead of the m...

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Alexander F. Gazmararian @agazmararian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Come check out our Climate Fault Lines @princetonupress.bsky.social panel at APSA! I'm grateful for the impressive group who will discuss our book: Amanda Kennard, @mattomildenberger.bsky.social, @profmichaelross.bsky.social, and Aseem Prakash. See you there! Thursday, 2 pm, Marriott, Exeter

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

heartbroken to hear that cassandra wilson has died. here's her joyous version of "waters of march": www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIeh...

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Waters Of March

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

also, my dad played football in high school with Dabney Coleman!

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Very happy to meet with anyone interested in our Quantitative Political Science line at APSA! If you're on the fence about applying, this is primarily a *substantive* line. If your research uses LLMs, networks, large datasets, causal inference, etc., you’re who we’re looking for!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Onion's potential revenue is $31 trillion.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Great to get some of the fruits of collaboration between @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social @robmickey.bsky.social, and me out! Now in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. This the result when Comparative and Americanist scholars of democracy & federalism jointly turn their attention to the U.S:

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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Columbia Political Science is hiring in political methodology at the junior level, starting July 2027. Review of applications begins October 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/190515

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Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My book Rural Pain, Republican Gain published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social is officially released this Thursday!! If you’re in the DC area, come celebrate the launch at Politics and Prose where I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @marciabrown.bsky.social from Politico!

Politics and Prose poster for Rural Pain, Republican Gain book event. Thursday August 20th at 7pm.

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This week we talk with Alexander Sahn of UNC Chapel Hill about the connection between the movement of Southern Blacks during the Great Migration and the rise of exclusionary zoning in the cities where they ended up. The association is *very* strong. lewis.ucla.edu/2026/08/19/1...

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Episode 121: Exclusionary Zoning and the Great Migration with Alexander Sahn - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Why is exclusionary zoning so commonplace in the US? Alexander Sahn shares evidence that the migration of Southern Blacks played a big role.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A multi-disaster movie: self-righteous institution, backed by self-righteous public interest law firm, enables bad behavior by self-righteous political party

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...

Demographics of R1 university faculty, 2001-2024
84.5% 80%
White 69.8%
60
40
20
8.9%
3.4%
2.9%
0.3%
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'05
'10
'15
'20
— Asian/PI 17.1%
lispanic 6.4%
Black 4.8%
'24 Other 1.9%

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4,000 hires
3,797
• Non-URM 3,753
3,000
2,000
2,254
1,000
623
623
298
→ URM 788
Black 348
2018
2019
2020
322
2021
2022
2023
2024

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Amazing work (by Prof. Bonica). All of these self-righteous groups should go straight to hell. @daschloz.bsky.social, please write up your thoughts on the Dem campaign committees, etc., etc.!

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cool cool cool

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The biggest teams! Of diplomats!!!!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/08/2026

“Well, Caleb, sometimes two people love each other very much, just like Bo Jackson loved baseball and football—and he had the talent, not to mention the drive, to dominate in both, because the man was a once-in-a-century physical freak,” Parker told his 11-year-old son

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Sex Talk Devolves Into Dad Rambling About Bo Jackson

NAPERVILLE, IL—Veering from the intended subject matter just seconds into their conversation, local father Andrew Parker’s effort to sit his son down for a sex talk quickly devolved into a rambling di...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

People complain a lot about trump, but our main problem is that we don’t play Good Morning, Aztlan every day.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The record is prodigious and of the highest quality!!

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

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Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Along similar thematic lines, I have a piece newly up on SSRN about what the Trump Administration might have to teach us about libertarianism, Reichian/Naderite liberalism, and abundance liberalism. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Empowering and Fearing Government: Democratic Countervailing Power and the Future of the Administrative State

This essay examines three competing responses to the crisis of the administrative state in the Trump Era: libertarianism; proceduralist liberalism drawing on Ch

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The DNC had to have a telethon in the early 1970s to raise money. It didn't own its own building. Not sure if we need to infer regime characteristics from a poorly-run party.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Rubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

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