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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Playing dungeons and dragons when there were actually dungeons and dragons around would have been so cool.

Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would have guessed Jeffries. ‘Disturbed’ is too strong an emotion for Collins to express. She’s almost never more than ‘concerned.’

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If it were not signed, this would be a great "who wrote it: Hakeem Jeffries or Susan Collins?" letter.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Paragraph’s 2 and 3 aren’t that bad. Paragraph 1 partially undermines those paragraphs with its mealy-mouthed NYT-like ‘raises questions’ approach.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is simultaneously disgustingly milquetoast and the most hard-hitting statement Jeffries has ever made. He finds it not just disturbing but “deeply disturbing!” And it raises “serious questions” not just the normal questions Tump’s behavior raises.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We now know how Trump plans to get around the term limit thing.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(I can only afford to endow a professorship by leaving the money in my will and not living too long post retirement. If the professorship doesn’t exist until after I’m dead, I don’t get to tell people I’m the Sean D. Ehrlich Professor.)

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did try that. “What if I specified it must go to someone studying public opinion about trade. Oh, woopsie, turns out I’m the only one here who does that.” They were not receptive to the idea but maybe because it was mostly a theoretical discussion.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They may not create the professorship until you die if it’s to come from your estate.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem is that you can’t specify who gets the Chair. I can create a Sean D. Ehrlich Professorship but it’s up to the department and college to determine who it goes to.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I could do that. Can’t afford to do that but can do it.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have long stated that my ultimate dream is to be Sean D. Ehrlich, the Sean D. Ehrlich Professor of Political Science. I have been told by my Chair and people in the Dean’s Office that FSU rules forbid this

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whatever is required of me to believe.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not really qualified but I’d love to have the job. Think I have a shot?

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Best news I’ve heard in quite awhile, especially the Mark Hammil part. Hopefully they’ll reboot Gummibears and Gagoyles next.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I didn’t know anyone ever actually owned the 800.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wrote my dissertation on something similar though I owned it myself. It was probably running a later version of Windows by then but it was running Windows 98 when I started grad school.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Before that I had what would later be known as the Atari 2600 but at the time was officially called the Atari Video Computer System so that might have been my first computer if you’re feeling generous.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mine was a Commodore 64. It’s amazing I didn’t give up on computing right then and there.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I agree that the norms and rules are unclear around this but, personally at least, I don’t think it’s wrong to call it out.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, there were clearly better ways to do what that policy did but the deductions do a good thing so I put it on the positive side of Trump’s ledger. I might be grading on a curve here.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, some small elements of the One Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill were actually good, like allowing deductions for tipped income. I would have made the income cap on that lower (it’s 150k) but it does help a lot of waitstaff and delivery people and the like.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That’s kind of my point: the thing I agree with him on is such a penny ante issue.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He got rid of the penny. I agreed with him on that.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last week, the world lost an extraordinary scholar and person. Alexander Reyes, a PhD student at UCI and my advisee, died after a severe illness. Please considering contributing to this fundraiser for his family, who have incurred tremendous expenses this summer, in his memory if you can.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The US Amy would also be unstoppable.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No notes.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

10 seconds is my personal record

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That would only have been funny if the SEC referee crew gave Michigan a second chance at it after video review.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also, happy new year to those who celebrate. May it be as sweet for all of you as today’s football game was for me.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I was expecting Michigan to start the season 2-0 but the path there was a little unexpected.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Michigan winning by knocking down a game ending Hail Mary would have been even funnier but probably too much to ask of the universe.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nintendo claims they absorbed the costs of the tariffs and didn’t pass it on to consumers but I haven’t looked at their books so don’t know how true that is. (The recent price increases in Nintendo are about rising chip costs due to increased demand from AI and not the tariffs, supposedly.)

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nintendo of America just announced a 30% sale on games “funded by tariff refunds.” I haven’t seen this from other companies but it’s interesting PR.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I hope Michigan is taking notes on the FSU-SMU game so they have a plan if things get really ugly against Oklahoma.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And a son who thinks this will finally make daddy love him.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The writer in the NYT is lying unless their one habit in common is “breathes oxygen.”

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wish I felt at all confident this coaching staff could work out those issues but last night was the worst coached UM game I’ve seen since Hoke/Borges. Hopefully it was 1st week issues on both the coaching staff and player and they’re jitters are now over.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Regardless of the last second issues, WMU was the marginally better team last night and deserved to win a close game. Michigan has a lot of issues to work out before Oklahoma next week or they’re going to be slaughtered.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Next morning reaction to UM/WMU game: The broadcast clock is not the official game clock. There absolutely was no time left on the broadcast clock but it seems clear now that there was time on the official clock. The refs did a horrible job explaining at the time and the Big10 waited too long.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They released some video on Twitter. Its weird. If you think the Big 10 is intentionally screwing over WMU, it won’t convince you otherwise. If you think the Big10 is being honest, it supports the refs.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like I owe an apology to Sparty Bob.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We absolutely did not deserve to win that game for so many reasons. I’ll take it but I don’t feel great about it.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If it’s not a business then it makes even less sense.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I was not aware that grad school admission consultants were even a thing.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

But, to the extent one believes China is the biggest threat to the country, then one is at least being internally consistent claiming that communism is the biggest threat.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There was a local commercial for a House candidate here who was making this claim about Communism being a threat. The commercial was mostly focused on China being the threat but tied in Democrats’ support for immigrant rights as at least helping the Chinese if not being communist in itself.

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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