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harmodio @harmodio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

End. The crowd was thinner this year compared to last year's panel on this topic (see #7). But the lessons resonate more. We all have work to do.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

11/ Lester Spence anchors the program with an impassioned call for political scientists to be the teachers in our communities--give Americans the language they need to describe and observe democratic decline, injustice, and hte integral relationship between racial injustice and democratic governance

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

10/ Hannah Walker - Mass protest is not guaranteed, but is important for systemic change. @chenoweth.bsky.social work tells us that when 3.5% of a population is engaged in sustained protest, change is more likely. Visible organizing is important. Creative protest is important.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

9/ Roberto Carlos- Studies immigration courts. Immigration courts face institutional and political pressure to act assertively and aggressively against immigrants, which is having a chilling effect on immigrant households and communities that operate under conditions of fear and duress.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

8/ Tabitha Bonilla tells us thousands of students have had visas revoked for protest activities on campuses, which started under a Democratic president. When universities restricted student protest, they limited learning about civic participation; blocked a key feature of electoral accountability.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

7/ Allison Yash - People are understandably exhausted, especially academics managing multiple crises: budgets, enrollment, free speech attacks, science under siege, censoring and controlling educational content. There is too much quiet compliance and complacence. We’re all Columbia now.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

6/ Vince Hutchings tells us that racial animus is not the reason for racial bias, interest in maintaining a racial hierarchy is. The forces fighting to save the union and the forces fighting for racial justice are not the same—they weren’t during reconstruction—if they were, we wouldn’t be here now.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

5/ @kevintmorris.bsky.social reminds us of the importance of the Voting Rights Act and the threat it is under (Louisiana v. Callais). Federal government at all levels is stepping back from protecting voting rights in systemic ways, unseen since the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

4/ @nathankalmoe.bsky.social is writing about democratic reforms and Americans' attitudes about democracy's institutions. He reminds us that hope is essential and reforms are possible.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

3/ @lilymasonphd.bsky.social tells the audience the GOP is 1/3 MAGA, 1/3 old school Republican, and 1/3 in between. Reminds us that the US has always had an illiberal faction in its politics, but it hasn't always been in control of a major political party.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

2/ @smotus.bsky.social tells the audience about the modern Republican party, which he's been studying by surveying GOP local party chairs. He says the Trump coalition remains dominant in the GOP and will likely remain so, even after Trump leaves office and remains alive.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Highlights from the MPSA "Town Hall" on US democratic collapse, featuring leading scholars in political science. 🧵 (1) Moderator, @nazita.bsky.social , starts off with a plain description of democratic decline in the US with an impressive list of illiberal activity and rapid decline. 1/

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 21/04/2026

#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social - Examining Religious and Racial Identity for Black Christians and Muslims in the United States - cup.org/4cBPYQ6 - @tabithabonilla.bsky.social & Eden Melles #FirstView

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Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It is always nice to wake up to a FirstView from JREP, but never more so than when you are working with a brilliant student, especially Eden Melles. This article examines how religious identity (Muslim and Christian) shapes Black American political attitudes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Examining Religious and Racial Identity for Black Christians and Muslims in the United States | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridge Core

Examining Religious and Racial Identity for Black Christians and Muslims in the United States

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

There is a lot to contend with in this from @thrasherxy.bsky.social. I’m increasingly coming to this conclusion that schools aren’t capitulating, they are collaborating.

To call this a “capitulation” is wrong. Universities are winning these cases, but schools like Northwestern, Cornell (payoff: $60 million) and Columbia (payoff: $200 million) are not “capitulating.” These schools’ boards seem to like what Trump is doing, are happy with his agenda, and see their payoffs as money well spent to get rid of pesky faculty dissent, and student protests, transgender youth healthcare.

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Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

As we conclude, these data provide "evidence that at least in 2020, BLM served as a potent message for mobilizing Black communities while not demobilizing white communities."

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Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Always happy to work with @alvintilleryjr.bsky.social...and especially on a continuation of our 2020 APSR. Here, we focus on what effect messages around BLM had in the 2020 Georgia runoffs--did these messages demobilize White, moderate and liberal voters while mobilizing Black voters?

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 29/11/2025

Some researchers, like myself, care about knowledge production and finding the "right" answer. Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Congressional statutes don’t matter, judicial orders don’t matter. The only branch is the executive. This is the reality we need to teach in Intro to American Politics these days

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.

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The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself

When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 05/11/2025

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/10/2025

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

When we use the concepts of "political violence" or "support for political violence," I've noticed that some are referring only to nonstate actors. Others also include state-directed political violence (e.g., using ICE on political enemies). Huge differences in the implications

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 04/07/2025

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

⁉️In survey experiments, should you ask covariates before the treatment? ➡️ @asdurso.bsky.social @tabithabonilla.bsky.social G.Bogdanowicz study the effects of placing sensitive items in different parts of the survey and offer guidance on optimal ordering www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Contributing to the lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

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Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

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Scott Krugman @drscottk.medsky.social · 28/05/2025

There are thousands of residents who are supposed to start in less than a month in hospitals across the US who cannot enter the country. There is going to be a major staffing crisis across the country but especially in rural and urban hospitals than rely on international medical graduates. #MedSky

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 03/05/2025

FIGHTING BACK WORKS

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Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We're now accepting submissions for a mini conference at Boulder (co-organized w/ PRIEC). We'll have both traditional presentations and a poster session. We esp. welcome submissions from those on the market who may not be able to attend APSA in-person. forms.gle/QAn1rW8NxscX...

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2025 Barney Ford Lab Annual Meeting

The Barney Ford Lab at CU Boulder is happy to announce that we are welcoming proposals for our annual meeting. Our annual meeting will take place in beautiful Boulder CO on Friday September 19th, 2025...

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Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks to Mary for leading the charge. And tagging @quinnmulroy.bsky.social

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

As I posted earlier, arresting judges is usually an authoritarian endgame move. The arrest of Judge Dugan here in the US is happening while courts are still pushing back, which is deeply concerning. I dig into the data & implications in my latest.

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When Judges Become Targets: Judicial Resistance Meets Authoritarian Escalation

An endgame tactic arrives early? A judge's arrest signals a dangerous new phase.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 24/04/2025

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/04/2025

They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Say. This.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

These folks are monsters—just absolutely horrible people.

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