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Rachel “the joker” Torres

@torrespolisci.bsky.social
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REP, immigration, latin@x politics. 🌞 Talk policy to me. 🌸 she/her/ella. 🏳️‍🌈

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 24/09/2026
i think a rich academic should endow a chair in their own department and give it to themselves hi, i am Alexander C. Furnas, the Alexander C. Furnas professor of
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t care if you’re nice to me, if grad students tell me you’re awful I DONT TRUST YOU!!!!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
also LOL
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“It’s envitabllllllleeeee!!!!!”
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes you just gotta skiddadle your ass home to cry
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If anyone was even remotely politically savvy they would have the progressive caucus openly praising the dividend idea !!
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can’t tell if the disgusted looks I’m getting for housing a lobster roll in the Delta terminal are coming from the public or my fellow political scientists
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There’s something especially depressing about being hungover in an indoor mall
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Person: Hey! Haven’t seen you, where did you end up? Me: Oh I’m at UC- Person: Omg which one? Berkeley? Me: Actually it’s UCincinnati. Person: … Me: It’s the Berkeley of Hamilton County!
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sorry I’m going to be annoying: we clearly need some sort of formal chair /discussant guidelines bc it’s unprofessional to give your feedback for so long there’s no time for q&a
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Starting now in Hynes 105! 20 years of marching for immigrant rights presented by @cruzita.bsky.social and Heather Silber Mohamed on behalf of the Committee for the Status of Latino/as in the Profession! #APSA2026
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jesus Christ
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Emily H @emilyghickey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A reminder that I will be at APSA! Please chat with me about your teaching! I also usually have a couple power banks and a first-aid kit on hand, along with decent restaurant recommendations and tourist guidance. So you can chat with me while your device powers up. Reach out here or via e-mail!
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 02/09/2026
A noble effort, but I fear the damage is done.
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There was a bitcoin ad on the back of my motherfucking fortune cookie fortune
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
TIM CURRY DEAD??? WHO IS KILLING ALL OF THE MUPPETS BEST COLLABORATORS???
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fronch Fries! (Specifically crinkle cut!)
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Drank a milkshake in the park and now everything feels like it’s gonna be okay
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I personally think having a reputation for being an asshole should carry more stigma in the field
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“.. The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025 .. “.. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies .. ranked among the top three ..” $AMZN www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Unless you are actually running an electoral campaign, why are you (a REGULAR person) gaming out the views of people across the country who you do not know and will never meet? One of the worst things to have happened in the last 25 years is weird election punditry by regular people.
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sometimes people posting online are just trying to piss you off Sometimes people posting online are just trying to piss you off Sometimes people posting online are just trying to piss you off Sometimes people posting online are just trying to piss you off Sometimes people posting online are just tr-
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If my work isn’t good enough for your journal why on earth would you want me to review for you? Make it make sense people!
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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 06/07/2026
Eat a rake, pal.
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Truly blessed to have a partner who eats the dinners I fuck up without complaint #theburntbitsareflavor
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There you gave it.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A temporary reprieve is not a win. Learn the difference.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:
supremecourt.gov
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
PREDICTION MARKETS IN SHAMBLES 🇵🇾
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If AI is sentient, then so is Age of Empires 2. A Microsoft AI researcher built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. Point is to show "sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong." www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
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If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Norway is banning generative AI for schoolchildren under 13 starting in September.
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Norway says math, reading, and writing come first as it introduces AI restrictions for under-13s
Norway is taking steps to limit how generative AI can be used in schools from the start of the next school year.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I just had to submit a form to use ANONYMOUS SURVEY DATA from TWO DECADES AGO and they want me to promise to encrypt a separate hard drive??????? The only difference between the public and restricted data is, I shit you not… the fips code
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Stinging critique of higher ed administrators who deploy "AI centrism" to justify blowing millions on AI chat bot contracts that are causing "chaos" across campus. Relevant beyond the CSU system
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m deeply concerned about the LULAC archives continuing to be housed at UT Austin
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Rachel “the joker” Torres @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Can someone explain why some journal staff have started acting fucking crazy over email? I have received some of the most insane correspondence over the last two years, I genuinely thought i had a gas leak in my apartment.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Since Bolts began, there've been several instances of articles elsewhere building on us with no credit. The only place I can think of where this has happened repeatedly is the NYT. What is happening over there?! Please remember to support small independent media like Bolts.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
There are dozens of voting rights experts one could go to talk Callais (several even within the Brennan Center!). The NYT's main outside/expert source is... the same expert source Pascal interviewed.
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