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Virginia Haufler

@vah301.bsky.social
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Professor, international political economy, corporations, CSR/ESG politics, cat lover, wannabe mando player

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/09/2026
Under the guise of helping renewable energy, a new legislative package, cynically titled the "Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026," would give the fossil fuel industry massive long-term structural advantages and lock in thousands of fossil fuel projects.
A manatee floating under calm, clear water, close to the camera and close to the sandy river bottom. Text over the image reads: BREAKING: Legislation was just introduced today in the U.S. Senate that would dismantle protections for hundreds of endangered species in order to speed approvals for corporate polluters.
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Dept of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, & Global Governance @conresglobalumb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎉 New from Prof. Stacy VanDeveer: He wrote the introduction to a new H-Diplo roundtable (18-7) on Kathryn C. Lavelle's Reluctant Conquest: American Wealth, Power, and Science in the Arctic (Yale UP, 2025). A rich discussion of Arctic governance, science, and U.S. power! issforum.org/roundtables/...
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Roundtable 18-7 on Lavelle, Reluctant Conquest
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable 18-7 Kathryn C. Lavelle, Reluctant Conquest: American Wealth, Power, and Science in the Arctic. Yale University Press, 2025.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eligible voters, time's running out for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterms. Fri, 10/2 — SOUTH CAROLINA — in-person (10/4 online, 10/5 mail) Sat, 10/3 — U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — in-person (10/4 online) Sun, 10/4 — ALASKA Sun, 10/4 — RHODE ISLAND More at npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A very timely and important new paper: “How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States
Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I used to love Talenti, but this reported feature at Wirecutter explains how the recipes changed over the years, and turned so many fans off: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
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What Happened to Talenti?
Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👋🗳️Hi, U.S. Voters, Please double check your voter registration. Especially if you live in Texas. Thanks 😊 —❤️ an election law professor
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ukraine 🇺🇦 research fellowships for Spring 2027 at George Washington University in DC. More info: www.petrachprogram.org/2027-spring-...
The Ukrainian flag flies about the embassy in Washington, DC.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2026
The agency’s online detainee locator database no longer contains any record of 16,000 people given final removal orders. trib.al/QiAVEXM
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Virginia Haufler @vah301.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy to see @wired.com devote an entire issue to women because, you know, gender matters. www.wired.com/story/wired-...
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Women Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and Beyond
WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spotted new posters around DC today
OMG.
AMERICANS ARE LOSING ACCESS
TO
LIFE-SAVING
CLINICAL TRIALS.
OMB.
UNITED SCIENCE
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was also told last week by someone who works for the company that provides the #ICC insurance that the company would almost certainly abide by European & Canadian Blocking Statutes if they were invoked to protect the Court and its operations. Canada & the EU must invoke them ASAP.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/09/2026
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is embarking on a 20-state road trip, including Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Texas, to urge voters to reject socialism and embrace capitalism as the “best pathway to opportunity and prosperity.”
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The nation’s premier business group is hitting the road to stamp out socialism
In a six-week trip, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hopes to convince midterm voters that free markets still offer the best hope for solving the nation’s economic woes.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excellent new podcast drawing historical lessons from the NIEO for building a better global financial system, with @anninak.bsky.social and Eric Helleiner. youtu.be/aAUvcT6HKg8?...
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Rethinking Global Finance: Lessons from the NIEO | Annina Kaltenbrunner & Eric Helleiner
YouTube video by Vienna Global Forum
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.
Graph of the number of cases and deaths from polio from 1910 to 2022, showing how polio completely disappeared after the introduction of the vaccine -- one of the most important health advances of the 20th century. Data from the US Public Health Services; the Center for Disease Control.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I were still in the wh press pool, it would be such a no brainer (tho it’s not like I ever was granted decision making power): no one go until this is lifted and if you do, you are no longer a member of the WHCA
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 17/09/2026
Since Congress established the Kennedy Center in federal legislation as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, on the same basis as other memorials, does SCOTUS, under its unitary executive theory, think Trump could also threaten to tear down the Lincoln Memorial unless he gets concessions?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I talked about Trump as a “family annihilator” yesterday on the show. He will destroy everything that he cannot control.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/09/2026
Do watch @repbeatty.bsky.social’s account of punching back (verbally) at Trump on a Zoom call. It will make you hope someone was recording. youtu.be/W1qiMzVwsyQ
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'He went into a tantrum': Rep. Joyce Beatty says she fought Trump during Kennedy Center meeting
YouTube video by MS NOW
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A gem on the Potomac, the Kennedy Center has been showcasing art and music for 55 years. It took less than two for Donald Trump‘s ego to destroy it.  Let’s make sure this outrage doesn’t end with the news cycle.
News cameras are set up outside the Kennedy center after it announced it’s closure due to financial hardships and the Trump regime attack attacks on it
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Scripps News @scrippsnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A surprise federal inspection found detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" were held in small metal cages, given unclean water, and housed in bug-infested showers.
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'Treated like animals': Bombshell DHS report shows inhumane conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz'
A surprise federal inspection found detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" were held in small metal cages, given unclean water, and housed in bug-infested showers.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Meanwhile, this is the type of stuff that does not get prosecuted meidasnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters
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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literally holding a monument for ransom 
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.
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Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congress created the EEOC to enforce civil rights laws in workplaces. Under Trump, the agency will stop collecting data on gender, race and ethnicity used to identify systemic injustices for 60 years. Important breakdown from @amandabecker.bsky.social: 19thnews.org/2026/09/eeoc...
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Does your employer discriminate? It's about to get harder to find out.
Congress created the EEOC to enforce civil rights laws in the workplace. The 61-year-old agency is about to stop collecting the data it has relied on to identify systemic discrimination.
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is nuclear. I don’t think any of my i ternational students *didn’t* go OPT after graduation. This is a very clever way to decimate US science AND higher ed simultanously.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Let us break the law or we’ll shoot this dog” essentially
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More efforts at killing higher education in the United States. Good luck filling any of the specialized medicine training programs. And basic science? The engine that drives everything? This is bad. I’d argue even worse for businesses.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The policy changes "included eliminating all references to tenure in school policy, changes to the academic calendar, reducing access to specialized classes and transferring authority over curriculum from faculty experts to administrators." www.kosu.org/usao-regents...
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Regents at Oklahoma liberal arts college approve major policy changes, despite protest
The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Board of Regents made major policy and structural changes on Thursday. Hundreds of people watched, urging them to reconsider.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NYT's lead this morning: "Almost 20 months into Mr. Trump’s second term, his long-running media clashes have grown into a sweeping campaign to control speech in America that stands out for applying so many levers, so fast, all at once." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Legacy media stooges ignore it. When Trump is trying to wreck mail-in voting on the pretext that Democrats “cheat,” his fascist pledge obliging followers to cheat on his behalf should have been front-page news.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Defund ICE. Defund FCC. Defund the Iran War. Other suggestions?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As overtly racist as any Nazi propaganda, coming directly from WhiteHouse.gov
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