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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

@verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social
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Political theorist at the University of Illinois, Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, review editor for Political Theory, author of Genealogies of Terrorism, views my own, etc.

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Frieder Vogelmann @frieder-vogelmann.net · 03/10/2026
My book "Contested Sciences: Between Idealization and Contempt" is out with @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who made this possible, and to @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social, Linda Martín Alcoff and Janet Kourany for their kind praise! www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
The cover of the book "The Contested Sciences: Between Idealization and Contempt" by Frieder Vogelmann shows a chaotic mesh of colour patches from red (upper right) to green (lower center).
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Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tenure-track Political Theory job at JMU in Harrisonburg, VA. Posting to signal boost! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/assista... #poltheory #polphil #academicjobmarket
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Assistant Professor- Political Science (Political Theory) - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Working Title: Assistant Professor- Political Science (Political Theory) State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligi...
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excited for this magnificent event, starting tomorrow at UPenn.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨Job 🚨 The Philosophy Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, seeks candidates with expertise in Early Modern Philosophy, for a tenure-track/tenured position at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor level.
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor- Philosophy- College of LAS
Duties & Responsibilities
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so hotte damne swyvinge evil.
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Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications from entomologists with research portfolios in which INSECT BIODIVERSITY LOSS is a key element (at the assistant professor level). illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Picture of a green tree-lined quad at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, with Foellinger Hall in the background. Skies are often this blue.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This. And this entire thread.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards…... politicalsciencenow.com/congratulat…
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Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts. DISSERTATION AWARDS…
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Fordham - Department of Political Science @fordhamposc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Department of Political Science at Fordham University will be hiring two Assistant Professors this fall: one in Judicial Politics and one in Comparative Urban Politics. Both positions will be at Fordham's Rose Hill location in The Bronx.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Two new book reviews are out in Political Theory: Christian Marks reviews Power in the Anthropocene by Lars Tønder.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Also out in Political Theory, Sungmoon Kim's terrific state of the field essay on Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Vol. 53 (3) of Political Theory is now available!
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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚨Job alert🚨 Postdoc position: Political Theory and History of Ideas (100%, 3+2 years) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Deadline: 24.06.26 Happy to answer questions via email. Please share widely! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Associate - Professorship for Political Theory and History of Ideas 26/ES02
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Here's a round-up of book reviews recently published in Political Theory: Loren Goldman reviews Gary Wilder's Concrete Utopianism.
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Book Review: Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity, by Gary Wilder - Loren Goldman, 2026
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hackers have compromised Canvas, the learninge management system used to teache college courses. The hackeres have made the system slow, inefficient, unresponsyve, and yn manye cases ympossible to use. Studentes and Professors so far have not noticed any difference.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
On the occasion of the centenary of Michel Foucault's birth, IMEC is hosting an immersive doctoral conference at the Abbaye d’Ardenne in Caen from September 23–25, 2026. Proposals of max. 2,500 characters must be submitted by June 1, 2026.
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Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault (2026)
Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 23 au 25 septembre 2026 à l’Abbaye d’Ardenne à Caen, IMEC Soumissions avant le 1er juin 2026 Appel à communications/ Pour…
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️
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There is no such thing as the history of science
People on the internet are arguing about what ‘science’ means and what properly belongs to the ‘history of science’. (Aparna Nair’s thread on Bluesky is a good introdu…
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨A slew of new book reviews and review essay in Political Theory 🚨🚨🚨 First up, David Froomkin reviews The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power by Richard Primus
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I’m late to post this, but here is my latest in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social #PublicVoices #TheOpEdProject
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The Epstein Files, Foucault, and the Game of Power: Why Taking Down Elites Won't Solve the Problem
The Epstein files are spelling trouble for elites everywhere. The 3.5 million emails released recently by the Department of Justice concerning Jeffrey Epstein tell a tale of powerful men, and some wom...
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨 Deadline extended 🚨 #ecprprizes 🏅 Honour the best work in #PoliticalTheory with our £450 🏆 Political Theory Prize 📖 Nomination must be the author's debut book in political theory & published in 2024 or 2025 ⌛ Deadline: Fri 30 Jan
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Political Theory Prize
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ok then.
My 2026 word is "bougie."
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10/12/2025
UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.” Details in our story. thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
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Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Hot off the press: a slew of new book reviews in Political Theory. 🚨🚨🚨 First up, @enzoreds.bsky.social takes on three new booksby Fabienne Peter, Matthias Brinkmann, and Thomas Fossen in a terrific review essay on legitimacy.
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What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New from me in the Chicago Tribune: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Thatcher.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Margaret Thatcher
In the midst of economic crisis, Margaret Thatcher was able to generate popular support for economic policies that hurt most British people.
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📢 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #ECPRPrizes 🏆 2026 Political Theory Prize Honour the best recent book by a first-time writer in #PoliticalTheory 💰 £450 fund 💡 Must be an ECPR Member affiliate to nominate ⏳ 9 Jan buff.ly/1FHPpmr Jury: @diapopescusarry.bsky.social @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social
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Political Theory Prize
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 18/11/2025
We’re hiring! The TRiiBE is currently experiencing an exciting period of audience growth, which requires a leader to capture new readers and pipeline them into our membership program. Come work with our independent and Black-owned newsroom ✊🏾✨ thetriibe.com/jobs
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We're hiring!
The TRiiBE is hiring! Take a look at our Chicago-based employment opportunities and apply today!
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
“By right”
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 13/11/2025
New Epstein revelations raise an obvious question: Why didn’t Democrats release these emails earlier? From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/USpomvn
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How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s ‘Hours’ With an Epstein Victim? - The American Prospect
The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing with the information all this time?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Durbin is not taking phone calls but you can email him here: www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
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Email | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
The Official U.S. Senate website of Dick Durbin
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Jose Atiles @joseatiles.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America | Common Dreams
Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign ...
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My latest in The Opinion Pages on the political function of lies. theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
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The sad consistency of a lying world order | The Opinion Pages
“I think one of the greatest terms I’ve ever come up with is fake news,” President Donald J. Trump said in his recent 60 Minute interview with CBS News host Laura O’Donnell. Fake news is indeed a grea...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Turns out voters respond to a vision that’s more than just “not the other guy.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
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CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The gang is back with a pre-game episode on Saturday Night Live's upcoming season! Check it out here: snl101.info/2025/10/04/s...
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S50 E0: PREGAME
Charisse, Luvell, and Chuck get together before the premiere of SNL Season 50 to talk about hopes, dreams, and fears for the new season. We also discuss Farnsworth’s Dream, Bargatze’s o…
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A round-up of recent book-reviews published in Political Theory. @eraldo.bsky.social reviews Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin Schupmann
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Book Review: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin A - Eraldo Souza dos Santos, 2025
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“The Illinois Department of Public Health Immunization Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend updated COVID-19 vaccines for all Illinois residents ages 18 and older.“
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Illinois issues its own COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, breaking with federal government
Illinois has released its own recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines – urging all adults and many children to get the shots, in a break with the federal government’s guidance.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New from me in @thetriibe.com. We need to see the terrorism label for what it is: a highly effective rhetorical weapon that serves to delegitimize criticism, persecute political opponents and consolidate power.
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REFLECTION: Can he do that? • The TRiiBE
We need to see the terrorism label for what it is: a highly effective rhetorical weapon that serves to delegitimize criticism, persecute political opponents and consolidate power.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Op-ed by Republican consultant Keith Naughton titled “Democrats, enough with the fascism propaganda about Trump”Bill Kristol saying “Yeah. It’s fascism.”
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Inquiries about Political Theory (incl. book reviews) should please go to politicaltheory@uci.edu
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great thread. I’ve been wondering why this has been all over Austrian news, where most people have probably never even heard of Kirk.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We truly live in the upside down.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
“They are a progressive city, and they don’t want the president’s help. That’s on them. It’s horrific that they don’t want President Trump’s help.”

“Chicago should be begging Donald Trump for help to keep Chicago safe,” Bondi added. “Yet, they aren’t so we’re going to go into a city who wants us there.”
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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