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The US pulling back from global leadership on LGBTQI+ rights is further emboldening autocrats to take "anti-LGBTQI+ measures without diplomatic consequence." @williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.

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They want to use FEMA’s Shelter & Services Program money, during Florida’s hurricane season, to set up this tent detention center in the Everglades. It will cost $450 million per year to run when the state faces budget shortfalls (up to $2.8 billion next year). Make it make sense

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I appreciated so much when I didn’t find out about bad things via the president making an unhinged social media post

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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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I think about this figure a lot.

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So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.

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You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

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For fuck’s sake

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“I just find it fascinating that this student can write [a racist] article, a series of [racist] articles that are essentially manifestoes, and that’s free speech,” Ms. Chatman said, “but my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’”

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Political scientists: Has anyone pitched JoD recently?

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I started reading this story and folks, do you really need to ponder if activists are going too far by bringing civil rights cases to the courts?

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I don’t have a take on the Supreme Court decision. I’m just really angry.

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I wrote an article adapting some of my archival research on trans care for Teen Vogue! With the US v. Skrmetti decision coming out today, the publication of this piece hits a lot harder than I expected. Trans youth: you deserve so much better.

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TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

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Are you in SP? Do you want to come to a trans baile funk esquenta pre parada comigo?

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Kudos to the BBC which (at least in broadcast I heard this morning) had this ahead of the latest Israel-Iran War news.

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This photo is going to appear in 7th-grade history books someday. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

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I have tickets to a trans baile funk party for São Paulo pride and I’m texting my friends from college to try to get them to pretend we’re 19 again but we’re all sober and have bedtimes before doors open

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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing identical journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

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Don't just vote. Run for office. We need county clerks, sheriffs, and district attorneys of integrity that will uphold the constitution. Local parties need help linking to voters and demonstrating that together we can make democracy work.

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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I had a fantastic time presenting our work with trans activists to scholars at the Universidad de San Martín and REDINSEX Argentina! Here is the link to our conversation (in Spanish): youtu.be/TEm0FIGePZY?...

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Can someone send me a gift article of the NYMag “Pete Hegseth playing secretary” article? Thank you!

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A lot of people are cringe and the most "edgy" political thing they've encountered is Hamilton and you're just going to have to live with that and be glad they're not at home OD'ing on white nationalist propaganda. They will be cringe and you can be like, jesus christ that's cringe. It's all fine.

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So important. This is America. Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.

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I am enjoying everyone’s protest posts. Thank you for participating!

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i've seen bigger crowds for free samples at trader joe's

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I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.

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"accustomed to remaining free" is definitely a euphemism for the era

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The Department of Homeland Security announces Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents will be stationed at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens as part of the FIFA Club World Cup's security efforts, sparking concerns from non-citizen fans.

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every day with this administration is the class the Monday before Thanksgiving

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“The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations.”

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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is wild

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chyron: DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS IN LA footage: twerk-off in front of a food truck

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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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I have spent my morning begging a billion dollar AI model to correctly format 50 citations

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In which I have the sinking feeling of boredom. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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Once again, M. Gessen perfectly captures the moment (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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They’re basically just trying to kill off US higher education as an industry at this point. Even a delay will pose a critical decision for thousands of prospective students whose futures are now in the air.

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It’s wild to look at these numbers and think white men face discriminatory hiring

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A plague on men who text on the leg machines

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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

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This is a deeply fucked decision that puts hundreds of thousands of people at risk for being deported to a repressive authoritarian state that has preyed on migrants www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

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There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working. What we are getting instead is Medicaid work reporting requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.

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Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten. Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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Hey political scientists! I’m designing a grad qual methods course. Did you take or teach one that you loved? What made it good? Please send syllabi 🤓

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