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Assistant Professor of Political Science -- My work is on democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.
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This is beyond delusional insanity, it needs its own new terminology for how devoid of reality it is. This man is a deranged lunatic. I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000

submitted 25 minutes ago • 78 comments

How Europeans react when you try to speak their language.

submitted 1 hour ago • 30 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 3 hours ago • 248 comments

Honestly I think if this place was actually irrelevant we wouldn’t have to deal with the same freaking editorial every week for an entire year and a half

submitted 3 hours ago • 92 comments

Listen to Risa 👇👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Seeing lots of discussion about whether the U.S. military will go along or push back against orders to confront mass protests. Here’s my take on what other cases and prior research tell us about what might happen. 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

"Peace through strength" in "domestic affairs" is not a slogan used in a free society.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Terrible that there was *checks notes* a pallet of bricks at a *checks notes again* Home Depot

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Time for everyone to become familiar with Eva Bellin's work

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

submitted 19 hours ago • 73 comments

When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

submitted 18 hours ago • 253 comments

I'm just a simple political scientist but it sure seems like an unpopular president taking power when there were no riots and then there being riots probably will become more unpopular

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

Really begging news agencies to simply state who is escalating violence in this case.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Reminder that this country had an insurrection on Jan 6 and Trump refused to send in the National Guard.

submitted 19 hours ago • 27 comments

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

submitted 19 hours ago • 163 comments

Feel like the news reporting on this is very lazy. What national guard is Homan (a thug gangster if there ever was one) deploying exactly? The CA national guard is under the authority of Gov Newsom. Trump cld nationalize the guard. But we're not hearing anything abt that.

submitted 21 hours ago • 64 comments

Gonna need the world to stop

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This is clearly intentional so they can invoke national emergency powers

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Statement from California Governor Gavin Newsom:

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

interesting to note that 400 protesters have monopolized all of LASD’s enforcement power because they tried to help ICE arrest half a dozen guys working at a Home Depot if you’re scoring on efficiency, the protesters are winning

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

It wasn't a warzone until cops armed for an invasion of Baghdad showed up

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

VAR is determined to not let Gotham FC score against KC

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is the opening to a command and conquer game

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 1 day ago • 368 comments

These guys love Donald Trump but no one seems to know him. Look at every relationship he's had and this is always the result.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

I can't think of all the different ways this could end poorly

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The DNC leaves local parties to themselves, and this is the consequence.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Explaining what technically is and isn't pedophilia makes you appear like a pedophile

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So we're already in the trying people in absentia stage of autocracy

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

"while every new president replaces board members and demands some fealty to the new leader’s ideology, what has happened in the past four months seems to some in the federal government more like China’s cultural revolution, where the only good ideas are the ones that flow from the leader"

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Sacking Postecoglou and hiring Frank is peak Daniel Levy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Lets screw over everyone" is an interesting pitch for an industry.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Im sure Trump enjoys watching $TSLA tank like most of us

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

At some point in this horror show, guns are going to be used.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 2 days ago • 349 comments

THE SCHADENFREUDE

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Elon realizing he got betrayed by the dude who betrays everyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

my immediate prediction is that this ends with Elon publicly bending the knee to Trump in as degrading a way as possible in about four weeks time.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

Man if Trump was wrong about Elon, what else might he be wrong about? Sheesh that's a lot to think about.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Today in Autocracy 101

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm overdosing on schadenfreude tbh

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

are there any doctors on here, is it technically possible to die of popcorn overdose

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

You get a like You get a like You get a like And you get a like

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments