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Nailed it.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 65 days ago • 95 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 66 days ago • 189 comments

The fact that Musk has lost $100B over the last month but is still the wealthiest person on Earth and financially unharmed in the slightest—all while wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression—is Exhibit A on why we need to tax billionaires out of existence.

submitted 76 days ago • 60 comments

A minor thing but is true nonetheless: due to silence, a large part of the leadership of intellectual foreign policy & national security studies, has abdicated any authority now or in the future. It’s gone. Completely up for grabs for the few folks who can stand up a say “No, Canada is our friend”.

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

I am so inspired by the stories of these intrepid researchers, who built the work they wanted to do in the places they wanted to live. #PhDchat 🧪🌎

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 90 days ago • 1271 comments

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

submitted 91 days ago • 8 comments

Again, earnest sociological question - I'm wondering what threshold neds to be reached for corporate media to begin using the words "fascism" "authoritarianism" or "oligarchy" in reference to our current situation? This also refers to the Nazi salutes, plural at this point.

submitted 91 days ago • 12 comments

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

submitted 93 days ago • 17 comments

One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"

submitted 93 days ago • 13 comments

A person on Reddit claiming to be a former worker at the National Parks says "irreversible damage" is being done, especially after Trump decided to fire a huge amount of staff: "The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone."

submitted 93 days ago • 9 comments

NEW - Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? - cup.org/4i1N0Fn "I argue that viewing children as public goods places important limits on the total costs to be fairly shared by non-parents" - @liamshields.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 95 days ago • 799 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 95 days ago • 113 comments

From Mike Pence - too little, too late

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

By definition.

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submitted 97 days ago • 1060 comments

Yep. The Sun King, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

AP kicked out of White House Press Briefings for not changing name of Gulf of Mexico, now this. Welcome to the the clampdown on free speech. Punishment for those who dissent.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 97 days ago • 283 comments

No.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Out now! A timely piece w brilliant colleagues. We offer a critique of humanitarian aid when delivered as paternalism, especially when tied to securitised migration. But recognise its role if protection centres on migrant women autonomy and meaningful inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Very fun bonus pod—two of my favorite players, Puka Nacua and Kyle Hamilton, joined the show to break down the Super Bowl, talk Ravens and Rams, and more. These dudes are the best. 📺: youtu.be/jKMhVPnx0fo?...

submitted 100 days ago • 17 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 100 days ago • 54 comments

The environmental crisis gets serious.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Kentucky bourbon relies on barrels from white oak trees — giving the bourbon its color and signature caramel & vanilla flavor. America's white oak population, which grows best along the East Coast, is under threat due to climate change, land use, an invasive insects. www.axios.com/local/richmo...

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

“maternal death rate isn’t as bad if you don’t count Black women” says sitting senator without explaining why you wouldnt include some people in the maternal death rate www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...

submitted 103 days ago • 51 comments

His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.

submitted 107 days ago • 328 comments