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alexbnewhouse.bsky.social
PhD student in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder. email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
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went skiing and spent some time in the mountains this weekend. The mountains are Good. now time for Thai food and civil conflict readings

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

@alexbnewhouse.bsky.social making some keen insights in the GC. The fact so much of our current woes can be traced back to the Protocols and 4-chan is insane.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

having just turned 30 and hoping to own a house at some point is like being repeatedly punched in the face while politically powerful homeowners yell about how I should be thankful i'm getting punched in the face

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

look, as a comparative political scientist, i'd assess what's happening as: 1. clearly a coup 2. clearly an extremely *dumb* coup

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I think it’s about time that we start actually saying out loud that the Musk-GOP explicitly supports violent child exploitation of the most despicable variety

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Ulysses rolled artillery into southern capitals. We can do this again.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

saw this and immediately subscribed to the print edition

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

one of our best friends is a phd student in the netherlands and every day I get closer and closer to calling them up and seeing if we can crash with them for *waves hands erratically* a while

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

i'm ready for when it'll be cheaper to burn cash than spend it on firewood

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I think we should make bluesky more like myspace to increase good vibes. in that interest: my gf and I had a wonderful lunch date today at a bangin' dim sum place we randomly stopped at while in broomfield. dim sum rocks. diversity rocks.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

call me old fashioned but I don't think government should be in the business of prioritizing transit funding based on birth rates

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

what's funny about being in academia is that you're constantly inundated with media and rhetoric that insists that academics are The Elites and super out-of-touch, when in reality we're mostly just bookworms who get paid WAY below market rate and put in dozens of hours per week to help students

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

these guys all got *way* too high on golden age utopianism/resurrection stuff and think that ~metaphysics~ will take over once they destroy the government.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

it really seems like they turned off medicaid by accident because they worked themselves into a moral panic over dei

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

not sure that stopping ALL food stamps, meals on wheels, and WIC is going to help republicans

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

these are not smart people! They are evil but smart&evil would not look like this! They have no idea what they’re doing!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

*starts building list of faculty jobs overseas while laughing increasingly hysterically*

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

they’ve been conspiracism-addled for so many years that they’ve turned into full blown collapsists because they believe that they can convince people to come to their side via the destruction of, well, everything

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

two weeks into my job at playstation--a company known for generally being competent and efficient--back in 2018, my corporate account got deleted and IT couldn't figure out how to re-provision it for a week. and the groypers are supposed to run provisions for a nationwide deportation program?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

if you believe that randos are going to be handed a gun and a badge, who then is running the gun-and-badge distribution system? who is the chief quartermaster and provisioner of the stormtrooper deployment program?

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

denver-boulder area has its issues, but westminster/arvada/broomfield/thornton are building huge new apartment complexes and it's been amazing to see many of them are along light rail lines too!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

one of the ways that radically decentralized networks of loosely affiliated actors produce violence is by the cultivation of stochastic-like collective dynamics. these types of networks build "traditions" of attackers through the production of memory artifacts like leaderboards, memes, etc.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

really wish we had a contemporary Grant. military occupation to enforce de-segregation and the 14th amendment feels like it's coming back into fashion.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

one of the ways that radically decentralized networks of loosely affiliated actors produce violence is by the cultivation of stochastic-like collective dynamics. these types of networks build "traditions" of attackers through the production of memory artifacts like leaderboards, memes, etc.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Great article here on @propublica.org by @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social on how two mass shooters were apart of the same online communities that worship mass shooters. A fandom for mass shooter fans one could say. Give it a read! @maargentino.com and @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social contributed!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

@propublica.org article referencing my work alongside @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social, with insight from @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social. The details of these stories are difficult to read, but we hope understanding will help prevent future violence. www.propublica.org/article/madi...

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

quite literally the entire Enlightenment-infused academic apparatus is built on picking and choosing which types of academics and which types of ideas can and should be explored

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I love that many Dems appear to want to play to the Anthony Downsian "politicians are exclusively interested in winning and retaining power" caricature thank god for @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

shoutout to @thewaroncars.bsky.social's series on Forrester for educating me on just how deranged and influential the vehicular cycling movement is

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I still maintain that a "Turn the IRS against the assholes making you poor" coalition would win 400 electoral votes

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

middlebury pride, lfg field hockey team

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment