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mstambolis.bsky.social
Sociologist. Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. I study how experts participate in controversial political debates (climate change, abortion, and same-sex marriage). Baltimore is my hometown.
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NEW: Alliance Defending Freedom is urging Trump to cut ties with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, org that helps recommend which women's preventive services to cover—including birth control. Letter cites "items that can prevent the implantation of embryos after conception"

there is more than one way to segregate the federal workforce and to circumvent anti-discrimination law

Le 5 mai je donne une conférence à Colomiers pour la section locale de la @ldh.fr, dont je suis adhérent. Les États-Unis de Trump : La démocratie en danger? Je vous expliquerai pourquoi la réponse est oui et nous débattrons de la résistance internationale à mener contres les autoritarismes.

El Salvador is claiming they need more time to facilitate a visit to CECOT for Van Hollen but somehow are also producing reels with Kristi Noem and GOP influencers. CECOT is the media stage of Bukele's system of torture camps and access is restricted by ideology.

yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

Salles-la-Source

« N’oublie pas que Pol Pot a d’abord tué des professeurs d’université » : terrifiant reportage d’ @itrippenbach.bsky.social sur la contre-révolution trumpiste à l’assaut des campus, sous l’impulsion de l’influenceur Charlie Kirk et de son mouvement Turning Point USA. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Perhaps they could try some deep sea mini submarines. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/m...

What genius decided to make shower gel for kids that SMELLS LIKE NUTELLA?!!

« Moi je ne suis pas prêt à ce que mes enfants mangent des graines tous les jours, fassent de la bicyclette tous les jours ». Mo je ne suis pas prête à ce que mes enfants soient confinés plusieurs mois par an à cause de la chaleur et souffrent du manque eau et de nourriture. Chacun ses combats. 🤷‍♀️

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Sous le mandant de Carole Delga, la Région Occitanie s'est largement désengagée de son soutien à la recherche. Mais là c'est le comble. Dire que le congrès de l'Association Française de Sociologie "n'est pas un évènement scientifique" est du pur Trumpisme. La Région a peur de quoi? La vérité.

My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information. Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully! christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...

Republican Congresspeople on their way to the White House.

This week in 1974, the UK National Union of Students first implemented their ‘no platform’ policy. I wrote about the history of this policy in my book, ‘No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (which is on sale here): www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

Wow, Ryanair really hates unions and air traffic control unions in particular. Here they are with an anti-labor website encouraging their customers to complain to the European Commission about their "holidays ruined" by striking air traffic controllers.

Last weekend in Chicago, 1500 historians gathered for the Organization of American Historians' conference where leading scholars discussed little things like, oh, the fate of democracy. I guess if we add some horny Nazis next year maybe CNN will come out and listen to what we have to say?

Just like Gamegate was not actually about ethics in games journalism, and the anti-trans movement was not actually about the sanctity of women's sports, the crackdown on universities and student protests is not actually about reining in antisemitism.

Seems like when you are a politician and in a situation you have to shield yourself from cameras it’s time to do some serious reflection on how you got there.

The government literally wants to create thought crimes as a category. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this is so fucking embarrassing.

It's small potatoes in the scheme of things but not sure it makes any sense for legal reporters to ask lawyers at firms that have caved to Trump for any expert analysis on litigation involving the administration.

c' est vrai qu'en démocratie les opposants ne sont pas enfermés, enfin presque, euh ben non...

Thèse ! Recherche candidat.e, avec master en SHS pour doctorat financé en hist. des médias et des ind. culturelles, intitulé “Le Salon des Arts Ménagers : les médiations de la comm. industrielle pour le développement de la consommation”, sous dir de Claire Blandin et Alexie Geers, LabSIC/USPN.

Jesse Singal, a transphobic bigot who has dedicated a large portion of his career to spreading misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, is baffled that John Oliver would do a single episode debunking his life's work

Our NOAA probationary feds were re-fired today. Taken off administrative leave, no salary, no health care. I feel increasingly powerless.

Chère @franceuniversites.bsky.social, je suis déçu, mais surpris, par votre soutien à un organisme de surveillance tout sauf indépendant et collégial. Déçu parce qu'on aurait préféré vous entendre défendre l'autonomie scientifique. Pas surpris parce que vous êtes des bureaucrates sans courage.

7 ans que Macron se gargarise des mots de souveraineté et de réindustrialisation. L’usine chimique Vencorex vient aujourd’hui de basculer sous pavillon chinois, des salarié·es se retrouvent sans emploi, grâce à l’inaction de l'État. Énième illustration du fossé entre le discours et les actes.

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

[ #VeilleESR #Hcéres ] "Lorsque l’évaluation rendue est négative en raison du « manque de personnel titulaire », comment ne pas y voir la sanction des politiques d’assèchement [...] ?" Excellente itw de Clémentine Gozlan par @romainjeanticou.bsky.social pour @telerama.bsky.social

"C’est à ce moment-là que j’ai eu pour la première fois l’intuition que ... Trump allait gagner. Je me souviens de mon horreur physique. Vous savez, cette impression qu’on vous aspire les tripes. Cette douleur à la poitrine." www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

Apparently the "realist" position is to ... ignore this?