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shandlin.bsky.social
Swarthmore political scientist. Elections, autocracy, and the politics of digital surveillance in Venezuela and beyond. Currently moving from the other place...
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This phenomenon deserves its own name in which otherwise smart elites engage in all sorts of insane theorizing to rationalize what Trump is doing. DOGE is the disruptive force government needs. Trump is a savvy geopolitical strategist. Recessions are actually good. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 13 days ago • 62 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 21 days ago • 906 comments

This will blow up university budgets and one effect is that the job market will be very very bleak for a while.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

submitted 27 days ago • 359 comments

So many mainstream journalists got snowed into repeating the obviously farcical story that Trump's envoy made such grave threats that he got Netanyahu to fold. Netanyahu gave Trump a "win" and now Trump will turn a blind eye to the annexation of the WB and shrug when the war returns to Gaza.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The news of a deal in Gaza is an immense relief, first and foremost. It is convenient for both Trump and Bibi to claim that the former wielded sticks and forced the latter's hand. Far more likely is that Trump offered some awful carrots, like support for the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Your location data going back years may now be in the hands of any random cybercrime syndicate willing to pay for it. Gravy Analytics claims to collect on 1b mobile devices daily and the hackers say they've been inside their systems since 2018.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

We're going to need separate Milei and non-Milei categories but this thread should be a banger regardless.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing thread, follow to the end.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Political scientist: Whatever. Can you make a valid causal inference about how it got that way?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

This is insane and probably only the beginning in public higher ed.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments