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very grateful to APSA’s south asian politics section for receiving this year’s best paper award!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations to @simonchauchard.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, and Niloufer Siddiqui, who received the 2025 Rajni Kothari Award for best paper on South Asian Politics for "Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

not even one month without dei and planes are doing things i didn’t even know was possible for them to do

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the worst possible framing normalizing democratic decline that makes an electoral autocracy.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

philly on parade day. hang it in the art museum

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broad street last night made me feel like we are a real country again the people needed the eagles to win

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philadelphia is different. go birds 💚

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

🦅 🦅

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Happy pagination to my @jepsjournal.bsky.social article on how democratic backsliding in the US states affects public preferences concerning leisure travel! Takeaway: Americans--especially Democrats--are less interested in vacationing in states that backslide! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

the little doge punk who has access to your social security data doesn’t know how to convert a document to a pdf

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

in case you have no rooting interest in the super bowl, read this ☺️ www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

i’m ready for it to take me

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

i hope the eagles realize just how many people’s mental and emotional health right now hinges on them winning

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

i tried to explain to my indian parents how Big Balls has access to my social security data and they immediately called me back to say “the quality of your jokes has deteriorated”

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

unelected, private citizen and his minion militia taking control of your private data. this is coup. call it that. nymag.com/intelligence...

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THIS IS A COUP

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i am on a whatsapp group with hundreds of other H1B visa holders (mostly all professors) and everyone is worried that it won’t even be possible to file the next LCA to continue to work in the US

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

any immigration folks on here know if gov is still processing visas and labor condition applications??

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

completely normal saturday

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

i had forgotten how difficult it is to sleep peacefully through the night during trump presidencies

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

same for immigration / visas / legal status issues. “we are looking into it and make use of counseling services” does not cut it.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

they are exploiting a deadly plane crash to sow hatred about minorities. that is your headline. not that trump says DEI caused the failure.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

i feel like we’re not talking enough about what caroline kennedy said about RFK jr putting tiny animals into blenders

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

every announcement about a new executive order is like “trump decides to give constipation to the whole US population”

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GO BIRDS 🦅

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

bbc reporting on a potential mass casualty event at the kumbh mela. we used to be able to use old twitter to coordinate and track this kinda stuff…

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

i’m gonna need people to stop saying trump and co are incompetent and won’t last 4 years. incompetence is only one part of the story. the chaos and uncertainly of the last week have already upended thousands and lives and will continue to do so. that is at least part of their goal.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

a complacent media is one of the first steps towards an electoral autocracy. this is exactly what started to happened in india a decade ago and the result is we now have a traditional media system that is fully a mouthpiece of the state.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

i am so dismayed by how many headlines today do not clearly and plainly state that trump’s actions are illegal. blocking congress approved funding is illegal. firing IGs is illegal.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

superbowl bound! center city philly is on fire right now 💚💚💚

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my mental health for the rest of 2025 depends on 53 large adult men in south philadelphia tomorrow

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

tickets booked, manifesting greased poles on sunday 🙏 go birds 🦅

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

i’ve started to track my time to understanding how much effort i’m putting into research. this week alone, i’ve spent fourteen hours on immigration paperwork when i could’ve been working on an R&R instead. sigh 😔

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

saying this once more: most of your academic colleagues and grad students do not have fallback options or a safety net if their next H1B or F visa doesn’t come through. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/u...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

i would live through 14 more covids if it meant watching anybody other than the chiefs win the super bowl

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

extremely concerning new EO requiring an ideological test + extreme vetting of opinions of visa holders in the US already. seeks to refuse admission for those who have “hostile attitudes” towards “government” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Nationalism, Status, and Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from Pakistan - cup.org/4jqvITZ - Asfandyar Mir & @niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

i tried to explain this to my university admin on call last week and she refused to believe me. i’m begging americans to learn about their own immigration system.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

by the way, trump taking away birthright citizenship by EO also includes revoking citizenship for kids born to those on student or work visas that means if grad students or academic colleagues on H1bs have children, they would immediately be considered illegally living in the US

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

nyt headline tomorrow: is it autism or is it hitler?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

catastrophically bad day/next four years. check in on your friends. especially those who are immigrants or here on visas.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments