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Political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff. I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking! (she/her)
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Active shooter at FSU. Please take cover immediately

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Progress is possible, even in the most challenging places!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process

submitted 1 day ago • 435 comments

We’re at a time of choosing. You either side with the fascists or you side with basic human decency. That’s it. The full truth of matter. Make the right choice and be ready to fight. It isn’t easy and it’s going to be tough. But the choice is simple. Make the right one so you can live with yourself.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

GOD BLESS THE USA! 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Folks, the CFP trophy fell apart in JD Vance's hands as he was trying to lift it in front of the Ohio State football team, I am validated beyond all measure

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1339 comments

I hope I live to see Stephen Miller handcuffed in a dock at The Hague

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Heck of a time to be reading Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, the level of corruption is astounding and the fact that it doesn't break through is disheartening.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

never ceases to amaze me how the people who are most allergic to thinking are also the most concerned and controlling about other people's thoughts

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

There's just not much better than kids + palms on Palm Sunday.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's a beautiful Saturday, y'all. Go touch some grass. You're allowed to ignore bad opinions from terrible people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

(Logs onto Bluesky): Sees a dozen context-free posts about pro-natalism (Logs off)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The consequences of a large social movement openly and increasingly aggressively encouraging its adherents to reject empathy are likely to be staggering.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

any good reading recs that overview economic "planning" debates (state-led vs. corporate led, central vs. distributed, preferably one that isn't too credulous about the status quo) at the level of advanced undergrad/introductory grad? everything I find is either hyperspecialized or too introductory

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Hats off to Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills. Unlike too many others, she refuses to bow to Trump. “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,”. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 93 comments

This week in East Africa: Uganda denied opposition leader Kizza Besigye bail and charged him with treason. Tanzania arrested opposition leader Tundu Lissu and charged him with treason. South Sudan detained opposition leader Reik Machar. Kenya police tear-gassed high school children over a play.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

An eighth grader is showing more courage than many elected Democrats right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

The US deports a foreign national to South Sudan, a country that he does not come from. When South Sudan refuses, US cancels ALL VISAS from South Sudan. South Sudan relents, accepts non-citizen in an attempt to calm the US, but visas are still in limbo. GOT IT. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Even after adjusting for inflation, the US government is spending more money in 2025 than it did in 2024. Via @gelliottmorris.com.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 6 days ago • 838 comments

Genuinely don’t understand how so many politicians seem absolutely unwilling to wave a banner and tell the millions of Americans desperate for leadership that they have been heard and that their concerns will be met. Instead we get this milquetoast slop.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

SAVE Act just passed House. It is modern-day poll tax that would disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans, end online, mail + voter registration drives & require voters to register in person at election offices, forcing some rural voters to drive 8 hours to register. Total disaster in every way

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Reality Bites.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Dems - STOP with the fundraising texts. That is misreading the moment by 10,000,000 miles. Figure out ways to lead without needing cash. It’s just totally disrespectful of the urgency and financial situation right now

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 234 comments

Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

The results from Germany's big 3-year UBI experiment are out! 122 people got €1200/mo for 3 years. All were age 21-40 and employed with incomes between €1100/mo to €2600/mo They were happier, healthier, saved more, gave more, enjoyed more social time, and DID NOT WORK LESS than the control group.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

I was not previously aware that we had a system of government in which tax rates would fluctuate wildly from one day to the next depending on the president's desires.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Authoritarians thrive on creating uncertainty.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

That is truly amazing that the trade deficits have all shrunk so quickly and to a uniform level.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I have said this many times, but beyond Trump's fascist horrors, the man is just unbelievably tacky. "Making everything gold makes me look rich." OK Meidas.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely every business should do this.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

Everyday when I feel I cannot take much more, I think: At the end of this, whenever that comes— my soul will be weary, but at least I will not have sold it to the highest bidder.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

submitted 9 days ago • 618 comments

has anyone produced a map of Africa noting the % tariffs imposed by the Trump admin in each country? cc @texasinafrica.bsky.social @rachelstrohm.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Driving in today listening to Morning Edition on @npr.org, I was struck by three stories in a row (on free speech, government employment, and immigration) that had Americans who used a pseudonym, because they were "afraid of retaliation." This is a sign of a society that is no longer free.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

submitted 9 days ago • 414 comments

Exclusif – Joseph Kabila annonce son retour en RDC « sans délai »

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking up matters.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Getting Ted Cruz out of office should unite all Texas sports fans across the entire political spectrum.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

The Ted Cruz curse lives on.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments