Amount of time network evening newscasts devoted to reporting on today’s protests and general strike in MN (not including coverage ICE actions or their attempts to spin)
ABC: 45 seconds
NBC: 20 seconds
CBS: 15 seconds
PBS: 2 minutes, 20 seconds
24.01.2026 06:26 — 👍 479 🔁 199 💬 11 📌 22
This seems important
21.01.2026 22:46 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Lovely to see the outpouring of love for Kimuli, whose presence is so very missed. I’m adding here the “in memoriam” colleagues wrote for the department (a bit more personal than the one from the university!)
polisci.columbia.edu/content/memo...
13.01.2026 23:12 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks for posting. Looks interesting and will read with interest. Glad to see academic posts like this on Bluesky.
12.01.2026 12:07 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
This pretty damning. Hard to see how faculty will take his leadership seriously.
11.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe those Mercator Maps were not such a good idea after all.
06.01.2026 13:26 — 👍 37 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Five years since the January 6th insurrection and a reminder that in the moment many Republicans and Trump voters were appalled, but many also were not.
06.01.2026 13:08 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If kidnapping a country’s leader doesn’t count as an act of war, then what does?
04.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Opinion | Justice in Venezuela
The next challenge is setting the country up for long-term success.
I've been down on the WP for a while now and this Editorial Board piece is exactly why. The argument is shallower than a kiddie pool. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
03.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Not Somali.
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
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Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law
26.12.2025 15:21 — 👍 1527 🔁 375 💬 30 📌 16
You’d really be forgiven if you had a hard time conceiving of a success on this scale. “So I’ve got this idea for an environmental and public health project, we’re gonna reduce pollution by a fifth. No no it doesn’t cost anything. Actually it’s gonna net half a billion dollars.” What!
23.12.2025 20:47 — 👍 99 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
22.12.2025 15:41 — 👍 3056 🔁 1608 💬 121 📌 217
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?
Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?
But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.
Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
20.12.2025 14:36 — 👍 871 🔁 462 💬 38 📌 32
Make America Gullible Again!
20.12.2025 15:16 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Such a shortsighted decision at a moment of international turbulence. These centers are needed now more than ever.
18.12.2025 18:22 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
16.12.2025 22:11 — 👍 46 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 5
Postdoctoral Scholars
Postdoctoral Scholars
Come work with us. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Studies and another for an open position at the Harriman Institute. Deadline January 5. harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...
16.12.2025 14:38 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Longer thread on relevant research: bsky.app/profile/prof...
15.12.2025 17:27 — 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Not that you really need it in this case, but research says no.
Political appointee diplomats underperform career diplomats onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
15.12.2025 17:25 — 👍 342 🔁 75 💬 11 📌 3
A ray of hope on an otherwise bleak weekend.
15.12.2025 00:34 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In Memoriam: Professor Kimuli Kasara | Arts & Sciences
The world is a less interesting place with the passing of Kimuli Kasara. She was brilliant, funny, and caring. And was loved by many. She was a great friend and confidante. We will all miss her terribly. Rest in peace. fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
03.12.2025 13:17 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
26.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 1575 🔁 449 💬 21 📌 6
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