Claire Haeg

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

What’s interesting is that Stephen Miller is using “upspeak” - high-rising terminal inflection - which makes him sound like a querulous teenager.

Diagram showing most murders are committed by right wing extremists. (77%)

Thanks @rsmith670.bsky.social for this great diagram. I'd love to print it out and shove it down the throats of people who say Dems are killers!

Judith Butler | Trumpists against Trump Donald Trump has alienated a good number of his MAGA supporters by seeking to suppress the full disclosure of the...

‘Trump tells his supporters they have been duped by the Epstein conspiracy, but some now know that they have been duped and dismissed by him: they can see that is cloaking a confession in an allegation.’

Judith Butler on Trump and Epstein:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Playing around with an idea which basically goes: faculty have lost (as in, these things have been cut, undermined or eroded) many of the incentives that might encourage them to work very hard.

RIP to a legend who besides giving 3 generations of my family a lot of joy also outlived his obit writer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Someone on Twitter posted a color chart for how to combine different shirts and pants.

You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid.

I'll show you why. 🧵

Even if I cover up the faces it’s still the one on the right!

A U.S. Politics Professor Explains Why Creating a Third Party Isn't So Easy - Georgetown University Elon Musk is set to create the America Party, but will it have legs? A government professor and expert in American political parties answers.

I answered some questions about Musk's "America Party" for Georgetown's Ask a Professor series.

www.georgetown.edu/news/a-us-po...

This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT.

The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

ICE is a real problem. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

The scholarship about bias in teaching evaluations is absolutely vast. A colleague and I built an annotated bibliography of the literature, all of it indicating that student evals are horribly biased. Why we still use them for tenure and promotion beats me.

Reminder on Byrd process:

Parliamentarian has identified OBBB text that violates Byrd rule. Her advice doesn’t block text. She’s saying: If GOP still keep Byrd-offending text in OBBB & send it to floor, a senator can cry fowl (😉). Supporters would then need 60 votes to keep each proposal in bill.

He is clearly missing you terribly. Poor “techno populist”!

GOP: Our budget will reduce the deficit
CBO: It'll increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion
GOP: But with greater growth, it'll pay for itself
CBO: Accounting for growth it's $2.3 trillion
GOP: ...
CBO: Also, more debt raises interest rates, so the true effect is $2.8 trillion.

An authoritarian bootlicker - the Founders are rolling in their graves. They thought the Congress would defend its prerogatives against a tyrannical executive branch.

Lemme 'splain all the exciting news that came out of the high stakes US-China trade talks, and their exciting new agreement to agree on an old agreement.

The elections in Poland will raise doubts about semi-presidentialism, rightly so. But it is important to get the critique right. There is unfortunately a widespread belief in political science & comparative constitutional law that constitutional design does not matter for democratic backsliding. 1/

The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

I’m teaching political science to mostly conservative (mostly male) students, so in the current political environment any nice comment in a student eval is absolute gold.

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

15 years ago, I argued that that the populist radical right was a "pathological normalcy" (radicalization of the mainstream), rather than a "normal pathology" (unrelated to the mainstream). Today, in some areas/positions (but not all ❗❗), the far right is the "normalcy" (i.e. mainstream).

Absolutely winning the internet.

This is so wrong. Why would they do that?

Land doesn't vote, part 1 million

Cas Mudde, political scientist: ‘Anyone should be worried about Trump being in power’ The Dutch academic talks to EL PAÍS about welfare chauvinism, the rise of ‘far-right porn’ and how the mainstream became radicalized

From almost 2 years ago…

Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe A bibliography of more than 1500 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)

I exist to promote research. I'm powered by the The Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/

Damn, they posted this from the socials.

YouTube video by Stanford CDDRL Brian Taylor — The Russo-Ukraine War: Peace For Our Time?

My talk @fsi.stanford.edu yesterday on the prospects for a peace deal in the Russo-Ukraine War.

youtube.com/watch?v=nems...