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Sara Mitchell

@sbmitche.bsky.social

Professor, international relations, Spartan & Cyclone alumni, studies conflict, institutions, and disasters; mother of awesome rehabilitation counselor

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This was my reaction to this commercial πŸ˜‚

09.02.2026 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisisβ€”and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

09.02.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4914    πŸ” 1957    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 39
Fuck ICE

Fuck ICE

09.02.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5844    πŸ” 1625    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 105

Exactly

09.02.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol I was saying β€œis that Ricky Martin?” Apparently I was right

09.02.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very entertaining

09.02.2026 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your sabbatical is making all others envious

07.02.2026 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SEN. OSSOFF: β€œ.. why are roving gangs of masked men β€” who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam β€” dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social

07.02.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 18315    πŸ” 5749    πŸ’¬ 406    πŸ“Œ 266

These federal buildings have cells designed to hold a few people for a brief period; like a holding cell at a police station. Supposed to be 12 hours max, usually less.

People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.

07.02.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 592    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

I used to have season tickets at Michigan State and it was fun.

07.02.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ You just need to watch college hockey in person and then you will like it.

07.02.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The executives are obviously in the Epstein files. This is my assumption now for anyone who complies in advance.

07.02.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called β€œSAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary.

It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

04.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2116    πŸ” 1448    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 126

Just cancelled mine as well

06.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t like to romanticize the past but I think society was better when we shunned child molesters rather than make them president

06.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow

06.02.2026 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Closing Pandora’s Box: Can Shared Vulnerability Underpin Territorial Stability? | International Organization | Cambridge Core Closing Pandora’s Box: Can Shared Vulnerability Underpin Territorial Stability?

Can a fear of opening a "Pandora's Box" of widespread revisionism restrain leaders' territorial ambitions?

Now on #FirstView @kschultz.bsky.social & @jamie_hintson argue yes, but only under restrictive conditions that have historically been difficult to meet.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

05.02.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 2026 lines will hopefully go upwards from zero soon

05.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

Autocracy in the USA: β€œWebloc, reportedly allows law enforcement officers to identify phones and track (...) without a warrant; Tangles (..) make dossiers on people of interest, including location information scraped from their public social media posts”
Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

05.02.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Wow, amazing how relevant this is

05.02.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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US, Iran struggle to find common ground ahead of talks Talks between Iran and the United States will take place in Oman on Friday.

Funny that Bolton said this because I was asking students if the US was engaging in brinkmanship with Iran and they were quiet. My reply: you would have to state a bargaining position first πŸ˜‚

β€œ[But] he doesn’t necessarily have a strategic goal.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

05.02.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Back to Whats Wrong With Kansas

05.02.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

05.02.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6172    πŸ” 1319    πŸ’¬ 242    πŸ“Œ 74

They don’t exist

05.02.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‡

05.02.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We do if we are bringing back manifest destiny πŸ˜‚

05.02.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, doing the same today

05.02.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ofc not. Maybe the Dems will learn that giving in during budget negotiations yields nothing πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

05.02.2026 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. What people get for investing in fake β€œmoney”.

05.02.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much winning

05.02.2026 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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