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Michael Stambolis

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Sociologist. Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. Author of: By the Power Vested in Me (Columbia University Press, 2025). I study how experts participate in controversial political debates.

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I'd love to talk to you more about Faust. I've been following her work for a while.

01.03.2026 01:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

C'est pas jojo

28.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

J'avoue.. et je parle même des trucs anti-trans...

28.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

HDR, baby!

28.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My thoughts too. But I guess this is what some Oxford trained doctors think.

28.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Et je peux confirmer que sa personnalité est flippante. Il est ultra convainquant à écouter. Le public ici l'adore. Ces idées, comme celles des gens ici, sont très néfastes.

28.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Il publie beaucoup... et, plus inquiétant, se vante de se on rôle en tant que pair évaluateur pour flinguer les articles des gens qui défendent l'avortement.

28.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Yeah....

28.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Il a dit qu'il n'est pas catholique.

28.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dr Calum Miller Dr Calum Miller is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and a medical doctor working in the NHS. He completed his degree in Medicine and Surgery at St Hugh’s College,...

C'est toute une histoire...
www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ca...

28.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Effectivement 😅😅😅

28.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be clear, c'est un médecin (formé à Oxford) qui dit ça...

28.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Lol right?

28.02.2026 08:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He's been staunchly against same-sex marriage since forever and done his utmost to thwart it at every turn.

28.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was really just a matter of time...

28.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Robert P. George, the conservative activist academic who is the leading figure behind all the conservative campus centers, has a long connection to this Christian nationalist publication, including this article last year in which he called for the overturning of the SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling.

26.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Spending my evening in a conference room listening to Robert P. George. Shout out to the Know your Enemy boys @samadlerbell.bsky.social and @mattsitman.bsky.social).

28.02.2026 01:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Contraception makes you more attracted to effeminate men. Married women who go off the pill are no longer attracted to their effeminate husbands. They want a masculine husband.

-Overheard doing fieldwork

28.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Early in July, after decades of pro-life outcry and practical pressure, Congress passed, and President Trump signed, a budget bill that generally prevents federal Medicaid funds from going to businesses that slaughter children in the womb-including the Leftist-exalted golden calf known as Planned Parenthood. As the nation's number one abortion mega-corporation, Planned Parenthood could hardly be exempt from this legislation. As of this writing, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani has enjoined enforcement of the law. So baseless is her ruling, however, that it is widely expected to be overturned. In cooperation with many other pro-lifers, Life Legal played a significant part in this victory. • We appealed to members of Congress directly and kept appealing without growing weary. We signed on to dozens of joint letters to preserve the Hyde and Weldon amendments, to cut Margaret Sanger's twisted brainchild out of Title IX funding, and to cut the flow of tax monies directly. • We participated on “Defund Planned Parenthood Day" on June 28. The decisive action of Congress and President Trump was only one of the headlines that upset Planned Parenthood in July. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states too can refuse Medicaid funds to abortion profiteers--including the biggest, most unprincipled abortionist profiteer of all. In its own arguments, Planned Parenthood whined and wailed, appealing to the abortion chain's special status as a provider of "reproductive health care." The implication was that these words constituted an “open sesame" formula to vast stores of taxpayer dollars. Our amicus brief in the case directly addressed the special pleading of privileged child murder businesses--the "abortion distortion" that has twisted so many legal principles over the past 50 years. 6 After the ruling, Planned Parenthood complained that it would be forced to close 25 murder mills nationwide including five in the abortion bastion of Northern Califo…

Early in July, after decades of pro-life outcry and practical pressure, Congress passed, and President Trump signed, a budget bill that generally prevents federal Medicaid funds from going to businesses that slaughter children in the womb-including the Leftist-exalted golden calf known as Planned Parenthood. As the nation's number one abortion mega-corporation, Planned Parenthood could hardly be exempt from this legislation. As of this writing, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani has enjoined enforcement of the law. So baseless is her ruling, however, that it is widely expected to be overturned. In cooperation with many other pro-lifers, Life Legal played a significant part in this victory. • We appealed to members of Congress directly and kept appealing without growing weary. We signed on to dozens of joint letters to preserve the Hyde and Weldon amendments, to cut Margaret Sanger's twisted brainchild out of Title IX funding, and to cut the flow of tax monies directly. • We participated on “Defund Planned Parenthood Day" on June 28. The decisive action of Congress and President Trump was only one of the headlines that upset Planned Parenthood in July. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states too can refuse Medicaid funds to abortion profiteers--including the biggest, most unprincipled abortionist profiteer of all. In its own arguments, Planned Parenthood whined and wailed, appealing to the abortion chain's special status as a provider of "reproductive health care." The implication was that these words constituted an “open sesame" formula to vast stores of taxpayer dollars. Our amicus brief in the case directly addressed the special pleading of privileged child murder businesses--the "abortion distortion" that has twisted so many legal principles over the past 50 years. 6 After the ruling, Planned Parenthood complained that it would be forced to close 25 murder mills nationwide including five in the abortion bastion of Northern Califo…

Planned Parenthood is described in some extremely unhinged ways by the anti-abortion group, Life Legal Defense Foundation: "The Leftist-exalted golden calf known as Planned Parenthood. As the nation's number one abortion mega-corporation."

27.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ça à l'air beau et très scarry!

27.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.”

“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

27.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 953    🔁 285    💬 35    📌 36

C'est quel jeu?

27.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Indeed

27.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The university administrators would have a MUCH stronger moral ground to stand on here if they didn't arrest peaceful protesters or cave to Trump at the first opportunity.

27.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Columbia University bravely commits to only sic the police on anti-genocide protesters. The university president's video makes that clear when she says they never assist authorities "as regards arresting or taking students" on immigration matters.

27.02.2026 01:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Invalidating ID cards based on gender is literally a key plot point in The Handmaid’s Tale. This is horrifying.

26.02.2026 02:22 — 👍 1100    🔁 349    💬 17    📌 4
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Trump Administration Is Scrubbing LGBTQ+ Questions from Federal Surveys. Here's Why It Matters The Trump administration has erased hundreds questions relating to LGBTQ+ identity on federal surveys, according to a new study. Researchers warn that the lack of data on the queer community will tang...

People Magazine again doing some important work!

26.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Trump crackdowns on science are terrible! But the Mellon Foundation funds anti-racism initiatives! These are equivalent affronts to academic freedom, or something! I'm so smart! So witty! So heterodox!

25.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Le titre est parfaitement choisi...

25.02.2026 08:00 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

rappel biographique des figures de proue de la manif de samedi dernier

25.02.2026 08:05 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0