@malpas.bsky.social
government PhD student @ Harvard. alumna @ Mount Holyoke. somewhere between American + comparative politics. https://www.ameliamalpas.com/
A side by side of two photos of the same book, being held by each author with a box of more books in the background.
A book never feels real until you hold it in you hands. @profsorelle.bsky.social & I can now confirm that Uncivil Democracy is real! If you care about #peoplepower #housingjustice, #tenantorganizing & transforming our perverse political economy, this is a book for you.
Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
thinking of Jessica Cisneros this morning and what could have been if those 2020 and 2022 primaries had gone slightly differently!
03.12.2025 16:40 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t... And enjoying. Below.
21.12.2025 14:54 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Heartbreaking reading
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
thinking of Jessica Cisneros this morning and what could have been if those 2020 and 2022 primaries had gone slightly differently!
03.12.2025 16:40 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Wait this is wild. I learned about Cheney earlier but had no idea abt Netanyahu
01.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging??
like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak
I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging??
like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak
Some all-new collegiate punctuation marks to rival the Oxford comma, from New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g2qa5v
29.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 36 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1No, thank you for advice! There are definitely interesting ideas here and I'm trying to draw those out in my report alongside what could be improved.
28.11.2025 23:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha fair! I'm trying to be nice. But it is not a good paper and I cannot recommend publication in good conscience!
28.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is ... not good! "Theory" section does not explain how independent and dependent variables are logically linked + other major problems
28.11.2025 22:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0reviewing my second ever article and I'm afraid I'm reviewer 2 here
28.11.2025 22:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0Haha it's such a gorgeous place! Totally different vibe from Berkeley but so lovely. I hope you get invited to give a talk there !!
21.11.2025 01:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UC Santa Cruz, the other UC with redwoods, is the most beautiful campus in my opinion
21.11.2025 00:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0one of my funnier moments living in New Haven was defeating this guy's brother, who was also a city alderman at the time, in beer pong at a party
18.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 47 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0looks great! will read with interest
18.11.2025 19:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
18.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 44 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0It’s even funnier honestly bc this is not something I am good at. Like, at all.
18.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0one of my funnier moments living in New Haven was defeating this guy's brother, who was also a city alderman at the time, in beer pong at a party
18.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 47 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0haha i'm 26 (somewhere between baby to other adults and ancient relative to all that has come before!)
17.11.2025 00:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was only banned at my historically women's college my first year in 2018!
17.11.2025 00:24 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers
15.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 304 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 4The problem was never "cancel culture." The problem is that our elites have no shame. And many are also pretty terrible people
13.11.2025 00:13 — 👍 47 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Our @apsrjournal.bsky.social article is now in print! We develop a theory to explain why the public doesn't become more prosocial toward LGBTQ+ people after illegitimate anti-LGBTQ+ violence and provide causal, externally valid, evidence for the theory across 4 studies doi.org/10.1017/S000...
13.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Yeah exactly! the Epstein stuff is the only conspiracy theory I think might be true. I went from neutral to yeah, he probably didn’t kill himself over the last year w the Trump et al freak outs. Idk probably won’t happen w ghislaine but not completely completely out of the question ?
13.11.2025 03:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
oh my god. hadn't thought of that
13.11.2025 00:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
