Indeed! Danielle Holley & whole college have also been so good on the defense of academic freedom
05.10.2025 14:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@malpas.bsky.social
government PhD student @ Harvard. alumna @ Mount Holyoke. somewhere between American + comparative politics: parties, imperialism, always inequality. https://www.ameliamalpas.com/
Indeed! Danielle Holley & whole college have also been so good on the defense of academic freedom
05.10.2025 14:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0is there new evidence of trump being schrodinger's president?
03.10.2025 21:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Proud to be from @rephuffman.bsky.social district. Rare to have a member of Congress speak like this
03.10.2025 01:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a great opportunity for students interested in a PhD in political science in the US!
We help break down opaque parts of the application process and provide students with individualized feedback. I recommend interested students apply, especially those not coming from elite R1 universities
This is a great opportunity for students interested in a PhD in political science in the US!
We help break down opaque parts of the application process and provide students with individualized feedback. I recommend interested students apply, especially those not coming from elite R1 universities
Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.
28.09.2025 21:31 β π 233 π 63 π¬ 15 π 26I just walked by a wall with pro-Palestine messages in Cambridge, several miles from Auchincloss's district. Two volunteers were updating it: they were the most normie-looking 60 year-old white women. I don't think these Democrats have grasped the sea change of Palestine opinion among their voters
27.09.2025 17:17 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0It took me less than 5 mins to write a comment about how integral international PhD students are to scientific production, and to the US' economic and cultural power.
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I've also noticed that the nearby suburb of Lexington has had a notable number of pro-Palestine yard signs for the last ~year. It's a town with a lot of wealthy Democratic homeowners! That's hardly the Democratic constituency associated with the issue traditionally
27.09.2025 17:21 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I just walked by a wall with pro-Palestine messages in Cambridge, several miles from Auchincloss's district. Two volunteers were updating it: they were the most normie-looking 60 year-old white women. I don't think these Democrats have grasped the sea change of Palestine opinion among their voters
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Thanks for these! That google doc is exactly what I was wondering about (I would also err on the side of caution with FIRE by itself, but would be great to have terminations represented in different sources)
20.09.2025 17:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When I watched The Sting as a teenager, I genuinely couldn't tell them apart. My confusion between them became a family joke
16.09.2025 13:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is anyone systematically tracking these university punishments for speech versus those for being insufficiently "woke" over the last decade?
15.09.2025 11:47 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Is anyone systematically tracking these university punishments for speech versus those for being insufficiently "woke" over the last decade?
15.09.2025 11:47 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The speed of the tone shift regarding the Kirk suspect was unreal
12.09.2025 20:36 β π 25 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The speed of the tone shift regarding the Kirk suspect was unreal
12.09.2025 20:36 β π 25 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Extremely proud of my alma mater for this new policy. I graduated without debt as a recipient of Mount Holyoke's full-tuition merit scholarship. Every student should have the profound freedoms that come from graduating without debt, and now many more Mount Holyoke students will have that chance
12.09.2025 15:41 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Extremely proud of my alma mater for this new policy. I graduated without debt as a recipient of Mount Holyoke's full-tuition merit scholarship. Every student should have the profound freedoms that come from graduating without debt, and now many more Mount Holyoke students will have that chance
12.09.2025 15:41 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Obvs!
06.09.2025 20:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Looks like a very interesting and thorough paper, that happens to also be relevant to what half of this site talks about constantly. Really looking forward to reading!
06.09.2025 19:27 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Supreme Court's Barrett says US not in constitutional crisis
Arsonist says there is no problem with house burning down.
05.09.2025 11:47 β π 1397 π 243 π¬ 29 π 13Just followed @somervilleyimby.org recs on primary candidates!
Didn't love only voting for men in a primary but housing is THE issue in local politics & policy matters a hell of a lot more to me than local descriptive representation
Vote by mail is so great. High chance I wouldn't have known when this off-year primary is without the ballot showing up at my door
31.08.2025 21:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just followed @somervilleyimby.org recs on primary candidates!
Didn't love only voting for men in a primary but housing is THE issue in local politics & policy matters a hell of a lot more to me than local descriptive representation
Ahh yes good for the military to be honoring literal traitors who took up arms against our country
29.08.2025 15:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think the standard for rejecting someoneβs evidence as βuselessβ should be to provide more thorough and more accurate evidence. These incredible data are the best evidence we have! And fwiw, some coauthors and I found similar stuff when looking at tweets about βdefund the policeβ
27.08.2025 19:41 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0I think it may even be true that the *perception* that this is what Dems are always talking about hurts them. But then the fact that perception and reality are so different makes it really difficult for Dems!
27.08.2025 23:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0