José Incio

👇🏽👇🏽 #Agendar ¡¡Lanzamos la convocatoria📣!!

III Seminario Internacional "Política Subnacional en América Latina🌎"

📅Fecha límite para postulaciones📋: 14 de julio

🗓️Fecha del evento: 30-31 de octubre de 2025
🏫Lugar: CENUR Litoral Norte (UDELAR), Salto, Uruguay

👉 Nuestrxs investigadorxs @camilagm.bsky.social (Investigadora principal),
@jlincio.bsky.social (Investigador principal) y
@stefrousseau.bsky.social (Co-investigadora) han sido ganadores del financiamiento de “Proyectos de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales” PROCIENCIA 2025 🙌

Kristi Noem’s Purse, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.

A handbag belonging to Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, containing her passport, department security badge and $3,000 in cash was stolen on Sunday at a restaurant in Washington, the department confirmed.

Read our @JoDemocracy article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/954567
#Democracy #LatinAmerica #PoliticalScience

New publication! 📄 With Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia and Moisés Arce, we identify "Legislative Authoritarianism" in Peru - a new route for democratic erosion where Congress, not presidents, dismantles democracy. This pattern flies under the radar while everyone focuses on executive power. (link below)

Trump Live Updates: Tariffs News, State Elections and More

Breaking News: The Trump administration began laying off 10,000 federal health workers, with some FDA workers discovering they had lost their jobs when their security badges didn’t work.

⚡ Our April issue has landed!

Read FREE through April 30: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...

New issue drops tomorrow!

Top Senate Republican Protests Trump Bid to Withhold Spending Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the president does not have the power to “pick and choose” what to fund.

Breaking News: A top Senate Republican teamed up with Democrats to accuse President Trump of illegally refusing to spend $2.9 billion in approved funds.

The End of the Duterte Dynasty? | Journal of Democracy The ICC arrest of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is a shocking blow for the Duterte clan, and the Marcos family isn’t letting up. Is this the political last stand for the Dutertes?

The ICC arrest of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is a shocking blow for the Duterte clan, and the Marcos family isn’t letting up. Is this the political last stand for the Dutertes?

www.journalofdemocra...

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

After ICE came knocking at her door, a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University fled to Canada. “The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous. So I just made a quick decision.”

Israel Keeps Up Attacks in Gaza Despite Truce In the latest strikes, the Israeli military killed at least nine people, according to the Gaza health ministry. Israel says militants were threatening its forces.

Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians in Gaza in strikes on Saturday, according to the Gaza health ministry, the latest in a string of Israeli attacks that have kept up despite a roughly two-month-old truce with Hamas.

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

I'm guessing that many research institutions outside the U.S. will recruit talented scientists currently based in the U.S.

Is anyone aware of organized recruitment efforts? The only one I've seen was this one from a French university.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

Sin mujeres no hay democracia Rechazar la paridad debilita la democracia. Ya no se trata de si queremos promoverla, sino de los costos que tiene su ausencia, opina Flavia Freidenberg.

Sin mujeres no hay democracia
Nuestra colega y coordinadora @flaviafreidenberg.bsky.social escribe en La Silla Vacía
#NoSinMujeres

www.lasillavacia.com/red-de-exper...

In solidarity with the national boycotts, Owlfly Publishing has retracted all of our titles from Amazon and KDP. Prior purchases will be unaffected.

Owlfly books will still be available for purchase on other major platforms and in local bookstores around the world.

www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

La vieja confiable: declaro en emergencia para aparentar que estamos trabajando.

Is Eric Adams Running for Re-election? Signs Point to No. Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has taken few concrete steps to launch a serious re-election campaign, even as he faces a growing field of prominent challengers.

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City insists he is running for re-election. But with the Democratic primary less than four months away, he has not hired a campaign manager or taken other concrete steps to launch a serious campaign.

VA plans to lay off as many as 83,000 employees this year A leaked memo released Tuesday called for VA to slash its workforce to 2019 levels that were in place before millions of veterans became newly eligible for care.

Firing upwards of 83,000 VA employees over the next year.
Cutting back to 2019 numbers? WTF?
1 in every 4 employees is a veteran.
What about the promises made to those who protected/protect us?
Outrage is appropriate.

#SheShed

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

"OUR VETERANS HAVE DELIVERED FOR THIS NATION AND NOW WE MUST DELIVER FOR THEM" TRUMP

AP headline: Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo

Trump talks about loving veterans (left). Then fucks them over. 80000 jobs to be cut at the VA.

He is a treasonous disgrace.

apnews.com/article/vete...

Even after the White House ambush and now Trump’s military pause, Ukrainians are defiant | Nataliya Gumenyuk Berating our president, and now pausing arms – the US has shown itself to be an unreliable partner. But it still has a role to play, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

Even after the White House ambush and now Trump’s military pause, Ukrainians are defiant | Nataliya Gumenyuk

Hundreds Gather at National Parks Across U.S. to Protest Job Cuts From Acadia in Maine to Joshua Tree in Southern California, protesters turned out to stand up against what they see as threats to public lands.

Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.

I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!

Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.

The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

Stephen Miller Enraged After Discovering Cantaloupe He’s Fucking From Mexico

Stephen Miller Enraged After Discovering Cantaloupe He’s Fucking From Mexico

Denise Cheung, Top Prosecutor in U.S. Attorney’s Office, Abruptly Resigns The resignation of the prosecutor, Denise Cheung, comes at a turbulent moment at the Justice Department, as Mr. Trump and his appointees seek to exert control over law enforcement actions.

A top federal prosecutor is said to have quit after refusing the Trump administration's request to freeze grant money for clean energy.

Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.

"The nonviolent institutions and organizations that Syrians have set up to govern themselves and to survive the past fourteen years will also be critical in what comes next."

www.journalofdemocra...

Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.

Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter on Monday to the Treasury secretary demanding answers for why the Dept. of Government Efficiency was granted access to the federal payments system, giving Elon Musk's team a powerful tool that could be used to track and potentially limit government spending.

Jeffries Works With N.Y. Democrats to Weaken G.O.P. Control of the House New York lawmakers may give Gov. Kathy Hochul more time to schedule special elections, a move backed by the House Democratic leader that could keep a key seat vacant for months.

New York lawmakers are considering a change to the state's special elections law that would keep Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat open for months, a move backed by Hakeem Jeffries as a way to deny Republicans’ already bare-bones House majority of a crucial vote.