Alexandra Filindra
@afilindra.bsky.social
Award-winning political scientist writing on the historical origins of gun culture and it relationship to political violence. Loves cheese and her kid. In that order. New book: Race, Rights, and Rifles. A Public Voices Fellow.
My 2c based on recent research: the public is complicit in undermining the rule of law. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Americans’ support for judicial independence may depend on whether they like the judge’s decision | LSE United States Politics and Policy
When a judge’s decision threatens someone’s identity as a racial conservative or liberal, they become less likely to reject the idea of undemocratic penalties for judges.
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New paper! www.frontiersin.org/.../fpos.202... Why did Trump gain among non-Whites in 2024? We argue that it is less Christian nationalism and more who counts as a "true American." We show that Ascriptive Republicanism is a stronger predictor of Trump support than CN. #Elections #IdentityPolitics
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the EU's content moderation rules after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc
ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the European Union’s content moderation rules after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc.
bloom.bg
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
In the latest sign that Florida Republicans will go through with re-gerrymandering the congressional map when they reconvene on April 20 for a special session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, legislators have advanced a bill to delay the candidate filing period from April to June
Florida closer to delaying candidate qualifying for redistricting
Florida senators moved the congressional candidate qualifying period to allow for redistricting. The House must now agree.
tallahassee.com
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
bbc.com
New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up.
Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.
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A stellar series from my stellar colleagues @statesnewsroom.com + @stateline.org!
Stateline@stateline.org · 5mo ago@statesnewsroom.com conducted a 50-state investigation examining state and federal budgets, as well as the tax records of hundreds of crisis pregnancy centers around the country, finding that while the magnitude of public funding for them is growing, oversight is not. stateline.org/2026/03/04/r...
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
You know things are bad when the girlfriend threatens to leave and take his tooth fairy money with her.
Every CDC scientist involved in this should be held responsible for crimes against human rights
Jeremy Faust, MD@jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
“The Brazilian response reflects a hard-earned lesson from the comparative study of democratic collapse: early, forceful, and legally grounded intervention is often the only way to stop backsliding once elites signal a willingness to subvert electoral outcomes”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Brazilian authorities refused to isolate January 8 as a spontaneous and feverish riot. Instead, they treated it as a conspiracy with identifiable authors. Days after the attack, police searched the home of Anderson Torres (...Brasília’s then–security chief)..." jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...
Kavanaugh stops on immigration enforcement. And revised Kavanaugh stops. To paraphrase Malcolm, I am not a citizen, if Kavanaugh steps are needed to make me a citizen.
@corybooker.com has the 60-minute CECOT segment available on his channel. Watch it while you can. In other places, Paramount has taken the video down - "copyright," don't you know. Share. The more who witness, the better. youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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Sure. That is DEFINITELY going to WORK. It is in caps, so it is TRUE.
William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · 8mo agoCan we please contextualize this? This shows that support for political violence as measured is thermostatic and expressive. People on the identity extremes express higher support when their side is out of power.
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)@fisherdanar.bsky.social · 8mo agoHow has support for political violence in America shifted over the past year and who has the highest levels of support? My new piece at @brookings.edu provides answers by comparing data from #NoKings2.0 with a national survey fielded right after: www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
SUNNY, BALMY DAY in Chicago. It is ALL CAPS, so it is true.
Siri, how do you define self-dealing?
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9mo ago(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡 @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
👇👇👇👇 The Catholic Church is responsible for a lot of culture war crap and all the "gender ideology" nonsense. But on this, Leo is on the right side of the line.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 10mo agoPope Leo: "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion,' but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don’t know if that's pro-life."
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
this is amazing. it's a great ad for Mamdani, obviously, but it's also an honest to god ad for unions and the power of labor.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12mo agoMeet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
