As a proud Amherst alum, I do have to admit that this first footnote made me laugh.
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 3h agoAs a Williams College alum I’m… less than thrilled that I need to push back on this Williams professor.
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 3h ago
Seems like some of you are just now learning that TItle IX offices are on survivors' side in the same way that your HR rep is on your side in an employment dispute.
New from @maschwar.bsky.social Melissa Schwartzberg, in response to Danielle Allen's repeated serious misreading of the moment and of the Trump administration's bad faith with respect to higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/dani...
Danielle Allen Is Wrong About Trump
Dealmaking under duress is always undemocratic.
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![tweet by kedrick james: Unknowingly wore my Kalshi hoodie to the gym this morning and an older black gentleman compared the damage Kalshi is doing to young black men to the KKK and so I think I might have to keep this one in my closet going forward because I don’t need to have that convo again
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Kalshi is objectively detrimental to society and you should be reminded of that every day
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I think this head fake deserves more interest, not least for the way it followed meat packers' concerns abt staffing. The working hypothesis is: GOP candidates: Call off the dogs!! Markwayne: Okay Daily Wire: The fascism has been slowed!! Fascists: MOAR FASCISM!!! Markwayne: Just kidding
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d agoHuh. The Daily Wire is reporting something that would be *enormous* if true, as since July the majority of all ICE arrests are people with no criminal record. I am deeply skeptical of such a massive operational change, given how the White House/DHS keep bragging about setting arrest records.
Midterm election predictions are still kind of all over the place. I look at the assumptions behind different approaches about how politics works. 1/ goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/studying-f...
Studying for the midterms
There’s been a lot of bad news for Republicans.
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It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters
Starting to regret mbembe's coining of "necropolitics," though even he didn't think it would be taken up a challenge
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7d agoCapitol Police on bikes cleared a perimeter for Mitch McConnell as he left his house to go to work today.
Sometimes it was just an attitude. When I was teaching at Yale we invited Mills to give a talk, and no senior member of the faculty (either politics, nor philosophy) came. The room would have been absolutely full a few years later (after BLM)
Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣
it me, lady admin, at a loss for protocol to respond to a member of the public emailing me a complaint about an unfun date with a onetime member of the faculty
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo agoit me, lady admin, in hour five of revisions on nihilistically irrelevant bureaucratic document, the writing of which 70,000 words already consumed countless hours in april, boo to all this
Job! TT! Assistant professor in political theory! (And it’s at my PhD alma mater) www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
Assistant Professor (Political Theory) (0088732)
Title: Assistant Professor (Political Theory) Position Number: 0088732Hiring Unit: UHM College of Social Sciences – Department of Political ScienceLocation: Manoa Campus Date Posted: September 17, 202...
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I'm beginning to think USERWASBLOCKED @blockedforthispost.bsky.social is kind of a jerk.
Job! TT! Assistant professor in political theory! (And it’s at my PhD alma mater) www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
Assistant Professor (Political Theory) (0088732)
Title: Assistant Professor (Political Theory) Position Number: 0088732Hiring Unit: UHM College of Social Sciences – Department of Political ScienceLocation: Manoa Campus Date Posted: September 17, 202...
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Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
anyone running for office in the US should have this tattooed on their body
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w agonot judged by history, judged by judges
I have no idea how to have this conversation within Jewish circles but the very obvious path we're on is that the ADL is devaluing the concept of antisemitism by making it synonymous with Ms Rachel and Macklemore, spending down the capital of American Jews in service of a genocidal apartheid state
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2w agoyeah the basic issue is that to avoid upsetting the Trump administration, every organization combatting antisemitism has decided that literally only antizionism is antisemitism
Since this quote from his documentary is making the rounds again... Ellison said more stupid, ignorant shit in my presence than almost anyone I can recall... so I guess he was one to know.
1. So much for free markets 2. A serious sign of freakout about voters 3. This would cut into producer profits considerably 4. A recognition that the wheels are coming off the world's ability to constrain Iran War consequences
Thune Says He’s ‘Open’ to Diesel Export Ban as Prices Surge (1)
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he is “open to exploring” an export ban for diesel fuel as average national prices surge past $6 a gallon.
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seeing more and more researchers and academics discussing using AI in place of surveys, and beyond the debate of how "accurate" these AI outputs are, i think it just speaks volumes to the way technocrats view their subject populations
Rip Calvin’s dad you would have loved bluesky
The morality of this aside, it seems like bad strategy to have many of your political operatives caught on camera swearing an oath to “cheat like hell.” Do they really think this isn’t going to show up in trials and at lawsuits?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
The Critical Exchange between Nazmul Sultan and I where we review each other’s books (his on Indian anticolonialism and mine on Vietnamese anticolonialism) and respond to each other is now published in Perspectives on Politics! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. By Nazmul Sultan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024. 312p. | Perspectives on Politics | Cambr...
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. By Nazmul Sultan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024. 312p. - Volume 24 Issue 3
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