Emily Farris
@emayfarris.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs. Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Are you teaching a class on State and Local Politics next year? We wrote a BRAND NEW textbook for you that will be out for spring 2027! Happy to chat with anyone about how it might work for their classes.
State and Local Government
The First Edition of State and Local Government: The People and Politics by Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, Emily M. Farris, and Mirya R. Holman offers students a fresh introduction to the levels of gove...
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Channeling Thomas Jefferson from the grave…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Sheriffs especially handle a lot of this emergency management communication in case of wildfires in west.
Rachel Armes-McLaughlin@mother-poet.bsky.social · 3d agoI knew it was bad, but this is way beyond what I had imagined. So horrible. #fires #wildfires
It has been officially a month since submitting my summer research lab’s IRB proposal, and it is still sitting under pre-review by the IRB office. This is an impossible way to run a summer research program.