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Jeff Anderson

@jefeja.bsky.social

political scientist, professor at Georgetown U., father, music lover, biker, Gunner. RT may or may not = endorsement. Posts represent my views, not those of my employer.

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Jeff Anderson@jefeja.bsky.social · last mo.

an AI story… #AcademicSky I was playing around with Gemini, the AI program that my university has partnered with, for the first time a couple of days ago, and decided to call it up while in a Google doc working paper I’d written with a colleague recently. 1/6

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fascists are fragile. They depend on hierarchy in a world where hierarchy makes you vulnerable. Important to remember that a win yesterday is not a loss for all time.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Jeff Anderson@jefeja.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Watching the Artemis II launch. It’s like the last couple of years didn’t reach NASA yet. A woman overseeing the launch from the ground. A black man, and woman, and a Canadian on the crew. A blast from the recent past. Fingers crossed it goes well. And there’s every reason to believe it will.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."

Jeff Anderson@jefeja.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If there's a "Top Five Most Annoying Things University Colleagues Do", this is surely on it: "Course assignment: Interview an expert at [your university] about the topic you have chosen to research." Sigh... It's enough of a challenge to stay above water up with our own students #AcademicSky

Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️@amwclark.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"The coffins with three Danish soldiers killed in Helmand, Afghanistan, arriving in Denmark in Dec. 2008." ""Krestine Havemann/Polfoto, via Associated Press" archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.b...

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

Three coffins wrapped in Danish flags are carried by 4-6 soldiers each; a cargo aircraft is in the background
Jeff Anderson@jefeja.bsky.social · 7mo ago

pleased to announce a TPI new working paper, "The New Political Economy of Place-based Policymaking", co-authored with @andywestwood.bsky.social, and a related podcast. Links below: Working Paper: www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the... @urbanism.plus

The New Political Economy of Place-based Policymaking - The Productivity Institute

The economic and political context for place-based policymaking has changed dramatically in the last few years.

productivity.ac.uk

Jeff Anderson@jefeja.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I've been teaching contemporary politics for nearly 40 years (Emory, Brown, now Georgetown) and *never* experienced anything even remotely like the inflection point Lepore describes. Hard to describe this as anything other than pandering to the self-appointed critics of universities.