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Matt Martin

@mattjmartin.com

Incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Associate Director of Comparative Constitutions Project. Outside of work: mutual aid, lofi hip-hop, and three cats. Website: https://mattjmartin.com

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Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3h ago

NEW: Republicans tried to get Missourians to effectively kill direct democracy and ballot initiatives. Last night, Missourians literally laughed in their face — rejecting the measure by a massive 80% to 20%. Here’s what to know:

Missourians Reject Measure That Threatened to Kill Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives - Bolts

Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against a measure to restrict direct democracy, while state officials are trying to block even more citizen-led reforms from the November ballot.

boltsmag.org

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · 2w ago

In this post, we elaborate on some new features added to DetentionReports.com and note a few trends we're seeing. w/ @austinkocher.com austinkocher.substack.com/p/detention-...

*Detention Reports* Updated With Latest Data and Details about ICE Facilities Nationwide

Relevant Research's DetentionReports.com project now updated with facility data through July, information on each facility's owner and operator, and 164 contracts across 78 facilities.

austinkocher.substack.com

Matt Martin@mattjmartin.com · 2w ago

In 2021, the Ortega-Murillo regime arrested all major opposition candidates for the presidency on trumped-up "treason" charges and forced hundreds of activists and journalists into exile. Now they have dropped all pretenses of electoral legitimacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

theguardian.com

Matt Martin@mattjmartin.com · 3w ago

I am honored to have received the 2026 Edward S. Corwin Award from APSA for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. This dissertation reflects the generosity, insight, and encouragement of mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who supported me. For that, I am forever grateful.

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards…... https://politicalsciencenow.com/congratulations-to-the-2026-apsa-award-winners/

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Popularism and populism both derive from the same essential impulse, which is to construct a synthetic version of The People that will cure democracy of the need to adjudicate between competing claims.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4w ago

I’ve said before, many times, that basically every stripe of American politics believes that everyone else is just deluded or acting against their interest for some reason, instead of having genuinely held principles to the same degree as their own ones

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4w ago

This is as true about political content as it is about everything else. "What people are talking about" is not the result of spontaneous distributed decisionmaking, it is the result of the conscious efforts of specific human beings. You should always be asking, why this & not that? Who benefits?

The Feed Is Fake

That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.

vulture.com

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4w ago

I really don't know what we do about living in a digital age where "the left" as it is understood and monetized online has basically zero connection-- ideological or otherwise-- to the actual movement in this country. It's a bunch of reactionaries who rode the Bernie train to niche fame.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social