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Laura Seay

@texasinafrica.bsky.social

PhD, political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff. I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking! (she/her)

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Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social ¡ 16h ago

NEW: Missouri voters have rejected Amendment 4, which Republicans had passed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments effectively impossible. It would have required initiatives to pass in every congressional district—not just statewide—giving the overwhelmingly red districts a veto

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social ¡ 14h ago

BIG: Kansas just rejected a ballot measure that would have required state Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by the governor — dealing another setback to Republicans trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com ¡ 14h ago

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social ¡ 2d ago

VA Gov. Abigail Spanberger just restored voting rights for 66,000 people (!!) with past felony convictions. In November, VA voters will decide whether to change this process so voting rights can be restored automatically, not up to the governor's discretion. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions

The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

democracydocket.com

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social ¡ 5d ago

🧵 NEW: A spokesperson for Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, where Franklin Graham is president and CEO, messaged me today about two married pastors in the U.S. on religious visas who were arrested by ICE last week in Texas as they were trying to fly to a Billy Graham marriage conference.

Spokesperson from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association messaged about two pastors, a married couple, arrested by ICE last week, here on religious visas, as they were trying to fly to a BGEA conference on marriage: "We are aware that Pastor Nepthali Zozaya Saucedo and his wife, Cinthia Sarai Cardona Otero, were detained as they prepared to travel to one of our Spanish seminars about Biblical spiritual leadership. We have no further details to share and refer any additional questions to the Assemblies of God."
Nanjala@nanjala.bsky.social ¡ 6d ago

A couple of months ago someone asked me “What do you think of the DJT administration’s policy on Africa?” To which I replied “what policy?” I stand by that answer. USG Africa map mislaabels every single country on a slide deck at a conference. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

reuters.com

Greg Pak@gregpak.net ¡ last wk.

Worth remembering that Talarico raised so much money he just gave some away to other Texas candidates and Mamdani raised so much money during the primary that he told people to donate to Adrienne Adams. People aren't giving up on Ds. They just don't like the DNC. The DNC should think about that!

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com ¡ last wk.

can my comparative politics folks come up with any other example of the opposition party being $2m in debt when the incumbent government is ~20 points underwater on approval?

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social ¡ last wk.

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.