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Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocratic regime durability, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.

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Ok Germany, stop, I'm blushing

🎵checking out castles on the hills🎵

Getting in with fascists because a sitting president doesn't do what you want.

I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...

NYT blasts Biden for avoiding interviewswww.politico.com The Times in a statement called it “troubling” that Biden “has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.”

I may have to keep visiting Amsterdam just for the Indonesian food.

The takeaway from last night

If you simply ask someone on a survey "Who's best for democracy" or "Do you like democracy" you cannot actually infer anything about popular support for democracy. Individuals have very open/loose ideas of what democracy means and the pollster has no idea what they're actually saying.

Hans Zimmer: Hey, can I copy your homework? Also Hans Zimmer: Sure, just make it sound different so that it doesn't seem like you copied it. Hans Zimmer: Sounds good!

I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over

A US Senator thinks deporting (random number) of undocumented people will make housing more affordable. I mean, I guess it could, but because it would straight up nuke the US economy. So like, in a 2008 affordable housing kind of way. I can't believe people took this guy and his book seriously.

Literally every time a conservative dominated SCOTUS rules its more important that people have the right to kill than to others have the right to live

DON’T FALL FOR IT SHEEPLE

That the US beat a major national team in a sport barely anyone here knows anything about is a testament to how awesome immigration is.

I am a comparative politics guy and this hurts me

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Don Moynihan

It finally feels real. I got the email last week stating that my loans would be forgiven. It has literally changed my life.

Biden Administration Cancels Another $7.7 Billion in Student Loanswww.nytimes.com The announcement applied to 160,000 federal loan borrowers and brings the total debt canceled by the administration to $167 billion.

Legacy media getting closer to how they should cover a potential Trump election. I'd just reframe this as "Trump's immigration plan would deal a major blow to the US economy"

The world you grew up in is dead

The world you grew up in is dead.

Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number." Sounds legit. www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar...

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number." Sounds legit.

NGL I bake a pretty legit chocolate chip cookie

*pulls student's face close*

Can some juror post this so someone has to hand it to Trump?

Biden is actually funny.

The Speaker does not have to be a member of the House.

A lot of the current POTUS race narrative is likely being driven by low propensity voters. If you shift from "hasn't voted in last 3 elections" to "has voted in all 3 of last elections" it goes from Trump 44 Biden 26 to Trump 39 Biden 50 abcnews.go.com/538/vote-bac...

This is a 100% real headline on the frontpage of WaPo right now.

One thing that irks me about a certain class of leftist is the idea that Dems are just neo-liberal sellouts. They consistently use their power to enable unionization!

For those getting high on schadenfreude with the OJ news can I also interest you in an additional 5.5% drop in Trump's media company's value?

My polisky students have submitted many good memes on the political economy of taxation, but this may just be my favorite.

Why is this the framing for the GOP? This is what they want, they have a policy achievement they've sought for decades. There is no need for journalists to downplay the goals for the right simply because it doesn't fit their horserace outlook.