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Aili Mari Tripp
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Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scholar of gender and politics, comparative politics, and African politics. Weaver, rower, and amateur horticulturalist. https://ailitripp.com .. more

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Sep 18
Our new Virtual Special Issue highlights some of our editors' favorite articles published during their editorial terms.

Kathleen Dolan and @ailitripp.bsky.social (2007-2010) highlight work that had an impact on the field at the time and remains relevant today.

#OpenAccess until December 2025!

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Apr 18
Never thought I would see David Brooks quoting Marx: "we have nothing to lose but our chains"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. (Gift Article)
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
www.nytimes.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Apr 12
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Some foreign students fear speaking out as visa cancellations rise
International students say they are deleting social media, keeping their views to themselves and staying on campus to avoid being deported.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Apr 3
What utter nonsense!

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Apr 1
NEW ISSUE from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Politics & Gender - Volume 21 - Issue 1 - cup.org/3Yb8U1u

w/ papers by @mlkrook.bsky.social, @klbeckwith.bsky.social, @ailitripp.bsky.social, @erincassese.bsky.social, @amandafriesen.bsky.social, @drorlysiow.bsky.social & more

#MPSA25 #MPSA2025
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Mar 22
WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 27
There is no bar low enough for this administration.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Feb 27
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · Feb 27
Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.

Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Title VIII: Funding: Summer Language Workshop: Language Workshop: Indiana University Bloomington
Title VIII Fellowships
languageworkshop.indiana.edu

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Feb 24
President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaking in Kyiv today:

▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Feb 17
It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...
Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
www.cnn.com

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · Feb 16
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Feb 15
🇫🇮🇺🇦 Finnish Prime Minister has called for an urgent EU summit on Ukraine to develop a common position on Europe's role in the negotiations.

🇪🇺 "Only the EU can make decisions on security, Ukraine's membership in the EU or its restoration. For this, there must be a place at the negotiating table."

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Feb 14
Because AP continues to refuse to use 'Gulf of America,' it is being barred indefinitely from the Oval Office and Air Force One, but its journalists will be able to retain their credentials to the White House complex, according to Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · Feb 14
Hagan Scotten’s resignation letter says it all.

Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 14
Academic freedom is under assault.

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 14
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders
The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.
www.insidehighered.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 12
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 10
as-aa.org/press-releas...
Press Release: Announcing ASAA2025 Call for Submissions – African Studies Association of Africa – ASAA
as-aa.org

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · Feb 10
#polisky #WomenInSTEM
NSF looking at losing HALF of their staff and two-thirds of their budget. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds
www.science.org

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 10
I am used to reading such proclamations from authoritarian governments in Africa. Hard to believe this is happening in the US.

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 9
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
www.theguardian.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 9
www.dw.com/en/sam-nujom...
Sam Nujoma battled South Africa and led a freed Namibia – DW – 02/09/2025
Sam Nujoma, a freedom fighter and the founding president of an independent Namibia, has died. He led his country to independence from apartheid South Africa.
www.dw.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 9
Former President Sam Nujoma of Namibia, who led the country to independence from South Africa, died today. He was a frequent visitor to our home in Dar es Salaam when SWAPO was based in Tanzania. (L to R, My mother, Marja-Liisa Swantz, Eva, Lea, Nujoma, his associate, and myself).

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 9
This is heartbreaking but infuriating above all. This madness has to be stopped. Call your representatives!

The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay
Hearing from federal government employees as they make sense of their future
open.substack.com

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Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social · Feb 4
Goodbye academic freedom! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
www.nature.com

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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · Feb 4
Inexplicably cruel and dangerous.
State's programs have done critical work supporting civil society and democratic practices where the US doesn't have missions and formal diplomatic ties, or where relations with auth govts are intense like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, & Venezuela.
State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights (Gift Article)
The contractors helped enact programs that focus on building up civil society and democratic practices in authoritarian states such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.
www.nytimes.com