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Alexandra Filindra

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Award-winning political scientist writing on the historical origins of gun culture and it relationship to political violence. Loves cheese and her kid. In that order. New book: Race, Rights, and Rifles. A Public Voices Fellow. .. more

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 9d

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The Catholic Church is responsible for a lot of culture war crap and all the "gender ideology" nonsense. But on this, Leo is on the right side of the line.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 9d

Pope Leo: "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion,' but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don’t know if that's pro-life."

Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift

"It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.

www.politico.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 9d

Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift

"It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.

www.politico.com

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 10d

Is there a mirror in front of him?

Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 13d

Where is the link to this, please?

Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 19d

Cuban Americans may harbor the same beliefs due to being part of the ideological stew for 50 years.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 27d

Wtf.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27d

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excellent book! Your book is also great. Sure one of them is going to bring up "blacks served in the Confederate army". After they call slaves "immigrants".

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 21

Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel.

Now she's a member of HTC.

Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 21

Even a fully creative approach? Or is this the "restrained" approach?

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Aug 21

Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa used 1 BILLION gallons of water in 2024 - enough to supply all of Iowa's residential water for five days.

Researchers in water law and policy explain how companies rarely tell the public exactly how much water data centers consume:

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you full gerrymandering California to the degree that Texas is gerrymandered, how many additional Dem seats would you get?

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · Aug 21

You can check out the Boston Public Library’s unbelievable Special Collections in person at the newly renovated reading room: www.bpl.org/special-coll...

We’re also working to digitize even more of these treasures & make them searchable & accessible from anywhere in the world. @bpl.boston.gov

Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

www.npr.org

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · Aug 20

What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 20

REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?

JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Aug 20

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · Aug 20

What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 20

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 19

W.t.f??

People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 18

Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave.

They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can live with one Nazi per state. They can't even get enough for a soccer team. They have to bring four from outside Indy. Oddly, good news for the country.

Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 18

They didn't manage to get in DC in the summer of 1864 so they thought they might try it now.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Julia Lynch, David Rosnick , and 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Julia Lynch, David Rosnick, Henry Jones, Alexandra Filindra

People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 17

I hear they want to split and form their own state. Corn has become very hostile to democracy

Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 17

Define "crime".

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Aug 17

“As previously reported by Rolling Stone, the president has complained to his inner circle that it was ‘stupid’ of him to leave so much money on the table during his first term, and that he planned to rectify his mistake the second time around.”

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 17

"...he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."

"...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust...shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title...from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency

President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off the presidency, according to an analysis by the New Yorker.

www.rollingstone.com

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · Aug 13

‼️ Colleagues: If you're prepping for the Fall term, please let me know how I can help & be in touch if you're teaching immigration, free speech/association, Cold War/McCarthyism, or ideological exclusion/deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press

“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 13

He needs to follow the Gavin Newsom playback. Aggressive trolling of Trump.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 7

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 7

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An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults&#8212;approximately 86 million p...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 7

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack

The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

www.politico.com

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 6

Few people have internalized democratic norms.

Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · Aug 6

Shocking. It is as if disrupting economic projections and removing demand shrinks employment. Who knew?