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Sara Wallace Goodman

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Chancellor's Fellow & Dean's Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Department Chair. APSA Treasurer. saragoodmanphd.com citizenship | migration | comparative politics | Europe

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Sara Wallace Goodman is an American political scientist. She is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Tough day for antisemites who think Jews control America

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Is ThIs PrE-rEgIsTeReD

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 1d

....which is propping up the stock market....

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Parents exhibit the personalities of their cars. I know the cybertruck drivers are gonna cut.

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 2d

You wouldn’t know her, she’s from Canada

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 2d

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 4d

I have a very fond memory of rushing out *through the snow* to make a bracha in the sukkah in Cleveland.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 4d

Ha this is wonderful hahahhahahah now my life’s mission is coauthoring w @turnbulldugarte.com

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats eva and @nickrushsmith.bsky.social !!

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 5d

Just saw a preview of Sora 2 and the first words out of my mouth were “Democracy will never survive this.”

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 8d

What a cool opportunity

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 8d

▶️ Migration Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @aalrababah.bsky.social

📢 Our section section brings together research on the politics of migration, including migration flows, government policies to manage mobility, and the politics of forced displacement. >>>

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 9d

Hey, VibeExcel, can you calculate what my letter grade would be if I got a 57.2% on the final exam?

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result places Agent Mode above Shortcut.ai, ChatGPT agent with .xlsx support, and Claude Files Opus 4.1. It’s still behind the human accuracy of 71.3 percent, though.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 10d

In another timeline, this would be pitiable because of the obvious projection.

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 11d

Impressive how she post hoc rationalized Jewish guilt as something constructive

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 11d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 15d

OK -- I have extremely strong/niche views on Emily Gilmore, too. A year in a life should be re-edited to only be about Emily, because it is her story that is fully developed across the seasons. It is lovely and aching and poetic. And I have probably aged into this view, but damnit I love her.

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 15d

Did no one see the Handmaid's Tale?

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 15d

Would be ironic if the only thing that didn’t cost more is price of eggs

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 15d

You need 100 percent more horrible histories in your media diet :)

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 15d

Fact check (numbers updated into 2025):

newamerica.org/future-secur...

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 16d

my rabbi articulated 1/100th this level of politics and he got heckled.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 17d

The federal govt has supported theater since the 1930s, as a Great Depression program. Federal assistance is not a sign of frailty but is baked in to how this art is shared.

At the same time, we need to see how this theater has become prohibitively expensive.

(NB: MJ d/n need to be a musical.)

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 17d

A lesson in theater industry economics:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble

www.nytimes.com

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 17d

A lesson in theater industry economics:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble

www.nytimes.com

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 17d

“I hope we don’t over-index on New York City” is a G.O.A.T. burn when you think about it

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Reposted by Christian Odendahl, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott , and 12 more Christian Odendahl, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Tim Bale, Lesley A. Hall, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Tom Griffin, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Sara Wallace Goodman, Steven Fielding, Philipp Sarasin, Vaughan S. Roberts, David D. Buck, Alan McNally

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

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Reposted by Anders Nilsson, David R. Miller, Sara Wallace Goodman , and 2 more Anders Nilsson, David R. Miller, Sara Wallace Goodman, Erin O’Donnell, Kathleen Kennedy

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18d

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 18d

I know the obvious point is Cambodia-Armenia, but it would be a shame if we missed the "not settle-able, as the expression goes."

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 18d

This is fiction. The tradition is to renew the grudge. Your cousin knows what she did.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 21d

HAHAA all good scandals include a USC B plot

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