@devorahmanekin.bsky.social
Social scientist, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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@tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, speaks with Miranda Melcher about her new book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen to the full interview:
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November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, speaks with Miranda Melcher about her new book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen to the full interview:
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Nice thread here! It’s incredibly important for thinking about violence and protest tactics. What counts as violence depends on who is protesting and who is observing those protests. So, one-size-fits-all judgments about whether specific tactics “work” would definitely benefit from more skepticism.
7. Bottom line: tactics matter but so do our own biases when observing and reacting to resistance. Worth approaching coverage with skepticism and holding media accountable.
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All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids
What's actually happening during the ICE sweeps and protests across Los Angeles.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Nice thread here! It’s incredibly important for thinking about violence and protest tactics. What counts as violence depends on who is protesting and who is observing those protests. So, one-size-fits-all judgments about whether specific tactics “work” would definitely benefit from more skepticism.
Excellent op-ed on nonviolent protest from @robbwiller.bsky.social and @owasow.bsky.social on the importance of nonviolence here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o.... Some additional points worth noting:
June 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Excellent op-ed on nonviolent protest from @robbwiller.bsky.social and @owasow.bsky.social on the importance of nonviolence here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o.... Some additional points worth noting:
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An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
Yes, but tactics are perceived and covered through racialized lenses that frame them as threatening regardless of facts on the ground.
Consider two photos: one of an immigrant mother being separated from her child and another of a burning car. Which leads the news? Which focuses attention on the harms of mass deportations? A challenge of violent protest tactics is that they often shift attention away from the injustices they decry.
Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...
June 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Yes, but tactics are perceived and covered through racialized lenses that frame them as threatening regardless of facts on the ground.
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Jumping in with a favorite article, by Devorah Manekin and Tamara Mitts, which asks how ethnicity affects both the success of non-violent protests and the likelihood of observers judging a given protest as violent/non-violent. Spoilers: racialized folks can’t win. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Jumping in with a favorite article, by Devorah Manekin and Tamara Mitts, which asks how ethnicity affects both the success of non-violent protests and the likelihood of observers judging a given protest as violent/non-violent. Spoilers: racialized folks can’t win. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Big thanks to @devorahmanekin.bsky.social for an engaging talk on how affective polarization may shape nonviolent resistance!
May 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Big thanks to @devorahmanekin.bsky.social for an engaging talk on how affective polarization may shape nonviolent resistance!
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Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.
Backsliding and Resistance in the United States – Ash Center
In this webinar, Professors Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky will discuss what can be learned from mobilization and opposition to autocracy in the United States based on historical examples, and wi...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.
Large, sustained anti-government and anti-war protests taking place in both Israel and in Gaza.
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Large, sustained anti-government and anti-war protests taking place in both Israel and in Gaza.
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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
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@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
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bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
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I cannot overemphasize how important it is for you to contact your local papers and offer to give an interview about the protest you participated in.
We got three articles and counting in local papers this week because of cold calls and unsolicited letters to the editor.
We got three articles and counting in local papers this week because of cold calls and unsolicited letters to the editor.
Seems like has been very little coverage of protests happening in the U.S.--not necessarily an intentional media blackout (although possibly), but the result of a longstanding stance in legacy media that protests aren't worth covering, activists aren't credible sources (but somehow CEOs are), etc.
March 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I cannot overemphasize how important it is for you to contact your local papers and offer to give an interview about the protest you participated in.
We got three articles and counting in local papers this week because of cold calls and unsolicited letters to the editor.
We got three articles and counting in local papers this week because of cold calls and unsolicited letters to the editor.
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Msafer yatta in the Oscar’s, and brilliant speeches by Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham!!! A million congratulations, and may their vision lead our way.
ברכות חמות ליובל אברה והצוות על הזכייה. נאומים מדהימים של באסל ויובל. הלוואי שנלך בדרך שהם מראים לנו.
ברכות חמות ליובל אברה והצוות על הזכייה. נאומים מדהימים של באסל ויובל. הלוואי שנלך בדרך שהם מראים לנו.
March 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Msafer yatta in the Oscar’s, and brilliant speeches by Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham!!! A million congratulations, and may their vision lead our way.
ברכות חמות ליובל אברה והצוות על הזכייה. נאומים מדהימים של באסל ויובל. הלוואי שנלך בדרך שהם מראים לנו.
ברכות חמות ליובל אברה והצוות על הזכייה. נאומים מדהימים של באסל ויובל. הלוואי שנלך בדרך שהם מראים לנו.
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Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men
February 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men
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If you sum it up, 49% of young German men voted for a right-leaning party, but only 28% of young women. Conversely, 59% of young women voted for a left-leaning party, but only 38% of young men. (BSW left out.)
February 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you sum it up, 49% of young German men voted for a right-leaning party, but only 28% of young women. Conversely, 59% of young women voted for a left-leaning party, but only 38% of young men. (BSW left out.)
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February 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics)
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February 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚨 Postdoc Fellow at LSE in Political Behaviour 🚨
We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics)
Please spread the word and reach out with questions!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics)
Please spread the word and reach out with questions!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.
February 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.
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A coalition of professors, diversity officers & restaurant worker advocates represented by Democracy Forward filed suit today to block Trump’s unlawful anti-DEIA actions. We'll continue using the power of the courts to challenge unlawful policies & fight to uphold decades of legal precedent. (1/3)
February 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A coalition of professors, diversity officers & restaurant worker advocates represented by Democracy Forward filed suit today to block Trump’s unlawful anti-DEIA actions. We'll continue using the power of the courts to challenge unlawful policies & fight to uphold decades of legal precedent. (1/3)
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My colleague @djpressman.bsky.social is tallying publicly reported acts of defiance and dissent among civil servants. Check it out here: drive.google.com/file/d/1AJzB...
Demanding Law and Democracy.pdf
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February 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
My colleague @djpressman.bsky.social is tallying publicly reported acts of defiance and dissent among civil servants. Check it out here: drive.google.com/file/d/1AJzB...
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This is an interesting study on the relationship between economic inequality and democratic erosion:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Overall, certainly something worth pondering.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Overall, certainly something worth pondering.
January 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is an interesting study on the relationship between economic inequality and democratic erosion:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Overall, certainly something worth pondering.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Overall, certainly something worth pondering.
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What are the dynamics & trajectories of nonviolent protest movements in our polarized age? When is nonviolent resistance most effective & which coalition allies benefit most? There's a pressing need for clarity on such questions; @devorahmanekin.bsky.social explored them in her CASBS fellows seminar
January 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What are the dynamics & trajectories of nonviolent protest movements in our polarized age? When is nonviolent resistance most effective & which coalition allies benefit most? There's a pressing need for clarity on such questions; @devorahmanekin.bsky.social explored them in her CASBS fellows seminar