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Emily Farris

@emayfarris.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs. Coauthor of 📖 Power of the Badge out now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

That’s up there with corncob man but more relatable.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

A Bentley for $1700, which maybe an option. 😀

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

What "deals" are available are for 2 days of a car rental.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Of course holiday weekend in Boston means there’s no cars elsewhere too. Argh.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t Enterprise’s slogan used to be “we pick you up”? Now it seems to be we cancel your reservation and leave you stranded.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Encouraging protest, property destruction, and crime in the name of rights in the harbor of Boston, teach them young.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Today in the party of “small government and local control”: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declares war on the state's rainbow crosswalks.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declares war on state's rainbow crosswalks

"Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be used wisely, not advance political agendas on Texas roadways."

www.chron.com

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @mirya.bsky.social you should write a sequel.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Well deserved!

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 2d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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dr. jordie davies @jordiedavies.bsky.social · 4d

New article: "Fundamentals of Solidarity: Race-Based Caucus Organizing in Houston" is live at Urban Affairs Review. I'm grateful to the organizers who let me into their world and work so we could produce this piece. Check it out 👇

Fundamentals of Solidarity: Race-Based Caucus Organizing in Houston - Elizabeth Jordie Davies, 2025

Grassroots organizations often espouse multiracial solidarity as a value but struggle with putting this value into practice. How can organizations, especially t...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

That Texas sheriff facing charges for sexual harassment and retaliation (plus new charges for lying to a grand jury)… his office is now accused doing abortion monitoring.

It is all about power and control for sheriffs.

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Religious freedom arguments suffer from some of the same problems of free speech.

If you are truly pro religious freedom, you would be anti this attack on religion.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Just the latest chapter in America’s fearmongering approach to seizing power: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

www.nytimes.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 4d

Food and music, Matt - really?

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 4d

When we were putting out our Halloween decorations this year, a woman told us that her dog really likes to walk by our Christmas decorations each year, and that amuses me to no end.

Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 4d

Please know that if put up Halloween decorations there’s a 3 year old in your neighborhood somewhere who is obsessed with them.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 4d

People nowadays have a lot of thoughts about what the word ‘Christian’ means, but I don’t think that’s been settled ever.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 5d

Star Wars in particular but basically any other movie that has ever come out that isn’t mean for 7 year olds.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.