Matt Martin
@mattjmartin.com
Incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Postdoc, Comparative Constitutions Project. Outside of work: mutual aid, lofi hip-hop, and three cats.
Website: https://mattjmartin.com
Website: https://mattjmartin.com
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Matt Martin
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Consulta sin consenso: Lecciones de la Convención Constitucional de Chile (2021-2022)
revistapolitica.uchile.cl
New publication in @politica-revcipol.bsky.social: "Consultation Without Consensus: Lessons from the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-22)" — why one of history's most ambitious participatory experiments in constitution-making failed.
Open access: revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/RP...
Open access: revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/RP...
Growing fears that ICE is preparing to use my hometown of Burlington, MA as a staging ground for a major operation. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Amid fears of escalation, local and state leaders remain stymied by feds over Burlington ICE facility
Reports of a large shipment of vehicles coming to the Burlington ICE facility are a "huge worry," the chair of the Burlington Select Board said.
www.boston.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Growing fears that ICE is preparing to use my hometown of Burlington, MA as a staging ground for a major operation. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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A general strike is called for January 23 in response to the campaign of kidnapping and murder that ICE is carrying out in the Twin Cities. This is a powerful step forward for resistance.
But in the 21st century, a general strike must assume new forms to succeed.
crimethinc.com/TwoGeneralSt...
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But in the 21st century, a general strike must assume new forms to succeed.
crimethinc.com/TwoGeneralSt...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:17 PM
A general strike is called for January 23 in response to the campaign of kidnapping and murder that ICE is carrying out in the Twin Cities. This is a powerful step forward for resistance.
But in the 21st century, a general strike must assume new forms to succeed.
crimethinc.com/TwoGeneralSt...
🧵⬇️
But in the 21st century, a general strike must assume new forms to succeed.
crimethinc.com/TwoGeneralSt...
🧵⬇️
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Inspiration and spiritual fortitude for a political fight we need to have.
Martin Luther King Jr. Warned About The Anti-Abolish-ICE Democrat
The heritage that valued order over justice during the civil rights movement animates the Democrat elected and consultant who wants to "retrain" a nativist death squad
www.forever-wars.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Inspiration and spiritual fortitude for a political fight we need to have.
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ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry.
Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.
Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.
ICE detained people waiting at a food pantry, Salvation Army says
A foodbank in New Jersey cautioned its partners to have a plan in place in case of an ICE raid.
www.nj.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:35 PM
ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry.
Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.
Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
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“That’s a veiled threat, 1,000 percent,” Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for the immigrant rights group Unidos Minnesota, told The Intercept.
Federal Agents Keep Invoking Killing of Renee Good to Threaten Protesters in Minnesota
In apparent references to Renee Good, multiple agents have asked protesters: “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?”
interc.pt
January 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
“That’s a veiled threat, 1,000 percent,” Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for the immigrant rights group Unidos Minnesota, told The Intercept.
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I am very interested in the political identity formation happening here. This is not U.S. patriotism, it’s state-based. Deploying the L'etoile du Nord (The Star of the North) state motto is a fascinating rhetorical move and a deeply worrying, though perhaps necessary, political one.
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I am very interested in the political identity formation happening here. This is not U.S. patriotism, it’s state-based. Deploying the L'etoile du Nord (The Star of the North) state motto is a fascinating rhetorical move and a deeply worrying, though perhaps necessary, political one.
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i know the intent & strategy of this message, but it's still weird to me that we have an anti-democratic movement that embraces every insane excess of their most energetic members and a pro-democracy coalition that's constantly telling people to calm down and go home
January 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
i know the intent & strategy of this message, but it's still weird to me that we have an anti-democratic movement that embraces every insane excess of their most energetic members and a pro-democracy coalition that's constantly telling people to calm down and go home
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Governments are claimed to be instituted for protecting us from the ability for anyone to claim an arbitrary right of life or death over anyone else. When the government claims that right, then the people no longer have a duty to obey that government, and have a right, nay a duty, to rebel.
January 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Governments are claimed to be instituted for protecting us from the ability for anyone to claim an arbitrary right of life or death over anyone else. When the government claims that right, then the people no longer have a duty to obey that government, and have a right, nay a duty, to rebel.
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of January 7, 2026, ICE is detaining 68,990 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of January 7, 2026, ICE is detaining 68,990 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
January 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of January 7, 2026, ICE is detaining 68,990 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of January 7, 2026, ICE is detaining 68,990 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Last January I was in Havana, Cuba for fieldwork. Here are some of my favorite photos from where I stayed. My heart aches knowing how much the people have suffered, even over the last year. I hope 2026 brings brighter futures.
January 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Last January I was in Havana, Cuba for fieldwork. Here are some of my favorite photos from where I stayed. My heart aches knowing how much the people have suffered, even over the last year. I hope 2026 brings brighter futures.
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
Trials when
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Trials when
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"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
Reposted by Matt Martin
New publication in @politica-revcipol.bsky.social: "Consultation Without Consensus: Lessons from the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-22)" — why one of history's most ambitious participatory experiments in constitution-making failed.
Open access: revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/RP...
Open access: revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/RP...
Consulta sin consenso: Lecciones de la Convención Constitucional de Chile (2021-2022)
revistapolitica.uchile.cl
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
New publication in @politica-revcipol.bsky.social: "Consultation Without Consensus: Lessons from the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-22)" — why one of history's most ambitious participatory experiments in constitution-making failed.
Open access: revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/RP...
Open access: revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/RP...
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I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump reut.rs/3YWbo3K
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump
Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.
reut.rs
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
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12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
Tapping the sign
Some of the most gratifying and constructive exchanges I've had in academia have come from simply cold-emailing people to tell them how much I enjoyed their work.
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Tapping the sign
Trials when
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trials when
Seven-month wait for an manuscript rejection based on two lackluster reviews (one of which is a request for revisions) that critique the paper for not making an argument it never intended to make. I love peer review
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Seven-month wait for an manuscript rejection based on two lackluster reviews (one of which is a request for revisions) that critique the paper for not making an argument it never intended to make. I love peer review