Rachel Bernhard
@rivb.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL
"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"
"There are about a thousand of us"
"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"
"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"
"Release all of the Epstein files"
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL
"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"
"There are about a thousand of us"
"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"
"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"
"Release all of the Epstein files"
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL
"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"
"There are about a thousand of us"
"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"
"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"
"Release all of the Epstein files"
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL
"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"
"There are about a thousand of us"
"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"
"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"
"Release all of the Epstein files"
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I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
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A rich woman's world? Wealth and gendered paths to office
doi.org/10.1111/lsq....
Paper in @lsqjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja
doi.org/10.1111/lsq....
Paper in @lsqjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A rich woman's world? Wealth and gendered paths to office
doi.org/10.1111/lsq....
Paper in @lsqjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja
doi.org/10.1111/lsq....
Paper in @lsqjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja
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There's still time to sign up for Dr @rivb.bsky.social 's Seminar Series💡
🌎Kiss, Marry, Kill: Appearance-Based Discrimination in Politics
🕙6 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Get your tickets➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
🌎Kiss, Marry, Kill: Appearance-Based Discrimination in Politics
🕙6 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Get your tickets➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
There's still time to sign up for Dr @rivb.bsky.social 's Seminar Series💡
🌎Kiss, Marry, Kill: Appearance-Based Discrimination in Politics
🕙6 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Get your tickets➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
🌎Kiss, Marry, Kill: Appearance-Based Discrimination in Politics
🕙6 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Get your tickets➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
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5 year old Liam is home, according to @ilhanmn.bsky.social and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social!
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
5 year old Liam is home, according to @ilhanmn.bsky.social and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social!
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'February' by Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bag paper as here #WomensArt
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
'February' by Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bag paper as here #WomensArt
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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In Copenhagen, over 10,000 Danes led by veterans assemble to protest against the disrespect of fallen Danes by Trump and his hand-picked ambassador. They stared at the embassy in silence. “We are not losing anything. It is the Americans who are losing something. They are losing us.”
Tusinder stirrede på ambassaden i stilhed. »Vi er ikke ved at miste noget. Det er amerikanerne, som er ved at miste noget. De er ved at miste os«
Lørdag holdt danske veteraner og tusindvis af demonstranter fem minutters stilhed foran den amerikanske ambassade i København. I en verden af larm brugte de deres tungeste våben.
www.berlingske.dk
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 PM
DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
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These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
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New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
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Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released.
But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway.
Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.
But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway.
Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.
January 31, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released.
But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway.
Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.
But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway.
Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.
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The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.
This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.
They must be released immediately.
This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.
They must be released immediately.
January 30, 2026 at 4:54 PM
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.
This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.
They must be released immediately.
This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.
They must be released immediately.
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Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies.
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies.
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
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This past Winter Term, I taught an introductory class in Quantitative Methods at the University of Vienna. I think it went really well, so I’m sharing the course material (including editable slides and markdown files) for anyone that might be interested. ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
ucloud.univie.ac.at
January 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
This past Winter Term, I taught an introductory class in Quantitative Methods at the University of Vienna. I think it went really well, so I’m sharing the course material (including editable slides and markdown files) for anyone that might be interested. ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
In the midst of chaos, excited to share a new publication with @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja, dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq..... As usual, I write an embarrassing thread about my wonderful coauthors-- 🧵 (1/)
A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office
We introduce and seek to explain a new and surprising fact about members of the US Congress: since at least the 1980s, Congresswomen have been substantially wealthier than Congressmen serving in the ....
dx.doi.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:06 AM
In the midst of chaos, excited to share a new publication with @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja, dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq..... As usual, I write an embarrassing thread about my wonderful coauthors-- 🧵 (1/)
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“Time and again, we see what happens when devices go to market without proper consideration of how they might be used to harm women and girls.”
Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns
Exclusive: Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised, says Refuge
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 AM
“Time and again, we see what happens when devices go to market without proper consideration of how they might be used to harm women and girls.”
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Proud to have signed up to this when the group were in Westminster - I had not heard of it previously
I know the majority of women are trans inclusive so let’s get this out wide and sign up many more women to @nionwomen.bsky.social
I know the majority of women are trans inclusive so let’s get this out wide and sign up many more women to @nionwomen.bsky.social
Some reasons to feel positive today. Well done to all those women who push back on legal challenges, and push through resolutions
notinourname.org.uk
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
notinourname.org.uk
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Proud to have signed up to this when the group were in Westminster - I had not heard of it previously
I know the majority of women are trans inclusive so let’s get this out wide and sign up many more women to @nionwomen.bsky.social
I know the majority of women are trans inclusive so let’s get this out wide and sign up many more women to @nionwomen.bsky.social
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the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
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I have a five year old. The only time she slept through commotion and bright lights like that was when she had a 104 fever and pneumonia.
In a separate video, Castro said he spent 30 minutes with Ramos and his father.
“His dad said he hasn’t been himself and he’s been sleeping a lot, because he’s been depressed and sad,” said Castro. “Liam actually was not awake during our visit.” www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
“His dad said he hasn’t been himself and he’s been sleeping a lot, because he’s been depressed and sad,” said Castro. “Liam actually was not awake during our visit.” www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I have a five year old. The only time she slept through commotion and bright lights like that was when she had a 104 fever and pneumonia.
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Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
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The great Omar Wasow.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Opinion | ICE’s Brutality Is Its Weakness
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:52 AM
The great Omar Wasow.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...