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Professor - Environments, Humans, Governance, Politics, Peace. 🏳️‍🌈 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=veizRrAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Stacy D. VanDeveer is an American academic and international relations scholar. He is Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. He has also taught courses with Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School, and been a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Brown University's Transatlantic Academy, UMASS, and UNH London Program. VanDeveer has authored and co-authored over 90 articles, book chapters, reports and six co-edited books on his specialties. His research interests include international relations, comparative politics, LGBT rights, EU and transatlantic politics, humanitarian degradation and connections between environmental and security issues. .. more

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Economics 23%

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · Jun 5

Concerned about #Deep #Sea #Mining?
Check out the many false promises.
#UNOceansConference #UNOC #UNOC3 #SDG14 @justinalger.bsky.social #OOSC @revkin.bsky.social #criticalminerals @cturnerlang.bsky.social @geoffdabelko.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The false promise of deep-sea mining - npj Ocean Sustainability

npj Ocean Sustainability - The false promise of deep-sea mining

www.nature.com

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 13h

Political Science, anthropology, media studies

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

When is the round table on the tooth fairy?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic Ghouls

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 1d

The Oregon GOP political operative was pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office. On Tuesday, he was part of Noem’s entourage.

Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Travels In Kristi Noem’s Portland Motorcade

The Oregon GOP political operative was pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office. On Tuesday, he was part of Noem’s entourage.

www.huffpost.com

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @mbta.com, service is def improving but do so many of stations have to have trash & debris everywhere?
This is the view from then UMass/JFK platforms…

Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

More bad news. It’s endless

Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 1d

Europe's main political parties agreed to roll back green rules for businesses. The Conservatives (EPP) threatened Social Democrats (S&D) and Liberals (Renew) to ally instead with the far right (French RN, Fidesz from HU, Lega from IT, Vox from ES, AfD from DE, etc.): www.politico.eu/article/soci...

Socialists cave to center-right demands to slash EU green rules

The Socialists and liberals folded after the center-right EPP threatened to ditch them and work with the far right instead.

www.politico.eu

Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

So presidential.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Pritzker and Brandon Johnson: "I believe they're scared. They are actually frightened for their lives."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Pritzker and Brandon Johnson: "I believe they're scared. They are actually frightened for their lives."

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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 1d

Socialists cave to center-right demands to slash EU green rules

The Socialists and liberals folded after the center-right EPP threatened to ditch them and work with the far right instead.

www.politico.eu

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Only a strong and powerful leader like Trump can bring this war ravaged city back from the brink of destruction and anarchy.

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

#same

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

i miss living in a country that wasnt murdering itself so openly

Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling both vindicated & depressed about this

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

Carbon offsetting suffers from deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve says review paper from Oxford Uni

“We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Junior seems to be having some issues again.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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