Bobbi Wickham
@bobbiwickham.bsky.social
Academic. I'm trying to rebuild my old feed.
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The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. Seeing the odds, more than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire.
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#polisky #election
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#polisky #election
Who thinks Republicans will suffer in the 2026 midterms? Republican members of Congress
The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. More than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. Seeing the odds, more than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire.
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#polisky #election
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#polisky #election
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No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
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Jumpin' Jack Flash OBVIOUSLY
Name your fav non James Bond spy movie.
December 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Jumpin' Jack Flash OBVIOUSLY
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Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)
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This by @parkermolloy.com is worth reading to the end: "The entire history of adversarial journalism depends on the premise that reporters can publish true, well-sourced information even when the subjects of that information would prefer they didn’t. What Weiss has done is abandon that premise."
I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...
The Kill Switch
How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News
www.readtpa.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This by @parkermolloy.com is worth reading to the end: "The entire history of adversarial journalism depends on the premise that reporters can publish true, well-sourced information even when the subjects of that information would prefer they didn’t. What Weiss has done is abandon that premise."
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This episode is about one historically significant guy.
But it's really about achievement addiction, self-definition, depression, and regret. Making appearances: LBJ, Bill Moyers, MLK, Ted Turner, and Gorbachev.
Please listen.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
But it's really about achievement addiction, self-definition, depression, and regret. Making appearances: LBJ, Bill Moyers, MLK, Ted Turner, and Gorbachev.
Please listen.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
A really important episode today, unlike any we've done before. Tom Johnson, who had a front row seat for so much history, talks about his career, his suicidal depression, and his regrets.
We can't force you to listen, WOULD if we could, but we hope you do.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
We can't force you to listen, WOULD if we could, but we hope you do.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This episode is about one historically significant guy.
But it's really about achievement addiction, self-definition, depression, and regret. Making appearances: LBJ, Bill Moyers, MLK, Ted Turner, and Gorbachev.
Please listen.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
But it's really about achievement addiction, self-definition, depression, and regret. Making appearances: LBJ, Bill Moyers, MLK, Ted Turner, and Gorbachev.
Please listen.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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She launched her career trying to get professors fired in the name of academic freedom. Her website publishes a firehose of conservative propaganda in the name of open debate. She is now censoring factual information under the guise of journalistic accuracy.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
She launched her career trying to get professors fired in the name of academic freedom. Her website publishes a firehose of conservative propaganda in the name of open debate. She is now censoring factual information under the guise of journalistic accuracy.
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I keep seeing people try to analyze politicians in this “wins above replacement” type model when predicting elections and I really think sports analytics are a terrible lens to view the world through because the most important adage in sports is “you can do everything right and still lose”
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I keep seeing people try to analyze politicians in this “wins above replacement” type model when predicting elections and I really think sports analytics are a terrible lens to view the world through because the most important adage in sports is “you can do everything right and still lose”
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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Will MAGA consumers replace the people lost when the media outlet shifts right? If only there were examples from which to learn.
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Will MAGA consumers replace the people lost when the media outlet shifts right? If only there were examples from which to learn.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.
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Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
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Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
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simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans
Sarah McBride successfully lobbied a handful of Republicans to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for youth.
www.advocate.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
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PTKU fans, I think we just found our offseason conditioning workout 🦈
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
PTKU fans, I think we just found our offseason conditioning workout 🦈
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The dumbest person in American letters
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The dumbest person in American letters
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Consolidating power for a man who is mostly interested in turning the White House into one of his tacky country clubs.
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
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December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Consolidating power for a man who is mostly interested in turning the White House into one of his tacky country clubs.
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
"I'll tell him where to put his toys!"
I love that CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET also took the time to give cranks their very own Christmas song…
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"I'll tell him where to put his toys!"
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Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.
July 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.