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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 20d

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's truly unhinged. I've been repeatedly billed for an ER visit, in addition to the copay, because my insurer keeps rejecting hospital bills spelling my last name as "DeBruin" rather than "De Bruin." Multiple calls, over the course of months, haven't solved it!

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Naazneen Barma @naazneenbarma.bsky.social · Aug 27

📣 We are searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social — please share across your networks.
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are hiring in American Politics at Hamilton College this year! We're seeking a scholar of political institutions, broadly understood. Hamilton's been a wonderful place to work, & I'm happy to answer any questions about the position, department, life in upstate NY, etc. apply.interfolio.com/171832

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Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social · Jul 6

Sharing my latest w/ the Conversation @africa.theconversation.com theconversation.com/coups-in-wes...

Coups in west Africa have five things in common: knowing what they are is key to defending democracy

Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.

theconversation.com

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Jun 25

I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jun 25

@adamprz.bsky.social on ICE's authorities & operating procedures: "The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."

WEEK 19

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thoughtful piece from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social , who I believe is the only journalist I have spoken to (in my personal capacity as always) who had read my primer on US civ-mil www.vox.com/politics/416...

Trump’s military parade is a warning

Trump has caused a crisis in civil-military relations — one that could eventually threaten democracy’s foundations.

www.vox.com

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · May 29

Congrats!! Great news

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Apr 25

I served on NSF review panels for 2 years, with incredible, dedicated colleagues who put immense effort into ensuring a rigorous review process. To see these grants terminated, and this careful work thrown out, is devastating. What a waste of time and talent. I am so sorry to everyone affected.

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Apr 25

Oof, in a day filled with bad news on the NSF front, this one is particularly hard to take. Journeys has done so much to support and mentor women in international relations. Our whole field is worse off without financial support for it.

Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · Apr 25

It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Apr 25

I'm so sorry, Sabrina.

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Apr 25

I'm so sorry, Jeff-- terrible news

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 7

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

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Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · Apr 7

Elite civil society actors--universities, law firms, corporations--should take a look at the economic free-fall Trump has just caused and consider: is this someone who seems poised to consolidate further popular support? Is his power on the upswing, necessitating preemptive surrender?

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.

Backsliding and Resistance in the United States – Ash Center

In this webinar, Professors Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky will discuss what can be learned from mobilization and opposition to autocracy in the United States based on historical examples, and wi...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 19

They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues

Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn

According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Mar 19

I can't access the USIP website anymore 😬

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · Mar 19

Friends, colleagues, everyone: This is a statement affirming the value of U.S. higher education in the face of Trump's attacks. Nearly 400 people have already signed. Please join us: Sign and share. Thank you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Mar 7

From our new issue: "I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power" by Jessica Blankshain, Lindsay Cohn, and Danielle Lupton. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Mar 2

It was a delightful surprise to hear political scientist Adom Getachew narrating the tour of Project a Black Planet, an exhibition on Pan-Africanism at the Art Institute of Chicago today. Turns out she was one of the curators. If you’re in town for #ISA2025, go check it out!

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · Feb 22

I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

Simpsons meme:
Bart: This is the worst day in US civil-military relations.
Homer: This is the worst day in US civ-mil so far.

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · Feb 19

😬😬😬

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