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Emily Farris

@emayfarris.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs. Coauthor of 📖 Power of the Badge out now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1h

That Texas sheriff facing charges for sexual harassment and retaliation (plus new charges for lying to a grand jury)… his office is now accused doing abortion monitoring.

It is all about power and control for sheriffs.

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2h

Religious freedom arguments suffer from some of the same problems of free speech.

If you are truly pro religious freedom, you would be anti this attack on religion.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3h

Just the latest chapter in America’s fearmongering approach to seizing power: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

www.nytimes.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Food and music, Matt - really?

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

When we were putting out our Halloween decorations this year, a woman told us that her dog really likes to walk by our Christmas decorations each year, and that amuses me to no end.

Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 1d

Please know that if put up Halloween decorations there’s a 3 year old in your neighborhood somewhere who is obsessed with them.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

People nowadays have a lot of thoughts about what the word ‘Christian’ means, but I don’t think that’s been settled ever.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Star Wars in particular but basically any other movie that has ever come out that isn’t mean for 7 year olds.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Boston night view.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Watching a Free Gaza protest from the window of the Old State House in Boston.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Boston morning view.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Michael and I are just the same person.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

I am “I think my phone screen font needs to be bigger” years old.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t worry, I’ll be back with some terribly offensive ideas of thinking human beings deserve human rights or something soon!

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Kavanaugh can’t ever imagine this happening to him, and that’s the problem with giving unchecked authority to these folks.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

I had some Reputation hope but I think it was probably misplaced to want a little more evolution in the pop rage targets… but like being now a thirty something year old billionaire who has been pretty quiet with everything, I don’t know why I was even thinking...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

I am hoping it’ll grow on me but I kind felt this way with the last one too.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, maybe I just peaked somewhere with folklore and reputation as my top ones, and there’s just not a vibe to this with where I’ve evolved in my life.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t know how affirming this is David!

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

This Taylor Swift album isn’t for me, and that is ok.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 7d

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

tilting oregon is a far portland suburb kind of

clackamas oregon and im being generous giving it the town and not the county

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

We saw a billboard for ChatGPT today and like why?

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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 4d

How have Americans’ immigration attitudes changed in recent decades?

Ollerenshaw and Jardina observe how opinions have evolved since 1988 among partisan and racial/ethnic groups. The most significant shifts have been from white Democrats.

Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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