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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 7h

Another job alert! NC State Poli Sci is hiring an East Asia specialist. Specialty otherwise is open. 2-2 teaching load, including in the Masters of Int’l Studies program, as well as undergrad. Very chill department. One of that fastest growing cities in the US. Ask me!

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Political Science at North Carolina State University invites applications for atenure-track position in East Asian Politics to be filled at the rank of Assistant Professor beginningA...

jobs.ncsu.edu

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 17h

Academic job alert! The Dep’t of Political science at NC State will be hiring for a race/ethnicity position this fall. The general madness with universities has meant we’re still waiting in final details from HR, but the position and funding have been approved. Be ready! Happy to answer questions.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 23d

Has an automatic spot on my Illicit Markets seminar for this spring! Cool work, @tiscornia21.bsky.social and Chelsea Estancona!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 9

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -

From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence - cup.org/4n4MAkD

- Chelsea Estancona & @tiscornia21.bsky.social

#FirstView

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 23d

For those keeping track of the rules, if you quote Charlie Kirk’s words (in a critical light), you will get fired. If you call for the euthanization of homeless people on the most popular network in the US, you might have to issue a 5-second apology. Please update your files.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 25d

Absolutely right. Political debates shouldn’t lead to death. And death shouldn’t blind us to the misogynistic, racist, nationalist, anti- democratic hate that Charlie Kirk espoused.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 27

@jelenasubotic.bsky.social

Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · Aug 27

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing

Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 19

I would emphasize the strategic construction part of the post-9/11 moment. Allies chose to ignore the atrocities so that the decisions wouldn’t become system upending. They did it to save the system because it seemed possible and worth it. It’s reasonable to expect they no longer feel the same.

Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 19

Right. In other words, because Trump was in power, it will be harder. Or more precisely, it will be increasingly costly to make a credible commitment, assuming we’re willing to try anymore at all. And of course this goes beyond “just” security: any kind of cooperation will be costlier for the US.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 19

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier on the House floor, with a blanket, pillows and a book

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 19

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

MSNBC @msnbc.com · Aug 19

NEW:

“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 19

I think this is what a lot of USians, including the pundit class, don’t get. It’s not that Trump is as steady as a willow branch in a windstorm. Trump 2 showed the world that the US electorate is fundamentally unreliable.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 17

Now do the same for sanctions and Cuba.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 17

Rubio: "The war in Ukraine gets a lot of attention, and it's a very tragic thing, but life in America on a daily basis will be largely unaffected whether there's peace in Ukraine or not. That's just a fact."

Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 17

It’s as if four-year university degrees really shouldn’t be about training people for some narrow job!

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 17

This piece, by @rhodesben.bsky.social , is the clearest and best statement I’ve read to date on what’s needed to turn back the MAGA Ponzi scheme. The ? is whether anyone will have the courage to do it.

We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 15

How does this get published? Is there any doubt what this is going to say? And oh by the way, there’s a significant conflict of interest in a guy who works for an investment firm saying you should invest.

The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

Opinion | The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do.

www.nytimes.com

Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 15

Because poli sci ultimately is a conservative profession.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 14

This was my question. I’d love to see this in a comparative context. My experience is that Swedish unions differ drastically from US unions. They consistently agree to wage suppression in exchange for benefits. Same for Germany, I think.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 14

On top of that, states are giving them incentives to build. So rate/taxpayers are in effect getting double billed.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 13

Right. That’s my question. I really don’t know. I know that the big banks, ie, the ones who have a lot of political power, generate a hell of a lot of data from their own internal operations. HSBC says they process 4.5 billion payments a year. That generates some insight.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good points. In compliance and illicit finance (which may be different), banks get the vast majority of their data from 3rd parties or directly from their own client base. Do banks have other sources for this data, or do even third-party data providers ultimately trace back to the public stuff?

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 12

Curious about your thoughts on an (admittedly not super well thought out) 6th. If we take financialization seriously, we might expect what we’re seeing: accepting pain on production of goods and services in exchange for freeing up of finance and tax cuts.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 12

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 10

Gordon Gecko of the left. Morally bankrupt.

Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 7

Here we go. It’s like crypto assets on speed: a pump-and-dump scheme that redistributes money from the working class and their 401ks to the wealthy. No pocket is too shallow to pick for these greedy bastards.

Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Aug 7

The 401(k) heist proceeds precisely as @cedricdurand.bsky.social and I expected.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

Bringing in $1 trillion of “dumb” 401(k) money, industry thinking goes, will allow pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and large individual wealth owners to exit their holdings with a profit. Smaller savers would be left holding this bag of overvalued assets. In other words, a Ponzi scheme.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · Aug 7

The good news is probably half the people in the administration think this makes it law. The bad news is that the majority in Congress do, too, and a few in SCOTUS are happy to play along.

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