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Rob Glover

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Associate Professor of Political Science & Honors at the University of Maine. Co-Leader of the Maine chapter, Scholars Strategy Network. My research explores drug policy reform, voting/election administration and democratic theory.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Nov 21

Reintroducing myself for all you fun new peeps. I'm an Associate Professor of Political Science & Honors at University of Maine.

Current interests include drug policy & non-punitive ways to address the opioid crisis. Also interested in election administration, state politics & democratic theory.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 5d

Shhhhh. Please do not mention the "prof lab" in mixed company.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 16d

I wonder just how far this overt hostility to public health goes before visa-free travel for US citizens becomes a real liability for countries that currently offer it.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 16d

I feel like this should result in a precedent-altering defamation lawsuit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "With Tylenol -- don't take it. Don't take it!"

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 16d

This press conference is the most unhinged, downright bizarre thing I've ever seen from an American president talking about science. Like...way weirder than bleach and COVID-19.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16d

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence

President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 16d

Cute cat, right? Well ...this was immediately after he brought a LIVE PILEATED WOODPECKER into our house through the catio door. I don't even know how this was possible.

Great cat laying on floor under chair with crazy eyes.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 17d

In this angry toilet of a year, this means a lot.

Scholars Strategy Network-Maine @mainessn.bsky.social · 20d

The Maine Scholars Strategy Network has been named the 2025 “Best Chapter” Award winner by the national organization, chosen from 38 chapters nationwide. 🏆

Thanks to all our amazing members who make this work possible! 👏

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Congresswoman Erica Lee Carter @repericaleecarter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chicago should not be a target of our own military. Thank you Governor #Pritzker for speaking out! We need lower groceries, better paying jobs, and access to healthcare- the Feds should focus on real issues. This fake crime crisis is an illegal power grab. #resist #nokings #LeeCarterforJustice

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

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Howard @arkmashton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Chicago has the 83rd highest crime rate in the country

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · Aug 25

He doesn't even know what he's signing. That's not what the Executive Order states.

The EO is bad and should alarm "free speech warrior" types for other reasons, but "burn a flag, go to jail" is not what he signed.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Aug 25

What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues.

Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.

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What it's like to be a Middle East Studies professor in 2025

Basically, it sucks. Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you missed it in the print edition, the piece ran with this wonderful art from George Danby

A newspaper page with an op-ed entitled "An Opera of Loons." The cartoon art featured several loons superimposed over the song "The Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera.

Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 22

In which Amanda Sohns and I write about a matter of great public import: why a group of loons should be called an "opera" and why language matters.

Opinion: An opera of loons

"'Asylum' is not some quaint, Victorian word. It conjures up trauma of loved ones lost to systems that saw them as problems to be contained rather than people deserving of care."

www.bangordailynews.com

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 20

$46 billion dollars to build a giant wall and paint it black. But it's very important low income folks don't use SNAP assistance to buy soda.

DHS Secretary says entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop people from climbing it

Kristi Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 14

We must mobilize now: reach out to your representatives, share personal stories of cultural impact, and join allies in calling for full restoration of these programs. The future of global understanding and cooperation is at stake.

Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 14

If we allow these cuts, we won’t just lose funding—we risk unraveling the entire foundation of international education and global exchange.

Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 14

🧵22 critical U.S. educational exchange programs—totaling ~$100 million—are facing elimination from the FY 2025 budget. These programs represent over 75 years of diplomacy, mutual learning, and global connection.

Save State Department International Exchange Programs

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has targeted at least 22 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) programs whose FY25 awards it intends to cut, which amounts to approximately $100 mi...

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 8

Voluntarily giving up a position of global scientific leadership. Cool cool cool. Happy Friday.

Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Aug 7

Abject fucking humiliation for everyone who works at Apple. They could have merely provided a big headline of building products in the U.S., investing in manufacturing, the bullshit that would count as sufficient appeasement. But this performance? Tap dancing as they build concentration camps?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 6

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Aug 4

Remember that episode of the Simpsons where they narrowly avoid getting taken out by an asteroid and Moe yells, "Now let's burn down the planetarium so that this never happens again!"...

(sigh)...We're at that stage of the intellectual collapse of our society.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Aug 4

Literally burning science out of the sky.

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Jul 29

Rob: "I did some yoga this morning."
Nicole: "...Intentionally? Or...like you fell down in a weird position?"
#MyWellnessJourney

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Jul 29

I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.

the front cover of Joe Manchin's book Dead Center

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 28

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.” It captures the pleasure that people like Mace take from watching people’s rights get trampled upon by the boots of her own government.

Kravvall @endorphinbomber.bsky.social · Jul 28

These are just insanely sadistic people. They love misery and they love to see people suffer.

Republican Nancy Mace says she likes to watch videos of Ice detaining people

Congresswoman says she ‘can think of nothing more American’ than Ice dragging people out of court

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's not about "saving money" and it never has been. The disruption, of course, is the point. These actions are designed to disrupt the institutions that present objective, evidence-based analysis in the face of an administration engaged in ideologically-motivated warfare.

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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · Jul 29

The return on investment for these types of programs is typically enormous. The Maine Sea Grant (a grant that was cancelled and is being "renegotiated") generated $15 for every $1 invested. Much of it flowing to economically disadvantaged coastal communities (many of which probably swung for Trump).

Senator Collins Releases Statement Celebrating Full Restoration of Sea Grant Funding | U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins today released the following statement after the...

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