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Sara Wallace Goodman

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Chancellor's Fellow & Dean's Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Department Chair. APSA Treasurer. saragoodmanphd.com citizenship | migration | comparative politics | Europe

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 1d

This is your heads up that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast is a month from now (Nov 7)! I'm chairing the Migration Politics section w/ @aalrababah.bsky.social and we're excited to receive contributions from across the discipline🕺🏻

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 6d

▶️ Migration Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @aalrababah.bsky.social

📢 Our section section brings together research on the politics of migration, including migration flows, government policies to manage mobility, and the politics of forced displacement. >>>

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 2d

I have a very fond memory of rushing out *through the snow* to make a bracha in the sukkah in Cleveland.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 2d

Ha this is wonderful hahahhahahah now my life’s mission is coauthoring w @turnbulldugarte.com

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats eva and @nickrushsmith.bsky.social !!

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw a preview of Sora 2 and the first words out of my mouth were “Democracy will never survive this.”

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 5d

What a cool opportunity

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 8d

In another timeline, this would be pitiable because of the obvious projection.

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 8d

Impressive how she post hoc rationalized Jewish guilt as something constructive

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 12d

OK -- I have extremely strong/niche views on Emily Gilmore, too. A year in a life should be re-edited to only be about Emily, because it is her story that is fully developed across the seasons. It is lovely and aching and poetic. And I have probably aged into this view, but damnit I love her.

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 12d

Did no one see the Handmaid's Tale?

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 12d

Would be ironic if the only thing that didn’t cost more is price of eggs

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 12d

You need 100 percent more horrible histories in your media diet :)

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 12d

Fact check (numbers updated into 2025):

newamerica.org/future-secur...

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 13d

my rabbi articulated 1/100th this level of politics and he got heckled.

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 14d

The federal govt has supported theater since the 1930s, as a Great Depression program. Federal assistance is not a sign of frailty but is baked in to how this art is shared.

At the same time, we need to see how this theater has become prohibitively expensive.

(NB: MJ d/n need to be a musical.)

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 14d

A lesson in theater industry economics:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble

www.nytimes.com

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15d

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:

“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.

“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 15d

“I hope we don’t over-index on New York City” is a G.O.A.T. burn when you think about it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15d

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 16d

I know the obvious point is Cambodia-Armenia, but it would be a shame if we missed the "not settle-able, as the expression goes."

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 16d

This is fiction. The tradition is to renew the grudge. Your cousin knows what she did.

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 18d

HAHAA all good scandals include a USC B plot

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 18d

*submits 100-page appendix

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 28d

but how will i know if skyrizi is right for me

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 28d

I left my “2 hrs before a domestic flight departure is the recommended arrival time, Seth” sticker in my other bag

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