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REP, immigration, latin@x politics. 🌞 Talk policy to me. 🌸 she/her/ella. 🏳️‍🌈

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · Jun 29

I want RCV for the Sanrio character rankings and also the United States

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 2d

The law of utility repair appointment “windows”: if you need them to arrive early they’ll inevitably arrive late, and vice versa

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Jack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 5d

You are more likely to get honked at if you drive badly and have an out-party-evocative bumper sticker on your car. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...

Frontiers | How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings

IntroductionThe impact of political polarization is no longer confined to the voting booth, and partisan identity can shape behavior even in seemingly apolit...

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 7d

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 14d

Spoiler :

We find that the presence of an out-partisan bumper sticker makes drivers more likely to react with hostility to bad drivers.

While bumper stickers had no effect on how people felt about politics, they did affect how people drove.

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Out Now (Open Access) in Frontiers🚨: ‘How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings’

My coauthor and I conducted realistic encounters with partisan bumper stickers to see if it triggers partisan identity !

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...

Frontiers | How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings

IntroductionThe impact of political polarization is no longer confined to the voting booth, and partisan identity can shape behavior even in seemingly apolit...

www.frontiersin.org

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 15d

Only the Democratic Party would continue to allow itself to be defined by its own electoral losers 😑

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 16d

I’m no big city economist but isn’t this like, fundamentally, what libertarians are always complaining about

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16d

Breaking news: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said 'all options' are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility on.ft.com/3W5D9W4

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 16d

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · Aug 4

You’ve been Susan Strange’d

A photo of Susan strange in a light blue pantsuit with a white button-down and a pearl necklace sitting on a dark colored recliner chair with red laser eyes like from the boys TV show. She wrote the book casino capitalism.

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 19d

Turn 30 and all of the sudden it’s nonstop “DO YOU WANT TO FREEZE YOUR EGGS” ads.

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 21d

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 22d

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 23d

Crying in my room to Laura Palmer's Theme (Love Theme from Twin Peaks) by Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks OST)

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · 23d

Article acceptance: 😊🌸🥳🍾
Article proofing: 😵‍💫💀😭💩

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 28d

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN

At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

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Danielle Casarez Lemi @dlemi.bsky.social · 29d

I show that using racial identity for political gain is neither clear-cut nor ambiguous. #APSA2025

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Danielle Casarez Lemi @dlemi.bsky.social · 29d

The book assembles a rare combination of text analysis, discourse analysis, survey analysis, experimental analysis, nationwide interviews, and case studies of multiracial politicians, including a study of Vice President Kamala Harris. #APSA2025

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Danielle Casarez Lemi @dlemi.bsky.social · 29d

IT'S OFFICIAL!! My second book, Doing Identity Labor: How Mixed-Race Politicians Disrupt Descriptive Representation is available for pre-order at OUP! Order below! #APSA2025

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 29d

Too many professors think academic freedom and tenure will always protect us. We need to be better organized as workers.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Sep 8

In so many ways, the Roberts Court has revived the logic of Dred Scott: that racially targeted groups have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Sep 8

The obvious implication being that SCOTUS will not force the regime’s Racial Purity Police in ICE & CBP to adhere to the Fourth Amendment.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

#BREAKING: With no explanation (save for a solo concurrence by Justice Kavanaugh), #SCOTUS has frozen lower-court rulings that had enjoined allegedly suspicion-less arrests as part of "roving" immigration patrols in California.

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissents:

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · Sep 8

Me shopping

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🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · Sep 4

My summer of ‘yes’ has turned into my autumn of ‘fuck off’

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · Sep 4

Broken clock blah blah blah

🎃Rac-HELL🩸Tor-MENT-s👻 @torrespolisci.bsky.social · Sep 4

September 2025 be like