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Emily Farris

@emayfarris.bsky.social

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

created July 3, 2023

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Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I have! That helps def in winter. I find that just hot water helps, although my colleagues think I'm a little nuts for just having hot water.

5/9/2025, 2:17:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bruno J. Navarro (@brunojnavarro.bsky.social) reposted

using federal agents to arrest grandmothers and children while deploying elite military units ... to slaughter regular folks gathering shellfish huh

5/9/2025, 1:26:42 PM | 30 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Always money in the sheriff banana stand.

5/9/2025, 1:35:26 PM | 5 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I will be fine - but it really reinforces what I already thought: higher education absolutely should pay adjuncts and faculty with those regularly high teaching loads more than they typically do.

5/9/2025, 12:46:22 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I mentioned this before - but I am doing four classes for first time (a new to me research tutorial class for senior theses plus three of my regular classes) and I am finding that my voice is also going out too, which is a new thing.

5/9/2025, 12:42:13 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

On my days where I teach three (different) 80 minute classes, I usually am a zombie when I get home and go to bed by like 8pm.

5/9/2025, 12:39:53 PM | 59 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Not to mention this sheriff just south of me.

4/9/2025, 9:11:34 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

It is a curse to be someone who studies sheriffs and has this guy as the local sheriff.

4/9/2025, 9:10:41 PM | 23 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I was teaching federalism today in Intro, and discussing the "states' rights" movement of recent years and yeah, exactly this. But in some ways it frees up other convos, like getting them to explain why Republican governors are working with Trump to send the National Guard to invade other states...

4/9/2025, 4:53:59 PM | 18 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I just look at these folks and think how many of them could just be rich as hell, traveling the world, living the good life of laziness and whatever the hell they want - and instead they only want to become lunatics of power. Wouldn't be me.

4/9/2025, 4:43:14 PM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Miles is going to do amazing! Good job team!

4/9/2025, 12:28:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

The Supreme Court runs on public legitimacy and generally we think about that in terms of the general public - but (increasingly?) it seems that the legitimacy of SCOTUS in the eyes of the lower courts is under threat as well.

4/9/2025, 12:28:05 PM | 41 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Me, when I get out of teaching for four hours and log onto the internet and read the news...

4/9/2025, 2:10:05 AM | 79 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

(My parents have a baby grand piano so she’s got an acoustic one at the grandparents to practice at).

4/9/2025, 12:38:34 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Mostly just looking for second hand. I’m just trying to find one that is reasonable price for someone who may quit in a year.

4/9/2025, 12:37:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m just trying to find one that is reasonable price for someone who may quit in a year. Mostly stalking Facebook marketplace.

4/9/2025, 12:36:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I fear you are right but I appreciate the offer! I’m just trying to find one that is reasonable price for someone who may quit in a year.

4/9/2025, 12:36:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

My daughter is taking piano this year so I need to buy a piano (really, a weighted, full size keyboard) and so I went on reddit - and oh boy, this might overwhelm even my ability to over-research things.

4/9/2025, 12:20:47 AM | 28 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

This is cool!

3/9/2025, 9:36:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Too common of a theme.

3/9/2025, 9:03:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I was trying not to get called into HR for what I actually want to say.

3/9/2025, 8:46:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Leave trans people alone, you weirdos.

3/9/2025, 8:39:34 PM | 95 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I’ve been using a migraine app tracker because I love data but wow, this dataset sucks. Too large of a N.

3/9/2025, 7:42:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Sheriffs are going to love this, unfortunately.

3/9/2025, 5:09:00 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Trying to find a current event for my Intro to American Politics class for me to do as a demo presentation to students (they will lead current event discussions for rest of semester) that won't somehow explode in the news cycle between now and tomorrow or cause the class to explode.

3/9/2025, 4:54:58 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirya R. Holman (@mirya.bsky.social) reposted

Excited to see my article "Governing the Gilded Age City: Local Institution Building in the United States" w Lakshmi Iyer & Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social published at JPHE! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

3/9/2025, 11:38:06 AM | 89 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

“You need to calm down. You are being too loud.”

2/9/2025, 10:53:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

And now Texans are invading another state. Make it make sense.

2/9/2025, 10:10:39 PM | 34 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I taught eugenics today in Immigration Politics, and the idea that someone is born to be a criminal... I am not having that debate.

2/9/2025, 7:41:39 PM | 83 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) reposted

Same Trump, same reckless spreading of conspiracy theories and vindictive policymaking against people and places that don't perfectly conform to his fantasy worldview.

2/9/2025, 7:04:17 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I got through 1924, which honestly not bad considering.

2/9/2025, 6:59:57 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I fear I'm going to be having the same stupid debates until I retire.

2/9/2025, 5:21:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I TRULY do not care what the founders did or did not want for today - and I'm saying that as someone who loves studying history. They enslaved people, and they are dead, which pretty much forfeits their rights on moral or practical grounds to dominate the discussion of American politics today.

2/9/2025, 5:17:32 PM | 34 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I sure was ambitious when I said I could do the first half of the 20th century in one day on the Immigration Politics syllabus.

2/9/2025, 4:30:45 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy corncob man day!

2/9/2025, 11:42:09 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Remember when he did a show and tell with groceries?

2/9/2025, 2:27:25 AM | 46 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

It is remarkable how many students seem to have traveled to UNC for the game against TCU tonight. I wonder how many will go to Ireland next year. “Sorry, Dr. F, I’m in Ireland so I won’t be attending class this week or next.”

1/9/2025, 11:28:45 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't need this mental image.

1/9/2025, 10:52:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

"At the state level, most elections are partisan, while at the local level, many are nonpartisan. However, in Somerville, Massachusetts, a race for the title of bike path mayor is uniquely pawtisan." I can hear the students' groans already.

1/9/2025, 9:59:35 PM | 25 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I am figuring out a way to incorporate this into the first chapter of the State/Local politics textbook. www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...

1/9/2025, 9:51:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

There is entirely too much Giuliani news in this cycle.

1/9/2025, 9:24:57 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

On Labor Day, Rachel?

1/9/2025, 8:22:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

The S. in David S. Pumpkins stands for "September is the start of Spooky Season" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00...

1/9/2025, 5:11:25 PM | 30 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

She made a Heracles paper doll last night.

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1/9/2025, 4:34:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish the dates worked! Come to Texas.

1/9/2025, 4:34:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Spending Labor Day doing one of my favorite things: planning a vacation (family trip to Boston).

1/9/2025, 4:19:49 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

A student told me that they were discussing our class at the poker table last night and had an interesting (seemed good) conversation about immigration politics with the guys. I spread the wealth of information!

1/9/2025, 1:56:09 PM | 87 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

We know more about Rudy’s health than we do the President and what we know about Rudy is f’n weird.

31/8/2025, 10:59:20 PM | 81 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I was thinking about @simko.bsky.social and others work. Another opportunity in which academics could have sold out to make $$$.

31/8/2025, 3:34:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. I also expect that as a business this will oversell its capacity to get expensive contracts from local govs.

31/8/2025, 3:16:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I don’t know exactly why, but I don’t like it. Basically kind of my general philosophy on AI.

31/8/2025, 3:12:18 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

100%.

30/8/2025, 5:23:11 PM | 39 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights (@theyoungcenter.bsky.social) reposted

"The border no longer divides only countries. It snakes between white and brown, between families and neighbors, between citizens and the rights they once thought were inviolate." Via @jeanguerre.bsky.social

29/8/2025, 4:49:10 PM | 56 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

In our research, we found startup packages in political science ranged from zero to more than a hundred thousand dollars. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

29/8/2025, 11:31:07 PM | 29 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Mullis (@stevemullis.net) reposted

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

29/8/2025, 9:14:30 PM | 13386 3589 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I’m honestly jealous of whoever gets this position because not only is Mirya great (obv), but also you’d have Dean Jim, who seems to be like a magical unicorn of a good administrator.

29/8/2025, 7:12:36 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Maybe telling your constituents to get over it, because everybody dies is not the best reelection strategy.

29/8/2025, 3:38:11 PM | 22 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Me in class today, discussing birthright citizenship: “I’m not a constitutional law scholar but I can read.”

28/8/2025, 8:59:35 PM | 217 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Feels like 107 outside. I am somewhere between 😡 and 🫠.

28/8/2025, 8:36:12 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Remember the good ol' days (when America was great) and the local sheriff deputized our students who carried guns on campus in order to arrest other students and faculty for not wearing Western gear and lock them up in a caged jail borrowed from the Zoo... for some hokey fun.

28/8/2025, 5:11:26 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Stop me if you've heard this one before, another sheriff arrested for allegedly doing bad things: www.fox4news.com/news/johnson...

28/8/2025, 5:03:24 PM | 204 75 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

And yet, I still don’t trust Democrats to ever dismantle ICE if given the opportunity.

28/8/2025, 3:10:03 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I've been teaching Jane Jacobs for over a decade now and have students look at her home on 555 Hudson on google street view, and it has been amusing to watch her old street change. For example, on the corner it was a dry cleaners and nail salon, turned into a pure barre studio, then empty.

28/8/2025, 2:22:38 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I got an ice cap for my head for migraines, and it is a literal brain freeze.

27/8/2025, 9:33:47 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

You’d get shot in Texas. I never honk anymore.

27/8/2025, 8:57:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

When a reporter tells you that they are reading your book 😍

27/8/2025, 7:33:17 PM | 38 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Picture brings tears to my eyes, as a fellow mom.

27/8/2025, 6:57:22 PM | 170 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

E-Verify has been a mess since it was created (the late 1990's), and there's a reason that they don't care to fix it. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u...

27/8/2025, 6:38:06 PM | 6 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Oh I hope he can get back (and get his life back, most importantly) at these jerks this way.

27/8/2025, 6:15:48 PM | 64 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I’m not sure how to believe in a all powerful God that lets children be murdered while they are praying to him.

27/8/2025, 5:41:15 PM | 179 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Bluesky: well, actually it was not technically a ham sandwich but a sub.

27/8/2025, 2:18:56 PM | 30 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I am here to report that tying a sweatshirt around your waist is all the rage among elementary school kids, and it is taking me back.

27/8/2025, 12:26:00 PM | 213 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I looked at my bank account and turns out I don’t have an extra 18,000 sitting around. Boo.

27/8/2025, 1:36:56 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Famously, a historian said, “the history of America is the history of the immigrant,” but the future of America may be too.

26/8/2025, 11:19:51 PM | 10 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Preaching to the choir here. 😀

26/8/2025, 9:34:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

"as far as extant research can identify, a TT position at a PhD-granting institution remains the goal for the majority or at least the plurality of those entering academia..." I wonder if this will change/is changing with the current attacks on research funding.

26/8/2025, 9:25:41 PM | 18 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Federalism really dropped the ball when it came to sheriffs.

26/8/2025, 9:01:05 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

He is the Sheriff President.

26/8/2025, 7:32:37 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha. I love it.

26/8/2025, 6:56:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

My urban politics class all universally agreed today that if Biden had done this, Republicans would have lost their goddamn minds.

26/8/2025, 6:55:56 PM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it honestly looks better than current ones.

26/8/2025, 6:54:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Can I start a gofundme…

26/8/2025, 6:53:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

I posted the pic for you 😀

26/8/2025, 5:20:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Although a quick google says it is a Panthère, but I didn't think diamonds went up on the bands like that - and wow, I do not have time to be pondering this.

26/8/2025, 5:19:12 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks Steve, heckofa job.

26/8/2025, 5:18:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

It is a Cartier (but I don't think the Panthère, but my dad is the watch guy, not me), either way - it is worth $$$$.

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26/8/2025, 5:17:45 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Taylor Swift's ring is nice and all, and congrats on the engagement, but damn, I want her watch.

26/8/2025, 5:15:49 PM | 76 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Just asking some questions in Intro to American Politics today.

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26/8/2025, 12:42:56 PM | 17 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

We are doing founding thru civil war in Immigration Politics today, covering Alien Enemies - can’t say I love bad laws from the 1790’s still being relevant today.

26/8/2025, 12:25:20 PM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I’m getting a lot of responses from people who say we need the names of everyone at DHS to hold them accountable on the other side of this. And I mostly agree. But I’m also not getting my hopes up that accountability is inevitable. Everyone involved in this (from 2019) is still walking around free:

26/8/2025, 3:16:33 AM | 370 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I’m talking about this case today in class and I feel like I need the full 80 minutes just to explain how cruel this whole situation is.

26/8/2025, 12:03:28 PM | 179 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Texas GOP treating their beloved “Come and Take It” warning like a tourism welcome slogan to Donald Trump nowadays.

26/8/2025, 11:51:21 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tina Vasquez (@tinavasquez.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: Thanks to @theflytrapmedia.com, I got to write about Kristi Noem in a way I wouldn't otherwise be able to write about Kristi Noem, by speaking to feminist writers, organizers, & policy experts about internalized misogyny & what Noem's extreme makeover tells us about the changing face of evil.

26/8/2025, 11:23:56 AM | 137 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I keep losing my voice when teaching, which is really a pain in the ass and such a bizarre new thing for me.

25/8/2025, 9:15:53 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent

well deserved, @jamellebouie.net!

25/8/2025, 8:22:16 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wireless Enthusiast (@chrispps.bsky.social) reposted

the man who wrote "Pump Pump," "Gz Up, Hoes Down," and "Murder Was The Case" has thoughts about what animated lesbians in space are doing to society

25/8/2025, 2:00:34 PM | 24 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Dumb, expensive, and cruel.

25/8/2025, 2:04:37 PM | 13 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

I was holding out hope for the improved Moderna combo shot to hit the market later this year, but guess I won't be waiting.

25/8/2025, 1:51:03 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

If a colleague came into my classroom to try to disrupt and intimidate me, I'd be nominating them for every service position possible on campus for all of eternity.

25/8/2025, 1:26:56 PM | 31 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)

Democrats have a serious case of BS: Bipartisan Syndrome.

25/8/2025, 11:54:58 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view