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.
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
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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.
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
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Always money in the sheriff banana stand.
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.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention this sheriff just south of me.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
It is a curse to be someone who studies sheriffs and has this guy as the local sheriff.
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...
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Miles is going to do amazing! Good job team!
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Me, when I get out of teaching for four hours and log onto the internet and read the news...
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
This is cool!
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Too common of a theme.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I was trying not to get called into HR for what I actually want to say.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Leave trans people alone, you weirdos.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Sheriffs are going to love this, unfortunately.
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.
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...
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
“You need to calm down. You are being too loud.”
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
And now Texans are invading another state. Make it make sense.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I got through 1924, which honestly not bad considering.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I fear I'm going to be having the same stupid debates until I retire.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Happy corncob man day!
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Remember when he did a show and tell with groceries?
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.”
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't need this mental image.
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.
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/...
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
There is entirely too much Giuliani news in this cycle.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
On Labor Day, Rachel?
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...
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish the dates worked! Come to Texas.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Spending Labor Day doing one of my favorite things: planning a vacation (family trip to Boston).
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!
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.
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 $$$.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
100%.
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
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...
Steve Mullis (@stevemullis.net) reposted
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Maybe telling your constituents to get over it, because everybody dies is not the best reelection strategy.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Me in class today, discussing birthright citizenship: “I’m not a constitutional law scholar but I can read.”
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Feels like 107 outside. I am somewhere between 😡 and 🫠.
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.
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...
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
And yet, I still don’t trust Democrats to ever dismantle ICE if given the opportunity.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
I got an ice cap for my head for migraines, and it is a literal brain freeze.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
You’d get shot in Texas. I never honk anymore.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
When a reporter tells you that they are reading your book 😍
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Picture brings tears to my eyes, as a fellow mom.
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...
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Oh I hope he can get back (and get his life back, most importantly) at these jerks this way.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Bluesky: well, actually it was not technically a ham sandwich but a sub.
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.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Preaching to the choir here. 😀
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Federalism really dropped the ball when it came to sheriffs.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
He is the Sheriff President.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Haha. I love it.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it honestly looks better than current ones.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Can I start a gofundme…
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
I posted the pic for you 😀
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks Steve, heckofa job.
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 $$$$.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Taylor Swift's ring is nice and all, and congrats on the engagement, but damn, I want her watch.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Just asking some questions in Intro to American Politics today.
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.
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:
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Texas GOP treating their beloved “Come and Take It” warning like a tourism welcome slogan to Donald Trump nowadays.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social) reply parent
well deserved, @jamellebouie.net!
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
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Dumb, expensive, and cruel.
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.
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.
Emily Farris (@emayfarris.bsky.social)
Democrats have a serious case of BS: Bipartisan Syndrome.