Professor, Political Science | Syracuse University, Maxwell School | American politics, political psychology | Co-author of Anxious Politics and Pandemic Politics
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Your regular reminder that knows the "right" mix of political views among faculty & the world where there are actual political litmus tests for faculty hiring would be a disaster that would destroy universities as serious institutions of teaching & research. www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/o...
It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities. Maybe it’s their culture Did I do it right?
We were trained by the same people 😂
Cook's alleged misdeeds a) took place before she started on the Fed, b) are rarely prosecuted, c) have no bearing on her performance on the job, and d) are obviously a pretextual reason for removing her. And now e): more evidence that she did not do anything wrong. #LetHerCook
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Thread. People on both sides shouldn't believe or spread the idea that most people in the opposing political party support political violence. They don't. Don't contribute to a downward spiral by spreading this idea.
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Enjoy! That looks delish!
Hey @supolisci.bsky.social friends. If you’re at #APSA2025, please take some pictures of yourselves in Vancouver so we can see what great work you’re doing!
Good morning #APSA2025! Here’s your Friday pointers: 1. Use the Weds. QR code or your APSA login email to print your badge 2. Books are in VCC East Hall A, 9am-6pm (free coffee at 9:30 here) 3. The Pan Pacific hotel is in the same building as the VCC east 4. So many receptions today
There is no excuse for political violence in America. And no excuse for a U.S. president using a heinous killing as an occasion to treat his political opponents as accomplices to murder and threatening to use the full power of the government to attack them.
Had a great panel and then get to watch seaplane take off! #APSA2025
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My first morning panel of #APSA2025 and Vancouver is showing off a little bit.
Congrats to the awardees especially Nick D’Amico!
My guess is that his threat to prosecute feds who violate the rights of Chicagoans did it. Every D governor and AG should be making the same promise.
2/2 This is something that every qualified officer in the FBI and ATF is aware of. But when we put podcasters in control and replace our career officials in departmental purges, we get underqualified idiots!
I can see the 9/11 memorial lights clearly from my living room in Brooklyn. That day really did change everything. May the memories of all the innocent who died — on that day and in the decades of related wars that have followed— be blessings. May we build a kinder world.
3 different phenomena: 1) Deployment of National Guard* to city. 2) Takeover of city's local police to force cooperation. 3) Surging federal law enforcement to city for immigration arrests. LA got 1 and 3. DC got all 3. Chicago may avoid 1 but it ALREADY HAS 3. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
I’m also fairly sure Klein didn’t write anything like this after the assassination of multiple Dem politicians in Minnesota. I’m not saying this as a gotcha, but rather the show the implicit assumption of our discourse, which is that Right Wing violence is to be expected, and thus tacitly accepted.
Don’t tell Nicholas Cage!
The hardest, but most powerful truth of America is this: because of our differences, not in spite of them, we are stronger together than apart. We are losing hold of that truth, and with it, our ability to pass a better world to our children. We must do all we can to keep that from happening.
It’s terrifying.
There’s very principled reasons to condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk - freedom to participate in a democracy means not being scared that someone is going to shoot you for what you say. But it’s also very chilling for us who work on college campuses where we’re obliged to uphold speech principles.
Indeed. I’m not hopeful but some norms are important to explicitly uphold.
This is what political elites need to do to signal that political violence is unacceptable.
Sure does seem to capture the vibe
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
The thing about using Senate obstruction tools is that it's win-win for liberals. Either you successfully slow down or block action by Trump. Or you get the Republicans in the Senate to weaken or abolish the filibuster. Either thing is an improvement over the status quo.
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
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The Supreme Court majority moves as fast or as slow as it wants in order to achieve its political goals.
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
Love the idea of John Kruk just wandering around the heart at the Franklin Institute
Just going to file that away for future use as needed.
Make a sticker! Bring to APSA!
They apparently got into a screaming match, not sure about the eye. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/m...
Just wait until the students have to read Polyarchy!
Robert Dahl is the most famous and respected scholar of American democracy of the mid-20th Century. "How Democratic is the American Constitution?" was his last book, published in 2001, when he was, I believe, 86. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
Talking about norms in class today like norms of mutual toleration and forbearance that make government workable. Just happened upon this handy headline for today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
If I want snarky and unhelpful commentary, I will make actual human friends...
The Department of Political Science at Penn State is hiring in CP/IR, for a position focused on non-democratic politics. Link to apply: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Headed to #apsa2025? Check out these great panels w/ SU PSC scholars. Sat 8am - @jessietrudeau.bsky.social on "Under the Radar: Estimating Underreporting of Gender-Based Violence" - @sgadarian.bsky.social @nickdamico.bsky.social on "Who Trusts Whom? A Public Health Communicators Conjoint Exp" 15/x
Agree!
Getting ready for a conference reminds me every time about the importance of writing to understanding what I'm arguing. Writing is thinking and no matter how much you think that you know what you're talking about, writing it all down sharpens all of the connections you need to make.
Read this: "This is not just how authoritarianism happens. This is authoritarianism happening." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
ah yes, politics, that realm of human affairs where drama and emotional catharsis are to be avoided
This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”
Stopped clocks and all that.
This attitude blows up rockets and kills the crew. We *know* this because we've seen it happen. This is the consequence of letting a fool who understands nothing about NASA to lead it.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
Melo gave the commencement speech at SU this year and he definitely has a strong presence on stage.
Aside from the incredibly flimsy evidence claiming a link between ASD and acetaminophen use in pregnancy, there is something remarkably cruel about effectively trying to restrict one of very few pain medications that are known to be safe in pregnancy.
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
I'd guess your local groups on Facebook and Nextdoor groups are your best bet. Price it reasonably and you'd be surprised at how quickly people in those groups will come pick something up!
Oh yes. I do love a baseball analogy!
Ty Cobb coming in with his spikes high.
Elbows up
Or as I shared with my students last class.
@npr.org Just heard your news update on Pres. Trump "signing an executive order changing the name" of the DoD. As you have to know by now, he can change the letterhead - if we want to waste that much time, effort, and credibility - but not the actual name.
In this great conversation with Natasha Roth-Rowland and Valentina Pisanty, I talk about the weaponization of antisemitism by Trump, Netanyahu, and other autocratic populists who feed on conspiratorial frameworks, and the danger this poses to the fight against actual, rampant antisemitism.
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg "Click to view full size")
That would be quite an in kind contribution!
It’s almost as if Trump and Hegseth haven’t the faintest fucking clue how to defend a nation. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Yes! I think he just has a very honed sense of what looks good!
This is a pretty rabid group of Rs who wrote this. I mean look at this deranged inclusion:
mom's spaghetti
Yes. I think he’s spent time being exposed to how media works and is also willing to be self deprecating which is pretty unusual for a politician
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Totally. He is super charismatic. That can’t be taught
I’ll need to consult with my fellow political scientists next week at the APSA annual meeting. But I do believe this is the coolest fucking campaign in history. (Top 5, without a doubt.)
I think his understanding of film has a lot to do with it. The technology has changed over time to make these types of videos less stilted and more authentic but his have cinematic quality that I have to believe has to do with but just understanding how film angles and genre matter.
I'm just a girl who has seen babies hospitalized for weeks with whooping cough, asking you to fire RFK Jr.
These workers were *building* the plant. And construction had to stop because of the arrests. Which means that ICE is now directly undermining efforts to create domestic manufacturing jobs.
Every time I teach research methods to undergrads in the future, you bet your ass I am going to tell them that it's Jessica Chastain's favorite subject, so they should give it a chance:
It seems painfully evident that we lacked legal, moral, or other justification for the killing of eleven individuals aboard a small boat in the Caribbean. It is also entirely clear that the Trump administration, having begun by obfuscating and lying, is now simply stonewalling. They fear the truth.
Not a big gif guy, but if ever a moment called for this one…it would be this moment.
Does this mean I might get a musical out of these times? (She says hoping for a silver lining)
Oh yes that for sure but interstate cooperation on regional issues of interest isn’t new. Seems like the new thing is the importance of doing it since the central state is collapsing in its duties. Am I doing this comparative politics right?
I thought he was running the Orban playbook but apparently it’s Duterte?
Federalism!
COMMENT TO SAVE LIVES
I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.
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I'm not a big believer in diving into the industry breakdowns because I believe that all jobs matter. But the Administration has made dramatic policy shift to boost manufacturing, and it just ain't working. Manufacturing employment fell -12k, and is down -78k over the year.
I know the focus today is on "the numbers." But lemme share a feeling: I'm worried. The economy was in a good place in late 2024. That's no longer true. And the trajectory is, at a minimum, concerning. That's millions of peoples lives, and millions of stories of pain.
I would like 5 points for spelling bureaucracy
My "I don't think my five colleagues and have created a constitutional crisis" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions etc
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change.