Jennifer N. Victor
@jenvictor.bsky.social
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Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://shorturl.at/jqJFo Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
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ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
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kjhealy.co
It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible
jenvictor.bsky.social
Happy Monday! Between the Treasury Secretary falsely saying that Democrats are "waiting" to solve the shutdown until after the 10/18 No Kings protests, and Speaker Johnson calling the House off, the shutdown NOT being resolved this week is baked in. Shutdown will be a minimum of three weeks.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
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leedrutman.bsky.social
New study finds Democrats represent public opinion better than Republicans: "the quality of statehouse democracy, here meaning the dynamic relationship between opinion and policy, is substantially weakened by Republican Party control of state government."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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joniaskola.bsky.social
This story should be getting much more attention. Homan took a bribe, the Trump administration doesn’t even properly deny it, and people don’t seem to care
atrupar.com
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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michaelehayden.bsky.social
“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”
Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago
jenvictor.bsky.social
I see what you did there, NYT Spelling Bee. Well played.
The letters in the game must be rearranged to spell other words. There is one word that uses all the letters: u-e-n-o-t-l-and must also use-m
jenvictor.bsky.social
Not as much as I would expect, though!
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phoenixfire.bsky.social
I fully believe the theory that's going around that ICE has deliberately been recruiting from far-right militia groups, and the masking and refusal to identify ICE agents have been doing is an attempt to obscure that fact as opposed to being intended to "protect" them.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.
jenvictor.bsky.social
A major error or just bad judgement? Terribly embarrassing for the WaPo to have this disaster of a graph as their Saturday front page. The X and Y axes appear to be….the same?
A confusing graph on the front page of the Washington Post
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grudgie.bsky.social
This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story
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jenvictor.bsky.social
Last night’s “Friday night massacre” at CDC will of course have potentially devastating repercussions for public health—that is probably a temporary outcome. But there is also permanent damage in the loss of public trust for government health data. We are all less safe now and for many years.
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
jenvictor.bsky.social
The sooner we acknowledge that the rules for acceptable behavior for Democrats and Republicans are not the same, the faster we’ll get through the wasteland.
keptsimple.bsky.social
every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.
jenvictor.bsky.social
Just to be on the record, I am now, and always have been, anti-fascist.

Aren’t you?
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casmudde.bsky.social
Far-right grifters are determining the “reality”’of the most powerful man in the world. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️
justinbaragona.bsky.social
Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."