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Mirya R. Holman

@mirya.bsky.social

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Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.

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Sociology 16%

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1h

"hell no, we won't build sidewalks in our neighborhoods! Hell no we won't let a developer propose affordable housing! Hell yeah we are extremely defensive of us living in "big city"!"

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! This.

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1h

Darn Tough! They are $$ but they are so so good.

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1h

Okay @bakerdphd.bsky.social are we reading this book?? 👀👀

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 7h

The 42nd movie in the MadMax series, which focuses on the search for an abandoned semi truck full of Ibuprofen

Mad Max: Pilled-Maxx

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

Morgan, you didn't bring a separate purse just for your room keycard? Pfft.

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

Good luck to all with that lol

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

Right! And the right moment in the right movement can be extraordinarily impactful!

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Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 13h

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

nbcnews.to

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

Urban politics continues to have the most interesting coalitions, policy proposals, and characters and I am still glad that I decided that I was going to study it when I was 21 years old

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

As was this!

www.nola.com/opinions/ste...

Stephanie Grace: You can call her "Mandate Moreno"

Mayor-elect Helena Moreno's huge primary win amounts to a voter mandate. Columnist Stephanie Grace explains why.

www.nola.com

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, this was a good read...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

Like, if I can't have some degree of optimism about <waves arms> any of this, what's the fucking point of studying it??

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 13h

I've studied urban politics for too closely and for far too long to get all that excited about any individual leader

BUT change is absolutely possible and it can absolutely happen in cities and if not now, when?

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Paul Quelle-Horreur 😱🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 15h

I don’t spam y’all much anymore about my book but a photographer at a department event snapped this handsome pic so send tweet

A photo of my book, THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON, on a display table next to
“Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement” by my colleague Judith A. Houck

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 18h

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible!

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

Researching whether attorney-client privilege continues after death, and the example given by the American Bar Association to demonstrate it is, incredibly: Lizzie Borden’s defense team.

One kept her files confidential, one left them to an historical society.

www.americanbar.org/groups/litig...

Lizzie Borden’s attorneys have split in the 100+ years since her death into one camp of keeping all related notes privileged and another of giving them over to a local historical society

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Hey if you have a culinary or restaurant or cooking or grocery or whatever question that I can answer — etiquette, advice, culture explainer, vibe prompts, etc — for my (ostensibly) food-related sporadic advice column, please send it to [email protected] with “Helen Help Me” in the subject line!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

made this at 5am idk

the fall i turned into a withered old crone

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

See: Monday is Mondaying!!

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Faculty Tarot @facultytarot.bsky.social · 1d

Drew the #5ofWands. Fives are chaotic energy and this card suggests disharmony within a group of people. I am not currently working with a disharmonous group, so it could be this struggle is within me. Sounds about right for me today. #tarot

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

"I can't believe I was cancelled for sexually harassing all those people" - my harasser, probably

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 1d

i hate it when my inability to wear an offensive Halloween costume compromises my research

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Of course Antifa would require paper receipts, taped carefully to a legal sized piece of paper, then folded into a paper plane and flown from a unionized garbage truck into their open office window!

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

🥴🥴 MONDAY

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

My goodness, Monday is mondaying today

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 2d

When in doubt, add more cheese

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 2d

I made this based on your suggestion in the winter and it was *great*

Putting it back in the mix for upcoming meals!

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