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Michael Stambolis

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Sociologist. Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. Author of: By the Power Vested in Me (Columbia University Press, 2025). I study how experts participate in controversial political debates.

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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · May 14

By the Power Vested in Me is here!

Through the story of the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States and France, this book sheds new light on the contested power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates.

Get your copy wherever books are sold or here: tinyurl.com/37t88xme
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By the Power Vested in Me | Columbia University Press

In both the United States and France, each side of the legal battle over same-sex marriage and parenthood relied heavily on experts. Despite the similarity o... | CUP

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 1d

Ne dites pas "un suprémaciste américain autoritaire prend Gaza pour un terrain immobilier à sa main quitte à cautionner crimes de guerre et génocide", dites :

Donald Trump et la guerre à Gaza : huit mois de recalibrage et le succès d'une approche non normée de la diplomatie

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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 1d

Heureusement qu'ils n'ont pas demandé aux profs de L3 (dont moi) leur avis.

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · 1d

« Cette mesure sans aucun rapport avec le problème va-t-elle réussir à résoudre le problème ? »
Le suspense est en effet insoutenable.

La Croix @la-croix.com · 1d

Enseignement : l’abaissement de l’inscription au concours à bac + 3 va-t-il attirer les futurs profs ?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Martin Clavey @mart1oeil.eu · 1d

Le technosolutionnisme appliqué aux médias et à l' "objectivisation des débats".

Il faut avoir aucune maitrise 1/ théorique du journalisme 2/ théorique sur la technique pour afficher ça. C'est désolant de la part d'une direction d'un service public de média.

Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 2d

Radio France va utiliser l’IA pour mesurer le pluralisme sur ses antennes et « objectiver les débats ». De quoi naturaliser les biais tout en imaginant apaiser la bollosphère.

www.telerama.fr/radio/pour-f...

Pour faire face aux attaques, Radio France va mesurer le pluralisme sur ses antennes

Auditionnée par la commission culture du Sénat ce mercredi matin, la présidente de la Maison ronde, Sibyle Veil, a expliqué que les équipes de la radio publique développaient un nouveau “baromètre”, e...

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

"The layoffs will affect employees across JPL's technical, business and support areas as part of a reorganization that began in July."

I know I had a few followers at JPL on Twitter, I don't know if they switched to Bsky, but: we're thinking of you and your colleagues, my friends. 💪❤️

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Bibliothèques de l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès @bibut2j.bsky.social · 2d

Rencontre reportée, toutes nos excuses

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 2d

- M’sieur, vous avez corrigé les copies ?
- Écoutez, les forces qui ont creusé la division n’ont pas été à la hauteur de ce qu’attendent les Français
- Mais…
- Je demande à chacun de se ressaisir

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Rose de Berne @rosedeberne.bsky.social · 2d

Si un jour Bernard Arnault a un ministère, Le Monde le présentera comme un ouvrier du textile.

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 2d

Jean-Pierre Farandou, un cheminot au ministère du travail et des solidarités

La nomination du président de la SNCF est perçue comme « un bon signal » par la CFDT.

www.lemonde.fr

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 3d

Le macronisme est une arnaque

Stand Up for Science Paris et région parisienne @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social · 3d

Voilà la réalité, derrière les tentatives de récupération de Stand Up for Science par la minorité présidentielle: les coupes budgétaires du programme d'accueil de scientifiques et d'artistes en exil, Pause, laissent le programme exsangue.
www.telerama.fr/debats-repor...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 3d

Jaune pisse de gens qui ne s'hydrate pas assez

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Le Coin Des LGBT+ @lecoindeslgbt.bsky.social · 4d

"Si vous avez ces insultes, c’est sûrement que vous avez fait quelque chose de mal !" a dit son inspectrice à Caroline Grandjean, traitée de "sale g*uine".

[SUICIDE] L'Education Nationale n'a pas soutenu cette directrice d'école qui s'est suicidée à la suite d'un harcèlement lesbophobe.

"L'homophobie est une arme" : après le suicide de Caroline Grandjean, la veuve de la directrice d'école harcelée met en cause l'Éducation nationale sur RTL

Un mois après le suicide de Caroline Grandjean, institutrice victime de harcèlement homophobe, son épouse accuse l’Éducation nationale d’avoir "voulu exfiltrer Caroline au lieu de la soutenir".

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

@walterolson.bsky.social at the Cato Institute emphasizes the same thing that struck me so much: the enforcement mechanism in this compact. He calls it a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

(The DOJ is standing there at the button; the university is the one whose neck is below the guillotine.)

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

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Zemel tov @mazalbof.bsky.social · 4d

Mais du coup il va faire quoi B. Retailleau, ouvrir son salon de coiffure « Hit-l’Hair » à Chollet !?!

FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 4d

🔴 URGENT - En direct : les Républicains ne participeront pas au gouvernement de Sébastien Lecornu

En direct : les Républicains ne participeront pas au gouvernement de Lecornu

Lors d'un déplacement dans un commissariat de L'Haÿ-les-Roses, en banlieue parisienne, le Premier ministre reconduit Sébastien Lecornu a dit vouloir un gouvernement "libre", "pas emprisonné par les partis".…

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LDH France @ldh.fr · 4d

🔴La #LDH s’inquiète de la multiplication d’attaques violentes à l’encontre de librairies. Particulièrement préoccupée par le climat d’intimidation et d'intolérance actuel, la #LDH apporte son soutien aux personnes défendant les #libertés d’expression.

« Les librairies deviennent les réceptacles de tous les débordements idéologiques. Or elles doivent demeurer des refuges pour le savoir et la création »

TRIBUNE. Un collectif composé de professionnels des métiers du livre et de l’édition dénonce, dans une tribune au « Monde », les faits de dénigrement, de cyberharcèlement voire de menaces physiques dont sont de plus en plus souvent victimes les libraires.

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FERC CGT @ferc-cgt.bsky.social · 4d

@neatoday.bsky.social s'engage dans la journée de la Liberté de lire, attaquée fortement aux États-Unis mais également en Europe (voir repost précédent)

National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 4d

Every student deserves a bookshelf that tells their story. This #FreedomToReadDay, we’re fighting for the right of every child to learn from books that reflect honesty, inclusion, and the full story of who we are. Support the #FreedomToRead by signing the pledge: https://bit.ly/4mVzYeE

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 4d

Le micro climat au sud de la rue de Metz est imbattable.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

I'm starting to feel like the alt-right, in many way, won.

Yes, many of their leaders were discredited but their ideas are increasingly platformed in the mainstream media. And immigration policy is ripped straight from white supremacist fever dreams.

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