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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁

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Founder/Lead Editor, Standard Error Research Editors (@standarderror.bsky.social, http://stderr-editors.com; opinions here are mine!) Ex American Journal Experts/Springer Nature, Chicago Booth, @cepr.org, LSE Lefty Mama 🇺🇸 > 🇬🇧 > 🇨🇴 > 🇺🇸 📍Chicago & Medellin

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · Nov 13

New followers! I’m the founder and lead editor at the boutique social science editing startup @standarderror.bsky.social which you should also follow if you haven’t already! We’re growing fast and happy to have you along for the ride

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duck @snakeroot.bsky.social · 58m

They're saying your home is a notorious den of immorality

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 57m

Good thing editors are already neurotic, working under martial conditions comes naturally to us

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 1h

Literally me while plugging away on yalls manuscripts while my neighborhood gets tear gassed

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1h

US Academia Be Like

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

Uhhh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

Uhhh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2h

We can either have a prosperous liberal democracy or a Republican Party, but we can't have both.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

My theory

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · Aug 23

UChicago throwing up its hands and giving up the pretense it’s anything but a finishing school for anticommunist ideologues within seven months of Inauguration Day was, in fairness, probably the *first* item on most people’s bingo cards

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · Aug 23

[Head tapping meme] Can’t draw the admin’s wrath over foreign grad students posting about Palestine if you eliminate all admits in every program where grad students would post about Palestine

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NBER @nber.org · 3h

Presenting a new framework for understanding economic nationalism based on an empirically-validated desire for dominance, which generates a preference for exclusionary policies, from Alex Imas, Kristóf Madarász, and Heather Sarsons www.nber.org/papers/w34351

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3h

This is a devastating account of what ICE is doing to our friends, neighbors and fellow US citizens. Incredible work by @propublica.org.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 3h

that these categories have translated so neatly to US and European fascisms and that they actively underpinned justifications of what became a genocide should be extremely disconcerting to the opposition
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 1d

Declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group and declaring "antifa" a terrorist group... It's all connected to how any and all Palestinians (and their supporters) are immediately labeled Hamas, and in many cases that seems to justify their killing. Please make the connection.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 3h

Saw somebody on here mad at the NYT yesterday for ostensibly mischaracterizing anti-ICE actions as an "uprising" and once again was struck how much Israel-Palestine frames now infuse the discourse about domestic antagonisms

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 4h

Good news for your ICE FOIA requests: Judge orders ICE agents in Chicago to 1) wear body cameras and 2) keep them on.

Cite this order if and when the agency tells you it has no records responsive to your request for body worn camera footage.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6h

Ellis also says she's modifying the restraining order:

"All agents who are operating in operation midway blitz are to wear body worn cameras and they are to be on."

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 4h

re: No King’s Day discourse I have two main things: (1) protests work but not how people think (ie, as a way to get someone in power to “do something”); and (2) it is not at all important that the people mobilizing in protest, especially if they are new to the game, know that

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 7h

Nobody ever apologized, in case you’re wondering

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 7h

Remembering how I had to walk away from a cushy sinecure and take a job waiting tables literally [checks notes] one year into the first admin because my boss thought it was cool to ply with an open Nazi who has since done prison time in relation to insurrection

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 7h

Indeed, those quotation marks are missing if that were the point the author was trying to make, as any editor at the FT obviously knows. That her editors let it stand is the problem I am pointing out. The article is premised upon a dichotomy that does not hold.

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 7h

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How María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize Could Lead to War

Machado’s record makes a mockery of the idea she is a committed champion of peace, promoter of democracy, or unifying figure.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 7h

Are we seeing the same thing?

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 7h

You don’t problematize a frame by accepting its premises. You eat the frame. The whole piece takes the existence of “internal threats” as a given.

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks to the Nobel Committee for its excellent work in legitimizing this

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Donald Trump says he is considering strikes on Venezuelan soil

The US president also authorises CIA to conduct covert operations in the country

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8h

"The teachers union is stepping up by helping students+families understand protections they have under the union contract for which we fought, as well as the rights we all have under the Constitution. Teaching not just our nation’s history, but also how to make it."
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The only war in Chicago is the one the president is waging against us | Opinion

Since Trump declared war on Chicago, teachers have worked to protect and help students and their families from being taken by ICE.

www.usatoday.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

"Young children and even babies appear to have been subjected to the indiscriminate use of tear gas by Defendants' officers."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

Good morning. An overnight court filings reveals discussions took place Wednesday over whether the Trump administration has violated a judge's order addressing the use of force in its Chicago immigration campaign.

"The government believes the TRO has not been violated at all."

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 8h

Just an FT op-ed concerning itself with “the enemy within” like it’s a real thing instead of the phantasm animating US fascism. Cool cool

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Trump’s war on the enemy within may reward the enemy without

By focusing on internal threats, the US is giving soldiers all the best weapons and none of the training they need

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 8h

My 9 yo loved this 😍 thanks for sharing

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

I wanna see wall-to-wall coverage of kids holding clever homemade signs. My 11-year-old finished hers last night, and she's excited and ready to go.

My daughter holding a hand drawn sign featuring a rainbow colored pawn toppling an orange and yellow-haired king piece with checkmate written in NYT font above

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