Alexandra Filindra
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Alexandra Filindra
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Award-winning political scientist writing on the historical origins of gun culture and it relationship to political violence. Loves cheese and her kid. In that order.
New book: Race, Rights, and Rifles.
A Public Voices Fellow.
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Political science 57%
Sociology 30%

That's right! It is not identity politics when a white man with limited credentials holds the job. He earned it. Like everything DT has done is earned.

Hey, give him some grace! The penmanship is fantastic!

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This is hard to fathom but 25% of the growth in California income tax revenues this year is from tech stock-based compensation: lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/A...

Sure. That is DEFINITELY going to WORK. It is in caps, so it is TRUE.

"Stock". Nice. Show me you know your eugenics without bringing up eugenics.

Can we please contextualize this? This shows that support for political violence as measured is thermostatic and expressive. People on the identity extremes express higher support when their side is out of power.

SUNNY, BALMY DAY in Chicago. It is ALL CAPS, so it is true.

Is the floor oak or pine? There is a difference.
How has support for political violence in America shifted over the past year and who has the highest levels of support?
My new piece at @brookings.edu provides answers by comparing data from #NoKings2.0 with a national survey fielded right after: www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
What the No Kings Day protest reveals about support for political violence in America | Brookings
New survey data from the No Kings Day protests reveal shifting public attitudes toward political violence in the second Trump administration.
www.brookings.edu

Siri, how do you define self-dealing?
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡

@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡

@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Trump will die one day. Trumpism is much more difficult to suppress because elites have learned that there are no limits and SCOTUS reinforces that notion. Will the "silent majority" the 60-65% of Americans who reject Trump, assert themselves? The time is now.

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Attn: Brett Kavanaugh
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

"In Kentucky, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year could face an increase of $23,700 in annual premiums."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
www.nytimes.com

Is trumptastrophe in the dictionary yet? @merriam-webster.com
I haven't seen near the coverage of this catastrophe that it warrants.

alaskapublic.org/news/environ...

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"In Kentucky, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year could face an increase of $23,700 in annual premiums."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
www.nytimes.com

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I haven't seen near the coverage of this catastrophe that it warrants.

alaskapublic.org/news/environ...
Absolutely brutal.
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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👇👇👇👇

The Catholic Church is responsible for a lot of culture war crap and all the "gender ideology" nonsense. But on this, Leo is on the right side of the line.
Pope Leo: "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion,' but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don’t know if that's pro-life."
Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift
"It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.
www.politico.com

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Pope Leo: "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion,' but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don’t know if that's pro-life."
Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift
"It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.
www.politico.com

Is there a mirror in front of him?

Where is the link to this, please?

Cuban Americans may harbor the same beliefs due to being part of the ideological stew for 50 years.

Wtf.
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

Excellent book! Your book is also great. Sure one of them is going to bring up "blacks served in the Confederate army". After they call slaves "immigrants".
Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel.

Now she's a member of HTC.

Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

Even a fully creative approach? Or is this the "restrained" approach?
Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa used 1 BILLION gallons of water in 2024 - enough to supply all of Iowa's residential water for five days.

Researchers in water law and policy explain how companies rarely tell the public exactly how much water data centers consume:
Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much
In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.
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