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Emily Farris

@emayfarris.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs. Coauthor of 📖 Power of the Badge out now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 13h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 12h

"As [so and so earlier author in the semester] said..." is music to my ears.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 12h

One of my absolute favorite moments as a professor is simply when students directly quote from earlier readings later in the semester to make a point about the author for that day's class.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 14h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to an audiobook on Salem Witch trials and questioning if we have ever learned a lesson from history.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

Students are often surprised to learn abt the lynching of Italian immigrants under Jim Crow. While these represented a fraction of the victims of this national regime of racial terror, anti-Italian violence was designed to prevent multiracial organizing against Klan country.

Monroe & Florence Work Today - Explore the map of Lynchings

Lynching in the United States targeted many groups of people of color as well as white people who defied white supremacy. Explore the interactive map.

www.monroeworktoday.org

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Emily Everhart @createasispeak.bsky.social · 1d

Greeking Out Season 12 just launched last Friday on YouTube! You can listen on YTMusic and turn off the screen, which is great for car rides. The first episode is when we finally broke down and let the Oracle do a story: youtu.be/P0agJv2JAVM?...

Oops! All Snake Stories | Greeking Out Podcast | NEW | S12 E1 | ‪@natgeokids‬

YouTube video by Nat Geo Kids

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

My kiddo is fundraising for her Girl Scout troop this fall - she just earned her Freedom Trail badge in Boston this week and it is so fun to see her grow through this organization. They’re selling magazines, tumblers, and (super cute) dog toys. www.gsnutsandmags.com/landing/0/b1...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Nope! But they do have a whole section for your pets.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

I am honestly surprised that Brown University bookstore has any graduate school dedicated merch.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

That feeling when you go back to a place you lived (in grad school) and THERE’S A TRADER JOE’s ON THE CORNER NOW??

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

Back in Rhode Island.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d

I think the costumes at the protests are a great strategy - it lets their identities stay hidden and it shows the absurdity of the federal governments’ grim portraits of cities.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 5d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 4d

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.