Emily Farris
@emayfarris.bsky.social
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
Coauthor of 📖 Power of the Badge out now: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Is there some great strawberry shortage?
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Is there some great strawberry shortage?
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
You can tell that the instructor probably agonized over writing this message and even got a colleague to also review the material - as she knew a public outrage was a likely response and wanted to be overly cautious.
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You can tell that the instructor probably agonized over writing this message and even got a colleague to also review the material - as she knew a public outrage was a likely response and wanted to be overly cautious.
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Click through and read the assignment feedback, which was constructive, kind, and frankly very gentle. Suspending the instructor over this is a deranged overreaction in support of a clearly bad faith student, and the university choosing this action is once again another stain on higher education.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Click through and read the assignment feedback, which was constructive, kind, and frankly very gentle. Suspending the instructor over this is a deranged overreaction in support of a clearly bad faith student, and the university choosing this action is once again another stain on higher education.
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A federal judge has released footage from nearly four dozen body cameras showing immigration agents’ ‘unprecedented’ use of force during their months-long deportation blitz in the Chicago area.
Bodycam video shows feds’ aggressive tactics in vivid detail: ‘Deploy f---ing gas’
chicago.suntimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A federal judge has released footage from nearly four dozen body cameras showing immigration agents’ ‘unprecedented’ use of force during their months-long deportation blitz in the Chicago area.
Played putt putt in 30 degree weather and my kid who is obsessed with Hamilton is like, it could be worse - you could be crossing the icy Delaware River with no shoes. Ok, perspective taken but…
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Played putt putt in 30 degree weather and my kid who is obsessed with Hamilton is like, it could be worse - you could be crossing the icy Delaware River with no shoes. Ok, perspective taken but…
You could pay me way less to not work at my university, just fyi.
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You could pay me way less to not work at my university, just fyi.
And needed for that - more equitable research funding… but more importantly - realistic tenure/merit expectations and more open/supportive journal and reviewer processes so that authors don’t feel the need to over claim and needlessly produce.
Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects:
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
academic.oup.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And needed for that - more equitable research funding… but more importantly - realistic tenure/merit expectations and more open/supportive journal and reviewer processes so that authors don’t feel the need to over claim and needlessly produce.
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NEW: I spent a week in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where thousands of people each year learn if they can stay in the United States.
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate
The courtroom often resembles an assembly line, with many cases taking less than five minutes.
www.ctinsider.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NEW: I spent a week in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where thousands of people each year learn if they can stay in the United States.
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
Trump has created at least 675,000 "illegal immigrants" who are now at risk for deportation - IMO, Congress needs to reform the immigration system and take back its power so these swings from one President to another stop. www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
The countries where Trump has terminated Temporary Protected Status this year
Trump has now terminated TPS for nine countries and moved to end the asylum benefit for eight others.
www.axios.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Trump has created at least 675,000 "illegal immigrants" who are now at risk for deportation - IMO, Congress needs to reform the immigration system and take back its power so these swings from one President to another stop. www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
Make a ginger bread house, it’ll be fun, they lied.
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Make a ginger bread house, it’ll be fun, they lied.
Hamilton Trent, from late 1950’s.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hamilton Trent, from late 1950’s.
One of my favorite small businesses in Rhode Island: www.frogandtoadstore.com
Homepage
Selling stuff you don’t need but gotta have since 2001
www.frogandtoadstore.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One of my favorite small businesses in Rhode Island: www.frogandtoadstore.com
If Democrats were smart, they would make a major push for ending off cycle elections.
“This November was only the second time since 1989 that Democrats won mayoral races in each of the state’s five largest cities.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Forget Mamdani. New York’s real political shift happened everywhere else.
Democrats flipped over 50 county legislative seats across the state. Republicans flipped one.
www.politico.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If Democrats were smart, they would make a major push for ending off cycle elections.
My annual social media post that movie theaters are too loud.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My annual social media post that movie theaters are too loud.
Maybe all this 2028 talk is just Trump looking forward to retirement.
Maybe we should all celebrate this way: Farris 2043!
Maybe we should all celebrate this way: Farris 2043!
Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Maybe all this 2028 talk is just Trump looking forward to retirement.
Maybe we should all celebrate this way: Farris 2043!
Maybe we should all celebrate this way: Farris 2043!
I just bought myself a little something (from a small, woman owned business with a Black Friday sale!) from my royalty check from our book Power of Badge, so sincerely thank you to everyone who purchased it or has read it.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I just bought myself a little something (from a small, woman owned business with a Black Friday sale!) from my royalty check from our book Power of Badge, so sincerely thank you to everyone who purchased it or has read it.
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I am not worried about American authoritarianism consolidating power; I am worried about American authoritarianism not being punished and eradicated when it soon falls.
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I am not worried about American authoritarianism consolidating power; I am worried about American authoritarianism not being punished and eradicated when it soon falls.
How low can you go…
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
How low can you go…
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In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
It is my long shot goal to get 2026 Macy’s parade bleacher seats somehow to be able to take my mom and daughter to the 100th anniversary parade. Just putting this out in the world as an effort to start trying now.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It is my long shot goal to get 2026 Macy’s parade bleacher seats somehow to be able to take my mom and daughter to the 100th anniversary parade. Just putting this out in the world as an effort to start trying now.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Somebody should directly ask Miller and this administration what it is about Afrikaners that makes them the only refugees their administration views as able to assimilate? What conditions might they recreate of “their broken homelands?”
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Somebody should directly ask Miller and this administration what it is about Afrikaners that makes them the only refugees their administration views as able to assimilate? What conditions might they recreate of “their broken homelands?”
I am very sorry for her family.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.
Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I am very sorry for her family.
Making my dad get out parts of his watch collection (much to the rest of the family’s chagrin).
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Making my dad get out parts of his watch collection (much to the rest of the family’s chagrin).