Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sherrill Stroschein

@sherrillstroschein.bsky.social

3.6K followers 3.5K following 720 posts

Political Science and other things

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · Feb 23

In response to a suggestion, here are screenshots of my lecture on non-democracies / authoritarian regimes / hybrid regimes from October 2024. Class is Democracy and Constitutional Design, core class for masters in Democracy and Comparative Politics, UCL.

Syllabus list of readings on authoritarian regimes

2 3 14

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

Lots of comments saying Bezos did this on purpose, which is absolutely part of it. But billionaires also have insane egos and think they're smarter than everyone else and assume everyone agrees with their viewpoints, so there's some of that in here too

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

13 16 190

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 4d

👉 Please watch Lives Interrupted to hear directly from young people living with Long Covid. Their voices, with their message, deserve to be heard.
(also on our YouTube)
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdnq5UmG/
#TikTok #CharityFilm #LivesInterrupted

3 8

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 13h

Infuriating day at thr CI, thank you for summarising it professionally.

From my end though: @£%#!!!!

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 14h

Keeping children, young people and their educators safe at school was an obstacle that should have been taken seriously - and still needs addressing. Clean air - Ventilation, Monitoring and Filtration all still needed along with guidance on when and how to use each. #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids

1 7 9

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 14h

Other evidence doesn’t support this. The belief was that this was a respiratory virus and the focus was on the acute disease, not morbidity. Research is only now beginning to unpick which children and young people are really at risk of #LongCovid #CovidInquiry

1 3 8

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 13h

Hope that you feel better soon.

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 16h

Cabinet meeting document -

“schools should not be told of fall back plan as it would allow them to have an excuse not to open in September”

#Schools #Pandemic #Education #LongCovidKids

1 1 6

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 16h

Q - Was there a reticence on the part of your department to seek advice for fear that it would be published and deal with it as amunission for not opening schools.

Sir Gavin Williamson denies not seeking SAGE advice for fear it would be published.

1 1 3

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 16h

Q - You are the Secretary of State for Education - are you suggesting you have to wait for No 10 to give you a steer?
A - We were probably over focused on the mission to keep schools open because that was both the political steer that we had and the policy steers we were getting

#Education #Schools

1 1 5

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 18h

Module 8, UK COVID Inquiry, Sir Gavin Williamson.

"there were failures"

Talking about the pandemic
"the government not really grasping the enormity of that"

#Education #CovidInquiry #

3 6 15

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21h

13 hrs later the answer has occurred to me. “What I’m afraid of is not getting old.”

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Back in A&E (kidney problems this time).

A woman turned to me earlier and said - out of nowhere - "are you afraid of getting old"?

I'm in a Beckett play.

14 10 76

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23h

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

12 32 150

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 22h

Today's digital divide
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What does the end of free support for Windows 10 mean for its users?

Computers running software will still work but steadily become more vulnerable to viruses and malware

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

130 780 4.2K

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta punish us, show they are boss.

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

'We are living in a bit of a fascist revolution.'

Caller David is concerned about Nigel Farage's 'sweeping statement' that some teachers are 'poisoning kids' on race issues.

@matthew-wright.bsky.social

11 25 87

Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 2d

This year I have completely updated all of my classes and am writing new lectures and working weekends to put it together.
Degree of faith the "good teaching" metric will actually reflect it: zero.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com

2 4 21

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

17 270 1K

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

4 86 160

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

110 2K 5.8K

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

76 730 2.3K

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

47 1.2K 3.3K

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

680 4.3K 15K

Reposted by Sherrill Stroschein

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3d

This is kind of a must-read if you're interested in understanding politics today.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

11 57