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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD
@elizabethbitmeehan.com
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Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and polisci metascience. Run @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. Go 'Cats. Always a Midwest Princess 👑
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my animal niece and nephew are too heckin cute
An English setter (white coat dappled with mostly black and a little brown) snoot booping the camera sitting on a couch A dark gray mainecoon with a half white face, white chest, and white fur paws stares into the camera with his green eyes sitting on stair steps
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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stay strong, east coasters
Marked safe from meme format with a small blue flag graphic Marked safe from driving I-95 thanksgiving week today
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Repost for the vibes / blacksky migration missing some photos
A photo of Susan strange in a light blue pantsuit with a white button-down and a pearl necklace sitting on a dark colored recliner chair with red laser eyes like from the boys TV show. She wrote the book casino capitalism.
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Somewhat? 1121 in 2023-2024 compared to 1305 in 2022-2023.... which was way better than 2019-2022

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eJobs Postings by Month, January-June 2024 vs. January-June 2025 January-March had a similar number of jobs, but there were many fewer Jobs in April-June 2025. Jobs Posted Per Academic Year on APSA eJobs from 2010-2011 through 2022-2023 Usually between 1200-1300, cratering to around 950 through the pandemic, then back up to 1305 in 2022-2023
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The people know it's casino capitalism

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I asked an official from the treasurer’s office to comment on how difficult life is for regular people and how the crypto industry would help. He wore starched jeans with a crease pressed down the middle. Billionaires are fine with people coming over the pass from Idaho to work, but they don’t want them living here, so they make sure to buy up as much land as possible and keep rents high. That way, poor people will be locked out, and there will be no slums in Jackson. He wanted that off the record, but I did not agree to that, and instead wrote down what he said and asked workers about it. One person shook his head in disbelief when I did and said they’d like to take the official to some trailer parks in Jackson. They added that they were “not impressed, nor am I convinced” that Wyoming has any intention of sharing any crypto industry gains with regular people. “It seems like glorified gambling to me.”
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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i've been reseraching & writing about leasing lately, and I don't think folks realize just how much of capex / global infrastructure is leased rather than owned
Another troubling point is that big tech doesn’t just buy data centers and then use them, but in many cases pays a construction company to build them, fills them with GPUs and then leases them from a company that runs them, meaning that they don’t have to personally staff up and maintain them. This creates an economic boom for construction companies in the short term, as well as lucrative contracts for ongoing support…as long as the company in question still wants them. While Microsoft or Amazon might use a data center and, indeed, act as if it owns it, ultimately somebody else is holding the bag and the ultimate responsibility for the data centers.
August 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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You’ve been Susan Strange’d
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August 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM