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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

worldpolitics.bsky.social
The October issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is out! Have a read: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55724 #WTO #Africa #autocrats #multilateralism #TheSouth #ExchangeRate #partisanship #race #politics #Colombia @nlnathan.bsky.social
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio , and 22 more

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Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

jodemocracy.bsky.social
Conventional wisdom says that, once in power, opposition parties will return backsliding countries to the democratic path. In reality, not only is this not true, but it is not uncommon for the opposition to adopt the autocratic habits of the regime they replaced.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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by Noah L. Nathan

nlnathan.bsky.social
Surreal to walk out of teaching Phil Roessler's book on the "coup-civil war trap" to see this headline about my own country. His book has some predictions, to say the least, about what would be about to go down if this were a stereotypical autocracy and this kind of "summit" were being called...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20d
Maybe just more Hegseth idiocy, but if this were happening in another country where an authoritarian leader was trying to consolidate power, we'd be very nervous
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20d
“without a stated reason” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, David R. Miller, Henrik Skaug Sætra

brendannyhan.bsky.social
Maybe just more Hegseth idiocy, but if this were happening in another country where an authoritarian leader was trying to consolidate power, we'd be very nervous
joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20d
“without a stated reason” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson , and 10 more

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The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Michael A. Clemens, Guy Grossman , and 3 more

dandekadt.bsky.social
This H1B thing is a DISASTER for the USA. Phone your representative and senator NOW and demand action to protect America.

This is an attack on the American economy and American technological and scientific advancement. Not to mention a truly awful thing to do to half a million people.
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by Barack Obama — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Mark A. Lemley, Stefan Reis , and 42 more

barackobama.bsky.social
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
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by Noah L. Nathan

nlnathan.bsky.social
Yay! Congrats!!
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Kim L. Scheppele, Will Jennings , and 4 more

jonmladd.bsky.social
There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.
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by Ryan Enos — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Efrén O. Pérez

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A free society is not one in which the government can use its power to silence critical speech. Decent people must oppose this.
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Kim L. Scheppele, Elizabeth Saunders , and 33 more

govpritzker.illinois.gov
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Anna O. Law, Andrew Curry , and 6 more

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“.. There has to be a line between crime and war,” said John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

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🎉 Congrats to @nicolewilson.bsky.social , winner of the 2025 Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award

👏 Honorable Mention: @victoragboga.bsky.social

👉 www.afpol.org/blog/nicole-...
Nicole Wilson (Northwestern University) wins the Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award
Nicole Wilson (Northwestern University) wins the APCG Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled “Seeing Like an Estate: Middle-Class Political Behavior After Collective Exit.”
www.afpol.org
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by Maxwell Palmer — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Maxwell Palmer

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How to fix America's gerrymandering problem? @benschneer.bsky.social and I wrote in Time today about a solution we developed (with @cantstopkevin.bsky.social). time.com/7309565/amer...
How to Fix America’s Gerrymandering Problem
As Trump pushes states to redraw districts in favor of Republicans, this solution could help stop gerrymandering.
time.com
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Ariel White

mitpolisci.bsky.social
Check out the third cohort of Pathways@GDL Summer interns!

polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/pa...

@nlnathan.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social @ncatsuaggies.bsky.social @unm.edu @howard.edu @mit.edu @mit-cis.bsky.social
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by Marc Lynch — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

abuaardvark.bsky.social
If there were still any hope for academic conferences in the US (I don’t think there is) then this would kill it.
kevinrothrock.me
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · Aug 4
"The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many."

"For many."

apnews.com/article/stat...
State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.
apnews.com
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by Anna Grzymała-Busse — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

annagbusse.bsky.social
Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag.

This of course is very different.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 1
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
nbcnews.to
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Dani Rodrik, Cas Mudde , and 32 more

gregsargent.bsky.social
Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
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by Ryan Enos — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Dani Rodrik, Kim L. Scheppele , and 9 more

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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Bangladesh , and 3 more

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Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat.

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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

gofosu.bsky.social
We are delighted to host Noah Nathan (@nlnathan.bsky.social) at our next
@lsegovernment.bsky.social APEG Seminar this Thursday, June 19 (12:00-1:30 PM GMT). Please join us.
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by Joanna Bryson — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Ben Worthy

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BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

politicalnetworks.bsky.social
Congratulations to Noah L. Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social for winning the Political Ties Award for "Do Grids Demobilize? How Street Networks, Social Networks, and Political Networks Intersect," published in @ajpseditor.bsky.social
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by Ryan Enos — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Escalating to escalate.

"Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."
Freeways blocked, cars on fire: LA protests against immigration raids and National Guard deployment | CNN
Police have used flash-bangs and tear gas while dispersing crowds as protesters set at least two Waymo self-driving cars on fire. Follow for live updates
www.cnn.com
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

conorsen.bsky.social
Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.
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by Joanna Bryson — Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Justin H. Kirkland, Erika Franklin Fowler , and 1 more

mayasen.bsky.social
More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42)

and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Michelle L. Mazurek, Amy Donovan

donmoyn.bsky.social
Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature graph documenting estimated lives lost from USAID. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Joseph P. Laycock, Andrea Iaboni , and 2 more

justinbaragona.bsky.social
The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Noah L. Nathan, Calvin K. Lai

atrupar.com
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?

TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
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