Leah Christiani

Omg timm! Thanks. But… yeah..

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#OpenAcccess from @journalrep.bsky.social -

Examining How Narratives of Events Change Attitudes or Motivate Political Participation: The Case of Police Violence - https://cup.org/462rOeT

- @leahchristiani.bsky.social, Lane Cuthbert & @kshoub.bsky.social

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IN NEW ISSUE: Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argueethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/VaeXszt

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argueethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/NRIhzdE

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

White racial resentment used to undermine support for the Supreme Court. Now it boosts it find ‪‪@kshoub.bsky.social‬ of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, @jamilscott.bsky.social of Georgetown University and @leahchristiani.bsky.social of Hunter College, CUNY

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Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argue ethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/lKIRdo7

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

Resign. We need a real leader.

As a constituent… you should resign as minority leader. You’re not up to the job. Make way for someone willing to stand up to Trump.

It’s awesome that Senate Democrats are voting to pass Trump’s budget while he’s at the DOJ calling them a bunch of criminals and saying newspapers and MSNBC should be illegal. That’s great, good job guys.

If you think you can do better, the last 8 hours and 8 years absolutely prove that you can. #RunForSomething

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Also for the love of god faculty wake the fuck up and pressure your institutions to stop the nonsense. Academia has
become the primary site of repression because we allowed it to be. We invited this onto our students, our campuses, our nation.

Now we wait to see if the courts will protect, and compensate this man from this illegal transgression.

Meanwhile his wife & lawyers don’t even know where he is.

Make no mistake the process of deportation, successful or not, is torture.

I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

They’re deleting websites while we watch the Super Bowl

This one for CHILD TAX CREDITS

And what code did he push to production in the meantime ?

Keep it up!!

House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk Notably missing the vote was Rep. Ro Khanna, who is close to Musk.

Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.)

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Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought.

At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought.

“He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

These women are your FRIENDS

They fight for FREEDOM

University presidents should be shouting about how Trump is shutting down the research that benefits *all* Americans, whether Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, better road materials, safer cars, more efficient air conditioning, etc etc.

So if Congressional Republicans fear Musk attacking them on X, and fear him siccing his followers there on them, they could weaken the power of X by leaving it. I would welcome having them here on Bluesky!

Democrats are finally starting to use the correct language - coup, constitutional crisis, and so forth.

The next steps:
-act like you believe it, instead of pivoting back to confirming Trump nominees between every angry speech
-DIRECTLY lambast news outlets for not actually conveying the crisis