“Officially released and officially approved information” = state propaganda…. But sure, the Democrats are the ones trying to turn the US into a surveillance communist state….

It was an awesome panel. So much interesting work!

🧡 “El uso del derecho como herramienta de transformación en América Latina”. Acceso abierto: ➡️ publicaciones.dejusticia.org/items/ab2fac... @redpolitologas.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @andreacastagnola.bsky.social @egocantos.bsky.social

Great piece. The plan cannot be to wait for elections in 2026. If we do nothing these will be rigged. Democrats need a plan and a message. A shutdown can give them a spotlight. How they use that spotlight matters A LOT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Yeii Utah! I cannot be more impressed with the organizations leading this effort and the judges who, putting aside partisanship are helping protect democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

📢 Convocatoria abierta | LASA 2026 ¡Falta una semana! LAPIS patrocina paneles sobre instituciones políticas para LASA 2026. ¡Los paneles seleccionados tienen aceptación garantizada! Postula antes del 8 de agosto aquí: 🔗 forms.gle/EhLLj5fkdWba...

📢 Call for Applications | LASA 2026 One week left! LAPIS is sponsoring panels on political institutions for LASA 2026! Selected panels are guaranteed acceptance. Submit your proposal by August 8 using this form: 🔗 forms.gle/EhLLj5fkdWba...

THIS!!! Gerrymandering is always undemocratic. But this belongs to a different league: When the districts gerrymandered in 2021 were not enough to guarantee victory in 2026, Trump, asks Abbott to manipulate electoral law and gerrymander districts AGAIN.

Join us in 2026-27 at the Kellogg Institute! kellogg.nd.edu/opportunitie...

Congratulations to all our @notredame.bsky.social and former @kellogginstitute.bsky.social political science fellows: @jolechartre.bsky.social , @bgarciaholgado.bsky.social and @natanski.bsky.social whose dissertations won several APSA awards this year. You should check their work! 👇

IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!

The deadline is August 8! If you are thinking about attending LASA 2026, this is a great opportunity to get the panel accepted (before you commit to paying membership and conference fees) and give more visibility to the papers.

La fecha límites es el 8 de Agosto... Anímense! Si están pensando en ir a LASA 2026 esta es una gran oportunidad para garantizar que el panel sea aceptado (antes de tener que comprometerse a pagar membresía y conferencia) y darle algo más de visibilidad a las ponencias.

LAPIS está buscando excelentes paneles!! Las aplicaciones se cierran el 8 de Agosto!

“If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries,” writes @lgamboa.bsky.social. “The alternative may be to find that democracy has slipped away while they wait.”

Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options for browsers, search engines, and email providers to get you started.

Happening at 10:15!! We’ll be discussing @ddemicheli.bsky.social and Belen Fernandez’ amazing books! Room Foothill 2!

Happening now in Budapest @ceudeminst.bsky.social : masterclass by @lgamboa.bsky.social on opposition strategies against democratic backsliding.

Insightful, sobering and yet simultaneously inspiring interview with @lgamboa.bsky.social about democratic backsliding and how to fight it: pca.st/i0rpnx6i. Absolutely what my Sunday needed.

These are very good points!

I very strongly recommend listening to this podcast on democratic backsliding in U.S. & lessons that can be taken from other countries that have faced similar. By @lgamboa.bsky.social with @qjurecic.bsky.social. Bonus for me, Gamboa teaches at my alma mater, ND! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Great conversation with @qjurecic.bsky.social on opposition strategizes against backsliding

This is one of the most useful pieces of analysis I have found. Listen to this immediately @lgamboa.bsky.social @qjurecic.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"The goal here is to separate the President being in power from the President advancing an authoritarian agenda." - @lgamboa.bsky.social in an absolutely must-listen interview on @lawfaremedia.org

Today's @lawfaremedia.org podcast w/ @lgamboa.bsky.social & @qjurecic.bsky.social is the best articulation I've heard of what Amer pro-democracy groups & politicians can learn from other resistance-to-authoritarian movements around the world. Well worth a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Pro-democracy forces in the United States should act quickly to strengthen grassroots movements, writes @lgamboa.bsky.social. “With the right infrastructure in place, the citizenry can be mobilized to boost turnout on Election Day—and demand that voters’ choices are respected afterward.”

This post is perfect. Notice how there is no mention of this persons immigration status and the word deportation does not appear. This is not an immigration problem. Is a freedom of speech and due process problem. The government is attacking the rule of law that protects us all.

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

Autocratization in the US is too serious & urgent for Dems to give in to this kind of infighting. The goal is to protect democracy. Setting up for a 2028 presidential run is tomorrow's problem & crucially one that depends ENTIRELY on whether democracy survives today. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Congratulations to @gontrerasa.bsky.social, winner of the LASA 2024 award for best paper in political institutions!​ Clientelistic Dynamics in Programmatic Settings: Evidence from Chile Thank you to the committee: @guillermotoral.com, Silvia Otero, and Andrés Schipiani.

¡Felicitaciones a @gontrerasa.bsky.social, ganador del premio al mejor paper en instituciones políticas de LASA 2024!​ Clientelistic Dynamics in Programmatic Settings: Evidence from Chile Gracias al comité: @guillermotoral.com, Silvia Otero y Andrés Schipiani

Felicitaciones a les ganadores del Donna Lee Van Cott 2024! Back to Black– @ddemicheli.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b... Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America– B. Fernández: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... Gracias a @sboteroc.bsky.social, N. Pavao & @raschwartz.bsky.social

Now is for the moment for another New Deal, but one that includes constitutional reforms. Dems should commit to proportional representation so we can a multi-party system that can win back voters' trust.

Unless Democrats can promise genuine transformative change (and not just a return to a broken status quo), they will continue to lose elections. Trump is awful. But it is not enough just to be the alternative. There must be a real vision. I am not seeing it yet. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

I am probably preaching to the choir. But, since I have criticized institutional appeasement is only fair to celebrate Harvard's defiance (and what seems to be a coordinated campaign by several universities to stand up for scientific research). May other universities follow.

PUBLICATION ALERT @aperezli.bsky.social & @andreacastagnola.bsky.social: “La judicialización de la política y el control constitucional en modelos híbridos restringidos: el activismo judicial ‘por defecto’ de Paraguay” in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) bit.ly/417SIjr

📢 Attention legal scholars and academics! The UNAM has opened its competitive selection process for those looking to join its faculty in the legal field. 📚⚖️ Check the requirements and apply here 👉 www.juridicas.unam.mx/pagina/concu... #UNAM #Law #FacultyRecruitment

📢 ¡Atención a juristas y académicos! La UNAM ha abierto su convocatoria para quienes buscan formar parte de su cuerpo docente en el área jurídica. 📚⚖️ Consulta las bases y postúlate aquí 👉 www.juridicas.unam.mx/pagina/concu... #UNAM #Derecho #ConcursosDeOposición

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

New Univ. of Notre Dame page, similar to Harvard website makeover: www.nd.edu/stories/rese...

Well worth reading not only Harvard’s robust response but the lengthy list of freewheeling demands the administration has made of them, including what can only be called creating new faculty lines explicitly for MAGA conservatives. No university could ever accept such demands and remain free.

The Trump Administration sent Harvard a detailed list of extreme demands on Friday. It called for the dismantling of "DEI" Harvard centers, including a legal clinic, tha study human rights, and the surveillance of students political views. Harvard has responded and rejected these demands.

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

None of this is about antisemitism or trans athletes or DEI It is about about imploding the pact between government and universities that has sustained R&D and economic development in this country since WWII

Read this, and know that there are countless cases like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement." It's Trump or the 1st Amendment. We can't have both.

Today’s count: at least 1️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ international students and recent graduates in Texas have had their legal status changed by the U.S Department of State over the last few weeks. With devastating effects for students. 9 institutions have reported revocations.

But surely we can wait until the midterms to change the tide…🙄🙄🙄