Congratulations to @ailitripp.bsky.social for her new book, Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders (OUP, 2025). Learn more about this important scholarship in our latest blog post: www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...

Two fully funded scholarships for African women scholars based on the continent: congoresearchnetwork.com/2025/12/10/p...

Our new Virtual Special Issue highlights some of our editors' favorite articles published during their editorial terms. Kathleen Dolan and @ailitripp.bsky.social (2007-2010) highlight work that had an impact on the field at the time and remains relevant today. #OpenAccess until December 2025!

Never thought I would see David Brooks quoting Marx: "we have nothing to lose but our chains" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

What utter nonsense!

NEW ISSUE from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Politics & Gender - Volume 21 - Issue 1 - cup.org/3Yb8U1u w/ papers by @mlkrook.bsky.social, @klbeckwith.bsky.social, @ailitripp.bsky.social, @erincassese.bsky.social, @amandafriesen.bsky.social, @drorlysiow.bsky.social & more #MPSA25 #MPSA2025

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

This is truly devastating news, not only for scholars and scientists, but also for the United States as a great power with global influence. Senseless, heartless, cowardly, and stupid.

President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaking in Kyiv today: ▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that ▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself ▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how

It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

🇫🇮🇺🇦 Finnish Prime Minister has called for an urgent EU summit on Ukraine to develop a common position on Europe's role in the negotiations. 🇪🇺 "Only the EU can make decisions on security, Ukraine's membership in the EU or its restoration. For this, there must be a place at the negotiating table."

Because AP continues to refuse to use 'Gulf of America,' it is being barred indefinitely from the Oval Office and Air Force One, but its journalists will be able to retain their credentials to the White House complex, according to Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff.

Hagan Scotten’s resignation letter says it all. Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.

Academic freedom is under assault.

#polisky #WomenInSTEM NSF looking at losing HALF of their staff and two-thirds of their budget. www.science.org/content/arti...

I am used to reading such proclamations from authoritarian governments in Africa. Hard to believe this is happening in the US.

Former President Sam Nujoma of Namibia, who led the country to independence from South Africa, died today. He was a frequent visitor to our home in Dar es Salaam when SWAPO was based in Tanzania. (L to R, My mother, Marja-Liisa Swantz, Eva, Lea, Nujoma, his associate, and myself).

This is heartbreaking but infuriating above all. This madness has to be stopped. Call your representatives! The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Inexplicably cruel and dangerous. State's programs have done critical work supporting civil society and democratic practices where the US doesn't have missions and formal diplomatic ties, or where relations with auth govts are intense like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, & Venezuela.

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

Goodbye academic freedom! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

This is where we are heading! thehill.com/homenews/adm...

“A bunch of random civilians are running rampant through DC, seizing classified government data & dismantling the entire government, & neither Congress, nor the courts, nor law enforcement is doing anything about it, bc the Orange Man is king” is really not how I thought the Republic would end.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Experts: Trump's efforts to stop spending on all federal grants is unprecedented and illegal. Five alarm fire. NY Times:

USAID took down its Gender and Health page. Other pages of the same kind seem to be there: www.usaid.gov/global-healt...

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

A blatant attack on academic freedom. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

I am heartbroken. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

Unbelievable! It is hard to understand how this can even happen. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Trump is planning to make foreign nationals (and dual citizens) to pay higher tax rates in the US. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Omnious: "I think you’ll see professors investigated and terminated. I think you’re going to see students punished, and I think you’re going to see a pre-emptive action on those fronts," according to Crowley at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our anniversary issue, @ailitripp.bsky.social reflects on changes to the study of the comparative politics of gender over the last 20 years noting the growth of the field and an expansion of the themes and regions studied. polisky gendersky https://buff.ly/3PM3d5M

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

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