Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

NoKings yesterday was inspiring, energizing, and fun. Now let’s turn that energy into action for a huge progressive blue wave in Nov (to swamp any elections shenanigans). Post in the replies what you’re doing with your time and money to make that happen. I’ll start with 2 great orgs I’m supporting

I got to moderate this great panel trying to understand the chaos of the first year of Trump 2.0’s foreign policy, with great questions from our students

From HandsOffNYC march in solidarity with MSP today

Trump’s Year of Anarchy: The Unconstrained Presidency and the End of American Primacy. (@dandrezner.bsky.social and @profsaunders.bsky.social, @foreignaffairs.com) www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Boycott/disruption of Hilton this weekend (action should be called “Heil Hilton”) Book a room, cancel just before free cancellation expires. Ideally, cancel over the phone and tell them, "I no longer want to stay at Hilton hotel after the corporate office doubled down on housing ICE agents."

THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact

Lovely to see the outpouring of love for Kimuli, whose presence is so very missed. I’m adding here the “in memoriam” colleagues wrote for the department (a bit more personal than the one from the university!) polisci.columbia.edu/content/memo...

Encouraging. I mean, one hopes the American public doesn’t like having their neighbors abducted and their fellow citizens shot dead, but given what else it seems to tolerate of late (Jan 6, anyone?), I still find this encouraging

Before I even got home from a protest over the shooting of Renee Good, I was hearing reports of CBP shooting two in Portland OR. FFS. Stay safe out there people, keep It peaceful but make some noise cuz this shit is unacceptable

A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident. Being an elementary schoolchild in America is far more deadly and dangerous than being an ICE officer.

Good analysis on the latest insanity, by @profsaunders.bsky.social

Oh the symbolism! COP caught on fire in the heat. No one injured, thankfully. (Not my photo, I wasn’t in the Blue Zone at the time — guess I picked a good time to see a bit of Belém!)

I’m learning a ton at COP30, but my most systematic research is on the ice cream at Sorveteria Cairu — famous for their local tropical fruit flavors. Preliminary results: cupuaçu and chocolate is a better combo than açaí and chocolate, though both were delish. #ResearchPriorities

Many things are giving me joy tonight, not least that JD Vance’s half brother lost 78 to 22! To a half-Indian, half-Tibetan-refugee named Aftab Karma Singh Pureval!!

Hey climate folks (or anyone who has thought about these things) — with the value of offsets largely debunked, what do you do to ameliorate your impact when you have to fly? How best to self-tax for emissions?

It’s a beautiful day to resist democratic backsliding!

Why I’m worried this ceasefire won’t last

Naked bike ride in cold rainy October is what we political scientists call a “costly signal” of resistance (the normal, if you can call it that! one is in the summer) And what we Portlanders call “keepin it weird, keepin it real, keepin it real weird”

Are you affiliated with UPenn (faculty, staff, student, alumni, or parent/guardian of a student)? If so, please consider signing the petition calling on President Jameson to categorically reject the Compact for "Excellence in Higher Education." actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Go Portland! Using its notoriously pain in the ass permitting regime for good!

Smart and beautifully written by a friend and colleague I’m proud to have.

This is next level “this meeting could have been an email”

It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

This is the TIO, they don’t exaggerate. Organizers say nearly 500,000 at Tel Aviv rally, 1 million participated in day’s protests nationwide www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

At just over 2 troops per 1000 inhabitants, the deployment to DC is larger per capita than the US deployment in Afghanistan except during the Obama surge 2009-13.

Stop the war, stop the famine, bring the hostages home.

Trump and Netanyahu — united in their goal to starve children.

Holy hell. Nothing surprising but totally shocking.

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In case anyone thought agreements like the ones Columbia and Brown have reached were actually going to protect federal funding…

This drives me crazy as a stance towards Israel these days is really quite unrelated to attitudes towards Jews. We have anti-semites who are big fans and there are plenty of Jews and allies who are critics. A stance towards a government and its policies is just that.

If there’s a boycott, I hope it’s strategic. The BoT and uni admin won’t know/care if you don’t give a talk, co-author, or write a tenure letter. They clearly care only about the financial health of the uni not its reputation. Boycott donations or tuition. And/or support StandTogetherForHigherEd

Or as my colleague Suresh Naidu more eloquently put it:

Knew it was coming but still disappointed in my employer today. I have very little confidence that this will satisfy the staunchest defenders of Israel on campus or prevent the Trump from coming after us for more. Has the university admin never heard of a credible commitment problem, FFS?

This is not an accident. This is by design. You think it won’t happen to you. You think you won’t end up there. That is not an accident. That is by design. via @resistofficial.bsky.social

Hundreds of Israelis holding photos of Palestinian children murdered by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Palestinian peace activists in Gaza holding photos of Israeli children murdered by Hamas on October 7th. Amid unbearable grief, they carry each other’s pain.

if AI is good. why is everybody trying to trick me into using it

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Air pollution also down (and not diverted to upper Manhattan & the Bronx as feared — actually a smaller dip there too). Win win win

There are many reasons I increasingly dislike fireworks. Trauma to pets, spike in air pollution on the night of 7/4, and the most sobering one in this poem. I know they are pretty, and if your town is setting them off, there is nothing wrong with enjoying them, but please don’t buy them.

Yo, Rep. Gill, try running for office in NYC and eating pizza with a knife and fork. We’ll show you “civilized”

The Al-Baqa cafe was a well-known spot for journalists, among others. That the Israeli government has not allowed foreign reporters in to cover the war in Gaza is by itself a red flag for war crimes. If you don’t want the world to see what you’re doing, what you are doing probably isn’t good.