a fun thing about having OCD is that instead of being excited that my latest book, "After Liberation Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions" comes out *next month,* I'm petrified it's bad. Anyway! you can pre-order a book I am proud of here www.sup.org/books/politi...

Nonconsensual deepfake pornography has become ubiquitous across the internet, mostly targeting women and girls. And yet, despite the scale of the problem, policymakers have been slow to respond, @hilarymatfess.bsky.social writes.

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I am tired of bending into knots to understand the evolution and motivation and pathos of men who hurt people. There's a line from a Doubleclicks song that I come back to: "I don’t care if you are happy now I just hope that you are victimless"

rise and grind babyyyyyy. while all you pillow-cucked honk shoo maxxers were 'getting the medically recommended amount of sleep' I was doom scrolling in bed follow me for more life ruining productivity tricks.

listen, I am usually team "professionalization and training reduce civilian harm" but that rests upon the assumption that the people being trained and professionalized joined to *protect* civilians. And I am not convinced that holds for this new generation of ICE recruits.

Europe's five stages of grief wrt Trump: 1. Wake-up call 2. Backlash 3. Breaking point 4. Appease 5. Repeat

I'm still surprised by anyone who defends Trump's tariff policy.

When Hillary lost, one of my early reactions was “America hates older women”. The rhetoric used about Clinton and Warren: sounds like a schoolmarm, my ex wife, shrill, bossy, etc. These men have resented female authority figures their whole lives.

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Happy to have contributed to this report (and very sorry to my husband who is constantly stressed about me running my mouth on this stuff): 19thnews.org/2026/01/ashl...

Wow, they’re troubled? Should we throw a troubled and concerned party? Should we invite Susan Collins??

Breaking: Spike in Flu cases Driven by Surge in Unwanted NYE Party Invites

As the year wraps up, & the breakout of conflict in the Horn of Africa looks increasingly inevitable in 2026, this indepth probe by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social into illegal gold mining from Tigray to the UAE mostly by the way of Eritrea...is a good 101er for how factions are likely to arm themselves.

suddenly my dad's obsession with hummingbirds once I left for college makes sense

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there is a think-piece to be written about this administration's obsession with pull ups as a marker of health

do I appreciate everything my mom did to make christmas special as a kid? sure! do I think it's good and healthy that moms are bombarded with pressure to 'make holiday magic'? no!!!

A good primer on the fragmentation of Fano militias in Ethiopia's Amhara region: www.theafricareport.com/401375/ethio...

Excellent reporting on Bogotá's "Care Blocks"

Korbel Prof. @hilarymatfess.bsky.social breaks down in @wpr.bsky.social how protectionist policies contribute to rising costs while simultaneously deepening gender inequality and restricting women’s economic opportunities.

"Regardless of whether tariffs were adopted to bolster the masculinity of displaced factory workers or in retaliation for other countries’ protectionism, their rising popularity threatens women’s position in the global economy." Great one by a great one (@hilarymatfess.bsky.social).

Everyone is worse off in a trade war. But in relative terms, the negative impacts of protectionism are unevenly distributed by gender, with men often coming out ahead, @hilarymatfess.bsky.social writes.

my latest with @wpr.bsky.social on how trade policy reflects what jobs we think are worth protecting (hint: it's men's jobs) www.worldpoliticsreview.com/protectionis...

I love how we have a POTUS whose response to "hey, any comment about your documented close relationship to a pedo?" is "shut up fatty." this is good and normal.

They're just as good at political theorizing as they are at providing healthcare advice. (Hint: not very!) (Excerpt from 'Putting Women in their Place' now available for purchase: www.amazon.com/Putting-Wome...)

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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

on the fragility of peace in Tigray: addisstandard.com/tplf-warns-p...

but what if the soft animal of my body wants to go to sonic for the second time this week

breathtakingly out of touch story from the times today

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that's one way to pivot to the pacific.

every university administrator encouraging professors to 'integrate AI into the classroom' needs to read this and think long and hard about the implications

i'm so sorry we are living in the dumbest timeline because red hat fan boys are posting things like '16th century maritime law says that you can kill pirates, so it's totally fine that we are using drone strikes against drug smugglers' and like, guys, legality is the absolute BARE MINIMUM

good luck getting that security deposit back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

this piece was... fine? but I wish that it had dug into the ways in which 1) the performance of a very specific type of femininity the cost of doing business for these women and 2) the retrograde politics of that aesthetic.

can someone send me a copy of this, my blood pressure's been too low lately. (fr though, I would love a pdf)

I'm just a girl, standing in front of overleaf, asking it for a single usable beamer template

I’m routinely shocked by how many people don’t know this. relatedly, those people are often shocked when I say 1) motherhood has made me even more pro-choice and 2) having the right to pursue an abortion if I needed to allowed me to have a kid as a high risk pregnancy

me: "ugh I just don't feel good." my husband, with all of the caution and patience you'd expect from someone approaching a feral raccoon: "do you think it's maybe because you've had a pot and a half of coffee and a protein shake today?"

important reflection on the #WPS agenda in an era of backlash and multipolarity: www.eurasiareview.com/18102025-wom...

HAS ANYONE CHECKED THE WHEREABOUTS OF GEORGE CLOONEY AND BRAD PITT

a must read from Rebecca Turkington and Saskia Brechenmacher on the dismantling of the bipartisan WPS architecture: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...

it's probably cool and fine that my husband, a former infantry officer, expressed concern about my physical safety as a professor in today's political atmosphere

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

my mantra while going through book proofs (h/t @kaitsims.bsky.social for being my emotional support colleague)

niche post but: it took me a solid 10 seconds to realize this wasn't a vintage photo of Will Reno