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Maya Sen
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Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 2d
lol if you know anything about Harvard, the ties to the military are.... deep. I don't think this will age well but alas.

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 2d
If this was based on anything remotely Epstein related, it would be much more justified

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 2d
Pete Hegseth is an HKS graduate

He is welcome to sit in on my law & policy class, in which we discuss opinions by Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, and other conservatives, as well as foundational concepts in American democracy (federalism, enumerated powers, sovereign immunity)

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 2d
This is a shame

We teach many military students at the Kennedy School

Our curriculum is heavy on free market economics, statistics, ethics, and US constitutional foundations - the very stuff that conservatives say they want taught

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 4d
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d
Will never not be funny

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 5d
lol the number of dinner parties per week is how you know someone is Harvard deep state

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 5d
Link to the piece, in Boston Globe

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/03/b...
‘It’s all talk’: At Harvard, Trump’s $1 billion demand is just the latest in seemingly endless negotiations - The Boston Globe
As Trump again escalates demands on Harvard, many on campus are tiring of all the talk.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 5d
Re: Harvard’s negotiations with Trump, I actually did talk to some reporters yesterday and 100% stand by this on-the-record quote here where I explain that nobody knows anything

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
Eh there’s probdbly several dozen people on campus with second- or third-hand accounts of what’s happening, plus the networks of the corporation members & their kids

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
Yes, Trump’s accusations re: Harvard’s president are worth flagging

Whether you like him or not, Garber was provost for over a decade - he was the natural choice for interim when Gay was forced out

He’s a consummate administrator

To imply he has the job solely b/c of his religion is…noteworthy
gowder.io Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 6d
Once again the Crusader Against Antisemitism proves himself the biggest antisemite of all.
mayasen.bsky.social Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
Trump is now demanding One Billion Dollars from Harvard, threatening criminal punishment, and insinuating Harvard’s president was chosen because of his religion (?)

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
My theory: there’s no grand strategy on Harvard’s side

senior faculty simply like to gossip and can’t resist talking to an outlet like the NYT

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 6d
Once again the Crusader Against Antisemitism proves himself the biggest antisemite of all.
mayasen.bsky.social Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
Trump is now demanding One Billion Dollars from Harvard, threatening criminal punishment, and insinuating Harvard’s president was chosen because of his religion (?)

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
These NYT reporters have been wrong from the get go and have now made themselves main characters in this story

Begging whichever of my colleagues is speaking to them to please stop

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d
Trump is now demanding One Billion Dollars from Harvard, threatening criminal punishment, and insinuating Harvard’s president was chosen because of his religion (?)

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 7d
Screenshot cut it off but this is Nikolas Bowie

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 7d
I ask my non-JD students to read Supreme Court opinions regularly

Key goal: for them to stop being intimidated by the gate keeping around constitutional law and SCOTUS

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 7d
I think this is also true - and not just process but quality of deliberation and reasoning

Many a social scientist have turned to me after listening to an exchange at oral argument and been like “these are the ‘philosophers in robes’?”

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 7d
1) the source of discontent with SCOTUS is not the leaks per se but the substance of recent rulings

And

2) the fewer & less people know about the Court’s rulings the less the public can disagree with them
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d
i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d
i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 12d
to be clear: carefully managing access to campus is also common sense in the wake of the Brown shootings and the targeting of universities by members of the current administration

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 12d
genuinely like the public-garden feel of our main campus, but buttressing a potential claim that government agents may not enter private (i.e., university) property without an appropriate warrant seems more important!

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 12d
IMHO, this piece has a sensational headline but makes a very sensible recommendation: campus access should be restricted to university affiliates for the time being

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Must Keep ICE off Campus | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
The University must walk a careful line between concrete steps to protect our community and putting a target on our back. The stakes are too high for inaction and too urgent for indecision.
www.thecrimson.com

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 13d
Reminder that in Egbert v. Boule the Supreme Court specifically said that Border Patrol agents cannot be sued for violating someone's constitutional rights.

My deep dive from 2023:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
‘He didn’t deserve to die like this’: Supreme Court decision leaves family of a man killed at the border searching for justice
An analysis by NBC News found the court has effectively dismantled the ability to file lawsuits against federal officials accused of violating constitutional rights.
www.nbcnews.com

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 15d
Hard to know if it’s a coincidence but this is interestingly a 5-min walk from Elizabeth Warren’s Cambridge house

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 15d
Local folks:

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18d
Do Democrats have a plan for when 1) SCOTUS declares majority-minority districts unlawful and 2) the number of Congressional seats from blue states is reduced following the 2030 Census?

Asking for a friend

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 19d
local folks: www.boston.com/uncategorize...
Trump administration starts immigration operation in Maine
The Trump administration has started an immigration enforcement operation in Maine, targeting Somali immigrants in the state.
www.boston.com

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 19d
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mayasen.bsky.social Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 28d
Not sure if the justices or their clerks are aware of the extent of mockery by People Who Matter of the “federal reserve board exception” to the unitary executive theory

A real emperor has no clothes realization for a lot of people

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 19d
Bears repeating: had this happened with Joe Biden, Jake Tapper would have devoted an entire book chapter to it
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."