DrLostCauses
@acpacek.bsky.social
Academic studying political causes/consequences of well-being. Fan of the interesting and important. Despairing Boston sports and happy Liverpool fan.
Views and opinions are my own, not my employer’s or my state’s. I speak as a private citizen.
Views and opinions are my own, not my employer’s or my state’s. I speak as a private citizen.
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DrLostCauses
@acpacek.bsky.social
· Oct 28
I’ll echo what many others have said here: if you can, please please please donate to your local food bank. We’ve all seen the headlines. Things are about to get brutal…real bad for a lot of people. Yes in your community. Please save “They voted for this” for later.
Easy take but this guy is 100% running for president. If not 2028, the next cycle.
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
February 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Easy take but this guy is 100% running for president. If not 2028, the next cycle.
Why do I inflict UNC-Duke games on myself?
February 8, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Why do I inflict UNC-Duke games on myself?
The kids who came up with lol everything is terrible we’re so, so right.
February 7, 2026 at 3:22 AM
The kids who came up with lol everything is terrible we’re so, so right.
Not happy or surprised that I’m hearing chatter about “flying universities,” or at least, university courses, in 2026 United States. That these are deemed necessary is yet another worrying sign of authoritarianism.
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Not happy or surprised that I’m hearing chatter about “flying universities,” or at least, university courses, in 2026 United States. That these are deemed necessary is yet another worrying sign of authoritarianism.
There’s this thing about rich famous people. This thing is, they will almost always surprise, disappoint, and disgust you.
February 6, 2026 at 2:10 AM
There’s this thing about rich famous people. This thing is, they will almost always surprise, disappoint, and disgust you.
A tad stunned that there are still people in my profession both sidesing the two parties currently. Maybe it’s the Sorkin Effect, I dunno.
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
A tad stunned that there are still people in my profession both sidesing the two parties currently. Maybe it’s the Sorkin Effect, I dunno.
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My department at the University of Nevada, Reno is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor/Lecturer in American Politics or Public Law. Review starts February 20. bit.ly/4qToUl3
Renewable 12-month NTT role, also coordinates the Collegiate Academy program @unevadareno.bsky.social
My department at the University of Nevada, Reno is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor/Lecturer in American Politics or Public Law. Review starts February 20. bit.ly/4qToUl3
Renewable 12-month NTT role, also coordinates the Collegiate Academy program @unevadareno.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 1:24 AM
🚨Hiring Alert🚨
My department at the University of Nevada, Reno is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor/Lecturer in American Politics or Public Law. Review starts February 20. bit.ly/4qToUl3
Renewable 12-month NTT role, also coordinates the Collegiate Academy program @unevadareno.bsky.social
My department at the University of Nevada, Reno is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor/Lecturer in American Politics or Public Law. Review starts February 20. bit.ly/4qToUl3
Renewable 12-month NTT role, also coordinates the Collegiate Academy program @unevadareno.bsky.social
Following John Cleese into angry harumphy irrelevance. See you Ricky, you were funny in the early 2000s.
Ricky Gervais calls out Grammy winners for making political acceptance speeches: "You're in no position to lecture the public about anything"
Ricky Gervais calls out Grammy winners for making political acceptance speeches: "You're in no position to lecture the public about anything"
Gervais cited his own 2020 Golden Globes monologue, in which he urged winners not to use their acceptance speeches "as a platform to make a political speech."
decider.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Following John Cleese into angry harumphy irrelevance. See you Ricky, you were funny in the early 2000s.
I recall reading, more than once, that we’ll be lucky to get Orban on the present trajectory. So here we are.
Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
January 31, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I recall reading, more than once, that we’ll be lucky to get Orban on the present trajectory. So here we are.
Arresting journalists for doing their job is right out of the authoritarian playbook. It cannot be spun any other way.
January 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Arresting journalists for doing their job is right out of the authoritarian playbook. It cannot be spun any other way.
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg releasing songs about Minnesota kind of feels like a big deal in some sort of way.
January 29, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg releasing songs about Minnesota kind of feels like a big deal in some sort of way.
I don’t say this sarcastically but it’s going to be interesting to see how Susan Collins reacts to her state in the crosshairs. First large scale ICE assault on a state with a GOP senator.
Also curious how this will affect the very hotly contested Senate race there.
Also curious how this will affect the very hotly contested Senate race there.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM
I don’t say this sarcastically but it’s going to be interesting to see how Susan Collins reacts to her state in the crosshairs. First large scale ICE assault on a state with a GOP senator.
Also curious how this will affect the very hotly contested Senate race there.
Also curious how this will affect the very hotly contested Senate race there.
This picture should exist forever. I think it will.
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 9:56 PM
This picture should exist forever. I think it will.
Shades of the early days of Covid; all the “wellness,” “thriving,” “mindfulness,” and “resiliency” garbage that went out from bosses.
Hey Minnesotans. Have your bosses sent you a mealy-mouthed email about how to remain productive during these troubled times or some other example of non-committal, faux-concerned corporate-speak? We want to publish a bunch of these. Send examples to keith at racketmn.com. You will NOT be identified.
January 26, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Shades of the early days of Covid; all the “wellness,” “thriving,” “mindfulness,” and “resiliency” garbage that went out from bosses.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
We are hiring a Professor!
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
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Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
Godwin’s Law was created to trivialize pointing out contemporary atrocities.
January 26, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Godwin’s Law was created to trivialize pointing out contemporary atrocities.
Re-reading Gene Sharp’s The Politics of Non Violent Action 1973) again for no reason in particular.
January 25, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Re-reading Gene Sharp’s The Politics of Non Violent Action 1973) again for no reason in particular.
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Not sure I picked the right or the wrong time to watch Nuremberg.
January 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Not sure I picked the right or the wrong time to watch Nuremberg.
Imagine looking at this map as a reasonable thoughtful person and drawing the same conclusions William Wolfe did.
This is his religion version of that “look at all that red land!” election weirdness some people love.
This is his religion version of that “look at all that red land!” election weirdness some people love.
This is why William Wolfe—a vocal admirer of Christian Nationalist kingpin Doug Wilson—wants to influence the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It’s also why I’m so concerned about his organization and its ties to Peter Thiel ally Chris Buskirk (via American Reformer).
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Imagine looking at this map as a reasonable thoughtful person and drawing the same conclusions William Wolfe did.
This is his religion version of that “look at all that red land!” election weirdness some people love.
This is his religion version of that “look at all that red land!” election weirdness some people love.
Nightmare fuel that this is even being discussed.
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Nightmare fuel that this is even being discussed.
There really aren’t guidebooks written for how to deal with the loss of your best friend, and how often and unexpectedly it suddenly hits. May you fare as well as you can if you’ve been there.
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 AM
There really aren’t guidebooks written for how to deal with the loss of your best friend, and how often and unexpectedly it suddenly hits. May you fare as well as you can if you’ve been there.
Why did I think a Celtics game would improve my mood?
January 20, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Why did I think a Celtics game would improve my mood?