Brett Heindl
@brettincny.bsky.social
Political scientist | climate change and environmental migration in the andes | migrant integration | rural mobility
My brain thinks I’m a distance runner; my knees have their own opinions
My brain thinks I’m a distance runner; my knees have their own opinions
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"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.
'This is a class war': The Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey on Trump, immigration and Boston
"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.
The sane-washing continues. There is no plan. We all know that, so why pretend that this is just a failure of messaging?
President Donald Trump’s economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.”
But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
Trump has a plan to remake the economy. But he’s not explaining it very well.
President Donald Trump’s economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.” But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The sane-washing continues. There is no plan. We all know that, so why pretend that this is just a failure of messaging?
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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"Think of them as the original quiet quitters, gliding along in neutral, unwilling to put the car in gear. Half of the middle- and high-school kids we surveyed reported operating this way, in what we came to call Passenger Mode".
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
The Teen-Disengagement Crisis
By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff. The ripple effects could last for years.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Think of them as the original quiet quitters, gliding along in neutral, unwilling to put the car in gear. Half of the middle- and high-school kids we surveyed reported operating this way, in what we came to call Passenger Mode".
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that
January 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that
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The 2025 ABA Bird of the Year is Common Loon!
We're excited to kick off this Year of the Loon by sharing the beautiful art from our 2025 Bird of the Year artist, Minnesota artist Sam Zimmerman.
Sam's piece, Summering Loon, will be featured on the January 2025 issue of Birding magazine.
We're excited to kick off this Year of the Loon by sharing the beautiful art from our 2025 Bird of the Year artist, Minnesota artist Sam Zimmerman.
Sam's piece, Summering Loon, will be featured on the January 2025 issue of Birding magazine.
January 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The 2025 ABA Bird of the Year is Common Loon!
We're excited to kick off this Year of the Loon by sharing the beautiful art from our 2025 Bird of the Year artist, Minnesota artist Sam Zimmerman.
Sam's piece, Summering Loon, will be featured on the January 2025 issue of Birding magazine.
We're excited to kick off this Year of the Loon by sharing the beautiful art from our 2025 Bird of the Year artist, Minnesota artist Sam Zimmerman.
Sam's piece, Summering Loon, will be featured on the January 2025 issue of Birding magazine.
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If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?
January 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?
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this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.
December 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.
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What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
December 5, 2024 at 3:57 PM
What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
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🌍 The #WorldDroughtAtlas is out! One of the most comprehensive tools to tackle global #drought risks with data, maps & solutions. Very interesting for policymakers & experts building climate resilience.
www.cimafoundation.org/en/news/worl...
🌱 #COP16 #ClimateAction
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🌱 #COP16 #ClimateAction
December 2, 2024 at 9:23 PM
🌍 The #WorldDroughtAtlas is out! One of the most comprehensive tools to tackle global #drought risks with data, maps & solutions. Very interesting for policymakers & experts building climate resilience.
www.cimafoundation.org/en/news/worl...
🌱 #COP16 #ClimateAction
www.cimafoundation.org/en/news/worl...
🌱 #COP16 #ClimateAction
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I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to skip FBI background checks and bury congressional ethics reports about nominees to the most important posts in the federal government.
November 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to skip FBI background checks and bury congressional ethics reports about nominees to the most important posts in the federal government.
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Y’all are joking with the dooming and glooming right? Harris has somehow kept herself clean, locked down her team, and is almost certainly aware of what she’s being asked to do. We are about to have a woman at the top of the ticket in a post-Dobbs electorate. Stop crying and buck the fuck up!
July 21, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Y’all are joking with the dooming and glooming right? Harris has somehow kept herself clean, locked down her team, and is almost certainly aware of what she’s being asked to do. We are about to have a woman at the top of the ticket in a post-Dobbs electorate. Stop crying and buck the fuck up!
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It's a bit problematic how Biden has (a) narrow, limited power to have his agency draw up a student loan forgiveness process consistent with the statutes passed by Congress; but (b) complete immunity to tell everyone at Dept of Edu, "mark those loans as $0 or I'll put you in a pine box."
to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited
July 1, 2024 at 9:49 PM
It's a bit problematic how Biden has (a) narrow, limited power to have his agency draw up a student loan forgiveness process consistent with the statutes passed by Congress; but (b) complete immunity to tell everyone at Dept of Edu, "mark those loans as $0 or I'll put you in a pine box."
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
July 1, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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Unthinkable just a few years ago:
For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023.
2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation.
Source Ember
For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023.
2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation.
Source Ember
June 13, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Unthinkable just a few years ago:
For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023.
2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation.
Source Ember
For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023.
2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation.
Source Ember
Best chance to see the Northen Lights in 20 years and CNY is clouded over. Blargh
May 11, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Best chance to see the Northen Lights in 20 years and CNY is clouded over. Blargh
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New NBER working paper by Caiumi and Peri finds that since 2000 immigration has in fact resulted in increased wages for less-educated US-born workers, and hasn't resulted in crowding-out in terms of employment www.nber.org/papers/w32389 polisky
Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
May 6, 2024 at 10:00 PM
New NBER working paper by Caiumi and Peri finds that since 2000 immigration has in fact resulted in increased wages for less-educated US-born workers, and hasn't resulted in crowding-out in terms of employment www.nber.org/papers/w32389 polisky
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Lack of representation of people with direct experience of the welfare state creates a blindspot.
For example, this paper shows that elected officials are more willing to impose administrative burdens in welfare systems if they have never relied on welfare. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
For example, this paper shows that elected officials are more willing to impose administrative burdens in welfare systems if they have never relied on welfare. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
March 15, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Lack of representation of people with direct experience of the welfare state creates a blindspot.
For example, this paper shows that elected officials are more willing to impose administrative burdens in welfare systems if they have never relied on welfare. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
For example, this paper shows that elected officials are more willing to impose administrative burdens in welfare systems if they have never relied on welfare. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
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New scientific research shows that climate change caused the most extreme drought ever recorded in the Amazon. The consequences for Indigenous communities and small farmers are heartbreaking. If we keep burning fossil fuels, these devastating droughts will continue.
Amazon basin drought made 30 times more likely by climate change, study finds | CNN
A new report finds that the devastating agricultural drought in the Amazon basin was made 30 times more likely by climate change. Michael Holmes discusses the findings with Leah Stokes, an associate ...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
New scientific research shows that climate change caused the most extreme drought ever recorded in the Amazon. The consequences for Indigenous communities and small farmers are heartbreaking. If we keep burning fossil fuels, these devastating droughts will continue.
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January 23, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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*pikachu shocked face*
January 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
*pikachu shocked face*
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📢Announcing Good Authority Teaching Resources📢
Today @goodauth.bsky.social launches new polisky resources: new Good to Know explainers, Good Playlists, topic guides, & more. We accept proposals for explainers & playlists. Details on new resources page. Bookmark it! goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
Today @goodauth.bsky.social launches new polisky resources: new Good to Know explainers, Good Playlists, topic guides, & more. We accept proposals for explainers & playlists. Details on new resources page. Bookmark it! goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
Announcing Good Authority teaching resources
American politics, international relations, comparative politics, political science, and more teaching resources from Good Authority!
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January 9, 2024 at 12:26 PM
📢Announcing Good Authority Teaching Resources📢
Today @goodauth.bsky.social launches new polisky resources: new Good to Know explainers, Good Playlists, topic guides, & more. We accept proposals for explainers & playlists. Details on new resources page. Bookmark it! goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
Today @goodauth.bsky.social launches new polisky resources: new Good to Know explainers, Good Playlists, topic guides, & more. We accept proposals for explainers & playlists. Details on new resources page. Bookmark it! goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
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Absolutely right.
The only thing worse than a dictator destroying the rule of law is a supposedly free society destroying the rule of law in a doomed effort to hold off a potential dictator, which would only speed his rise.
The only thing worse than a dictator destroying the rule of law is a supposedly free society destroying the rule of law in a doomed effort to hold off a potential dictator, which would only speed his rise.
The answer has, and always will be, “Just apply the law to Trump as you would anyone else, and let the chips fall wherever they may.”
December 30, 2023 at 6:20 PM
Absolutely right.
The only thing worse than a dictator destroying the rule of law is a supposedly free society destroying the rule of law in a doomed effort to hold off a potential dictator, which would only speed his rise.
The only thing worse than a dictator destroying the rule of law is a supposedly free society destroying the rule of law in a doomed effort to hold off a potential dictator, which would only speed his rise.
Shocking
A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint
The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book
The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book
The police officer who searched for a book in a Great Barrington classroom also used a body camera. ...
The ACLU is looking further into why and how police thought it was their place to go looking for a book in a classroom.
www.berkshireeagle.com
December 21, 2023 at 2:30 AM
Shocking
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As COP28 begins, we invite you to read our relevant issues on the climate crisis and displacement through the years, they can all be accessed online, free of charge. See FMR issues 69, 64, 49 and 31: www.fmreview.org/issues
#AcademicSky #GreenSky
#AcademicSky #GreenSky
November 30, 2023 at 10:48 AM
As COP28 begins, we invite you to read our relevant issues on the climate crisis and displacement through the years, they can all be accessed online, free of charge. See FMR issues 69, 64, 49 and 31: www.fmreview.org/issues
#AcademicSky #GreenSky
#AcademicSky #GreenSky