Carolyn E Holmes
@carolyneholmes.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
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New quilt! All made of home-dyed cyanotypes, with plants I collected.
It’s been about 2 years in the making, and I’m so pleased with how it’s coming out.
It’s been about 2 years in the making, and I’m so pleased with how it’s coming out.
Snow days are fancy coffee days.
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Snow days are fancy coffee days.
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
It is SNOWING!!!
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It is SNOWING!!!
This feels like good news. Can someone who knows more please confirm?
I don’t trust “good news” and “SCOTUS” in the same phrase much these days…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
I don’t trust “good news” and “SCOTUS” in the same phrase much these days…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This feels like good news. Can someone who knows more please confirm?
I don’t trust “good news” and “SCOTUS” in the same phrase much these days…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
I don’t trust “good news” and “SCOTUS” in the same phrase much these days…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
And this time, Lucy really will let Charlie Brown kick the football.
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
And this time, Lucy really will let Charlie Brown kick the football.
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Sir Thomas More: a man for all seasons.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sir Thomas More: a man for all seasons.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
You can know this to be true, and it can also enrage you.
We can acknowledge that strategy (such that this is) and principle both exist.
We can contain multitudes.
We can acknowledge that strategy (such that this is) and principle both exist.
We can contain multitudes.
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
You can know this to be true, and it can also enrage you.
We can acknowledge that strategy (such that this is) and principle both exist.
We can contain multitudes.
We can acknowledge that strategy (such that this is) and principle both exist.
We can contain multitudes.
If AI is coming for my job, I would like it to take over university committee work first, please and thank you.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If AI is coming for my job, I would like it to take over university committee work first, please and thank you.
Sir Thomas More: a man for all seasons.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sir Thomas More: a man for all seasons.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
Mr Chuck Schumer: a man for literally no seasons, at all.
Okay, I promise that I have a PhD in political science…but…
…I truly don’t understand why the R’s can’t open the government on their own. Why can’t they get their 53/219 group to make this vote?
Why would Dems defect, but their own folks wouldn’t?
…I truly don’t understand why the R’s can’t open the government on their own. Why can’t they get their 53/219 group to make this vote?
Why would Dems defect, but their own folks wouldn’t?
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Okay, I promise that I have a PhD in political science…but…
…I truly don’t understand why the R’s can’t open the government on their own. Why can’t they get their 53/219 group to make this vote?
Why would Dems defect, but their own folks wouldn’t?
…I truly don’t understand why the R’s can’t open the government on their own. Why can’t they get their 53/219 group to make this vote?
Why would Dems defect, but their own folks wouldn’t?
Christmas crafting! Victorian-inspired wire tinsel!
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Christmas crafting! Victorian-inspired wire tinsel!
It’s the “social scientists stop giving agency to non-actors” challenge.
(The state does not enact. Society does not create. Institutions do not build.)
I’m tagging all y’all.
(The state does not enact. Society does not create. Institutions do not build.)
I’m tagging all y’all.
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It’s the “social scientists stop giving agency to non-actors” challenge.
(The state does not enact. Society does not create. Institutions do not build.)
I’m tagging all y’all.
(The state does not enact. Society does not create. Institutions do not build.)
I’m tagging all y’all.
Someone in Atlanta, please rescue this gorgeous quilt top (and quilt it) before someone buys it to cut it up for a boxy jacket that will be worn for like 1 year before going "out of style"?
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Someone in Atlanta, please rescue this gorgeous quilt top (and quilt it) before someone buys it to cut it up for a boxy jacket that will be worn for like 1 year before going "out of style"?
It boggles my mind that the anti-choice protesters on campus, who claim to be the true believers in their cause, use patently fake images to advance their advocacy.
If you really believed in your cause, why would feel the need to lie to people to convince them?
If you really believed in your cause, why would feel the need to lie to people to convince them?
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It boggles my mind that the anti-choice protesters on campus, who claim to be the true believers in their cause, use patently fake images to advance their advocacy.
If you really believed in your cause, why would feel the need to lie to people to convince them?
If you really believed in your cause, why would feel the need to lie to people to convince them?
DO YOU FEEL STRESS THESE DAYS?
(eye twitching, softly)
(eye twitching, softly)
This survey question ("rather much"?) from my neurologist drives me crazy, especially as a survey researcher.
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
DO YOU FEEL STRESS THESE DAYS?
(eye twitching, softly)
(eye twitching, softly)
My favorite color is Fall.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My favorite color is Fall.
I fear I can no longer avoid the corporeal horror that is taking actual headshots for professional purposes.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I fear I can no longer avoid the corporeal horror that is taking actual headshots for professional purposes.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
Trying really hard not to think about how being the cool, hip, and with-it candidate is so much easier if you’re a dude…
…becuase it makes me BigSad.
…becuase it makes me BigSad.
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Trying really hard not to think about how being the cool, hip, and with-it candidate is so much easier if you’re a dude…
…becuase it makes me BigSad.
…becuase it makes me BigSad.
3rd grader needs to study for a map quiz?
Sounds like we all get to learn the 50 states!
Sounds like we all get to learn the 50 states!
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
3rd grader needs to study for a map quiz?
Sounds like we all get to learn the 50 states!
Sounds like we all get to learn the 50 states!
I mean, I do try my best. But I can't do it alone.
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I mean, I do try my best. But I can't do it alone.
I’m literally out here begging social scientists to get interested in *talking to people* again.
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’m literally out here begging social scientists to get interested in *talking to people* again.
Thread matching: unmatched
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Thread matching: unmatched
Making housing more affordable on day 1.
This guy has got the juice.
This guy has got the juice.
NEARLY A MILLION NEW YORKERS TO REPORTEDLY FLEE NYC AS MAMDANI BECOMES MAYOR — POSSIBLY IGNITING MASS EXODUS, PER NYP
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Making housing more affordable on day 1.
This guy has got the juice.
This guy has got the juice.
Reposted by Carolyn E Holmes
Currently recruiting friends to drive 2 hours each way to rural Eastern Tennessee to pick up a GORGEOUS piece of furniture from facebook marketplace that I cannot guarantee will fit in any vehicle that I currently have access to, and for which I have no place in my home.
Serious inquiries only.
Serious inquiries only.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Currently recruiting friends to drive 2 hours each way to rural Eastern Tennessee to pick up a GORGEOUS piece of furniture from facebook marketplace that I cannot guarantee will fit in any vehicle that I currently have access to, and for which I have no place in my home.
Serious inquiries only.
Serious inquiries only.
Currently recruiting friends to drive 2 hours each way to rural Eastern Tennessee to pick up a GORGEOUS piece of furniture from facebook marketplace that I cannot guarantee will fit in any vehicle that I currently have access to, and for which I have no place in my home.
Serious inquiries only.
Serious inquiries only.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Currently recruiting friends to drive 2 hours each way to rural Eastern Tennessee to pick up a GORGEOUS piece of furniture from facebook marketplace that I cannot guarantee will fit in any vehicle that I currently have access to, and for which I have no place in my home.
Serious inquiries only.
Serious inquiries only.
Reposted by Carolyn E Holmes
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...