Jennifer N. Victor
@jenvictor.bsky.social
Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://shorturl.at/jqJFo Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
Congress scholar here. This is good advice.
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Congress scholar here. This is good advice.
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A special MLK day share of my piece about how MAGA was born from racial resentment. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump took the tea party’s racial resentment and made it MAGA
Philip Bump: President Trump said the civil rights movement led to white people being “very badly treated.” It is impossible to overstate how important this idea is to his politics.
www.ms.now
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
A special MLK day share of my piece about how MAGA was born from racial resentment. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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What is sovereignty? What are treaties?
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:58 PM
What is sovereignty? What are treaties?
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Once upon a time, presidents used their platforms to engage in public acts of service and charity, sending a message that we are all members of a community with responsibilities to one another.
Just thinking about that for no reason.
Just thinking about that for no reason.
January 19, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Once upon a time, presidents used their platforms to engage in public acts of service and charity, sending a message that we are all members of a community with responsibilities to one another.
Just thinking about that for no reason.
Just thinking about that for no reason.
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It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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The US has reduced its presence in Greenland to a single base and less than 200 troops.
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
The US has reduced its presence in Greenland to a single base and less than 200 troops.
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
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Very cool new piece out from @jkaslovsky.bsky.social and Michael P. Olson in @thejop.bsky.social: "Legislature Size and Party Unity: Evidence from Historical US State Legislatures"
Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Polisky
Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Polisky
Legislature Size and Party Unity: Evidence from Historical US State Legislatures | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 1
The size of a legislature is one of its most fundamental features, yet there is little consensus on how large legislatures should be. Furthermore, many modern-day reformers are dissatisfied with the c...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 16, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Very cool new piece out from @jkaslovsky.bsky.social and Michael P. Olson in @thejop.bsky.social: "Legislature Size and Party Unity: Evidence from Historical US State Legislatures"
Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Polisky
Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Polisky
This DHS Barbie acolyte does a great job explaining the two circumstances under which someone walking down the street could legally be asked for proof of citizenship. I don't have the rest of the clip, but I hope the journalists told her there is a third possibility that explains the interaction.
McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
This DHS Barbie acolyte does a great job explaining the two circumstances under which someone walking down the street could legally be asked for proof of citizenship. I don't have the rest of the clip, but I hope the journalists told her there is a third possibility that explains the interaction.
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Federal judge William Young ripped Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio apart for their efforts to deport pro-Palestinian students/academics — accusing them of "an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people."
"These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution."
"These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution."
‘Unconstitutional conspiracy’: Judge slams Trump administration over targeted deportations
A Reagan appointee pointedly rebuked decisions by Trump, Rubio and Noem.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Federal judge William Young ripped Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio apart for their efforts to deport pro-Palestinian students/academics — accusing them of "an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people."
"These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution."
"These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution."
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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
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When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 AM
When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
I can’t get over the absurdity of attacking a foreign nation to steal its natural resources, deposing and kidnapping its corrupt leader, then extorting the Nobel Peace Prize winning opposition leader into handing over their prize in exchange for…peace? Absolutely bananas.
January 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
I can’t get over the absurdity of attacking a foreign nation to steal its natural resources, deposing and kidnapping its corrupt leader, then extorting the Nobel Peace Prize winning opposition leader into handing over their prize in exchange for…peace? Absolutely bananas.
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These photos are terrifying (as opposed to stunning). Black women have been killed in these kind of scenarios long before Trump.
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
These photos are terrifying (as opposed to stunning). Black women have been killed in these kind of scenarios long before Trump.
Imagine the levels of narcissism it takes to believe that the value in a prestigious award is having it rather than earning it.
Maria Corina Machado met with President Trump and said she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize. It came a day after Trump spoke with Venezuela’s acting president. https://to.pbs.org/49oAMVZ
Machado presents Trump her Nobel Prize as uncertainty surrounds Venezuela’s leadership
Maria Corina Machado met with President Trump and said she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize. It came a day after Trump spoke with Venezuela’s acting president, a woman who in the past disparag...
to.pbs.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Imagine the levels of narcissism it takes to believe that the value in a prestigious award is having it rather than earning it.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Update: bsky.app/profile/melo...
The US government is funding an unethical Hepatitis B study on babies in West Africa that will put thousands of lives at risk—randomizing vax at birth, with no placebo control. But we already have solid evidence that the vaccine is effective.
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Update: bsky.app/profile/melo...
The US government is funding an unethical Hepatitis B study on babies in West Africa that will put thousands of lives at risk—randomizing vax at birth, with no placebo control. But we already have solid evidence that the vaccine is effective.
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The US government is funding an unethical Hepatitis B study on babies in West Africa that will put thousands of lives at risk—randomizing vax at birth, with no placebo control. But we already have solid evidence that the vaccine is effective.
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US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.
And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.
And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
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A couple of days ago, Wrecktangle Pizza in Minnesota raised $83k to donate food and other essentials to immigrants and other people trapped in their homes.
Very soon, ICE showed up at their door.
The agents got chased off by employees and locals, though not before dropping some tear gas.
Very soon, ICE showed up at their door.
The agents got chased off by employees and locals, though not before dropping some tear gas.
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
A couple of days ago, Wrecktangle Pizza in Minnesota raised $83k to donate food and other essentials to immigrants and other people trapped in their homes.
Very soon, ICE showed up at their door.
The agents got chased off by employees and locals, though not before dropping some tear gas.
Very soon, ICE showed up at their door.
The agents got chased off by employees and locals, though not before dropping some tear gas.
Transactional real estate grifts are guiding US foreign policy as if the US has shareholders to please. This is why you don’t elect people with no experience in politics, no moral ethics, and no sense of the public good to elective office.
Gulf Arabs believe that the IRGC has successfully de-escalated confrontation with Trump by making a series of offers to Steve Witkoff. The offers are apparently all of Iranian real estate projects. The Iranian-Trump deal was apparently brokered by the Russians. www.ft.com/content/df0c...
Arab governments believe US-Iran tension ‘de-escalated’
Moves of US military personnel and aircraft carrier keep region on edge
www.ft.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Transactional real estate grifts are guiding US foreign policy as if the US has shareholders to please. This is why you don’t elect people with no experience in politics, no moral ethics, and no sense of the public good to elective office.
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This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.
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I monitored Nazi terror Telegram channels from 2019 to 2022 or so and it's hard to overstate the degree to which DHS's X account mimics the tone, aesthetic, voice, and language of those cess pits.
Whoever is running socials for them has obviously spent a lot of time in that space.
Whoever is running socials for them has obviously spent a lot of time in that space.
When we say "explicitly neo-Nazi" we mean channels that fly swastikas and praise Hitler. That's the zone of internet where DHS is apparently finding inspiration for their X posts. It's ultra unlikely they would have ever encountered that song if they weren't in that space, imo.
Our researchers found at least 450 posts on Telegram dating back to 2020 that shared the song mentioned in this reporting.
Nearly all the posts we found were from explicitly neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels. And a review of our datasets found it hasn't circulated much outside those circles.
Nearly all the posts we found were from explicitly neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels. And a review of our datasets found it hasn't circulated much outside those circles.
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I monitored Nazi terror Telegram channels from 2019 to 2022 or so and it's hard to overstate the degree to which DHS's X account mimics the tone, aesthetic, voice, and language of those cess pits.
Whoever is running socials for them has obviously spent a lot of time in that space.
Whoever is running socials for them has obviously spent a lot of time in that space.
There is a word to describe people who disrupt regular societal functions, like education and healthcare, by making people afraid to do anything.
[It rhymes with errorist.]
[It rhymes with errorist.]
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
There is a word to describe people who disrupt regular societal functions, like education and healthcare, by making people afraid to do anything.
[It rhymes with errorist.]
[It rhymes with errorist.]