Mary Singer Moody
@marydidnotknow.bsky.social
BYU Political Science | Researcher in comparative politics
Doing a Lord of the Rings marathon today with friends while working on a paper for an upcoming conference and the amount of times I've accidentally written chunks of dialogue in the middle of my results section...
August 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Doing a Lord of the Rings marathon today with friends while working on a paper for an upcoming conference and the amount of times I've accidentally written chunks of dialogue in the middle of my results section...
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me, reading a nytimes article out loud:
my husband: can we just rewrite the constitution and get a parliamentary system? i'm so over this and i need a vote of no confidence
my husband: can we just rewrite the constitution and get a parliamentary system? i'm so over this and i need a vote of no confidence
April 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
me, reading a nytimes article out loud:
my husband: can we just rewrite the constitution and get a parliamentary system? i'm so over this and i need a vote of no confidence
my husband: can we just rewrite the constitution and get a parliamentary system? i'm so over this and i need a vote of no confidence
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-How Democracies Die (2018)
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
-How Democracies Die (2018)
my current mental state
April 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
my current mental state
I really liked this quote from a NYT opinion piece (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...)
I think it could work as a governmental policy and as a life philosophy. I want to be better about maximizing my community's ability to thrive in the world, not just spreading my negativity (which I do too often) :)
I think it could work as a governmental policy and as a life philosophy. I want to be better about maximizing my community's ability to thrive in the world, not just spreading my negativity (which I do too often) :)
March 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I really liked this quote from a NYT opinion piece (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...)
I think it could work as a governmental policy and as a life philosophy. I want to be better about maximizing my community's ability to thrive in the world, not just spreading my negativity (which I do too often) :)
I think it could work as a governmental policy and as a life philosophy. I want to be better about maximizing my community's ability to thrive in the world, not just spreading my negativity (which I do too often) :)
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Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.
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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
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The relevant political cleavage is not policy, it is constitutional order. We can fight bitterly over every policy once we agree that the rules must endure in order to protect the republic
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The relevant political cleavage is not policy, it is constitutional order. We can fight bitterly over every policy once we agree that the rules must endure in order to protect the republic
Didn't think this is where this was going but danggggggg:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
February 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Didn't think this is where this was going but danggggggg:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
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A camp, if you will, to concentrate people undesirable to the regime.
Nine days. It took nine days.
Nine days. It took nine days.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A camp, if you will, to concentrate people undesirable to the regime.
Nine days. It took nine days.
Nine days. It took nine days.
being angry on bluesky is important & i'm glad we have this community / space for expressing what we are experiencing
BUT
we also need to make sure we are contacting congress & demanding they do something
BUT
we also need to make sure we are contacting congress & demanding they do something
January 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
being angry on bluesky is important & i'm glad we have this community / space for expressing what we are experiencing
BUT
we also need to make sure we are contacting congress & demanding they do something
BUT
we also need to make sure we are contacting congress & demanding they do something
coming home from my honeymoon and getting back online to see all of this mess like
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying so this is how liberty dies
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying so this is how liberty dies
media.tenor.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
coming home from my honeymoon and getting back online to see all of this mess like
can we categorize the fall of Assad as part of the global anti-incumbent failure...
December 8, 2024 at 5:29 AM
can we categorize the fall of Assad as part of the global anti-incumbent failure...
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Presented at my first undergraduate research poster conference today & wanted to share my work 🫶✨
So grateful to be at a university and in a department that encourages student research 😊
So grateful to be at a university and in a department that encourages student research 😊
December 5, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Presented at my first undergraduate research poster conference today & wanted to share my work 🫶✨
So grateful to be at a university and in a department that encourages student research 😊
So grateful to be at a university and in a department that encourages student research 😊
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Imputing data is so cool (!!!) but hearing my computer whirring loudly through my noise cancelling headphones for 45 minutes is significantly less cool
November 12, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Imputing data is so cool (!!!) but hearing my computer whirring loudly through my noise cancelling headphones for 45 minutes is significantly less cool
It really is hard watching the election of Chavez/Orban/Ortega happen in real time in the United States
November 6, 2024 at 3:49 PM
It really is hard watching the election of Chavez/Orban/Ortega happen in real time in the United States