Mark Nance
@mnance.bsky.social
Poli Sci prof., Global Governance, Global financial relations, money laundering, illicit markets, and comparative welfare state stuff. Also music, food, and the abysmal state of North Carolina politics. #firstgen
I hope I never forget the revolting feeling of standing at the front of a classroom, warning students that they should carry evidence of immigration status or citizenship, and helping them understand how to respond if federal agents try to kidnap them or their friends off the street.
#ICE
#ICE
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I hope I never forget the revolting feeling of standing at the front of a classroom, warning students that they should carry evidence of immigration status or citizenship, and helping them understand how to respond if federal agents try to kidnap them or their friends off the street.
#ICE
#ICE
I’d add that Dems also need to decide who they are, and for whom they are, independent of Trump. Yesterday’s results are another example of Trump’s utter lack of coattails. There’s good reason to think, with a little help from a healthy opposition party, Trumpism goes away with Trump.
The future for Dems is not progressive or moderate. It is not “either or.” It is “and”. It is being a big enough party to produce candidates who will move the majority of voters to support and vote for them….while all the while sharing a commitment to the party’s core values.
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I’d add that Dems also need to decide who they are, and for whom they are, independent of Trump. Yesterday’s results are another example of Trump’s utter lack of coattails. There’s good reason to think, with a little help from a healthy opposition party, Trumpism goes away with Trump.
For the producers and consumers of research out there: I’m teaching my grad seminar on Global Illicit Economies in the spring. I like to assign whole books. If you’ve published a book recently (or know of one) that fits the topic (broadly defined), I’d love to consider it!
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
For the producers and consumers of research out there: I’m teaching my grad seminar on Global Illicit Economies in the spring. I like to assign whole books. If you’ve published a book recently (or know of one) that fits the topic (broadly defined), I’d love to consider it!
OUTRAGEOUS NEWS!!
Far-left anti-ICE protestor uses mustard gas against fed…
What’s that? Not gas?
Just….mustard?
Oh.
Far-left anti-ICE protestor uses mustard gas against fed…
What’s that? Not gas?
Just….mustard?
Oh.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
OUTRAGEOUS NEWS!!
Far-left anti-ICE protestor uses mustard gas against fed…
What’s that? Not gas?
Just….mustard?
Oh.
Far-left anti-ICE protestor uses mustard gas against fed…
What’s that? Not gas?
Just….mustard?
Oh.
Dick Cheney was to George Bush what Russell Vought is to Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died.
Learn more about his life and career by searching his 452 C-SPAN appearances: www.c-span.org/person/dick-... RIP.
Learn more about his life and career by searching his 452 C-SPAN appearances: www.c-span.org/person/dick-... RIP.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Dick Cheney was to George Bush what Russell Vought is to Donald Trump.
2 TT ass't prof jobs in @ncstate.bsky.social's dep't of Poli Sci! Politics of E. Asia & politics of race and ethnicity. Happy to answers ?s about the positions, NCSU, and life in N Carolina. Full ads below.
Race & Ethnicity: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
E. Asia: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Race & Ethnicity: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
E. Asia: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
October 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
2 TT ass't prof jobs in @ncstate.bsky.social's dep't of Poli Sci! Politics of E. Asia & politics of race and ethnicity. Happy to answers ?s about the positions, NCSU, and life in N Carolina. Full ads below.
Race & Ethnicity: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
E. Asia: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Race & Ethnicity: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
E. Asia: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
I know we’re all supposed to acknowledge that the only way of seeking knowledge in the social sciences now is through experiments. But testing people’s propensity to donate money under one condition or another by asking MTurk workers seems to strain the limits of credulity, doesn’t it?
#rant
#rant
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I know we’re all supposed to acknowledge that the only way of seeking knowledge in the social sciences now is through experiments. But testing people’s propensity to donate money under one condition or another by asking MTurk workers seems to strain the limits of credulity, doesn’t it?
#rant
#rant
Job alert (w/links)! NC State University’s Poli Sci dep’t is hiring for TT assistant professor in East Asian politics: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Committee will start reviewing applications in one month. Happy to answer questions about the dep’t, university, life in North Carolina.
#academia
Committee will start reviewing applications in one month. Happy to answer questions about the dep’t, university, life in North Carolina.
#academia
Assistant Professor
The Department of Political Science at North Carolina State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in East Asian Politics to be filled at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning...
jobs.ncsu.edu
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Job alert (w/links)! NC State University’s Poli Sci dep’t is hiring for TT assistant professor in East Asian politics: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Committee will start reviewing applications in one month. Happy to answer questions about the dep’t, university, life in North Carolina.
#academia
Committee will start reviewing applications in one month. Happy to answer questions about the dep’t, university, life in North Carolina.
#academia
Another job alert! NC State Poli Sci is hiring an East Asia specialist. Specialty otherwise is open. 2-2 teaching load, including in the Masters of Int’l Studies program, as well as undergrad. Very chill department. One of that fastest growing cities in the US. Ask me!
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Assistant Professor
The Department of Political Science at North Carolina State University invites applications for atenure-track position in East Asian Politics to be filled at the rank of Assistant Professor beginningA...
jobs.ncsu.edu
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Another job alert! NC State Poli Sci is hiring an East Asia specialist. Specialty otherwise is open. 2-2 teaching load, including in the Masters of Int’l Studies program, as well as undergrad. Very chill department. One of that fastest growing cities in the US. Ask me!
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Academic job alert! The Dep’t of Political science at NC State will be hiring for a race/ethnicity position this fall. The general madness with universities has meant we’re still waiting in final details from HR, but the position and funding have been approved. Be ready! Happy to answer questions.
October 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Academic job alert! The Dep’t of Political science at NC State will be hiring for a race/ethnicity position this fall. The general madness with universities has meant we’re still waiting in final details from HR, but the position and funding have been approved. Be ready! Happy to answer questions.
Has an automatic spot on my Illicit Markets seminar for this spring! Cool work, @tiscornia21.bsky.social and Chelsea Estancona!
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -
From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence - cup.org/4n4MAkD
- Chelsea Estancona & @tiscornia21.bsky.social
#FirstView
From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence - cup.org/4n4MAkD
- Chelsea Estancona & @tiscornia21.bsky.social
#FirstView
September 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Has an automatic spot on my Illicit Markets seminar for this spring! Cool work, @tiscornia21.bsky.social and Chelsea Estancona!
For those keeping track of the rules, if you quote Charlie Kirk’s words (in a critical light), you will get fired. If you call for the euthanization of homeless people on the most popular network in the US, you might have to issue a 5-second apology. Please update your files.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For those keeping track of the rules, if you quote Charlie Kirk’s words (in a critical light), you will get fired. If you call for the euthanization of homeless people on the most popular network in the US, you might have to issue a 5-second apology. Please update your files.
Absolutely right. Political debates shouldn’t lead to death. And death shouldn’t blind us to the misogynistic, racist, nationalist, anti- democratic hate that Charlie Kirk espoused.
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Absolutely right. Political debates shouldn’t lead to death. And death shouldn’t blind us to the misogynistic, racist, nationalist, anti- democratic hate that Charlie Kirk espoused.
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reposted by Mark Nance
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
Reposted by Mark Nance
Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
NEW:
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
August 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
Now do the same for sanctions and Cuba.
Rubio: "The war in Ukraine gets a lot of attention, and it's a very tragic thing, but life in America on a daily basis will be largely unaffected whether there's peace in Ukraine or not. That's just a fact."
August 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Now do the same for sanctions and Cuba.
It’s as if four-year university degrees really shouldn’t be about training people for some narrow job!
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It’s as if four-year university degrees really shouldn’t be about training people for some narrow job!
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
This piece, by @rhodesben.bsky.social , is the clearest and best statement I’ve read to date on what’s needed to turn back the MAGA Ponzi scheme. The ? is whether anyone will have the courage to do it.
We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
August 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This piece, by @rhodesben.bsky.social , is the clearest and best statement I’ve read to date on what’s needed to turn back the MAGA Ponzi scheme. The ? is whether anyone will have the courage to do it.
We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
How does this get published? Is there any doubt what this is going to say? And oh by the way, there’s a significant conflict of interest in a guy who works for an investment firm saying you should invest.
The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Opinion | The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do.
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How does this get published? Is there any doubt what this is going to say? And oh by the way, there’s a significant conflict of interest in a guy who works for an investment firm saying you should invest.
The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
The Stock Market Is Getting Scary. What You Should Do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
August 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
Here we go. It’s like crypto assets on speed: a pump-and-dump scheme that redistributes money from the working class and their 401ks to the wealthy. No pocket is too shallow to pick for these greedy bastards.
The 401(k) heist proceeds precisely as @cedricdurand.bsky.social and I expected.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
August 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here we go. It’s like crypto assets on speed: a pump-and-dump scheme that redistributes money from the working class and their 401ks to the wealthy. No pocket is too shallow to pick for these greedy bastards.
Reposted by Mark Nance
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
Institutions signing these agreements seem to think they’re facing kidnapping: pay a ransom, get the hostage back, problem solved. But it’s a mafia-style protection racket: Pay us to stop busting up your shop now and know that you will continue to pay us whenever we want.
Better to fight the mafia.
Better to fight the mafia.
July 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Institutions signing these agreements seem to think they’re facing kidnapping: pay a ransom, get the hostage back, problem solved. But it’s a mafia-style protection racket: Pay us to stop busting up your shop now and know that you will continue to pay us whenever we want.
Better to fight the mafia.
Better to fight the mafia.
There’s plenty in this article that is disturbing. But tucked in there is the detail that @theatlantic.com has a “corporate partnership with OpenAI.” As a subscriber, I’d like to know what the nature of that relationship is.
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” Lila Shroff reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship:
ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
bit.ly
July 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
There’s plenty in this article that is disturbing. But tucked in there is the detail that @theatlantic.com has a “corporate partnership with OpenAI.” As a subscriber, I’d like to know what the nature of that relationship is.