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Sam Handlin
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Swarthmore political scientist. Elections, autocracy, and the politics of digital surveillance in Venezuela and beyond.

Currently moving from the other place...
Swarthmore is hiring in Comparative Politics with an emphasis on China! Apply by 9/15 for full consideration: apply.interfolio.com/170741

Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

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September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Swarthmore is hiring in Comparative Politics with an emphasis on China! Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/170741

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

I know its rough out there. Best wishes to all on the market.

#polisky #poliscijobs #poliscijobmarket #psjminfo #academicjobs
July 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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JOB! Please RT.

Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.

apply.interfolio.com/165892

Happy to answer questions.
April 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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this pic from the turkish protests goes insanely hard
March 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This phenomenon deserves its own name in which otherwise smart elites engage in all sorts of insane theorizing to rationalize what Trump is doing. DOGE is the disruptive force government needs. Trump is a savvy geopolitical strategist. Recessions are actually good. 1/
Elites of a certain generation are having a hard time seeing Trump & Co as mafia goons. They insist he must have some philosophy of power that America has already been through & is returning to. The failure to update is going to be very costly. Pirates have boarded the ship & you can’t mildly argue
March 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?

Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.

Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This will blow up university budgets and one effect is that the job market will be very very bleak for a while.
February 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
So many mainstream journalists got snowed into repeating the obviously farcical story that Trump's envoy made such grave threats that he got Netanyahu to fold.

Netanyahu gave Trump a "win" and now Trump will turn a blind eye to the annexation of the WB and shrug when the war returns to Gaza.
Trump will not use US leverage to preserve the ceasefire; he will not even use US sanctions leverage to weaken the far-right in Israel as Biden did. US strategy with Israel/Palestine will switch to Maximum Bystander, allowing the Israelis to do what they see as necessary.
Donald Trump 'not confident' Israel-Gaza ceasefire will hold
The newly sworn-in US President was asked for his thoughts on the ceasefire as it enters its third day.
www.bbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The news of a deal in Gaza is an immense relief, first and foremost.

It is convenient for both Trump and Bibi to claim that the former wielded sticks and forced the latter's hand.

Far more likely is that Trump offered some awful carrots, like support for the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
January 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Your location data going back years may now be in the hands of any random cybercrime syndicate willing to pay for it.

Gravy Analytics claims to collect on 1b mobile devices daily and the hackers say they've been inside their systems since 2018.
January 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We're going to need separate Milei and non-Milei categories but this thread should be a banger regardless.
We're hosting a competition to decide the Craziest Moment in LatAm Politics 2024. This is our second edition after the widly popular contest of 2023.

We now want an input from our followers, please send sugestions. We will try to include moments from every country of LatAm.
December 19, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Amazing thread, follow to the end.
Still blown away by GPT-4o’s images. It does dark fantasy very well.

I saw a statue of a frog doing yoga and wondered what it would look like as ornamentation in a baroque cathedral. It only really worked when I asked to zoom in…
November 27, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Political scientist: Whatever. Can you make a valid causal inference about how it got that way?
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
This is insane and probably only the beginning in public higher ed.
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM