Sherrill Stroschein
@sherrillstroschein.bsky.social
Political Science and other things
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Updated reading list, topic of non-democracies and hybrid regimes for class this year.
Shocked, shocked I say
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BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Shocked, shocked I say
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tomorrow's class is on Constitutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Nz...
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Schoolhouse Rock! The Preamble
YouTube video by Illinois Policy
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November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Tomorrow's class is on Constitutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Nz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Nz...
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New York’s Billionaires Are Bending the Knee to Zohran Mamdani by @kathkrueger.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/11/06/z...
theintercept.com/2025/11/06/z...
New York’s Billionaires Are Bending the Knee to Zohran Mamdani
After fighting his candidacy to the bitter end, New York City billionaires are already offering to help incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
theintercept.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
New York’s Billionaires Are Bending the Knee to Zohran Mamdani by @kathkrueger.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/11/06/z...
theintercept.com/2025/11/06/z...
Now that is some real bulls**t.
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Now that is some real bulls**t.
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As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
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In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
wrd.cm
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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Great couple of days in media.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Great couple of days in media.
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“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse
I learned the hard way that my clerical collar doesn’t offer much protection from ICE. But immigrants have no protection at all.
sojo.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
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The brutal nature of the policy was a feature, not a bug. They wanted to emphasized that immigrants had no rights.
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The brutal nature of the policy was a feature, not a bug. They wanted to emphasized that immigrants had no rights.
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Personal favourite of this genre is the obsession with the grottiness of bakerloo line trains. Wondering what exactly caused the delay of the role out of the new rolling stock, so that TfL have run 50 year old trains to capacity and have no real leeway to allow them to be regularly cleaned
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Personal favourite of this genre is the obsession with the grottiness of bakerloo line trains. Wondering what exactly caused the delay of the role out of the new rolling stock, so that TfL have run 50 year old trains to capacity and have no real leeway to allow them to be regularly cleaned
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“We’re seeing how the confluence of social media influencers is being amplified by forces in the government,” said University of Maryland professor Sarah Oates, who has studied Russian propaganda for 30 years. “There’s an argument to be made that they’re not influencers, they’re propagandists.”
In Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream reut.rs/3LO6yCi
In Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream
A Reuters examination details how rightist influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance, working together to target perceived adversaries, amplify false claims and reshape the media landscape. The shift comes as a growing number of social platforms and traditional outlets accommodate Trump.
reut.rs
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“We’re seeing how the confluence of social media influencers is being amplified by forces in the government,” said University of Maryland professor Sarah Oates, who has studied Russian propaganda for 30 years. “There’s an argument to be made that they’re not influencers, they’re propagandists.”
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The first crack in Western sanctions unity on Russian energy.
Hungary secured a one-year pass from Trump to keep buying Moscow's oil and gas.
Orban's purchases fund Russia's war, he vowed to block Ukraine's EU path—yet walked away rewarded.
Full report ⤵️
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
Hungary secured a one-year pass from Trump to keep buying Moscow's oil and gas.
Orban's purchases fund Russia's war, he vowed to block Ukraine's EU path—yet walked away rewarded.
Full report ⤵️
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
Trump cracks Western sanctions unity with Hungary exemption on Russian oil
Budapest meeting rewards Orban's loyalty with one-year sanctions waiver
euromaidanpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The first crack in Western sanctions unity on Russian energy.
Hungary secured a one-year pass from Trump to keep buying Moscow's oil and gas.
Orban's purchases fund Russia's war, he vowed to block Ukraine's EU path—yet walked away rewarded.
Full report ⤵️
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
Hungary secured a one-year pass from Trump to keep buying Moscow's oil and gas.
Orban's purchases fund Russia's war, he vowed to block Ukraine's EU path—yet walked away rewarded.
Full report ⤵️
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
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On this day, I ruined the workplace.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
On this day, I ruined the workplace.
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Clean air isn’t nice to have. It’s a cornerstone of public health.
Every ventilated classroom and workplace helps prevent illness and improve wellbeing.
On #WorldVentil8Day, let’s act on what the science tells us: clean indoor air saves lives.
#WorldVentil8Day #CleanAirForAll
Every ventilated classroom and workplace helps prevent illness and improve wellbeing.
On #WorldVentil8Day, let’s act on what the science tells us: clean indoor air saves lives.
#WorldVentil8Day #CleanAirForAll
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Clean air isn’t nice to have. It’s a cornerstone of public health.
Every ventilated classroom and workplace helps prevent illness and improve wellbeing.
On #WorldVentil8Day, let’s act on what the science tells us: clean indoor air saves lives.
#WorldVentil8Day #CleanAirForAll
Every ventilated classroom and workplace helps prevent illness and improve wellbeing.
On #WorldVentil8Day, let’s act on what the science tells us: clean indoor air saves lives.
#WorldVentil8Day #CleanAirForAll
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If you're a status seeker with no empathy or sense of justice reading the Bible for proof-texts to justify dominating & condemning others, "feed the hungry" reads as a tactic to build a power-base. Interfaith social action doesn't fit that agenda. Too many Church leaders are playing this game.
From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.
so my town has been hosting an emergency food drive for snap recipients. the town, high school clubs, the Y, the churches (Episcopal, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, Unitarians, and the Catholics) & the synagogue, are involved.
You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If you're a status seeker with no empathy or sense of justice reading the Bible for proof-texts to justify dominating & condemning others, "feed the hungry" reads as a tactic to build a power-base. Interfaith social action doesn't fit that agenda. Too many Church leaders are playing this game.
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Here’s the link to the case
www.lawforchange.uk/news//protec...
Funding was essential in exposing how Sheffield Hallam responded to Chinese pressure by banning Professor Murphy’s research on Uyghur forced labour.
Legal action secured her academic freedom and made front-page news for good reason.
www.lawforchange.uk/news//protec...
Funding was essential in exposing how Sheffield Hallam responded to Chinese pressure by banning Professor Murphy’s research on Uyghur forced labour.
Legal action secured her academic freedom and made front-page news for good reason.
Sheffield Hallam University Reverses Research Ban After Chinese Intelligence Pressure | Law for Change — Law for Change
Sheffield Hallam University banned Professor Laura Murphy's forced labour research after Chinese intelligence threats. Legal action funded by Law for Change reversed the decision and exposed foreign i...
www.lawforchange.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Here’s the link to the case
www.lawforchange.uk/news//protec...
Funding was essential in exposing how Sheffield Hallam responded to Chinese pressure by banning Professor Murphy’s research on Uyghur forced labour.
Legal action secured her academic freedom and made front-page news for good reason.
www.lawforchange.uk/news//protec...
Funding was essential in exposing how Sheffield Hallam responded to Chinese pressure by banning Professor Murphy’s research on Uyghur forced labour.
Legal action secured her academic freedom and made front-page news for good reason.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Once in like 1999 I went into a Gristedes to buy some cereal and milk and when I opened the milk fridge a fucking bat flew out, hit me in the face, and flew up to the ceiling (its home, clearly) and when I told the woman at the front she was like yeah, he gets trapped in there sometimes
Billionaire John Catsimatidis threatens to close Gristedes chain if socialist Zohran Mamdani elected NYC mayor
Billionaire John Catsimatidis threatens to close Gristedes chain if socialist Zohran Mamdani elected NYC mayor
"Will Mamdani run the supermarkets with union help? When people start shoplifting, will he even have cops arrest them," Catsimatidis pondered.
nypost.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Once in like 1999 I went into a Gristedes to buy some cereal and milk and when I opened the milk fridge a fucking bat flew out, hit me in the face, and flew up to the ceiling (its home, clearly) and when I told the woman at the front she was like yeah, he gets trapped in there sometimes
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🚨 Are you or do you know a student interested in authoritarianism? I am recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian parties with me starting January '26!
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🚨 Are you or do you know a student interested in authoritarianism? I am recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian parties with me starting January '26!
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
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“If we don’t invest in the health of children… we’re going to be seeing a carrying on of adults who are economically inactive.”
Prof Steve Turner @rcpch.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/ed1d...
Prof Steve Turner @rcpch.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/ed1d...
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“If we don’t invest in the health of children… we’re going to be seeing a carrying on of adults who are economically inactive.”
Prof Steve Turner @rcpch.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/ed1d...
Prof Steve Turner @rcpch.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/ed1d...
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HIRE ALICE
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
HIRE ALICE
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If Trump grants Hungary an exemption from Russia sanctions, it'll 💯 become a hub for the illicit trade in Russian oil, gas, & sanctioned good, a gateway through which Moscow could funnel resources, technology, & $ into EU under the guise of “legitimate” commerce. www.sfchronicle.com/news/article...
Trump weighs Hungary's request for exemption from Russian energy sanctions
President Donald Trump says he's considering granting Hungary an exemption from U.S. sanctions on Russian energy. He discussed this with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House on...
www.sfchronicle.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If Trump grants Hungary an exemption from Russia sanctions, it'll 💯 become a hub for the illicit trade in Russian oil, gas, & sanctioned good, a gateway through which Moscow could funnel resources, technology, & $ into EU under the guise of “legitimate” commerce. www.sfchronicle.com/news/article...