DrWJK
DrWJK
@drwjk.bsky.social
I'm a Political Scientist. I'm fighting for fair rents and the reduction of homelessness in California. (See links in my posts. Search "LA Progressive Kelleher," for articles. On YouTube "Prop 33 Kelleher" Filter 'This Year.')
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Three Post Series in Honor of APSA Pres call for “Reimagining Poli Sci as a Vocation”
1) Math Heads have captured Political Science. They’ve no Feel for the operating Political System; & no idea abt what's a good pol sys. So, Grad students will Never develop these talents. #APSA2025 @InterpretivePo1
Rolling Stone Debunks the Bunk!
• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• hasn’t said or done anything antisemitic
• did not call to "globalize the intifada"
#Mamdani is not a communist
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics
www.rollingstone.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Hey X (Twitter), Blue Sky, Mastodon, and Instagram! The Pro-Landlord Anti-Homeless 'Santa Monica Coalition' deleted my cmnt on YouTube that the Costa Hawkins law is a major cause of #Homelessness in California
www.youtube.com/watch?v=noo9...
November 2 2025 Santa Monica Coalition Video
YouTube video by The Santa Monica Coalition
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November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Anna Karenina, the 2012 film, just shown in LA, a waste of resources. An insult to Tolstoy. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, played Count Vronsky, looked like Charlie Chaplin. The movie even imitated parts of Modern Times showing robotic workers doing repetitive work.
@AcademyMuseum #Movies
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Holy fucking shit, I despise the current government and long-standing foreign policy of Israel so much it's impossible to put into words 🤬🤬🤬
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#AIPAC owns these two
September 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Gov Newsom just signed AB 715. This puts AIPAC in charge of investigating "antisemitism" in K-12 schools. 1st graders can be punished if they say in class that Israel is committing genocide. Vote NO on Prop 50, make Newsom lose. Then he won't be our president. #Politics #California #fascism #2028
October 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#APSA2025 in Vancouver was a fine event but we need to rethink organizing political science conferences in Canada. It puts additional barriers for non-U.S. citizens and perpetuates inequalities in the field. No wonder many international students on F1 visas could not attend.
September 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I will be engaging a conversation with @daliyang.bsky.social, @vicshih.bsky.social, @tompepinsky.com and Martin Dimitrov on my new book at the #APSA2025 Author Meets Critics panel on 9/14, 10:00 to 11:30am PDT. Come join us if you are still around.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
Domination and Mobilization
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Domination and Mobilization
www.cambridge.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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At #APSA2025? Join me Thursday at 10am at the Author Meets Critics theme panel on "Raised to Obey" (@princetonupress.bsky.social)

w/ Beatriz Magaloni, Pablo Beramendi & @owasow.bsky.social

We'll discuss state-building, democracy, civil war, academic freedom, and more, and have ample time for Q&A!
September 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Three Post Series in Honor of APSA Pres call for “Reimagining Poli Sci as a Vocation”
1) Math Heads have captured Political Science. They’ve no Feel for the operating Political System; & no idea abt what's a good pol sys. So, Grad students will Never develop these talents. #APSA2025 @InterpretivePo1
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
2) Does Political Science Force Graduate Students into a Career of Irrelevancy? interpretat.blogspot.com/2020/11/does... @APSAAnnualMtg #APSA2025
Does Political Science Force Graduate Students into a Career of Irrelevancy?
Political Science, Social Science, Research, Methods, Interpretation, Qualitative and Mixed Methods, Approaches, Poli Sci
interpretat.blogspot.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
3) If Political Science is Widely Regarded as Irrelevant to Real Politics, What Can be Done to Reverse that View? AI has an idea:
interpretat.blogspot.com/2025/08/if-p... @APSAtweets #APSA2025
September 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“Dead to Rights” A Short Review of The New Chinese Movie @APSAAnnualMtg #APSA2025 #China #Chinese #XiJinping #Nanjing open.substack.com/pub/drwjk/p/...
September 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Check out my review of the new book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad. #GazaGenocide #Gaza #IDF #Israel #BookRecommendations
interpretat.blogspot.com/2025/08/one-...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad. A Book Review by a Fellow Traveler
Political Science, Social Science, Research, Methods, Interpretation, Qualitative and Mixed Methods, Approaches, Poli Sci
interpretat.blogspot.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Kil**ngs in #Gaza have surpassed those in Dachau. American soldiers Liberated that Death Camp in 1945. No such luck for the #Palestinians Compare Gaza v Death Camps from WWII pics: How could this happen? Vid has answer. #genocide
youtu.be/b5y016zo0rM?...
The West Said “Never Again.” It Lied.
YouTube video by AJ+
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August 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Vote for APSA Leadership will be Online in 2025! #APSA2025 For the early history of Internet Voting in the USA and Around the World, plus the Pros/Cons, go to, internetvotingforall.blogspot.com
#PoliticalScience #PoliSci
August 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Rare WWII home movies from France show Nazi occupiers having more human respect than ICE occupying Los Angeles today. Proof of our decline? #LA #CAleg #Immigration #Trump
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvIl...
Films Amateurs Rares tournés par des Civils et Soldats Allemands pendant l’Occupation
YouTube video by World at War
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July 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Always new ways to cause suffering.
“Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line…The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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This was Biden's big failure. We did our part, the voters, we gave the Dems four full years to close the door on autocracy, they naively thought they could do it by demonstrating how nice it was to have a democracy. Imagine FDR with a similar response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I’m past the point where I’m willing to just say it was naive. The Democratic Party is complicit in this failure.
June 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Look at what the Democratic Party has done to our country! They alienated the Working Class with Globalization enabling Trump's election in 2016 + by excluding Sanders. Harris's Happy Campaign helped Trump in 2024. Its owned by Billionaire Donors. Progressives - get out!
June 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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If you can't attend any of the "No Kings Mass Protests.
Consider boycotting Trump’s $45 million spectacle on June 14, 2025.
Find an a "No Kings Protest" near you;
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Palm Coast FL · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM