Lida Maxwell
@lidamaxwell.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at BU, author of _Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love_ (Stanford UP, January 2025)
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Lida Maxwell
@lidamaxwell.bsky.social
· Apr 28
If you live in western Mass, the Hudson Valley, or Chicago, please consider coming out to hear me talk about Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love in May and June. I'm going to be at some cool bookstores, and would love to see some of you!
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Summers must be removed from his post at Harvard.
"Summers declined to comment on Wednesday beyond referring to previous remarks in which he acknowledged 'regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.' (...Summers is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section.)"
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Summers must be removed from his post at Harvard.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
Infuriating. MA voters said we don’t want a standardized test to determine whether students graduate, and now they want more standardized tests? Do we need some kind of constitutional amendment banning high stakes standardized testing, to prevent this chicanery? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...
State mulls end-of-course tests, but officials insist they won’t be another high-stakes graduation exam - The Boston Globe
State officials said the recommendations are not final and the tests would not necessarily be high stakes.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Infuriating. MA voters said we don’t want a standardized test to determine whether students graduate, and now they want more standardized tests? Do we need some kind of constitutional amendment banning high stakes standardized testing, to prevent this chicanery? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...
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"Lia Smith was a student-athlete, but she wasn’t allowed to participate this year because of a hostile government and the cowardice of the NCAA. Two years ago, Lia was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury; now, her name is almost entirely absent from the college’s athletics website..."
Lia Smith, transgender student athlete at Middlebury College, died to suicide last week after being banned from participating in competition.
A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned
Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...
www.assignedmedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Lia Smith was a student-athlete, but she wasn’t allowed to participate this year because of a hostile government and the cowardice of the NCAA. Two years ago, Lia was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury; now, her name is almost entirely absent from the college’s athletics website..."
Political theorists have lots of explanations for this
A fun fact is that contemporary political philosophy has something like ~no explanation for why democracy is something ordinary people would or should care about this much
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Political theorists have lots of explanations for this
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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says reut.rs/49eixmn
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, a White House official said on Thursday.
reut.rs
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says reut.rs/49eixmn
I got completely off Blackboard this year for my big intro class. The students seem to be okay.
Our faculty senate unbelievably voted last week to require all assignments to be posted in Canvas (currently utterly unavailable). I am NOT on faculty senate this year to be clear….
One of the problems is that every part of the university, from administration to the students, now expects you to use this stuff. I'd love to go back to pure analogue, but the pushback I'd face feels insurmountable. Has anyone else successfully done this?
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I got completely off Blackboard this year for my big intro class. The students seem to be okay.
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here is my favorite sign from today
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
here is my favorite sign from today
Fenway Health, founded to give queer people the health care they were denied elsewhere, ceases offering gender affirming care for minors.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Facing federal pressure, Fenway Health halts gender-affirming care for patients under 19
Facing federal pressure, the Boston clinic's decision has prompted backlash from LGBTQ+ community members.
www.boston.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Fenway Health, founded to give queer people the health care they were denied elsewhere, ceases offering gender affirming care for minors.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
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Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
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That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
I thought Trump wanted to stop US military action abroad and keep American resources in America; but instead they are interfering like crazy: bailing out right wing Argentinian government, and trying to do regime change in Venezuela...very Nixon/Reagan/Bush
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I thought Trump wanted to stop US military action abroad and keep American resources in America; but instead they are interfering like crazy: bailing out right wing Argentinian government, and trying to do regime change in Venezuela...very Nixon/Reagan/Bush
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
I used to live in Roger’s Park ❤️
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I used to live in Roger’s Park ❤️
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
September 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.
In many countries, (esp. white, male) workers increasingly vote for radical right parties. Still, a sole focus on right-wing ideology only captures a narrow part of working class consciousness. Most workers, including many right-wing voters, are politically demobilized and distant from all politics.
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.
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A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
