Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D.
@okgaby.bsky.social
Political Science Lecturer | UNT PhD | Comparative Politics & International Relations | #COYG | RTs ≠ endorsements | she/her/hers
I feel somehow more ahead of my autumnal conferencing season than I have ever felt. Have I made it as an academic? Or am I delusional? 🤔
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I feel somehow more ahead of my autumnal conferencing season than I have ever felt. Have I made it as an academic? Or am I delusional? 🤔
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Happy UN Day to all who celebrate! I was happy to chat with @erikvoeten.bsky.social at @goodauth.bsky.social about this 80th birthday for a hot mess doing its best goodauthority.org/news/united-...
As the United Nations turns 80, what’s next?
A Good Chat with Anjali Dayal on the challenges and the promises ahead for the U.N.
goodauthority.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Happy UN Day to all who celebrate! I was happy to chat with @erikvoeten.bsky.social at @goodauth.bsky.social about this 80th birthday for a hot mess doing its best goodauthority.org/news/united-...
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The US Administration has explicitly chosen to make it much harder to build a career in research in the United States.
This policy of hollowing out our future innovation capacity will ultimately harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
This policy of hollowing out our future innovation capacity will ultimately harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
Research firms continue to shed talented staff—even after the far-reaching cuts earlier this year. Just this week, there have been announcements of significant layoffs at RAND and Mathematica.
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The US Administration has explicitly chosen to make it much harder to build a career in research in the United States.
This policy of hollowing out our future innovation capacity will ultimately harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
This policy of hollowing out our future innovation capacity will ultimately harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
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Exactly! Our seed library has triggered a master gardener to share her planting calendar for our locale. And the 'share a row' harvest fed 24 families with fresh produce at our food bank.
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Exactly! Our seed library has triggered a master gardener to share her planting calendar for our locale. And the 'share a row' harvest fed 24 families with fresh produce at our food bank.
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Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.
Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87
As a host of “All Things Considered,” she was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.
4.9/5 on my latest teaching evaluation. Let’s gooooo!
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
4.9/5 on my latest teaching evaluation. Let’s gooooo!
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Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Definitely getting my COVID-19/flu vax combo shot next week before any of this changes in Texas.
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
September 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Definitely getting my COVID-19/flu vax combo shot next week before any of this changes in Texas.
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Amazing how many articles there were about “Kamala Harris, what does she do? What policy debates does she participate in? How is she “messing up the border?” And the current VP is just a full on shitposter and the political press goes, “ah well, nevertheless”
September 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Amazing how many articles there were about “Kamala Harris, what does she do? What policy debates does she participate in? How is she “messing up the border?” And the current VP is just a full on shitposter and the political press goes, “ah well, nevertheless”
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Texas during a legislative is so fun. Going to have to explain this in class soon.
Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave.
They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Texas during a legislative is so fun. Going to have to explain this in class soon.
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There are many assessments that suggest PragerU "is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United States today."
One is available here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
One is available here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
There are many assessments that suggest PragerU "is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United States today."
One is available here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
One is available here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In goose meme form.
August 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In goose meme form.
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Reps. Darrell Issa (CA), and Rob Wittman (VA), and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have all voted for cuts to the CFPB.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints about financial products and services to the agency.
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social @propublica.org
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints about financial products and services to the agency.
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social @propublica.org
These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.
Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...
www.propublica.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reps. Darrell Issa (CA), and Rob Wittman (VA), and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have all voted for cuts to the CFPB.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints about financial products and services to the agency.
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social @propublica.org
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints about financial products and services to the agency.
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social @propublica.org
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August 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Assistant Professors teach courses that are significantly/substantively closer to the boundaries of knowledge that tenured and non-tenure track professors.
(This difference is equivalent to 19% of a syllabus’s content.)
(This difference is equivalent to 19% of a syllabus’s content.)
August 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Assistant Professors teach courses that are significantly/substantively closer to the boundaries of knowledge that tenured and non-tenure track professors.
(This difference is equivalent to 19% of a syllabus’s content.)
(This difference is equivalent to 19% of a syllabus’s content.)
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If you are teaching Intro to US Politics/American Government at the college level this coming year and would like a place to share resources, ideas, and questions, please join our Slack! Email me at sara.chatfield @ du.edu for the link.
Polisky Gendersky PolScience
Polisky Gendersky PolScience
August 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you are teaching Intro to US Politics/American Government at the college level this coming year and would like a place to share resources, ideas, and questions, please join our Slack! Email me at sara.chatfield @ du.edu for the link.
Polisky Gendersky PolScience
Polisky Gendersky PolScience
My quadriceps to my other leg muscles after the barbell squats I did yesterday.
August 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My quadriceps to my other leg muscles after the barbell squats I did yesterday.
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"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning. But that time is over."
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
(1981) Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism"
In June 1981, Audre Lorde gave the keynote presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Storrs, Connecticut. Her presentation appears below. Racism. The belief in the inherent ...
www.blackpast.org
July 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning. But that time is over."
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
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Darren Beattie — who was fired as a speechwriter during President Trump’s first term after CNN revealed that he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists — will now serve as the acting president of the US Institute of Peace, according to a senior State Department official.
Top State Dept. official who once attended conference with White nationalists picked to lead US Institute of Peace | CNN Politics
Darren Beattie — a top State Department official who was fired as a speechwriter during President Donald Trump’s first term after CNN revealed that he spoke at a conference attended by White nationali...
www.cnn.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Darren Beattie — who was fired as a speechwriter during President Trump’s first term after CNN revealed that he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists — will now serve as the acting president of the US Institute of Peace, according to a senior State Department official.
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Do you teach undergrad pol sci research methods? Do you assign journal articles to your students?
I'm building a sharable tagged library of student-friendly articles, tagged by methods and other features. Please share your syllabus to help me build. Email leanne at leannecpowner dot com
I'm building a sharable tagged library of student-friendly articles, tagged by methods and other features. Please share your syllabus to help me build. Email leanne at leannecpowner dot com
July 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Do you teach undergrad pol sci research methods? Do you assign journal articles to your students?
I'm building a sharable tagged library of student-friendly articles, tagged by methods and other features. Please share your syllabus to help me build. Email leanne at leannecpowner dot com
I'm building a sharable tagged library of student-friendly articles, tagged by methods and other features. Please share your syllabus to help me build. Email leanne at leannecpowner dot com
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July 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
i just did this for $10/month. worth every penny.
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This first-person account of bring swept away by the Texas floodwaters is harrowing & an incredible piece of writing.
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This first-person account of bring swept away by the Texas floodwaters is harrowing & an incredible piece of writing.