RDurham
@rdurham.bsky.social
Retired Political science dude. Here for ecology, nature, defending wildlife and saving dogs. Amateur historian, everything North Carolina. Carolina football and basketball, Miami Dolphins football.
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior!
QUESTION: WHY DID @bsky.app SUSPEND SARAH KENDZIOR?
If this can happen to her without swift corrections or transparency, then it can happen to me, or you, or anyone else who stands up to power.
REINSTATE SARAH KENDZIOR AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
If this can happen to her without swift corrections or transparency, then it can happen to me, or you, or anyone else who stands up to power.
REINSTATE SARAH KENDZIOR AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior!
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Nailed it.
Rorty was right
May 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nailed it.
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This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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The fact that Musk has lost $100B over the last month but is still the wealthiest person on Earth and financially unharmed in the slightest—all while wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression—is Exhibit A on why we need to tax billionaires out of existence.
March 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The fact that Musk has lost $100B over the last month but is still the wealthiest person on Earth and financially unharmed in the slightest—all while wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression—is Exhibit A on why we need to tax billionaires out of existence.
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A minor thing but is true nonetheless: due to silence, a large part of the leadership of intellectual foreign policy & national security studies, has abdicated any authority now or in the future. It’s gone. Completely up for grabs for the few folks who can stand up a say “No, Canada is our friend”.
Same thing with nearly all of the U.S. national security intellectual infrastructure— think tanks, academics, “commentators”. How many were on TV after the withdrawal versus now? Leadership in the entire sector has abdicated and is now up for grabs.
March 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A minor thing but is true nonetheless: due to silence, a large part of the leadership of intellectual foreign policy & national security studies, has abdicated any authority now or in the future. It’s gone. Completely up for grabs for the few folks who can stand up a say “No, Canada is our friend”.
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I am so inspired by the stories of these intrepid researchers, who built the work they wanted to do in the places they wanted to live.
#PhDchat 🧪🌎
#PhDchat 🧪🌎
Reporter @klburke.bsky.social dives into how these PhD researchers left the academic track to forge independent research careers in rural, small town or hometown locations and how you could do it, too.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
PhD scientists who forged a career off the beaten track
These seven scientists escaped big-city life after completing their PhDs. Here’s how they make it work.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I am so inspired by the stories of these intrepid researchers, who built the work they wanted to do in the places they wanted to live.
#PhDchat 🧪🌎
#PhDchat 🧪🌎
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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
This is the most dangerous move yet
The canary is gasping for air
open.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life?
In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life - Volume 55
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life?
In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Again, earnest sociological question - I'm wondering what threshold neds to be reached for corporate media to begin using the words "fascism" "authoritarianism" or "oligarchy" in reference to our current situation? This also refers to the Nazi salutes, plural at this point.
I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.
February 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Again, earnest sociological question - I'm wondering what threshold neds to be reached for corporate media to begin using the words "fascism" "authoritarianism" or "oligarchy" in reference to our current situation? This also refers to the Nazi salutes, plural at this point.
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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"
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A person on Reddit claiming to be a former worker at the National Parks says "irreversible damage" is being done, especially after Trump decided to fire a huge amount of staff:
"The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone."
"The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone."
February 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A person on Reddit claiming to be a former worker at the National Parks says "irreversible damage" is being done, especially after Trump decided to fire a huge amount of staff:
"The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone."
"The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone."
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NEW -
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? - cup.org/4i1N0Fn
"I argue that viewing children as public goods places important limits on the total costs to be fairly shared by non-parents"
- @liamshields.bsky.social
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? - cup.org/4i1N0Fn
"I argue that viewing children as public goods places important limits on the total costs to be fairly shared by non-parents"
- @liamshields.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW -
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? - cup.org/4i1N0Fn
"I argue that viewing children as public goods places important limits on the total costs to be fairly shared by non-parents"
- @liamshields.bsky.social
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? - cup.org/4i1N0Fn
"I argue that viewing children as public goods places important limits on the total costs to be fairly shared by non-parents"
- @liamshields.bsky.social
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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
February 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
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From Mike Pence - too little, too late
February 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
From Mike Pence - too little, too late
By definition.
February 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
By definition.
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Yep. The Sun King, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Yep. The Sun King, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…
AP kicked out of White House Press Briefings for not changing name of Gulf of Mexico, now this. Welcome to the the clampdown on free speech. Punishment for those who dissent.
Memo warns USAID employees not to communicate with the press about the disruptions in humanitarian assistance that are being caused by the attack on the agency, which are producing consequences. The memo said this transgression will be met with dismissal. newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
AP kicked out of White House Press Briefings for not changing name of Gulf of Mexico, now this. Welcome to the the clampdown on free speech. Punishment for those who dissent.
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"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man."
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
February 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man."
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC