Sheri Rogers
@sheri-rogers.bsky.social
Political Science at GVSU. Research interests: women, nationalism, and the far-right
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Exactly this. It's a common trope among nationalists. It's not about population decline; it's about the "wrong" type of growth. Immigration and higher birthrates among women of color account for more population growth. www.statista.com/statistics/2...
www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Exactly this. It's a common trope among nationalists. It's not about population decline; it's about the "wrong" type of growth. Immigration and higher birthrates among women of color account for more population growth. www.statista.com/statistics/2...
www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
One of the reasons I've seriously scaled back my time on Facebook is because it is so demoralizing to see the mental gymnastics family and friends use to justify anything this administration does.
No matter what the president does my parents go ‘well he must have a reason for it we can’t understand’ it must be awesome to never have to think about anything
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One of the reasons I've seriously scaled back my time on Facebook is because it is so demoralizing to see the mental gymnastics family and friends use to justify anything this administration does.
I'm shocked, shocked to hear this from the man who reposted a video supporting the idea that women shouldn't vote.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — decrying “fat generals and admirals” — outlined new rules for the “highest male standard” for fitness in combat roles.
“If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it,” he told hundreds of military leaders ordered to gather at Quantico for his speech.
“If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it,” he told hundreds of military leaders ordered to gather at Quantico for his speech.
Hegseth uses rare meeting of generals to announce new military standards
He warned commanders who don’t support the changes could leave the service.
www.politico.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'm shocked, shocked to hear this from the man who reposted a video supporting the idea that women shouldn't vote.
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Kids: Study political science and history
September 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kids: Study political science and history
Induce straight, married, *white* couples to have more children.
The statement "restore the nuclear family" is a dog whistle in that the nuclear family, as commonly understood, has not been the dominant structure in Black communities, where extended family networks are far more common.
The statement "restore the nuclear family" is a dog whistle in that the nuclear family, as commonly understood, has not been the dominant structure in Black communities, where extended family networks are far more common.
👀 NEW: The group behind Project 2025 wants a "Manhattan Project" for more babies.
We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
Gift link ⤵️
We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
Gift link ⤵️
The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
A draft position paper from the Heritage Foundation proposes massive revisions to U.S. economic policy to encourage heterosexual married parents to have more children.
wapo.st
September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Induce straight, married, *white* couples to have more children.
The statement "restore the nuclear family" is a dog whistle in that the nuclear family, as commonly understood, has not been the dominant structure in Black communities, where extended family networks are far more common.
The statement "restore the nuclear family" is a dog whistle in that the nuclear family, as commonly understood, has not been the dominant structure in Black communities, where extended family networks are far more common.
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This is literally what scholars mean when they speak of the fascist ethos of “blood and soil.” It’s adapted from a European context, but it’s the real deal. We’re in it.
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is literally what scholars mean when they speak of the fascist ethos of “blood and soil.” It’s adapted from a European context, but it’s the real deal. We’re in it.
This headline…. *sigh*
What a scathing condemnation against American Christianity that Christians coming out in support of feeding the world’s hungry is now considered “surprising”.
What a scathing condemnation against American Christianity that Christians coming out in support of feeding the world’s hungry is now considered “surprising”.
September 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This headline…. *sigh*
What a scathing condemnation against American Christianity that Christians coming out in support of feeding the world’s hungry is now considered “surprising”.
What a scathing condemnation against American Christianity that Christians coming out in support of feeding the world’s hungry is now considered “surprising”.
"What a year to be teaching politics," I said for the 10th consecutive year in a row.
August 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"What a year to be teaching politics," I said for the 10th consecutive year in a row.
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what it feels like to be gearing up for a new semester in the United States #academicsky
August 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
what it feels like to be gearing up for a new semester in the United States #academicsky
What a brilliant analogy.
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
August 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What a brilliant analogy.
The internet summed up in a single interaction.
July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The internet summed up in a single interaction.
Speaking of affective polarization, issues don't matter if you can find something to fire up the base. MAGA using a Black president to do so totally tracks.
Donald Trump seems to recognize that one thing that brings them together is their shared hatred of Democrats like Obama and the free press, and he’s been acting accordingly. And that means that six months into his presidency we’re already in very dangerous territory.
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Speaking of affective polarization, issues don't matter if you can find something to fire up the base. MAGA using a Black president to do so totally tracks.
This looks fantastic. Can't wait to dive in.
The HANDBOOK on affective polarization is now out in print ⬇️⬇️
I co-authored a chapter on social sorting (led by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social).
For everyone interested in polarization, there is A LOT to read. A super cool collection of knowledge!
I co-authored a chapter on social sorting (led by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social).
For everyone interested in polarization, there is A LOT to read. A super cool collection of knowledge!
It is OUT the last (printed) version of Handbook of Affective Polarization doi.org/10.4337/9781...
It is open Access!!!
It is open Access!!!
July 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This looks fantastic. Can't wait to dive in.
Team dad bod.
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
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No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.
[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreieqpfyocgnmbjxooiqmg34hpxbxzfjhywfjaej45xdlkmo2j4k3pu@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Team dad bod.
I realize everything is heavy, but as a mother of a disabled child, I cannot help but feel complete despair over these actions.
Even more upsetting is the knowledge that pro-life family and friends both voted for and continue to support this administration. I just can't...
Even more upsetting is the knowledge that pro-life family and friends both voted for and continue to support this administration. I just can't...
July 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I realize everything is heavy, but as a mother of a disabled child, I cannot help but feel complete despair over these actions.
Even more upsetting is the knowledge that pro-life family and friends both voted for and continue to support this administration. I just can't...
Even more upsetting is the knowledge that pro-life family and friends both voted for and continue to support this administration. I just can't...
This is a key strategy among far-right parties: elevate women, even if they have a problematic past, and downplay scandals as no big deal. Both contribute to shifting social norms, making support of far-right parties more socially acceptable.
You’d think the National Rally would be in turmoil after the far-right party’s “de-demonization” campaign was found to have written homophobic, racist and antisemitic comments in a magazine and supported a Belgian Nazi until 2020.
But the response to this news was a collective shrug.
But the response to this news was a collective shrug.
Le Pen ally working to clean up French far right’s image embroiled in racism scandal
But the revelations about Caroline Parmentier’s past writings don’t seem to be hurting the National Rally’s popularity.
www.politico.eu
June 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is a key strategy among far-right parties: elevate women, even if they have a problematic past, and downplay scandals as no big deal. Both contribute to shifting social norms, making support of far-right parties more socially acceptable.
I'm watching Aktuelle Stunde on German TV tonight, and they had an entire segment on Rutte's charm offensive. They even interviewed a psychologist to explain why it was the best way to handle Trump. There's a reason Rutte's referred to as the "Trump whisperer"—it works.
here's the clip of NATO Secretary Mark Rutte calling Trump "daddy"
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I'm watching Aktuelle Stunde on German TV tonight, and they had an entire segment on Rutte's charm offensive. They even interviewed a psychologist to explain why it was the best way to handle Trump. There's a reason Rutte's referred to as the "Trump whisperer"—it works.
He still thinks antifa is bad, so at least he’s consistent on this. 🤷🏼♀️
MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
June 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
He still thinks antifa is bad, so at least he’s consistent on this. 🤷🏼♀️
People are knocking Noem, but I don't think she's ignorant regarding habeas corpus.
She knows full well.
Like her other publicized stunts, this targets the base, not Congress. The president alone will protect you, come hell or high water (aka judicial rulings and congressional oversight).
She knows full well.
Like her other publicized stunts, this targets the base, not Congress. The president alone will protect you, come hell or high water (aka judicial rulings and congressional oversight).
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
People are knocking Noem, but I don't think she's ignorant regarding habeas corpus.
She knows full well.
Like her other publicized stunts, this targets the base, not Congress. The president alone will protect you, come hell or high water (aka judicial rulings and congressional oversight).
She knows full well.
Like her other publicized stunts, this targets the base, not Congress. The president alone will protect you, come hell or high water (aka judicial rulings and congressional oversight).
Oh, good. We’re creating the immigrant hunger games for the entertainment of the white people.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Oh, good. We’re creating the immigrant hunger games for the entertainment of the white people.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Saying the quiet part out loud.
That's because they don't want babies; they want a particular type of baby. Read between the lines.
While not true of every country that gives out baby bonuses, many, like Italy and Hungary, are highly resistant to immigration.
www.vox.com/23971366/dec...
While not true of every country that gives out baby bonuses, many, like Italy and Hungary, are highly resistant to immigration.
www.vox.com/23971366/dec...
April 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
That's because they don't want babies; they want a particular type of baby. Read between the lines.
While not true of every country that gives out baby bonuses, many, like Italy and Hungary, are highly resistant to immigration.
www.vox.com/23971366/dec...
While not true of every country that gives out baby bonuses, many, like Italy and Hungary, are highly resistant to immigration.
www.vox.com/23971366/dec...