🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia).

Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for:

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

Stairwell selfie at work. The feeling of getting a compliment on a handknit and getting to say that you made it. (pattern is Thermal from knitty, yarn is knitpicks gloss, finished in 2007).

#knitsky 🧶

Making progress on my Heather Sweater #knitsky 🧶

#showmeyourknits
For the amount of stripes I wear (a lot!), I really haven’t knit very many. I should work on that.

Here is the Oolon sweater, which I completed in 2020, and wore to work this week. #knitsky 🧶

#showmeyourknits cabled gloves are a good time. Not super useful where I live but they were fun to make!

I spent some time knitting at the beach, trying to stay present in the storm of the inauguration

#knitsky 🧶 #wipwednesday

#showmeyourknits
My favorite sweater is a tie between Poetria by Sari Nordlund and Riverlands by Jessica MacDonald. Poetria is Sandnesgarn Duo and Riverlands is Cascade Anchor Bay