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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
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Political theorist at the University of Illinois, Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, review editor for Political Theory, author of Genealogies of Terrorism, views my own, etc.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · Sep 14
Inquiries about Political Theory (incl. book reviews) should please go to politicaltheory@uci.edu
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🏆 2026 Political Theory Prize

Honour the best recent book by a first-time writer in #PoliticalTheory

💰 £450 fund
💡 Must be an ECPR Member affiliate to nominate
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Jury: @diapopescusarry.bsky.social @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social
Political Theory Prize
Deadline: Friday 9 January 2026
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November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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“By right”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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New Epstein revelations raise an obvious question: Why didn’t Democrats release these emails earlier? From Ryan Cooper:
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How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s ‘Hours’ With an Epstein Victim? - The American Prospect
The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing with the information all this time?
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November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Durbin is not taking phone calls but you can email him here: www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
Email | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
The Official U.S. Senate website of Dick Durbin
www.durbin.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America | Common Dreams
Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign ...
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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My latest in The Opinion Pages on the political function of lies. theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
The sad consistency of a lying world order | The Opinion Pages
“I think one of the greatest terms I’ve ever come up with is fake news,” President Donald J. Trump said in his recent 60 Minute interview with CBS News host Laura O’Donnell. Fake news is indeed a grea...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The latest, 11pm:

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—Krasner & Bragg win
—JD's half-brother loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
+ Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Turns out voters respond to a vision that’s more than just “not the other guy.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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contingent-mag.bsky.social
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The gang is back with a pre-game episode on Saturday Night Live's upcoming season! Check it out here:

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S50 E0: PREGAME
Charisse, Luvell, and Chuck get together before the premiere of SNL Season 50 to talk about hopes, dreams, and fears for the new season. We also discuss Farnsworth’s Dream, Bargatze’s o…
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October 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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A round-up of recent book-reviews published in Political Theory.

@eraldo.bsky.social reviews Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin Schupmann
Book Review: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin A - Eraldo Souza dos Santos, 2025
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September 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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“The Illinois Department of Public Health Immunization Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend updated COVID-19 vaccines for all Illinois residents ages 18 and older.“
Illinois issues its own COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, breaking with federal government
Illinois has released its own recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines – urging all adults and many children to get the shots, in a break with the federal government’s guidance.
www.chicagotribune.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social
New from me in @thetriibe.com. We need to see the terrorism label for what it is: a highly effective rhetorical weapon that serves to delegitimize criticism, persecute political opponents and consolidate power.
REFLECTION: Can he do that? • The TRiiBE
We need to see the terrorism label for what it is: a highly effective rhetorical weapon that serves to delegitimize criticism, persecute political opponents and consolidate power.
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September 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Op-ed by Republican consultant Keith Naughton titled “Democrats, enough with the fascism propaganda about Trump” Bill Kristol saying “Yeah. It’s fascism.”
September 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social
Inquiries about Political Theory (incl. book reviews) should please go to politicaltheory@uci.edu
September 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Great thread. I’ve been wondering why this has been all over Austrian news, where most people have probably never even heard of Kirk.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Sep 12
The BBC (& the NYT & the Guardian & NPR) wind up chasing the same dozen stories every day. Charlie Kirk is not important to anyone in England (nor, except for those of us hurt by him, in America). Why have a BBc “news” alert about something the BBc simply cannot report anything new about?
September 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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We truly live in the upside down.
September 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
“They are a progressive city, and they don’t want the president’s help. That’s on them. It’s horrific that they don’t want President Trump’s help.” “Chicago should be begging Donald Trump for help to keep Chicago safe,” Bondi added. “Yet, they aren’t so we’re going to go into a city who wants us there.”
September 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Sep 10
🚨 BREAKING: Far right and far left groups in the EU Parliament will both formally demand at midnight that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen face another no-confidence vote.

Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/far-...
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM