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Julia Azari
@julia_azari
polsci prof. Blogger. Elections, coffee, sharp sticks. She/her. Pod: politicsinquestion.com
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Am told the valedictorian this year at Brooklyn College is a refugee from Syria and the salutatorian is a woman who went back to school at 47 to get her college degree. If you only knew how good our students are, CUNY would be better funded and supported by NY.
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Paraphrasing PoliSci grad Caitlin Conner at our dept event: "Some people are told they enter the real world after college. At CUNY, we already *are* in the real world, beginning with the person sitting next to us in class & their life story."
100 languages spoken on my campus.
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Friends, here is the call for the APSA Foreign Policy section travel grant of $500 reimbursement. Please circulate widely.
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Just wrote a sentence that's 4 lines long and also... the whole paragraph so it might be knitting on the deck o'clock...
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ok first I thought the image was an alligator and then I thought it was a gun but I guess it's just Florida
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Actual Ron Desantis merchandise. His campaign is gonna flame out so fucking hard he should be sued for electoral fraud
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This is real merchandise, but it does not come from the DeSantis campaign. Per the website: “Make America Florida 2024 is Not Authorized by any Candidate or Candidate’s Committee.”
makeamericaflorida.shop
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In Invisible Primary: Visible today, Youngkin 2024 is a function of uncertainty, & on the informal rules of presidential nominations and it may be Iowa-or-bust for non-Trumps but they'll have to navigate the #InvisiblePrimary first.
frontloadinghq.com/2023/05/youngk
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Here’s a much better take on how the cycle is shaping up by unwinding the old informal rules, from and which is a good read
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still holding out hope that if I read enough advice columns, this chapter will just get the message and write itself.
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ICYMI - I've really busy writing! First - the politics of Biden and the debt ceiling
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I thought through the politics of Biden and the debt ceiling, and decided to subject the internet to my thoughts.
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Just never gonna be the person who orders a salad instead of a breakfast burrito, gets makeup on for the morning zoom, or has any aspect of her shit together.
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New piece with about the informal rules of the 2024 primaries - no one really knows what they are.
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. and I have a piece at about how the informal practices of presidential nominations -- primaries, the media, and more -- are in flux right now, making it a lot less certain who will win this game or even how to play it.
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Let it be
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I'm gonna tell her by 1:37 exactly
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Chris Sununu says there's a "61 percent chance" he runs for president
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This comment from an esteemed member of the DC establishment gives you a sense of how the town remains wired for the GOP. Stern words abt norms/precedents for Ds while terroristic actions by Rs are taken as a given, expected. Playing field permanently tilted one way.
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Invoking the 14th Amendment to avoid default on the debt is a terrible idea, not for legal reasons, but political. It would be an end-run around the political process, and set a terrible precedent for future end-runs by Republicans when they are in a position to do it.
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yup, this. stop blaming colleges for problems in the labor market.
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Majoring in tech won’t get you a great job when the captains of industry don’t want great jobs to exist. twitter.com/KTmBoyle/statu…
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There's a lot of important stuff in this column and a brutal reframing of the "four freedoms" but for my money this is the important insight
nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opi
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March thinking: I will visit family after the academic year is over and I'll be less stressed.
May thinking: Nope, just stressed about different things this time.
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“I don’t see how literature is useful.” Are you being serious right now? You don’t see how thousands of years of human creativity are useful to you, a dumbass who thinks David Brooks is a Thought Leader? You need to be ashamed then.
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I said I would try not to sing in coffee shops while I write this summer, but I said nothing about embarrassing dances
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I've thought a lot this year about what people my students' age have gone through and experienced re: gun violence and how it's shaped their political outlook. But I hadn't thought until reading this about the worldviews of kids who have gone through things like this.
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CW: infant loss, grief
“The law has created torture.” This is horrific. Baby Milo did not deserve this pain. She should’ve been able to save both her sons from suffering. Abortion is an act of love, it is intimate. It’s painful that this family suffers.
washingtonpost.com/health/interac
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Brutally extracted 1100 words from my brain. Time for more knitting patterns.
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local control. right.
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ICYMI. My long read today at the Recombobulation Area breaking down the contents of the shared-revenue bill that passed WI State Assembly yesterday.
recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/wisconsin-sh
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further mundane life update: I feel like my entire day has been shaped by the fact that "The Rat" by the Walkmen was playing when I walked into the coffeeshop today
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I say this on a day I have a piece out: if you read one thing today, read this. twitter.com/slooterman/sta
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adding a CTRL-F search for "illustrate" to my writing process. celebrating pubbing a piece by spending like $50 on knitting patterns. good day. 10/10 would day again.
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It’s an incredible experience to be alive when so much of the country is pushing repressive gender, abortion, and education laws, and celebrating vigilante violence — not to mention police and gun violence — only to get these same boring articles about insufferable nerds.
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It is so fucking embarrassing that magazines are still publishing this shit twitter.com/emmaogreen/sta…
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Trump is a movement leader, not a party leader. This explains a lot. My latest in , including a chat with Sid Milkis and Dan Tichenor about presidents, parties, and movements
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There’s a lot of talk about what students have “lost” over the last few years. Their deficiencies.
But after my end-of-semester #Ungrading meetings last week, I’d prefer to focus on what I see most having gained/learned/become.
A 🧵 for the pedagogic optimists:
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Great celebration with MU POSC faculty and grad students yesterday! We’re thrilled for all our students who will receive their degrees later this month! 🎉
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To all the kids graduating this weekend with no job: where you are now is not where you will be in a few years.
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You might criticize our radio station for airing Father Coughlin nationwide on megawatt stations, but that just means you’re not willing to defeat him in the marketplace of ideas. What’s that? Why no, you can’t have your own show, what a silly question.
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for me, the inundation of MOTHERHOOD just pokes at a few bruises but for a lot of people it opens up some deeper trauma.
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Gearing up for the barrage of motherhood! Best wishes if you are celebrating, but also remember to tread a bit lightly this weekend.
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oh, there it is, the end of semester guilt where you wrap up the teaching and the service (sort of... getting there) and feel like you should jump AUTOMATICALLY INTO RESEARCH but are so tired you can't spell your own name
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there is something to write about how folks like licht insist on transmogrifying the trump base — a distinct minority of americans — into something like a majority twitter.com/brianstelter/s…
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