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Dr. Philip J. Howe
@drphilipjhowe.bsky.social
Professor & Chair of Political Science & Fulbright Program Adviser, Adrian College; frmr Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) & Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Reskeet≠agree.
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September 27, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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The best exposition of a perspective I share - people continue to underrate the way diminishing returns are likely to prevent Singularity-style takeoff in RSI, especially on short timelines. www.noahpinion.blog/p/wheres-the...
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.
www.noahpinion.blog
September 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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#PoliCartoon: The Absent Fatso

#FatAcceptance #Fatphobia

There's a link to a blogpost and a transcript in replies.
May 31, 2024 at 7:54 PM
September 25, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Democratic Multiplicity eds. James Tully, Keith Cherry, Fonna Forman, Jeanne Morefield, Joshua Nichols, Pablo Ouziel, David Owen & Oliver Schmidtke

Discloses the radical diversity of the field of democracy that is overlooked by mainstream political science.

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Democratic Multiplicity
Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Democratic Multiplicity
cup.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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More than 1 in 4 *Trump voters* say the country is worse off than it was four years ago.
September 25, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated with Analysis) electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...
Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated wi...
You can find the opinion and dissent here. The Supreme Court, with at least the three liberal Justices dissenting, has allowed states to do queries to the federal “SAVE” database that contains informa...
electionlawblog.org
September 25, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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📢 Monday Seminar Series!

Join Dr @matthiasdilling.bsky.social, Prof @gizemarikan.bsky.social, and Dr @aslicerencinar.bsky.social for a presentation of current research.

📅 Monday, 28 September 2026
🕐 1–2:30pm
📍 TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building

All are welcome!
#PoliticalScience #Research
September 24, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science.

Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20.

Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7
September 23, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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South Texas dummymander anyone?
🚨🚨🚨

Dem +12 in the new Economist/YouGov poll with LV & named Congressional candidates.

Lord have mercy...
September 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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The CDU at only 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Its worst result in the party's history. Merz is expected to speak later today. I honestly can't see how he can stay on.
September 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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And, of course, excluding non-citizens from the census would harm the whole country and break the law.

The latest from @lmillerkaralunas.bsky.social:

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Looks like Trump’s plan to rig the 2030 census and skew the congressional reapportionment might backfire: Two recent studies show Texas and Florida losing congressional seats if his plan to exclude millions of non-citizens (for the first time ever) goes into effect.
Trump’s Census Proposal to Exclude Some Immigrants Could Cut Seats From Red States
A Trump administration proposal to block some immigrants from the 2030 census could shift congressional seats away from Republican states, a New York Times analysis found.
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Texas Professor Suspended for 16 Months Without Recourse share.google/nf4PNrjzfS4u...
Texas Professor Suspended for 16 Months Without Recourse
Clyde Barrow and his lawyer have repeatedly asked for updates and details on his case and have been met with silence and redirects at all levels.
share.google
September 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Congratulations to Prof. Melisaa Bokovoy, the president-elect of ASEEES.

aseees.org/people/melis...
Melissa K. Bokovoy  | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
aseees.org
September 17, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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I would like to invite you to VWHPE’s inaugural session of the 2026–2027 academic year on Sep. 17, 2026 (12:30 PM ET).

The session will feature a presentation by @alexandermlee.bsky.social and @jackpaine.bsky.social on “Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship.”

Sign-up link right below. 👇
September 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Discussing @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and Hanson with my Reforming U.S. Democracy students today; alas, even more relevant than when it came out.

The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future share.google/7HujxoyNT2GO...
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September 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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After Saxony-Anhalt, next Sunday's regional vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could be even more devastating for the Christian Democrats. If current trends continue, the SPD may end up in first place, ahead of the AfD. The Greens and BSW are struggling to clear the electoral threshold, but...
September 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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📣 It's update time! The Manifesto Project Dataset 2026a & Manifesto Corpus 2026-1 are here! What's new? 🧵:
September 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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The making and remaking of #Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland by Cristina Florea is now available (10 Feb UK pub)

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History
December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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ASEEES is delighted to host the 2026 Film Series at the Annual Convention in Chicago
aseees.org/convention/2...
#ASEEES26
September 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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This is just bonkers. The CNN poll of Michigan finds that 60% of noncollege voters say Trump's tariffs on Canada are bad for the state, and 57% of noncollege whites say the same. Working class roundly rejecting Trump's tariffs is narrative-exploding stuff.
September 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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I wasn't sure I wanted to read another essay about the PMC wars, but the last two paragraphs here are bracing as hell.
The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
dissentmagazine.org
September 9, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Are citizens' views on democracy really just inconsistent or is there a hidden logic?

Hannah Werner proposes a model of citizens' process preferences: normative values, context-based evaluation, and outcome-driven judgment

#Representation

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
September 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM