Michael M
@mmirer.bsky.social
Political Theory PhD Student, UCLA
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"what can be the value of a degree earned under these conditions, what happens to the qualification's authority, prestige, psychological significance and door-unlocking capacities, not just into jobs but into communities, reading worlds, lives of thought?"
September 19, 2026 at 11:49 AM
"what can be the value of a degree earned under these conditions, what happens to the qualification's authority, prestige, psychological significance and door-unlocking capacities, not just into jobs but into communities, reading worlds, lives of thought?"
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My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨
September 19, 2026 at 11:02 AM
My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨
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REBUILD is doing much needed work. I hope that some of you might donate to keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
September 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
REBUILD is doing much needed work. I hope that some of you might donate to keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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The Brooklyn Public Library's first-ever craft library allows library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery: gothamist.visitlink.me/Alv59O
September 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
The Brooklyn Public Library's first-ever craft library allows library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery: gothamist.visitlink.me/Alv59O
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This website compiles research grant programmes that enable recent political theory PhDs to obtain their own research funding, as well as recurring fellowships that are relevant to early-career researchers in political theory (broadly construed).
pt-postdoc-funding.com
pt-postdoc-funding.com
Political Theory Postdoc Funding: Grants & Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
Grant and fellowship schemes for early-career researchers in political theory. Browse a comprehensive database of international funding sources for your postdoc in political philosophy. Grant applicat...
pt-postdoc-funding.com
September 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
This website compiles research grant programmes that enable recent political theory PhDs to obtain their own research funding, as well as recurring fellowships that are relevant to early-career researchers in political theory (broadly construed).
pt-postdoc-funding.com
pt-postdoc-funding.com
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I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.
August 27, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.
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Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
ow.ly
July 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp
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Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault.
Full story here:
Full story here:
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
www.thehandbasket.co
July 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault.
Full story here:
Full story here:
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one of my fav little mel brooks things is his simpsons cameo, where homer wants to wants to do a 2000-year-old man bit w/him, and brooks explains it won't work w/out carl reiner but homer launches into it anyway & then brooks enthusiastically jumps in www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcbX...
Homer chauffeuring Mel Brooks (HD)
YouTube video by handymanshandle
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June 28, 2026 at 4:42 PM
one of my fav little mel brooks things is his simpsons cameo, where homer wants to wants to do a 2000-year-old man bit w/him, and brooks explains it won't work w/out carl reiner but homer launches into it anyway & then brooks enthusiastically jumps in www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcbX...
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Last fall, schools reported international student enrollment had dipped 17%, according to NAFSA, an education nonprofit. Declining tuition spending translated to $1.1 billion in lost revenue for universities, and almost 23,000 fewer jobs.
fortune.com/2026/06/24/i...
fortune.com/2026/06/24/i...
Trump's immigration crackdown is causing the U.S. to lose its best STEM talent—and it cost the economy almost $500 billion | Fortune
Half of America’s STEM workers with PhDs are foreign-born, a talent pipeline that is quickly drying up.
fortune.com
June 28, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Last fall, schools reported international student enrollment had dipped 17%, according to NAFSA, an education nonprofit. Declining tuition spending translated to $1.1 billion in lost revenue for universities, and almost 23,000 fewer jobs.
fortune.com/2026/06/24/i...
fortune.com/2026/06/24/i...
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Sign the petition below to challenge newly proposed accreditation policies that threaten to chill free speech, weaken faculty governance, restrict curricular autonomy, and undermine academic freedom.
@emergencycampaign.bsky.social
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Protect Academic Freedom in Higher Education
We represent students, parents, higher education faculty and staff, and concerned citizens united in opposition to the dangerous proposed rules. We write at a grave moment in our country’s history, ...
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June 26, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Sign the petition below to challenge newly proposed accreditation policies that threaten to chill free speech, weaken faculty governance, restrict curricular autonomy, and undermine academic freedom.
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Happy Saturday #BookSky! Go read the very first review to appear in The Porter Square Review of Books! (And then sign up for the PSRB monthly newsletter)
Review of Plastic, Prism, Void: Part 1
Book Cover ISBN The ideal way to read Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One is in as close to one sitting as possible so the time slips, style changes, and format jumps that make it such an exciting book ble...
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June 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Happy Saturday #BookSky! Go read the very first review to appear in The Porter Square Review of Books! (And then sign up for the PSRB monthly newsletter)
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When I assign a research paper, it's not because I want an essay I can use to evaluate the student ex post.
It's because I want the student to have the experience of going through the process of all of the above steps, perhaps iteratively, that is necessary to write a good research paper.
It's because I want the student to have the experience of going through the process of all of the above steps, perhaps iteratively, that is necessary to write a good research paper.
June 22, 2026 at 11:47 PM
When I assign a research paper, it's not because I want an essay I can use to evaluate the student ex post.
It's because I want the student to have the experience of going through the process of all of the above steps, perhaps iteratively, that is necessary to write a good research paper.
It's because I want the student to have the experience of going through the process of all of the above steps, perhaps iteratively, that is necessary to write a good research paper.
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ok it is time for a thread of MERMAID PARADE photos
June 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
ok it is time for a thread of MERMAID PARADE photos
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Good to see the Harper crowd going crazy over this. The Atlantic and NYT are blowing up over this, right…. right?
Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own
The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.
truthout.org
March 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Good to see the Harper crowd going crazy over this. The Atlantic and NYT are blowing up over this, right…. right?
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
March 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
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so where does the next generation of talent come from? who are the young journalists, and how are they paid? every career incentive, both economic and prestige-wise, now points to the olivia nuzzi route
February 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
so where does the next generation of talent come from? who are the young journalists, and how are they paid? every career incentive, both economic and prestige-wise, now points to the olivia nuzzi route
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Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.
February 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.
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They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...
phys.org
February 27, 2026 at 8:32 PM
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
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Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
February 26, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
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Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next.
But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots
Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next.
But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr. is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr. is a disgrace.
Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next.
But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots
Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr. is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr. is a disgrace.
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February 22, 2026 at 2:01 AM
We're at 55% of our $25,000 goal to help me launch @lataco.bsky.social investigative news desk. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed or shared our fundraiser! We're already putting the money we've raised to use 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.
In 1290, Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England, becoming the first European state in history to do so. The law was issued on the ninth of Ab, just to be an extra asshole about it, and land and property were forfeited to the crown.
judeo-christian, my ass
judeo-christian, my ass
February 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.