associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
Not looking too good for this old NPR attempt at climate optimism
Nahel BelgherzeBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Racism is a very expensive taste
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Hello Dr Shivers this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio📢Ohio State's "Chalking Ban" silences an entire medium of speech in order to discriminate against one political viewpoint; it must not stand for another school year. Without action from the university, we will not hesitate to take legal action in federal court. www.acluohio.org/press-releas...
“Tramonte said DeWine could do more to help Haitians who suddenly find themselves without status. ‘He can instruct the Highway Patrol not to assist ICE in the enforcement of civil immigration laws….He can also underscore the same point for local police…’”
Ohio Capital JournalWith Ohio's Haitian refugees losing protected status Monday, Springfield's large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with them said Tuesday. Now they face being returned to a country facing a humanitarian crisis. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/30/w...
“We find ourselves alienated from our basic capacities for cooperative self-rule and nonviolent conciliation. This alienation is due to the hegemonic understanding of politics as the practice of rule we inhabit no less than to the modern political forms and technologies that have remade society...”
Alexander LivingstonThe @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social just published a short essay I wrote for their spring conference, "Revisiting ‘On Violence’" Titled "Power without Violence" its a provocation to rethink Arendt's essay as if the history of nonviolence actually mattered. medium.com/quote-of-the...
Well, *someone* in this clip is certainly a total disgrace
Aaron RuparMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
This is plainly incompatible with democracy
David DeWittEye-opening graphic showing what's happened with money in politics: AdImpact projects total spending in Ohio's 2026 US Senate race to reach $749 million. The 2024 election, at $451 million, is currently the most expensive US Senate race in American history ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/29/s...
whatever else is going on, Amy Acton's campaign seems to be deeply incompetent
Sophisticated OysterHey! So, this has gotten worse! I previously shared here that Acton and her campaign were set to meet with the ODP Progressive Caucus leadership on the 28th. That's today, and it was a worst case scenario. (1/?)
especially relevant today because Colby was Ross Douthat's roommate “But I’m not even a neocon,” Mr. Douthat said. “Bridge would kill me if he heard that.”
The Smarmies of the NightGuests at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner discuss what makes a party.observer.comSecretary of Defense RockI guess as long as everyone is sharing their favorite passages from Ross Douthat’s first book, I’ll throw in the time he called me a “good street liberal” for participating in our campaign to win a living wage for workers on campus
The Isaac Who Came In From the ButlerThere are enough youngins on here who came of age after the blogging era and thus don’t even know about Ross Douthat and “chunky Reese Witherspoon.” BEHOLD!
This is just nuts - in my experience, students need these resources now more than ever
The Harvard CrimsonThe Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated, prompting backlash from current and former tutors. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
It is WILD that the Ohio legislator responsible for legally mandating the creation of these conservative civic centers at Ohio's public universities is explicitly comparing them to the Hoover Institution - a private think tank that is itself separate from the private university that hosts it
Kevin Reuning>The center also provides a state-mandated civics program with a mission including: “affirming the value of intellectual diversity through serious engagement with the Anglo-American conservative tradition alongside other major currents of thought,” according to the center’s website.
feels almost impossible to avoid the theological register when discussing these crimes
Michael HobbesThis is so fucking evil www.reuters.com/legal/govern...