Nat the Red

Political science PhD student. Elections and REP scholar and activist. she/her ND Latina ♿️

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@GaribaldoValdez I'm gonna just say my observations here bc I keep being right: the conservative attacks on academia are bc they want to co-opt it to gain legitimacy for their ridiculous theories. Look at the legal theories they're presenting to courts and in op-eds to justify Trump's nonsense.

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@JakeMGrumbach I am so excited about this paper. The NM legislature is passing a Crime Bill package by mid-March and there's been a lot of talk . Crime itself is not great in NM and APD's federal consent decree didn't prevent a police corruption ring that's so bad the FBI is investigating.

[California Department of Water Resources @CA_DWR]

The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@atheorist @afedaken @NabilHunt Ok but your presentation sounds pretty cool! Way to go after a job that was outside your research wheelhouse, that takes guts!

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@devon_cantwell @GaribaldoValdez @JZPhilosophy Yeah it's pretty frustrating for academics at public institutions, all the way down to community colleges. Academics are terrible at articulating our industry to non academics and policymakers are too busy to understand, so the policy still stands.

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@PatrickHeizer But also, saying "poor people don't deserve soda" is such an overly punitive approach and robs people of their dignity at the grocery store for the tiniest of possible moral hazards.

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@devon_cantwell I am glad you know it's cringe af

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@DrAllyLouks You holding this book is such motivation to stay with my program even after all the setbacks. I want a book like this with my name and degree on it and seeing you hold it so proudly helps me picture myself just like that one day.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

If you think Biden flipflopping on Hunter pardon after Trump names Kash Patel his FBI Director is worse than Trump flipflopping on whether Project 2025 is the core of his policy agenda, you should turn in your journalism credentials and also your democracy ones.

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@JZPhilosophy Mr. Ramaswamy does not understand the difference between constitutional courts and legislative courts.
https://t.co/w1tS3d3B4N

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Someone on here said the fastest way to discern the class background of a professor is by asking if they have any friends or family who served in the military or if they know someone who died of an overdose. Dems should hire more people who answer yes to one of those questions.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Women know that men don’t scheme to “dress like girls” to assault them.

They do it every day in broad daylight. And the ones in power protect each other to keep it quiet.

Just ask the House Ethics Committee. Or the President-elect of the United States.

Leave women alone.

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@LorenaSGonzalez After being in AZ and hearing abt episodes of voter suppression in real time, more states need voting rights laws like CA. It was so sad. AZ Dems had a great program but it's hard when there's only 5 days for ballot cure! CA is a model.

https://t.co/CDEzgTD1k7

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@mariyaivasileva Gurl I needed this today!!!!

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@blfraga @emorycollege Congratulations!!!!!

[Nat the Red @natthered]

@AlexHuHJY My alma mater @ucsc had this for classes with 100+ students in the main lecture but we called the tutorials sections. Main lecture 2x/wk, section 1-2x/wk. Lots of discussion of the material and processing of main themes. So good it prepped me for a grad person in a different area

[Dr. Justin Zimmerman @JZPhilosophy]

My last reminder, through all the political commentary on marginalized groups’ support or lack of support for Harris, the majority of white people could literally just choose not to vote for the unhinged Klansmen and this would be over.

[Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach]

The Teamsters thing is another hit to 'deliverism,' the idea that if you deliver economic goods to people through policy, you'll get their vote.

The ARP literally bailed out 350k Teamsters pensions. But today's politics is the culture war.

https://t.co/RN9twHizZR

[just matt @questionableway]

while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves

[Susanna Berkouwer @BerkouwerS]

Wharton professor here! Here are the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates:

— Harris’ proposal increases the deficit by $1.2 trillion, with low- and middle income households benefiting disproportionately.
— Trump’s proposal increases the deficit by $5.8 trillion.

Details below 👇