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Petia Kostadinova
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Associate Professor; Political Science; University of Illinois at Chicago; www.petiakostadinova.net. European Union; democracy; post-communist countries; Bulgaria. Posts about research, gardening, good food; parenting fails/wins, and youth travel hockey
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Coming soon -- fully open access publishing in all the ECPR's journals, with Cambridge as the new publisher. So, so pleased to see this deal finalised ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

Unlocking political science research: Cambridge to publish ECPR journals portfolio
Unlocking political science research: Cambridge to publish ECPR journals portfolio

European Consortium for Political Research

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PKpkostad.bsky.social

I need the universe (and people) to stop asking me about Spring classes and textbooks.

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The fact that Trump has a good chance to return to the presidency is a devastating indictment not only of the GOP and the Right more broadly, but also of America’s deeply unhealthy political culture, profoundly undemocratic political system, and brutally ineffective and/or complicit political elite.

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BREAKING: Hurricane #Milton achieves Category 5 intensity per the National Hurricane Center, capping one of the more extreme rapid intensification events we’ve seen, only about 49 hours after forming as a tropical depression.

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Y’ALL. Someone on the other site tried to make a Minion™ pizza and I cannot stop laughing; we’ve allllll had things go wrong in the kitchen, but this is a pretty vivid example... 🤣🤣🤣

Pizza dough laid out in a Minion shape. So far so good…
The finished, but uncooked pie, cheese and pepperoni forming the minion itself and its coverall, a slice of mushroom and black olive for the eyes— it looks okay!
The cooked pie which has just dissolved into a blorp of cheese and haphazardly scattered toppings, resembling a Minion that was locked in the sarcophagus at Chernobyl.
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NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion. "Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually. It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...

Mass Deportation
Mass Deportation

The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...

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Petia Kostadinova
@pkostad.bsky.social
Associate Professor; Political Science; University of Illinois at Chicago; www.petiakostadinova.net. European Union; democracy; post-communist countries; Bulgaria. Posts about research, gardening, good food; parenting fails/wins, and youth travel hockey
706 followers652 following476 posts