Stephanie Ternullo @StephanieTern Twitter profile

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Stephanie Ternullo

4 months

Finally holding my copy of How the Heartland Went Red! My new book examines how place intersects with race, class, and religion in shaping the rightward turn in the industrial Heartland. Get your own copy here: .

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I am beyond excited to share that I'll be joining the Harvard Government Department as a tenure track Assistant Professor in American Politics! I can't wait to join such incredible colleagues and students for the next stage of my career!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

Today I get to share the first published piece from my dissertation in @apsrjournal ! It's not the question I set out to answer, but I love this paper because it does what I think interviews and ethnography are best at: capturing my interviewees' experience during the pandemic.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

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My job market paper, "Place-Based Partisanship," is officially (and finally!!) forthcoming from the American Journal of Sociology: . In it, I argue that place-based politics are rooted not only in structural (material and demographic)

Place-Based Partisanship: How Place (Re)produces Americans’ Partisan Attachments | American Journal...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

I just did what feels like a big thing! My book, Becoming Partisans: How Place Makes Politics in the American Heartland (or something like that), is now submitted to @PrincetonUPress ! It should hopefully be out by March 2024. I love this project so much -

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

It feels so appropriate to finish off my time @UChicagoSoc with the publication of @jeffreynparker 's and my urban ethnography of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood, now out in @socprobsjournal .

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

My dissertation is now with my committee! Although I'm not quite "Dr. Ternullo" yet, it feels like the right time to celebrate by sharing thid photo of an amazing gift I received last week from one of the women who hosted me during my fieldwork.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I think the photo is what makes it official. I'm #PhinisheD ! We all know that advising and mentorship make all the difference in grad school, and I've been so lucky to have Lis in my corner for the past 5 years. I hope I can be one fraction as helpful to my future grad students!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

5 months

Coming back here for a bit of shameless self-promotion, because I just learned my book is available for pre-order!! Check it out to learn how local contexts are shaping the rightward turn in postindustrial cities @princetonu

How the Heartland Went Red

How local contexts help us understand why White voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right

press.princeton.edu

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

First day in my new office-home! Already feeling more like a political scientist with the name plate

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

4 months

Cannot believe it is finally pub day for this article with @AngelaZorro and @robvargas21 , now out in @socialforces !! Check it out here to see how powerful politicians in Chicago shape crime and city service provision: .

How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services...

Abstract. Classic models of urban inequality acknowledge the importance of politics for resource distribution and service provision. Yet, contemporary stud

academic.oup.com

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 months

One day I'll stop tweeting pics of my book cover, but today is not that day, because today it was on a cake! And I got to eat it with the best crew. Thanks everyone for coming out to help me celebrate!!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 months

Very excited to see this out in the wild at MPSA! You can also read part of the argument from chapters 1 and 2 in Time this month: @madebyhistory @TIMEHistory @princetonu

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I'm very excited to be writing a book, but super bummed that this is the best-case scenario for where it will end up...

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

This might be the best and most concise summary of my dissertation I've ever read (including the ones I've written)! Now I am 60% more likely to hit submit on a paper from this project that has been sitting in editorial manager for three days...

Matt Grossmann

@MattGrossmann

2 years

In post-industrial small town Midwest, local organizations & place-based identities create different political cultures despite similar demographics, with unions maintaining Dem places, churches anchoring Reps, & lack of social capital enabling move right

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

It's official!! I owe the utmost thanks to these four, and so many others, as I start the next chapter.

Robert Vargas

@robvargas21

2 years

Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Ternullo who just passed her dissertation defense! She’s headed off to a post-doc and assistant professorship at Harvard’s department of government. @UChicagoSoc @StephanieTern

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 years

I'm so excited to share that my very first publication is forthcoming from @The_JOP . If you're interested in the effects of social policy on political participation or New Deal social programs, check it out! #soctwitter #PoliSciTwitter

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

My dream job within my dream job, judging for "The Great Gov Bakeoff" with @HarvardGovernm1

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

5 months

If there's one take-away I learned again and again from the interviews and fieldwork for my book, it's that organized labor matters for politics. Check out this post in which I ever-so-briefly try to explain how unions have shaped the past & present reddening of Heartland cities

Contexts Magazine

@contextsmag

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🚨New on the blog! "Why Did Motorville Stay Blue?" by @StephanieTern ( @Harvard ), author of How the Heartland Went Red ( @princetonu )

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

Just landed in San Fran to start fieldwork for a new project on local politics in the Bay Area! I'm almost as giddy as the day I drove off for my first day of diss research.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

So excited to see this! This article is my best argument so far for how #qualitativeresearch and an inductive approach to data analysis can help us generate new ideas/answers to old questions.

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

2 years

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @apsrjournal - “I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the #COVID19 Pandemic - - @StephanieTern

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

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and to finally make its way here. I've been riding a (really big!) wave of rejections lately, so I'm taking this moment to celebrate the wins as they come and to remember that progress isn't always linear!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

5 months

Very excited to see this out! @syshachter and I examine whether urban machines were able to leverage the influx of work relief $$ during the New Deal to benefit federal Democratic candidates, specifically Senators and FDR.

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

5 months

#FirstView from @StudiesAPD - Old Patronage during the New Deal: Did Urban Machines Use Work Relief Programs to Benefit the National Democratic Party? - - @StephanieTern & @syshachter

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 month

I had so much fun talking with @makosloff on the @RealignmentPod about my book - plus a lot of other things I don't know anything about.

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

@PrincetonUPress

1 month

Tune in and listen to How the Heartland Went Red author @StephanieTern discuss how local contexts helps explain why White voters continue to shift to the right and much more on this episode of @RealignmentPod hosted by @makosloff :

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

24 days

Thank you Miranda and the @NewBooksNetwork for hosting such a great conversation about my book!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

@PrincetonUPress

25 days

Tune in to this brand-new episode of the @NewBooksNetwork hosted by Miranda Melcher, and listen to a fantastic conversation with @StephanieTern , author of How the Heartland Went Red:

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

Do I have the most brilliant friends? Yes, the answer is yes! I've been learning from Yuchen for 5 years now, and it's so amazing to see that others are getting the same benefit! @UChicagoSoc

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

11 days

differences across places, but also in organizational and cultural differences that shape how communities solve problems and how residents understand themselves and their place in party politics. This paper took a long time to emerge out of my dissertation,

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 years

The future of sociology is in good hands with these brilliant minds @UChicagoSoc

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 month

It's been a big few weeks for my nearest and dearest (and dare I say most brilliant?) friends from grad school: graduations, defenses, and job offers that we could only have dreamed about 7 years ago! If you don't know their work yet, make sure to check it out:

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

4 months

This project is the reason I went to graduate school in the first place. I loved every minute of fieldwork and every conversation that led me to produce this book, and I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I enjoyed the process of researching and writing it!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I hope everyone is as excited as I am about this! Such a great opportunity to learn from the latest qual scholarship and the fantastic keynote speakers. I'll be discussing a great set of papers on politics and identity at 330- I hope to see some familiar faces there!

Sadie Dempsey

@sadiemdempsey

2 years

*All my qual friends (and strangers)* The Chicago Ethnography Conference is almost here AND it's virtual. Register to join us for 20 panels featuring amazing graduate students from all over the world and keynotes from @JessicaCalarco & @MarioLuisSmall :

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I look forward to paying forward all of the support I've received in graduate school to my friends, colleagues, and future students!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

I could not be happier for the amazing @arielazar . He's not just brilliant and hardworking, but a generous and kind colleague and friend. He will make an amazing addition to Purdue!

Ariel Azar (he/él)🏳️‍🌈

@arielazar

1 year

Didn’t find synonyms to say this differently, so here I go: I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining @PurdueSociology as a TT AP next academic year! I look forward to working with my new colleagues in the department and the Center on Aging and the Life Course!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

So, to @syshachter , @arielazar , @AngelaZorro , @genevavalerie , @IlanaMVentura , @_AlexBrewer_ , and my non-Twitterites, especially Nisarg Mehta, Anna Berg, and Yuchen Yang, it's clear I owe so much of this to you.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

And while the data are limited to a particular group of white Midwesterners in three small towns (because of my dissertation research), I also hope that the paper will spark new conversations about the relationship between media distrust and political opinion formation.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

In it, we offer a new take on how neighborhood reputation (specifically racism's past and present) shape the unfolding alliances withing gentrifying neighborhoods.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

This book would look radically different without extensive feedback from my dissertation committee ( @robvargas21 , @ProfEricOliver , Lis Clemens, and John Levi Martin); thoughtful engagement by @bartbonikowski , @LilyMasonPhD , @Jeremy_Levine , @daschloz , Japonica Brown-Saracino, and

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I have so many people to thank for helping me get this far, especially my amazing Dissertation Chair, Lis Clemens, and my excellent committee, including @ProfEricOliver , @robvargas21 , and John Levi Martin.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 months

This article is now open access! Link is here for anyone who hasn't had a chance to read it yet -

How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services...

Abstract. Classic models of urban inequality acknowledge the importance of politics for resource distribution and service provision. Yet, contemporary stud

academic.oup.com

Ángela Zorro Medina

@AngelaZorro

4 months

So excited to see our latest paper @StephanieTern @robvargas21 trending in #sociology @SF_Journal

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 months

Looking forward to reading everything that comes from this project with @BryantJMoy and @genev

Geneva Cole

@genevavalerie

3 months

Very excited to collaborate with @BryantJMoy on this project about racially restrictive housing covenants and grateful to @RussellSageFdn and @PolicyAcademies for funding this work!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 month

@UChicagoSoc did something right with this crew! (Not to forget the amazing political scientist also celebrating this week, of course you should also read everything by @genevavalerie on race, white identity, and American political behavior)

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 years

If you have any steam left from #ASA2021 come join us! I'll be chatting about place and partisanship based on my study of three Midwestern communities during the 2020 presidential election! Can't wait to learn from the other amazing panelists.

ASA Political Sociology Section

@ASApoliticalsoc

3 years

#ASA2021 political sociology panel today on "Polarization and Contention in Electoral Politics" with @Prof_deLeon @StephanieTern @EdwinAmenta @bwitkovsky , organized by @RWLachmann

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

4 months

@PrincetonUPress @HarvardGovernm1

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

Such a cool new paper from @MalikMashail

Mashail Malik

@MalikMashail

1 year

New paper forthcoming at @The_JOP with @NiloSiddiqui on in-person survey methodology and the drivers of ethnic politics. 1/

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

2 years

I will also be forever indebted and bonded to the team that got me through grad school and the incredible slog of the job market. They bought me doughnuts, listened to countless job talks, talked with me about my existential at all hours, and, of course, celebrated.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

4 years

Check out @monkeycageblog for the first bit of my dissertation research to see the light of day

Good Authority (from the team that published TMC)

@goodauth

4 years

Americans want to trust the experts on the coronavirus. That isn’t easy.

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@StephanieTern

1 month

@arielazar on institutions and health; @syshachter on civil society and urban political development; @IlanaMVentura on immigration and transnationalism; Yuchen Yang on gender and feminist parenting; and Anna Berg on new media and right-wing politics.

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

And second, that place helps shape partisan attachments among cross pressures voters bc (within constraints of social group membership and national party politics), place makes it more likely that people will adopt certain social IDs and then helps link them to party politics

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

4 years

What an exciting new project by @SnehaAnnavarapu that highlights ethnographic writing! Everyone should check out the wonderful contributions, including one from @karlynjane that is particularly relevant right now!

Sneha Annavarapu

@SnehaAnnavarapu

4 years

Attn ethnographers: my friend Alex Diamond and I have launched a website that features ethnographic writing: Please check it out ( @EthnoMargin ) and spread the word! We are soliciting submissions esp from junior scholars 💜✨

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

The book makes two arguments: first, that we can best understand white, postindustrial politics by examining how race, class, and religion shape white voters' politics differently according to their local context (local orgs make certain IDs more salient)

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

It's the thing I went to graduate school to study - and I'm both thrilled and terrified to be able to share it with the world! It's also the project that has taught me how true intellectual collaboration and support makes social science so much better.

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@epopppp Thank you!! If I stick to the right timeline the book will be out with Princeton in 2024 😀

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@socofthesacred Thank you!!

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@StephanieTern

2 years

She changed my life, and helped make this whole dissertation possible! Just a reminder that I didn't do this alone.

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@StephanieTern

4 months

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Ángela Zorro Medina

@AngelaZorro

4 months

So excited to see our latest paper @StephanieTern @robvargas21 trending in #sociology @SF_Journal

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@StephanieTern

1 year

Congratulations to @jkertzer for his amazing victory and thanks to @YuhuaWang5 for judging with me!

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@StephanieTern

1 year

@NicolsTorresEc1 @PrincetonUPress So excited to hang with you and @arielazar and @AngelaZorro

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@MattGrossmann Thanks for sharing!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

10 days

@jrluisf @margaret_somers @UMSociology @umichStoneCID Congratulations!!! I hope you're celebrating this incredible achievement and lovely recognition of your scholarship :)

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

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@DKangSoc Hahaha I don't think so, but this is better!! Short and sweet :) hope you're well!!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

4 months

@DrChandlerJames Thanks Chandler!! Excited to come share it with you all in a few weeks!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

1 year

@genevavalerie @aviahuja93 @egyptianish @AlexCecylia @ipekcinar_ic @castanedadower @dianawueger @MadeleineInez @MayaNandakumar Yayayay!!! DR Cole!

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@StephanieTern

5 months

@SnehaAnnavarapu @PrincetonU Thank you! Was just talking to Nisarg about you yesterday. I hope all is well with you!

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@G1Leeee @adam_slez Thank you!! I'm so excited.

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@StephanieTern

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@JaeJaeykim2 Thank you!! I'm a big fan of your work and I'd love to get together while you're in Cambridge. Just saw your email and will reply once I'm in the office!

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@alizaluft Thank you so much!

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@eostrinidad Aww thank you!!

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@mgmcquarrie Thank you so much!

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@StephanieTern

5 months

@eostrinidad Awww I love that anything I do is connected to "inspiring" something you do!

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Stephanie Ternullo

@StephanieTern

3 years

Today I get to share more dissertation findings via @monkeycageblog ! Instead of rugged individualism or socialism, these small town Midwestern conservatives prefer that communities take care of themselves. Check out the post to learn why! #soctwtitter #PoliScitwitter

Good Authority (from the team that published TMC)

@goodauth

3 years

Conservatives don’t want a bigger social safety net. But they do want to care for the needy.

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@bwitkovsky Thanks Benny! I'm very excited.

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@StephanieTern

1 year

@eostrinidad Congratulations!!!

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@daschloz I would love to!

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5 months

@MPerezBrower Congratulations! Can't wait to read it.

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@robvargas21 Congratulations!! Such great news

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@StephanieTern

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@dannyjschneider I can't wait!

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@JenSKDudley @Strophios @mattrevers Thank you!!

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@piaraffler Thank you! I'm so excited to join you!

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@StephanieTern

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@karlynjane Mine from that day will NEVER see the light of day

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@profsamperry Thank you!! It feels very surreal still.

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@StephanieTern

2 years

@michaelgmiller Thank you for telling me that!! I hope it was useful!

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@MashaKrupenkin Congratulations!!!

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1 year

@Devin_Green_ @UChicagoPoliSci @hahriehan @VeslaWeaver Congratulations!! Please keep in touch - I'm excited to hear about all the great things you do!

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@xavierbonilla87 Thank you!

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@paidipaty Thank you!! It's so good to hear from you!

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@lizcmckenna @joycushman @prentisshaney @DSchrantz @ArtReyesIII Congratulations Liz!!

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@StephanieTern

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@IlanaMVentura Thanks my friend!!

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@StephanieTern

1 year

Andrea Campbell during my book workshop; and overwhelming generosity from my new colleagues who either attended said workshop for way too many hours, or otherwise gave me feedback. This system depends so much on people donating their time and talent, so I am deeply grateful.

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@Evanskipropcrim it should be available as an ebook on April 2!

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