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Very enjoyable to see Andy Ogles lose.

🏛️ Do party youth wings get a real say? @sofiamarini.bsky.social and @henrikseeberg.bsky.social hand-code 57 youth wing statutes from 11 countries. Most of them have high levels of internal democracy and autonomy from the senior party but low access to the senior party. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

My piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that lays the evidence out: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

How Not to Defeat AuthoritarianismModeration used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.www.bostonreview.net

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #edusky

Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic FreedomA new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.www.insidehighered.com

Hot takes suggest that spending more on public schools doesn't help. But this cool paper (political scientists publishing in an econ journal 😎) shows that increasing public school spending improves test scores and graduation rates. gated: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I never spoke on this publicly but we were also subject to an anonymous false report— we thought it was a political attack, but it turned out it was the deranged 44 yo racist who lives downstairs with his mom. Despite clear lies (padded room, wrong gender of child), CPS “had” to investigate 🧵

The job market has really shrunk for Black scholars. So many schools are doing their best to get rid of us or never hire us. I know way too many folks suing their institutions or the state over what they research and teach.

Consider that there are 0 Black political scientists at research universities in the mountain time zone region.

I've spent sometime over the last few months working on a way to generate quizzes for my students based on their own papers. I might write up a blog about my experiment later, but for now here is the code if anyone is interested in trying. github.com/reuning/quiz...

As western society proceeds in their propaganda of making a Israel out to be the good actor and victim of aggression, images like these tell a drastically different story. May these children live long lives and heal from these torturous years.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind. "In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history." x.com/SamDalrymple...

Nashville, Tennessee, a shocking ICE blockade that resulted in shattered glass and suspected gunfire.

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Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

the oversized shoe thing seems like the kind of minor detail that will be used 100s of years from now to efficiently explain what ~all of this~ was like

Was rereading Bartels's Ethnic antagonism article & found a good example of what not accounting for method can do. He estimates an acquiescence factor to control for method effects b/c outcomes and many predictors share response scales. These are hearty method effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Whatever we’re doing, it’s not enough.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Trump Is Making America StupiderHow MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public sectors.www.thebulwark.com