Horrendous officiating aside, here are 3 areas of improvement for the Suns to get back on track: bit.ly/3L0cGaI

This is the pool report from tonight’s Suns-Lakers game. What is even the point of doing this if this is the level of insight and transparency we’re getting?

Horse shit officiating. Pathetic from the NBA.

I would really like to be able to consistently watch NBA games and not be wondering constantly what is wrong with the officials. It doesn't matter what team I'm watching.

This officiating crew in the Lakers v Suns game has been bad literally every time I've seen them this season. Get rid of them. I don't want to see them officiating pee-wee games. This is ATROCIOUS.

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When Scalia rewrote the Second Amendment in Heller, I warned that he would have “blood on his hands” from the carnage he was enabling. The Second Amendment protects a “militia” right, which was the understanding of the courts for 200 years. The “individual right” rewrite is a suicide pact.

My thoughts are with colleagues and friends at Brown, and with their loved ones. Another day, another shooting on a college campus in this country. This kind of violence is preventable if only our leaders had the courage and moral clarity to act.

People that aren’t super tuned in really do think that nothing Trump did is that bad bc surely, if Jan 6 was bad/ the election wasn’t stolen/ he’s a felon he wouldn’t have been allowed to run/be president. Acting like this is normal makes it even harder to convince them.

Jeffries is a coward, and more importantly, has the political instincts of a wet sock.

If you're gonna call the game like this, players and teams are going to respond just like Allen did.

Brooks is hurt, pretty clearly. I know he's gonna play through it, but I kind of wish he wouldn't.

SGA would be so much more fun to watch if it wasn't immensely frustrating to see him get BS foul calls all the time.

🌍 Thrilled that the page for my edited volume w/ Francesca Parente has gone live in time for #HumanRightsDay! Out w/ @elgarpublishing.bsky.social in March 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨: 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙨, 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 presents a practical framework for conceptualizing + analyzing human rights issues…

I was ruled out of order for speaking about the influence of corporate power over our legislature, which the supermajority is trying to protect by changing rules in the middle of the game. Here’s the speech I would’ve finished if allowed. Appreciate the engagement on the gallery!

Rep. Thanedar has filed two articles of impeachment against Hegseth, one for "murder and conspiracy to murder" and the other for "reckless and unlawful mishandling of classified information." 🧵 (Full disclosure: I was happy to consult a bit on drafting this.)

the suns' juggernaut gillespie-goodwind-bouyea-dunn-ighodaro lineups has an offensive rating of 188.9

Kudos to the student paper at the U of Utah for this great piece of reporting. And kudos to several faculty openly speaking out about an institution that is increasingly different from the one that wowed me 7+ years ago

Let's see if we can get at least $500,000 for something that repudiates all that shit, shall we? gofund.me/2f12393af

Everyone involved in Alligator Alcatraz, from the lowest guard to the highest level of the administration must be held accountable. There can be no pardons or immunities.

keep adding job status updates though #polisky - helps folks to know how the market is moving along www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

Golden Globes not even nominating this year’s actual best drama (Andor) for Best Drama has gotta be some type of sick joke

You can’t have democracy if you don’t have accountability. That’s the entire point of the damn system.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

I wish more people could appreciate that our Constitution has failed now that the separation of powers that it's predicated upon has given way to dictatorial rule rubber-stamped by confederates in other branches. As such, those of us seeking to rebuild liberal democracy are no longer bound by it.

from a state party director

Kick his ass out of the caucus.

I’m an @aaup.org member and have been an officer. Unfortunately this rings hollow when our partners in @aft.org leadership are openly boosting AI and signing deals with Trump backing billionaires. If AFT leadership doesn’t stand up for its members AAUP needs to consider the partnership.

Kind of wild to see the end of a Party System happening in real time across the pond, while it still feels inconceivable at home

I love Creed and love this story. Creed is another one of the few movies and franchises that shows Black life with complexity and humanness. I‘ve watched Creed 2 far too much because of its focus on Black fatherhood.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

A really nice figure of population and partisan malapportionment in national legislatures around the world from Beramendi, Boix, Guinjoan, and Rogers (yassified by The Economist) priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/u...

Gerald is a great voice in the Suns community and his new venture is worth a follow.

The Suns have made Shai play in the 4th quarter. This game is already a victory.

The play-by-play guy for the Thunder is the biggest homer I've ever encountered, haha.

They're the champs and they've earned it, but goddamn does OKC get away with more contact on defense than most other teams.

Barring a mid-career improvement in his health, Mitchell Robinson is trending toward one of the biggest 'What If?' stories of this generation of players. Absolutely huge impacts on the court - when he's actually on the court.

The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians. As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office. At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune. At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.

Jordan Ott should have waved the white flag about 3 minutes ago. Someone's going to get hurt for no good reason. We're down 3 starters! Let it go!

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

This new crop of referees is really, really bad man. Thin-skinned and inconsistent.

Our paper just got accepted in the @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 and is now on the journal website: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... For me personally, it's a milestone: my first paper accepted after a peer review!

The officiating crew in this Suns v Wolves game is bad. The Wolves would probably still be winning this game without a favorable whistle, but they've gotten 6 really, really questionable calls. About 1/2 through the 3rd quarter the crew just radically altered the whistle.

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

margins: arizonasports.com/nba/phoenix-...

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Americans are increasingly being screwed over by companies that enjoy oligopolistic control over various actors of the economy, and so far the Trump administration has leaned into creating more oligopolistic markets, not less.

Michael Ray Richardson died today. I hope one day his contentious exit from the NBA can be overlooked, and his overall contributions to basketball, as a player and coach, across continents, can be properly highlighted in the Hall of Fame.

BREAKING: Utah state court strikes the remedial congressional map enacted by the legislature on gerrymandering grounds and orders the state to use a map proposed by the plaintiffs for the 2026 midterms. drive.google.com/file/d/19rjo...