Democrats tried to require every state to draw fair congressional districts. Republicans opposed it Republicans now have legislation making it vastly more difficult to vote, targeting burdens on Democratic groups This shit has been going in for decades Only one party supports democracy

That may be the worst after timeout play call I have ever seen.

In show of support, Canada, France open consulates in Greenland u.afp.com/S27D

And here is an anti-ICE protest just outside of BYU And in perfect BYU fashion theyre singing hymns

For those in the St. George 435 area: I’m looking to give people here a voice to viewers throughout Utah and beyond on making the commute in “St. Geezy” and whether the proposed Northern Corridor will help … or not. 1/4

Have you wondered why exactly it is that single-family zoning leads to racial segregation? I wrote this little article to figure it out. I use an agent based model to show it is a combination of race-based wealth inequality, homophily, & clustering of housing types in zoning maps.

Provo is going woke I’m afraid. Utah county will fall

We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

With Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!! To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.

Third party candidates: appealing to voters in the abstract, unpopular in any specific case. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

If anyone is interested in attending the Prairie Political Science Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta, Canada I can be persuaded to put together a panel. September 18–20. www.prairiepsa.com/conference/

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Our first feature from this series is up, and I almost can't believe that I get to tell you it comes from @rodger.bsky.social. He writes about NFL owners, the closest thing we have in America to medieval kings and queens. prospect.org/2026/02/02/f...

What's clear is that Senate Dems need to act like they have public opinion very much on their side and highlight the incredibly unpopular autocratic and corrupt nature of the current GOP

NBA referees are crooked bastards, man.

He is correct. I fully expect Miller to be on the midnight plane to exile in Moscow.

Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

On reflection, this is an outstanding way for Democrats in Congress to describe their often difficult-to-justify conduct

centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.

If elected Dems are too afraid to defend their fellow Americans then they need to resign and allow those of us who aren't to take their place.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Something I don’t think polling fully captures is the intensity of unpopularity. “Strongly disapprove” covers a wide range of attitudes. There’s “this sucks” strongly disapprove and there’s “it is now my life mission to destroy all that you stand for at all costs” strongly disapprove.

this is honestly a very good metaphor

📊 New paper out in Democratization! How do autocrats actually stay in power? 👉 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with Wooseok Kim, @eugenian.bsky.social , Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

🚨Publication Alert🚨 Supply & Demand of Regional Populism in Bavaria: Explaining the Regional Success of the CSU & Free Voters in German Politics 📑TL;DR: Regional populism is distinct from AfD's general populism and predicts CSU/FW voting well. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A short 🧵 1/n

If Dems don’t impeach Noem they really are pathetic

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1

This country’s problem is fundamentally one of dudes who think they’re owed everything and will fuck up whatever is on front of them to fulfill fantasies of deserved power

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

I am so damn sick of the Suns going into a prevent offense any time they have a lead in the 4th quarter. Just play the game. No need to be killing the shot clock with 5 minutes left.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

As Paul Musgrave shows, the right wingers are coming for political science. They’re coming for the legal academy, too, even if it’s still below the radar. Don’t think for a second the war on universities is just about the humanities. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Many are arguing that they wouldn't be acting this way if they thought they were subject to free & fair elections. Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys

I would love some recommendations for “state of the art” archeology articles on prehistoric and ancient state formation. Last time I just pulled random recent pieces, which was interesting but not ideal.

🧵 All the academics who are smarter than I am are doing "explainer" threads. I'll just provide some readings on indirect rule that might be increasingly relevant over the next few years. 1. David Lake's work on indirect rule and U.S. foreign policy.

I’m sorry. I can’t let this Miller bullshit pass. After WWII “the West,” sometimes relatively quickly, sometimes not until the ‘70s, realized that the writing was on the wall: that they could spend vast sums in blood and treasure trying to defeat anti-colonial movements, and still lose.

Even if your favorite members were the Minority Leaders of each body, there is not much they can do that'd be different from what Jeffries and Schumer are doing right now. The Constitution created very bad political institutions and that's why most advanced democracies do not copy ours!

This OKC team is unfun to watch unless they're flowing really well. Otherwise, it's just frustrating.

Having lived in Latin America at the time, I think Obama repaired a lot of our image in the world that Bush destroyed with the Iraq invasion. But reelecting Trump might irreparably poison the world's view of Americans for at least a generation.

Lawyers will be the bane of us all (respectfully).

impeach him. try to do it once a month, if necessary. build the case over and over to not just the American people but to the world that this isn’t the way things should be here, that this isn’t the way we should use our power abroad.