I’m a soccer dad now.

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Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

At 15 of the 20 academies benefiting from the tax credit program, student bodies were at least 85% white…And among the 20, enrollments at five were more than 60 percentage points whiter than their communities.” www.propublica.org/article/miss...

Volume 11, Issue 4 of SRE. End of an era, as this issue brings to a close our run as co-editors. Honor of a lifetime. The journal and the field are in excellent shape going forward. Onward.

Right wing media is NOT happy this morning

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

He’ll certainly try, but I think the results might just make Republicans skittish about playing along. Gerrymandering is now riskier as they might lose more seats in close contests. Suppression tougher with slimmer margins in the states. Intimidation only backfired.

Last night, we ended a Republican supermajority in Mississippi. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

UPDATE: No.

This is a retweet account for the foreseeable future!!

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

Oh thank god. Fuck yeah!

BOOM! @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social calls NJ Gov for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social!

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

Decision Desk has called both of Georgia's statewide races, for public service commissioner, for Democrats. If confirmed, this would be a really huge win for Democrats: It'd be their first statewide win in any non-federal race since 2006!

El Oh El at the local bbq joint offering as a Thanksgiving special a 5lb brisket for $170. When - not if - I open my BBQ spot in town I promise to give you an actual, working class eating experience priced for actual working class folks.

If it’s any indication of where things are going, the VA-focused Republican analytics firm that works down the hall from us (who was here till 5am in 2024) has already packed and gone home.

Wishing I was back in NYC today. I can feel the energy all the way down here in Mississippi. Thankful for all the folks who canvassed and did the hard work. Looking forward to the payoff. 🌹

More than 60 California professors say they are suppressing their own work due to Trump's looming threats over UC. The chill is affecting students 7 medical patients alike. "The purpose is censorship," said Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & UC Irvine professor. @veenadubal.bsky.social

🧵 Let's play "Who said that?", featuring very proud White supremacist Nick Fuentes and the late “Christian conservative” and founder of TPUSA, Charlie Kirk.

Underwater in Mississippi www.economist.com/interactive/...

Ole Miss professor James Thomas, who appeared on TPUSA’s "professor watchlist," accused the conservative group of "promoting fascist propaganda" and said its event was "a gross affront to the very principles upon which our university rests." www.foxnews.com/media/tpusa-...

Our November “First of the Month” newsletter is out! Give it a read to see all the exciting work we’re doing to address housing insecurity in the L-O-U community. mailchi.mp/f89f8670ac9a...

Grace Bowers played Proud Larry’s last night. It was legendary.

Among the many resonant moments at last night’s event was a point made by Professor Matthew Broedy (@matthewboedy.bsky.social). He reminded the audience that Turning Point is a minority movement. Their ideas, and importantly their goals, are not widely popular.

A lotta ink has been spilled on the loneliness epidemic among young men. But I was talking dating with my 25-yo niece (who's smart, funny and hot) and she said, 'you have no idea how bad all these red-pilled dudes are these days. They're basically undateable.'

Proudly rocked my @bittersouth.bsky.social t-shirt last night

ICYMI here is the feed from the University of Mississippi College Democrats event that I spoke at tonight, a “town hall” counter program to the visit by Vance and Erika Kirk www.instagram.com/reel/DQaXfZU...

Thankful for the students who organized last night’s event to counter the JDVance/Turning Point White nationalist rally on our campus. Our campus will not be your staging ground for fascism.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

It me again: “Turning Point may have a bigger platform tonight, they have a bigger arena, but tomorrow they'll be in the minority. Their political positions, their policy agenda, Christian nationalism is a minority movement." www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

NEW: As Vice President JD Vance arrives on campus at the University of Mississippi with Turning Point USA, a coalition of progressive student groups is counter-programming his visit with a town hall featuring Gloria Johnson, Ro Khanna, Heidi Heitkamp & more. @gracemarion.bsky.social reports:

“The coalition organizing the event includes UMiss College Democrats, the UM Environmental Coalition, UM Forward, Southern Progressives Alliance, Community Alliance Network, United Campus Workers and the Lafayette County Democratic Party.” www.mississippifreepress.org/university-o...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

As JD Vance and Turning Point USA try to prove libs wrong across campus at the University of Mississippi tonight, I’ll appear by Zoom at a town hall talking democracy, academic freedom, Christian Nationalism, and of course the Professor watchlist.

We have quite the lineup for this evening’s Mississippi Rise Up town hall

Our campus is not your staging ground for fascism

Our campus will not serve as a staging ground for fascism.

Our campus is not a staging ground for fascism oxfordeagle.com/2025/10/27/e...

This is Jim Crow shit.