This, but also not just politicians. So many of the election workers and officials I’ve talked with have harassment and threats of violence as one of their top concerns as they try to do their jobs. And yet it is very hard to design policy solutions that can target that 0.1%.

there are apparently ways to get a postmark at dropoff www.nstp.org/article/usps...

Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Our portal at oag.ca.gov/reportmisconduct will allow Californians to upload photos, videos, and information about interactions with federal agents that may be unlawful.

2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

#FirstView from @iojournal.bsky.social - Pushing Back or Backing Down? Evidence on Donor Responses to Restrictive NGO Legislation - https://cup.org/47sOKFw - Lucy Right, @jrspringman.bsky.social#FirstView& Erik Wibbels

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

this has incredible san diego energy

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

This is a must-read

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

He just gets it

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Reminder that it started small and somewhat ridiculous with Gulf of America and escalated from there. Apply that lesson with everything this administration does.

A lot of respect for Kristof for not letting this go. It will be easy to forget the USAID cuts in the years to come. It's good to have people around making us remember.

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Nobody: Me: I wonder how different peace/conflict and democracy researchers will encode an election conducted over discord in their various datasets… 👀

Good job alert: job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/81...

Because there’s no screening test for ovarian cancer, it’s often discovered so late that it’s hard to cure. Awareness of early symptoms is key: –bloating –pelvic or abdominal pain –feeling full quickly –peeing more often If these last for 2+ weeks, call your doctor! For more info, visit ovarian.org

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

A Salvadoran restaurant around the corner from my house is closing down because of the occupation by federal forces. My local city council member is urging people not to order delivery because so many drivers are being seized.

I know this isn’t the point but high vis over full camo is so fucking funny

If you read/listen to NPR's coverage, this is how the story goes: "The first strike took place around 10 a.m. when Hussam al-Masri, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, was operating a live feed with a bird's-eye view of nearby Israeli military positions." It was a direct hit on a journalist.

No one wanted to hear this years ago when @tompepinsky.com said it. Maybe now.

This really hit home

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

Last night's Encinitas city council meeting was something else. Not sure the rest of the country understands how scalding white hot having ICE show up at our schools is, but every demographic you can imagine in our little super wealthy suburb showed up and was fucking pissed. youtu.be/1sTbOgtJDyI

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Appreciate them doing this in the most evil lighting possible

My new one in in the NY Times @nytopinion.nytimes.com on how states, courts, and the public can combat the risk Trump poses to the midterm elections (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Another day, another reminder:

The Black divers excavating slave shipwrecks: Members of Diving With a Purpose search out and investigate the vessels’ remains, bringing history to light and memorializing lost lives www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Hey @nytimes.com How about some follow-up here. You've said for weeks and weeks that Harvard was "about" to capitulate for $500 million. They haven't. Who is right?

My 2026 nightmare scenario. Current GOP majorities in Congress steal the election by using false accusations of voter fraud as a reason not to seat elected Democrats.

The aspiring dictator is amassing troops from loyalist regions in the capital. “What would you say if you saw it happening in another country?” @brendannyhan.bsky.social

At Trump’s request, multiple red state governors are sending hundreds of armed National Guard forces into DC. This military occupation of the district is unprecedented and unjustified. If it’s allowed to stand, this country will be well on its way to becoming a police state. 1/22

The brakes on runaway autocratization are off

It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.

Can Cash Transfers Save Lives? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Kenya www.nber.org/papers/w34152 "Unconditional cash transfers (accounting for spillovers) lead to 48% fewer infant deaths before age one and 45% fewer child deaths before age five...concentrated among poorer households."

Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament There is an option if you don't like this. Like everything else about preserving our democracy, it's entirely up to the far right authoritarian party to stop acting like a far right authoritarian party, & Democrats can't fix that. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

bingo

Again, I ask, sincerely & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, democratic, & constitutional by any meaningful definitions of those words or standards of modern 🇺🇸 history. bsky.app/profile/mcop...