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"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

My goal this semester is to get 4 papers under review. Two down as of this week! Some of these papers have been in process for awhile so nice to get them out the door. Hopefully they land!

"why did Zohran quickly endorse Hochul?!" turns out it's better for the political fortunes of both the governor of NY and the mayor of NYC if they're on the same team and work together, who knew

Here and in climate adaptation, the federal government is actively resisting some of the most transformative technologies of my lifetime while embracing scams and falsehoods, it's like we're being ruled by Amish Lyle Lanley

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics! Come join a great department: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312... I'm on the committee, so send any questions my way. #polisky #academicjobs

Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔 Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍

OTOH, 💯. OTOH, it's hard to blame voters who don't follow politics closely. <Everything> they saw & heard in the media, from 2016 onward, told them 🇺🇸 politics still had two "normal" political parties, with normal platforms. It's only in 2025 that "the GOP are fascist extremists" has broken through.

“If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational — collecting tuition and protecting endowments — they are mistaken… presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms.”

The president is monetizing the presidency & it is basically just background noise at this point We have concentration camps & it is basically just background noise at this point We are threatening the sovereignty of our NATO allies & it is basically just background noise at this point Etc.

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.

While politicians struggle to communicate anything real, Olympic athlete Mikaela Shiffrin delivered one of the best public statements I’ve seen in a while— a heartfelt, thoughtful and brief comment on living your values and what it means to represent America now. www.instagram.com/reel/DUeEnUr...

Something I think a lot of people aren't clear on, Liam's parents have followed the legal process of claiming asylum. They are here LEGALLY. Liam was being used to try to lure someone ELSE out of the house. He and his father were taken because that failed. Now ... they seek revenge.

Brownshirtcard Deathcab for Fashy Sum-14 Blink-88 Aryan Monkeys Concentration Camp Confessional Whitecult AFI (A fascist inside) Alkaline Axis Just-American Reject Taking Back Reich My Fascist Romance

Absolutely not. Don't sing at Broadway shows. The audience pays to hear professionals sing, not your off key rendition of Dancing Queen during the show. (Encores are different) www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Seconded! This was a great experience, reminded me that I could actually write in just 30 minutes and I don’t need a 2 hour block of time.

A friend just sent me a photo of high schoolers in Pleasant Grove Utah using a walk out to protest ICE. For you non Utahns around here, Pleasant Grove is a very a more conservative town in the already very conservative Utah County.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Day 9 of writing challenge. Over last two weeks, wrote most of a literature review that I had been avoiding, did article review and now getting through polishing an article to send out with grad students. Annoyingly effective to set aside time every day for writing.

DC area people: come join Will Howell and I for a timely discussion of his new book, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency," and the American presidency more broadly on February 17 at 6PM! More info at the registration link: american-spa.swoogo.com/trajectory-o...

Given the moment, some films that offer history, lessons and, perhaps, a bit of hope: bsky.app/profile/owas...

Sun rises in East again. Film at 11.

Had to double check this wasn’t The Onion

For 0 dollars most academics will use their trademark depth of policy knowledge and actual experience doing academic research to tell you things that are more true than false

“Nationalize the voting” is a direct threat to the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which grants the states the power to oversee our elections. This is fundamental, Constitution 101 type stuff. constitution.congress.gov/browse/artic...

An editor's note for the ages.

Looking at the precinct results in TX's 9th Senate district election and the shift is a consistent ~40 points on margin vs 2022 in the outlying areas, matching the pattern of persuasion and Republican dropoff we've seen in special elections for the 2025-26 election cycle.

The gas + flashbangs combination is especially outrageous. When you're stumbling and choking on tear gas and the crowd surges away from a flashbang grenade, falls and tramplings get a lot more likely.

straight up Gestapo shit

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

For us lady scholars, who have been known to critique homogenous male academic cliques and spaces as exclusionary… consider the money and elite networks that ALL these men benefitted from. All because those lady scholars were likely a bit less interested in sexually assaulting 14 year old girls.

Color me shocked. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Writing challenge, Day 5! Literature review is slow but steady going!

Thank you for the laughs.

Right after George Floyd was murdered, many on the right—from elected officials to police chiefs—condemned the killing. That moment of narrative consensus, though, was fragile and soon new stories and interpretations gained traction to restore the old partisan divides. Expect similar pattern now.

This is a direct assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

This, also - public opinion research is ultimately a way of making people's voices heard at scale. It can get easily sidetracked into a conversation about campaign strategy, but it's also a marker of where we as a country actually are. (And I think that has historical value as well.)

When racists killed Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in 1964, they burned their station wagon but left it just off a road where it was easily found. When racists killed Viola Liuzzo, they advertised her shot-up car for sale, promoting it as a possible tourist attraction.

Social conflict fosters cognitive distortions which, like those in clinical settings, lead to cycles of counterproductive behavior that feed into distorted thinking. A new paper uses insights from CBT to fix cognitive distortions that fuel intergroup conflict: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

I don't even like ice cream (don't @ me) and I'm insulted by calling frozen banana ice cream.

HPV vaccine can also prevent other cancers caused by the virus, including head and neck and penile cancers. There is no credible evidence of harm.

🚨 If populist rhetoric isn't persuasive, why do populists keep winning? 🚨 Our new paper (and first published registered report) shows populism's real electoral power may be mobilization, not persuasion—though policy positions still matter far more for voting. alexanderkustov.org/files/Kustov...

THUNE acknowledges Democrats have raised an “objection” that halts DHS funding. He says he’ll “reserve optionality” to pursue 5 bills + a DHS CR, keeping that door open to avoid a shutdown. But he makes clear he prefers the existing package of all 6 approps bills.

just limitless depravity