“Snorkeling around [the U.S.S.] Arizona is as disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.

Once again, there are only two solutions to our authoritarian problem, & both involve a lot more Republicans having the courage to do what @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social has done these last years. The <entire> reason we’re here is that too few have followed his example: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

👇🎯 The crisis was in 2000, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided not everyone's vote needed to be counted in a presidential election. It's continued in the last ten years, with unprecedented lawless authoritarianism. People now saying major institutional reforms will set off a crisis are in deep denial.

America needs leaders who will speak plainly and directly about what is happening in this country. Leaders who are as appalled as all good Americans are by the deliberate, coordinated effort to end Black political representation. This is an excellent example.

Oh. My. God. This is despicable.

The best. Their genuine smiles seeing Elmo makes me so happy. The only thing that could make this better is Elmo with the Phanatic.

Live your life in a way that, when you leave your job, the entire remaining staff don't express "joy and relief" that you're gone

Visiting Dartmouth for a conference on rural health. Not too shabby, Hanover.

Absolutely brutal numbers on inflation for Trump: -Gas is up 5.6% for the past month and 29.2% for the past 12 months -Food is up 0.7% in April and 3.2% for the past year. -Core CPI rose 2.8% in the past 12 months -Tomatoes are up 15.1% month over month

We were just talking about power ballads (as one does) and middle kid noted that Celine Dion sounds like she’s singing in cursive and now I hear it.

Good reminder for some of us to update our headshots on the website!

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

What do the American people look like?

Wait, you mean Trump and Rubio’s dismantling of US diplomacy is making the Iran War harder? Who could possibly have foreseen… goodauthority.org/news/trump-a... via @shipwreck75.bsky.social

We weren’t likely to go on a cruise ship any time soon but hantavirus outbreak just adds another reason. Yikes.

Amen to that.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

In these polarized times, that a presidential action is so roundly rejected www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

By popular (?) demand, I've updated (and cleaned up) my suffrage and citizenship timeline with recent events and some additional clarifications. Feedback welcome! I will make the file available on my website (christinawolbrecht.com) by COB.

Richard Neustadt liked to say that the two most important resources a president had were "his time and his words." Trump has devalued those currencies as well.

New Pew on Trump job approval

Reform the Court doesn’t go far enough. Reform Congress for proportional representation. Reform the Presidency to get a popular election. Use this moment to dream big.

Proportional representation requires zero consideration of race and produces better minority representation, both partisan minorities and racial minorities, than any attempt to draw majority-minority districts ever could.

The answer is proportional representation. Proportional representation enables equal representation to minority voters as a structural feature, not as a litigated favor any future court can take away.

Again, today of all days is an important time to recognize that the Democratic Party's 2026/2028 platform must be institutional reform. <Every policy> everyone wants <follows> from that, not the other way around. There will be <one> chance to fix things. We can't waste it again.

NEW: The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act, enabling the GOP to erase countless districts drawn to protect voters of color at the congressional, state, & local levels. We detailed each Dem VRA congressional seat that the GOP could target by 2028: www.the-downballot.com/p/with-the-v...

My quick read of Callais decision is that the majority says if a racial community votes consistently with a party, then it is okay to deny them representation because that's just partisan gerrymandering

The Supreme Court is essentially constrained only by: 1) a norm that they follow precedent (this isn't written down anywhere, it is merely a norm), and 2) Congressional authority over their jurisdiction, funding, and composition. The second has been entirely abandoned, the first is on life support.

Take action to protect sociology! The administration's FY27 budget will dismantle the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate, a crucial resource for social science research. Contact your elected official here: bit.ly/ASAaction.

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

Young Americans are very low trust, sometimes bordering on nihilism. It’s up to us to build institutions that make them want to act with social trust—to make an effort at school, to vote, to have normal social interactions in public spaces, to date, to not shoplift or evade fares, etc

Celebrating the public health wins of 2026: Congrats to the Bahamas 🇧🇸 on eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV! www.who.int/news/item/22...

For reference, GWB was at 38% approval in Nov 2006 per Gallup, when the Dems picked up 31 seats in the House and 5 in the Senate.

Conservative pundits are calling out Trump and the GOP for starting the gerrymander fight that they are now losing.

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

It will be very hard to trace out the damage to scientific progress because of all of the science that won't start, the trainees who won't move along in their careers, and all of the innovations we could have had that will be delayed.

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

Time to dig up this classic HuffPost/YouGov experiment on how wording can affect support for impeachment. www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-...

A totally normal day walking to the office

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

Out on a school night!

Trump's approval is similar to GWB's in 2006 but the generic ballot in June 2006 (when GWB was at about 38%) was +11 for dems. Now it's +5. Partisanship and -ve partisanship are much stronger now. Many R disapprovers will remember who their team is when there's a D on a ballot.

Finished this season's Bridgerton, the Pitt and Shrinking. Now watching Margo's Got Money Problems and Rooster. I need shows with similar vibes - flawed but redeeming characters, awkward is fine but not cringey, some lightness. We have all the streaming stations. What should I watch next?

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background." cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.