Yeah the stuff on campaign finance law and speech are cool but there being a canonical record of the fact that my cat is in fact the best cat may be my favorite part of my book/my most important academic contribution to date #academicsky #Sociology #politicalscience #catsofbluesky #whiskerwednesday

If AI can’t make money without massive energy subsidies, then AI can’t make money.

"we live in a constitutional Republic, not a democracy" is the fascist equivalent of "actually Frankenstein is the doctors name, the creature is Frankenstein's monster"

It’s amazing how cats are just these little weird people who live with you

Who counts as a revolving door lobbyist? In my new paper in Interest Groups & Advocacy @igajournal.bsky.social I use sequence analysis to detail the many different career trajectories that fall under the label. Excited to share this project that has been many years in the making! rdcu.be/ffYTx

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Today in intro to sociology we covered White Supremacy/White Power movements. After class a student told me her Jewish great grandfather immigrated to the US in the early 1900s. The local Klan members didnt see him as Jewish and didn't recognize the mezuzah on the door so they tried to recruit him.

Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile A brief history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality. Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction. This piece is free to read, no paywall:

Bankrupting Democracy is officially out via @univpressofkansas.bsky.social! The book examines how campaign finance laws have reshaped networks of political actors to develop an electoral system meant to benefit interest groups rather than the public or candidates. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641253/

Back when I was TAing a criminology class I remember learning how one of the first signs of gentrification is when Starbucks start appearing everywhere. On an unrelated note is anyone else in the Shreveport area noticing a lot more cybertrucks driving around?

The recently rebranded Ohio radio network, The Oasis, has a new, very familiar name.

It was an honor to endorse this book by @nathankatz.bsky.social. This is a MUST READ for anyone interested in democracy and campaign finance!

If I had a dollar for every time these people climbed onto a bandwagon at the exact moment that the voters they're trying to impress are fleeing it, I'd be rich.

🔔 New Book Congratulations to Nathan Katz (@nathankatz.bsky.social) on publishing "Bankrupting Democracy: Campaign Spending in a Marketplace of Ideas" with the University of Kansas Press (@univpressofkansas.bsky.social). Check it out at: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641253/

To be clear. America has some TERRIBLE people. They voted for TERRIBLE people to represent them. These TERRIBLE people are making TERRIBLE decisions. They DO NOT like democracy. They DO NOT like freedom. They ARE NOT patriots. They DO NOT want to form a more perfect union. This is America 2026.

On this day ten years ago, Ted Cruz named Carly Fiorina as his running mate, transforming US politics for several hours

There is someone at the post office wearing a Michael Jordan jersey. In 2026. It's like I'm back home in Illinois

The latest campaign finance reports show Democratic enthusiasm in key House and Senate races, but national Republican groups have far more in the bank to potentially spend down the road.

Part of the reason GenAI seems so magical to some people is that they never really learned to use their computers.

I now need a password, a dual authentication app, and a biometric log in to get into half the things I use at work. Meanwhile, IT can't explain why copilot keeps turning itself back on. What are we doing?

Had to rearrange one of my bookshelves today

The irony of a student writing a paper on antisemitism in the media that ends up being 88 lines long

I really don't know what to tell folks if they think any of these proposed reforms from Yale, or anything that we can possibly do here at UW - Madison, will change the Narrative™️ from the right in American politics about universities. We're a century into this stuff. We're not the problem.

I miss my cat. Nothing bad has happened to her. She just got out of bed to eat her breakfast

Playing Pokémon champions against someone w/ the username Sanity. So I got the message "get ready to battle sanity" Look here I study right wing politics. I do that every day. I'm not scared.

When pope Francis died I made a (pre-bluesky) joke that as a non-catholic my top qualification for the next pope was that they hated JD Vance/Trump even more than Francis... I didn't mean for it to go this far (also get these MFers out of office before they commit another war crime)

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Seeing as AI is not actually secure and you cannot use AI to do the exams... Welcome AP students to the world of having your academic work harvested for profit! I hope there is a way for you to request a human regarding, but we both know there won't be

Today I think I reached a new academic milestone--I think I just got my first AI-written peer review feedback!

Seeing as every other sociologist I know seems to be posting this I feel morally obligated to do the same (it is also 100% spot on)

📰 Read our PhD candidate Kazimier Lim’s article in The Interpreter by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social. His piece explores how threats to Gulf airports could disrupt global supply chains, reshape perceptions of regional stability, and redefine modern coercive power. bit.ly/4d9wEvm #PoliSky #Iran

Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇

MSS was amazing. Great to see folks again but seeing my students get up there and kick ass in their presentations was the biggest win

This post is AI. I was just at No Kings Philly. It was big but not that big. Posting fake stuff and reposting fake stuff is bad.

CPAC 2026: come for the speeches, stay because there’s no line for the bathroom.

All prepped to give the best titled academic presentation I may ever have at @midwestsoc.bsky.social tomorrow #MSS26 #Sociology #academicsky #SocialScience #PunkScholars

Paper title suggestion for those in the geological sciences: the south will rise again: climate change and shifting topographies in Louisiana

No kings. No ICE. No KKK. No Nazis. No terrorists. No white supremacists. No rapists. No pedophiles. No illegal wars. No Trump.

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Yesterday there was a report that one of the state university systems is underfunded by nearly a billion dollars and daily here in the Shreveport area there are new stories about the 3-4 planned data centers we're getting, so this checks out

@katmabu.bsky.social narrowly lost the IL-09 primary last night. But here's a number worth sitting with. Her campaign brought in more first-time Gen Z donors than Jeffries, Schumer, the DSCC, and the DCCC, and her primary opponents combined. This is why campaigns like hers matter.

Todays quip from class don't be stingy with paper. It's education. Some trees are gonna have to die

Punk scholars network was a blast and the work for spring quarter is already piling up. But today I am actually treating like a break. If you need me, no you don't. I am playing the tales of berseria remaster all day

Latest haul from my favorite part of conferencing! Now to needlessly fret over my presentation until tomorrow morning

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

The clips I'm seeing from @atrupar.com are taking me back to archival work during my PhD when I read/listened to/watched speeches of dictators

The guy who made a niche academic legal theory into some sprawling insidious plot is wondering how the right suddenly became a worm-brained mob of conspiracy theorists.

"Greatest privilege of them all, voting" Dog, it's a right.

Replacing income tax with tariffs may be the most shockingly insane thing I have heard tonight

Trump just listing off all the ways he and Republicans fucked over the poor.