Now Shirley is bringing his shtick to “voter fraud” in California, trying to set up for federal manipulation of the midterms. 10M views so far

Wow. French police are raiding institutions linked to Epstein They are treating the Epstein saga like a bunch of crimes, not just a scandal

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Does Brianna Wu think she‘s actually helping the Jewish community as some sort of self-appointed “ally”? Here she is calling Palestinians a “death cult,” making the conflict about them and Jews, and likening them to “rabid dogs”

Man, it's a little awkward when you enjoy working in crowded coffeeshops but are trying to design surveys with large images that say things like "www.hitlerwasright.com" and "death to all the Jews" on your laptop

The @apsamena.bsky.social RDG was the most productive conference experience I've had in a while. As a discussant, I learned a ton and felt my academic batteries recharge. Highly recommend this for early career scholars of MENA (including Turkey!) Deadline March 1. web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...

Interesting coda to a debate about shark attacks, beach tourism, and voting in American political behavior

Yes. They simply HAVE to be done with this deference to seniority and “waiting your turn” in Democratic politics

I’m 36 and I‘d just graduated college the last time Nina Turner voted for a Democrat for President (She didn’t back Harris in the general in ’24, Biden in the general in ’20, or Hillary in the general in ’16)

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”

This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world

OK folks, getting toward the end of my first mass public opinion survey on antisemitism (N=1,000) -- I showed Americans 100 pieces of real graffiti about Jews and/or Israel-Palestine, and asked them to rate the whether they were antisemitic (yes/no/unsure). Even a cursory look is interesting...

Cenk sounds like he’s doing well. You know, in terms of his brain

Does he think European colonialism was…good? Seems to be holding it up as something to emulate here

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

What does he mean “or Citizenship” in the first line…and “insisting on Citizenship” again in the second-to-last one? Is that saying we need to have ICE at the polls (to check “citizenship”)?

The political science research on VID laws is clear 1.) It doesn't stop fraud, because fraud is non-existent. 2.) It does decrease turnout by 1-2%, but not in a way that advantages Rs. 3.) Much of research on VID was done before Trump, who wins low propensity voters.

This is endemic to social media and makes having thoughtful, effective conversations on here very difficult. You should follow people who respect you enough to tell you the truth, rather than those who think truth is unimportant and pursue other personal and political agendas.

Am I the only one who‘s a little worried about the trajectory of academic research and publication right now, given the claims and the discourse around Claude Code?

Oh, my god

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Yes. We even had an excellent talk by the great Sarah Kreps of Cornell here on how this is a general pattern around major new technologies — first come the boomers, then the doomers, then those with a more realistic middle-ground view m.youtube.com/watch?v=TU6M...

Post a tree you photographed.

Love Jamelle but this is too high-brow Most normal Americans not engaged in online political commentary I’d bet have no clue what Citizens United is

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work. Now to get these revisions done.

“Country no need laws, stock market good” is essentially a reasonable distillation of their midterms pitch tbh

“Replaces most to all white collar jobs in 10 years”? C’mon, man. I’m probably more open to seeing some value in LLMs than most on here, but we’re not going to all have AI dentists by 2036

Quite the chart

This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.

Visited Stockton U. yesterday where an audience member asked if undocumented people have legal rights. I told them to re-read the 14th Amendment which states "persons" "any person", not just citizens, are entitled to due process & equal protection. Gap btwn promise + reality is killing immigrants.

Could you ever imagine them writing “Christian billionaire Elon Musk,” “Christian political advisor Steve Bannon,” or “Christian ex-politician Bill Clinton” here? Then why should it say Jewish billionaire Les Wexner?

Makes me think a little of the way infrastructure is hollowed out in places like Egypt, after decades of authoritarian misrule and contracts treated like bread crumbs to be doled out to regime elites Obviously we‘re nowhere near that, but you can see where this path leads

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

Would be curious to know if there’s been impact on consumer behavior abroad — in terms of buying or not buying prominent identifiably American brands/products — so far in the 2nd Trump admin? Seems like in Canada there for sure has been. Europe? Latin America? Asia?

The real Q’Anon was all the friends they made along the way though

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Lots of troubling pieces in here. What did Alex Acosta mean by this comment to Palm Beach Chief of Police Michael Reiter -- who wanted to see Epstein prosecuted -- in 2007, shortly before the plea deal that gave Epstein immunity?

Another failure to bully their way into what they want. Just like Greenland. Just like Canada. Just like China. Just like Harvard. Just like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Just like Minnesota. Just like Iran. Just like redistricting. Some unstoppable authoritarian regime, huh?

Always exciting when you put a survey in the field. Just launched the first (or several planned surveys/experiments) on mass attitudes about antisemitism

This is a wild departure from past practices. All the talk of the “Worst of the Worst” is a lie. Usually between 50-75 percent of ICE deportees have criminal records. We’ve turned ICE from a crime-fighting org into a racial profiling and ethnic cleansing operation.

Moving closer to de facto annexation right before Netanyahu's U.S. visit...this seems like a thumb in the eye of America

Jesus

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values