Public pressure and protest works!

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Everyone needs to realize that the emperor has no clothes on

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As a practicing Catholic (and a lay minister each Sunday!) this is outrageous. Charlie Kirk preached exclusion, division, and actively endangered groups in society; the complete OPPOSITE of what we actually hear at mass each week (which is love and help thy neighbor)

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president calls for political violence against those who disagree with him

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This is a very dangerous moment for America. The media's turning a blind eye to escalating right-wing calls for violence is journalistic malpractice. bsky.app/profile/whst...

If Democrats want to make a show of caring about Charlie Kirk, put up a Charlie Kirk gun control bill to prevent the senseless killing of any more Charlie Kirks so the entire country can watch Republicans vote it into the dirt

The ghost of the Banksy remains

Walked by this yesterday while taking our new fellow for a coffee! It’s right next to campus. Smiled at the guards, had no idea.

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Texas Republicans rammed their gerrymander through. Now some are realizing they may have handed themselves a few seats in the House, but put others at risk. Rigging maps doesn’t always go as planned. Now it’s on us to fight alongside Texas Dems and take those seats back.

This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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This is very, very bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

A comparativist weighs in: it's not just this bad, it's even worse. "Color" might not even mean some measure of skin tone. It might also mean one of many primitive theories of race 1/

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

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Let’s all go to Belfast!

🧵 When the government announces that it will fire people for producing numbers that the government doesn't like, here is how our institutions should respond. (Whether they do is another story.) 1/

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Sampling a portion of these records will tell you the identical demographic information this article (and exhibit?) is excited about. Read Claire Zalc’s work on immigrant business and her and Claire Lemercier on quantitative methods. Please. quanthum.hypotheses.org

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This is terrible news re Columbia. Issue the “edgy” syllabus now, tank this sham extortion before the check clears…

There have been a number of recent articles on statistical power in quantitative political science. This is something that I think deserves more attention and discussion. A short thread of the articles I have read. 🧵

👀 wow

WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.

This! 👇

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

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I keep seeing political science papers citing Muñoz et al.'s paper to refer to interrupted survey design, but others (including Gerard Torrats-Espinosa and myself) had published papers using this method before them. This is the paper we published in 2018 at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

it's so cool that everyone has just completely forgotten that the President doesn't have any legal authority to set US tariff rates we're like six months into an illegal tax regime being set by imperial decree and everyone's treating it like a totally legitimate thing

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This memoir is amazing and an absolute rabbit hole; worth a read. Laura Ingalls Wilder 2.0. This also reminds me why the internet is great sometimes

My great-great grandmother dictated a memoir in 1929 in her late 80s. She makes a point to mention not grieving herself here to emphasize her years-long dependence on laudanum. It’s to show how detached it makes someone The second clip is about a diphtheria epidemic 😬 It’s gnarly

Happy Fourth of July from the London Zoo!

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@washingtonpost.com This headline is terrible and misleading; it absolutely is an antisemitic slur. Not “viewed as”. REVISE THE HEADLINE. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Phone calls work. I've been covering politics and politicians for more than a quarter century & one thing I've learned is: phone calls work. contactrepresentatives.org

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes