I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

If a man can live here for decades, be a community leader, work as a special education teacher, earn a PhD and become a celebrated superintendent and STILL the be accused of not “doing it the right way” then we can all agree the “right way” doesn’t exist in this country for immigrants of color.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

Let the record reflect that @polipsyprof.bsky.social and I created these with our grad student, Robert, back in JANUARY 2025. They were written as hypotheticals.

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

Last year, PRRI polled Americans on their views of potential political violence ahead of the 2024 election: - Nearly 1/2 of Americans said they believe Republicans are determined to stay in power even if it means resorting to political violence - About 1/3 of Americans said the same about Democrats

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

something something political violence

Here's a clip from one of the church services — i.e., Prestonwood Baptist in Texas. Reminder: As the pastor, Jack Graham, makes clear, this is not an actual clip of Charlie Kirk. He never said these words. This is an entirely AI-generated fabrication that, nonetheless, garners a standing ovation.

Interested in learning about cross-cultural Christian nationalism? PRRI Senior Democracy Fellow @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social, Ph.D., is hosting a panel discussion today, Sept. 18 from 3-4 PM ET, examining the similarities and differences between Christian nationalism in the U.S. and Brazil.

This Christianity in action. Didn't Jesus himself say "Forgive us our trespasses as we hound those who trespass against us into financial ruin."

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Good Lord.

This has a very specific context: That Pam Bondi's DOJ refused to enforce an arrest warrant for Cory Mills after his girlfriend called the cops on him. We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Still chuckling thinking about the folks who said Christian nationalism—the desire to see a specific expression of Christianity privileged with the gov’t promoting it—isn’t real. I’m not on Twitter, but this is an official gov’t account.

Christian nationalism is one of the most important forces shaping contemporary American politics. Because it's such a fraught and sensitive topic, folks shy away from discussing it. But we can't understand American politics today w/o examining it. I'm tankful for these fellows for doing this.

At such a critical time in our nation's history, follow the work of @prri.org's Senior Democracy Fellows--leading scholars and thought leaders whose critical work examines the threat that Christian nationalism poses to the health of our democracy.

We are excited to introduce the PRRI Senior Democracy Fellows — a dynamic cohort of scholars and knowledge producers working at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics.

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

He's literally become Don Quixote.

In PRRI polling conducted after the start of President Trump’s second term, a majority (52%) of Americans agree that “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”

"A Public Religion Research Institute poll conducted earlier this year shows a majority of Americans see Trump, as a 'dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.'" ”https://time.com/7312196/trump-americans-maybe-we-like-a-dictator/

Despite what some Democratic consultants suggest, the pro-democracy party’s first question shouldn’t be, “Does stopping fascism poll well?”

they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans

A half dozen armed goons brutally attacked a man FOR EATING IN PUBLIC?

I absolutely do NOT agree with Bolton’s politics but I can STILL say it’s completely corrupt to send the FBI to raid the home of a political opponent or detractor. Everyone needs to be saying it. Trump is pushing us closer and closer toward authoritarianism. We ALL need to push back.

Unexpected feed lineup here. Religion subtext: Vance is Catholic.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Sitting here in my office on a sunny summer afternoon in DC, this much is clear to me: The biggest threat we face of crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and worse is Trump himself. www.whitetoolong.net/p/postcards-...

Really interesting (& encouraging) experimental work from @shortle.bsky.social & @mrfisherjr.bsky.social on Christian nationalism & elections. Turns out, using CNist rhetoric *hurts* candidates' prospects at the local level. Wonder if this holds for national elections. prri.org/spotlight/ho...

Christian nationalism! Experiments! Local! For my spotlight with @mrfisherjr.bsky.social, we test the effect of CN rhetoric and race on mobilization and decision-making in local elections, w. a @prri.org-funded experiment: prri.org/spotlight/ho... Spoiler: CN talk hurts candidates for local office.

What an absolute disgrace. The desire of this man to denigrate, to drag through the mud everything that is respected or respectable. The project of degradation is really something else.

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Who counts as a "real American"? My latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1983...

My org, @prri.org, took a deeper dive into the profile of Exvangelicals. We find that 6% of Americans were raised in an Evangelical tradition no longer identify as such. About half have left religion entirely--but the other half now identify with other faith traditions. prri.org/spotlight/ex...

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If you have even one shallow wrinkle in your brain, you can see this horseshit for what it is.

Check out my latest op-ed, which sheds = light on the story of Gen Z, gender and religion in @thehill.com. My analysis of @prri.org trend data shows that young men are not becoming more religious overtime, countering some popular narratives today. thehill.com/opinion/cong...