Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇

More wearable narcs

Kalshi and Polymarket haven’t posted bets on whether Trump will fall asleep during arguments. COWARDS

Super happy to see this paper finally formatted. While this paper might seem about political fundraising, it's really about the theory of *parties*: is it a broader network (UCLA school, i.e., Bawn et al. 2012) or elite/institutions-driven (re: Aldrich)? doi.org/10.1086/735435

We had a 100-0 bipartisan deal in the Senate and the House blew it up because the Republicans who run Congress apparently don’t talk to each other and prefer chaos.

Kim Mulkey has somehow made Duke sympathetic

X is boiling journalists’ brains

Great opportunity for politcal economists career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...

The US has now lifted sanctions on Iran, who the GOP says is our greatest enemy, and Russia, who is actually our greatest enemy. How is this stupid fucking war making us safer?

From our FirstView article: Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems DANIEL M. SMITH, @AliCirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, GARY W. COX and JON H. FIVA. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

📅 Event tip: "How Can Democracy Be Measured? Is #Democracy Currently in Danger?" 🗳️ What do we actually mean when we talk about "democracy", and how can we tell whether it is thriving or in decline? 🤔 Public Lecture with @carolinaplescia.bsky.social at the University of Vienna, 26 March, 3-4.30 pm.

New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Gender & Politics Element on LGBTQ politics by Daby and Rau. Focusing on Latin America, authors use survey data and interviews to identify multiple processes by which individuals move from prejudice and rejection to tolerance and acceptance towards LGBTQ+ citizens! 🏳️‍🌈

The Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures series publishes research that confronts major questions affecting the study of legislative politics and political representation in the United States. Now Open for Submissions #LawSky #PoliSci #Politics #USPOL https://cup.org/4bv2FNC

ANNOUNCING THE 2026-27 CASBS FELLOWS CLASS The class will take residence in early September and is comprised of 36 scholars representing 19 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs. Read the full announcement and meet the fellows. casbs.stanford.edu/news/casbs-a...

No one does the reading….

Marine recruiter shouting at 17 year olds across Walmart parking lot: “BE SOMEONE!” “SERVE YOUR COUNTRY!” “EARN MONEY FOR COLLEGE!” “LET REPUBLICANS SEND YOUR BROKE ASS TO IRAN, DRIVE VETERANS’ HEALTH CARE INTO THE GROUND, THEN LITERALLY BREAK YOUR ARM WHEN YOU GET HOME!” “…GAIN JOB SKILLS…”

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

Here's what I believe: no more business as usual in the Senate. We shouldn't be voting to proceed to normal legislation until Republicans schedule a debate and a vote and on a declaration of war against Iran. Let's see if Trump has the votes to authorize war. I bet he doesn't.

The thing with Liberation Day tariffs, Minneapolis, and all the other crises Trump has started, is that they were in his control to ratchet down when they became unpopular or the bond market got a little too spooked. I am afraid that this is different. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

DJ Paul: I am a bad person, do not trust me Juicy J: I am so intoxicated I am about to die or commit crimes or both Crunchy Black: harpoon murder

The proposition of liberalism is dead simple: An attack on the basic rights and political equality of one group is an attack on all of us. We do not know when fascists will turn the violent arms of the state against our group, so we must treat an injury to every group as if it were against our own.

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

For the first time since I came to Congress, I won't attend the State of the Union address. President Trump has shown complete disregard for Congress, the laws of our land & the Constitution, and has not respected the office of the Presidency. I don't respect him & won't attend his speech tomorrow.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Real autocracy shit. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

It will be interesting to see how American media will rationalize this and make it sound meaningful instead of simply concluding that the man is out of his mind

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

🏘️ Why is restrictive zoning linked to racial segregation? ➡️ Using agent based models and parcel level zoning data, @trounstine.bsky.social shows that restrictive rules cluster housing costs and, with unequal wealth & homophily, foster racial segregation www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

🎙️ New episode out on Politically In/Sane ! Why do political elites so often misread the public -- and what does that do to democracy? In Ep. 4, we talk with Dr. @miguelpereira.bsky.social (LSE) about Political Elites and their blind spots ! 🎧 shorturl.at/ok4Nv @lsegovernment.bsky.social

I've got a piece out today @theatlantic.com with @dashunwang.bsky.social on how the Republican Party in Congress continues to fund science, pushing back against the Trump Administration's most anti science funding proposals. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Interested in learning more advanced approaches to text analysis, machine learning or network analysis this summer? The University of Strathclyde @strathpolir.bsky.social is offering successive methods classes this June.

In a recent seminar I referred to the American legal industry as “a rapacious rent-extraction device that taxes each and every meaningful US transaction.” My colleagues giggled but I was dead serious. And our inefficient legal system doesn’t even protect civil rights! dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Folks, some news. No, not that kind of news – what do you think this is, LinkedIn? It's this: 1. The applied causal graphs workshop deadline is 28th Feb. so get your abstracts in and hang out with us in Potsdam this May. Form and description is below 2. @dagophile.bsky.social is giving a keynote 🥳

Trust a doctor wearing multiple bracelets as much as you’d trust a used car salesman wearing a pinky ring

"Do Voters Respond to the Economy or to News Reporting on the Economy? A Mediation Analysis" by Mark A. Kayser and Michael Peress. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

‼️ New paper out in @polbehavior.bsky.social ! We ask whether the politically active (in terms of electoral or other forms of participation) are better represented? See Jesper's detailed 🧵 below for more info on the paper! 👇

OTOH, 💯. OTOH, it's hard to blame voters who don't follow politics closely. <Everything> they saw & heard in the media, from 2016 onward, told them 🇺🇸 politics still had two "normal" political parties, with normal platforms. It's only in 2025 that "the GOP are fascist extremists" has broken through.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Now that I’ve learned your narc door bells can find lost puppies, I no longer mind living in a surveillance state!

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Out-group homogeneity as evidence of left-right identification in multi-party democracies - https://cup.org/4aaK88p - Nick Lin, Lie Philip Santoso & Randolph T. Stevenson #FirstView

Have you wondered why exactly it is that single-family zoning leads to racial segregation? I wrote this little article to figure it out. I use an agent based model to show it is a combination of race-based wealth inequality, homophily, & clustering of housing types in zoning maps.

Government data remain political outcomes

🚨 There are corgis at the Pro Bowl 🚨

I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6