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

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No. Do both. Blocking ICE funding & pushing for policy change is a complement, not a substitute, for the imperative of impeachment. They’ve already violated the law & constitution so egregiously that lawmakers’ oaths require impeachment. And you shift public opinion by explaining that to the public.

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

this headline is almost misleading because there's actually a handful of allegations against trump in here. am i living under a rock or something? is this just no longer a big deal? www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/t...

PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...

What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning. *21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity. *Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution

One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year was "The Politics of Perception," sent to me by the brilliant author, @kstauffer.bsky.social. It's a must-read book about how & why Americans' (mis)perceptions of 🚺's political representation influence their efficacy, trust, approval of institutions.

This will serve at least 2 purposes. 1) grist against Raffensperger’s gubernatorial campaign 2) provide pre-text for the state to take control of the Fulton County election board and staff it with Trump loyalist lunatics in the run up to November’s elections

This here is fun fun fun. Please read and enjoy

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

I’ve often wondered how many sitting members of Congress have actually read the Constitution that they’ve sworn to “support and defend.”

Larry Nance Jr’s shirt at tonight’s Cavs game

We are hiring a Professor! The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out! 1/

The State Against it’s Citizens Notwehr? Nein The US in Uproar German / Berlin papers offer full coverage of Minneapolis. And there is no false equivalence or two-siding on the front pages

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

when they say that everyone should have a right to carry a weapon in public they mean only loyal Republicans have a right to carry a weapon in public. if you don't agree them politically and you carry a weapon then that's justification for them to shoot you dead.

The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Chuck Schumer needs to be at the gates of the White House with a crowd of people demanding the President's immediate resignation. He should step down as Democratic leader if he isn't prepared to lead an opposition party facing down authoritarianism.

The NBA has canceled tonight’s Wolves - Warriors game in Minneapolis in light of the murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti. In the last 20 years the NBA has only postponed games for five events: COVID, LA wild fires, death of Kobe Bryant, shooting of Jacob Blake, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

FBI agent: "I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day" FBI agent 2: "I was working an undercover operation on a neo-Nazi group with a long history of criminal activity... they'd have to close"

This headline is admirably straightforward. This is exactly what the 8th Circuit has done through their one-sentence administrative stay of a district judge's detailed, 80-page ruling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

I’m thrilled to see this JEPP Special Issue on the 2024 🇪🇺European Parliament elections in print Great articles on far-right voting, realignment, attitudes to EU climate action etc. Thanks to everyone who contributed and those who made EES 2024 @eesresearch.bsky.social possible! Read more here 👇

He needs it to remember the list of “injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States” that he’s committing daily

Come work at Stanford! I'm hiring a post-doc who will work with me on projects about prosecutors and trial courts in the US. Feel free to contact me with any questions, or apply here: hoover.smapply.us/prog/postdoc...

Please let that pick 6 be the final throw of Rodgers’s career

Come to NY, Mike

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, describes what a "radically truthful" journalism would look like. www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-to-bui...

If only the United States of America had Strong Western Institutions. U.S. prosecutors are investigating Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over his testimony last summer about the central bank’s building renovation project. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Honestly, besides maybe gold, this seems like a pretty muted reaction