That “nuance” being the collective delusion of parents who have spent over a decade being exploited by a youth sports industry that lies about their children’s aptitude and weaponizes FOMO to wring every last dollar out of them

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

✨ Looking forward to celebrating the wonderful Thomas Saalfeld at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg today.

Listen: The Reflecting Pool debacle should be a dumb summer story, but it really demonstrates everything wrong with this era. Trump does something demonstrably wrong that we can see with our own damn eyes. People point that out. He threatens them with all forms of punishment at his disposal.

I wrote about Marty Embry’s viral MAGA hat experiment, and why his both sides conclusions are wrong. when you put on a maga hat, you’re telling a lot of people you hate them. They’re allowed to believe you. That’s not intolerance. It’s self preservation. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fascism-is...

After six consecutive Oxford-educated Prime Ministers, Britain may finally see some real diversity in the top job: a Cambridge-educated Andy Burnham

Really enjoyed attending the first EPSS conference in Belfast! Many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event 🙏🏻 @epssnet.bsky.social See you next year in København! 🇩🇰 #EPSS2026 -> #EPSS2027

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

FFS these people.

Congratulations to Professor Anil Menon on receiving the Emerging Health Politics Scholar Award from the Health Politics and Policy Section of APSA!

I am delighted to share that I’ve been honored with the 2026 Clarence Stone Scholar Award from the APSA Urban and Local Politics Section, which also awarded my dissertation Honorable Mention for Best Dissertation. I’m so honored to be recognized by my fellow local politics scholars!

One for the hardcore kids

Please drop the most New York song you know in celebration (NOT THAT ALICIA KEYS SONG!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCvx...

And Mike Breen got to call it

HISTORY.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Still can’t believe it. LGK!! Wings up

If “AI” is so powerful, how is it that Google and Meta can digest my entire browser history and still think they can get me to give a shit about soccer? I’M NOT CLICKING DUMMY

Heard a LOT of people saying it would only be rich casuals and a mild crowd without many serious fans w these finals prices. #Knicks They were fucking wrong. It's nuclear here. 🧡💙

𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 position, this! At Copenhagen Business School, we are hiring an associate professor (tenured position) in economic sociology/political economy. Great environment, great colleagues. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested.

From our February Issue: Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites by ANTONELLA BANDIERA, @hlarreguy.bsky.social and JORGE MANGONNET. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Oh cool, it’s been updated to be even more misleading.

1. Invite racist, least popular president in history 2. Make ticket holders arrive 2hrs early for “TSA style” security 3. Kill the outdoor watch parties that endeared the Knicks to the USA Hard to imagine Dolan managing this worse, but there’s still a day to go www.cbsnews.com/news/securit...

These Knicks are magic! BODEGA KAT FOR PRESIDENT

If you're UC faculty, I'd encourage you to sign this letter in support of the University of California reinstating the SAT in admissions. ucstudentsuccess.org

Just in past 24 hours: -Criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll -Subpoenas seeking info of ICE critics -Former judges demand inquiry into IRS "deal" -White House intervention leads to $600+M deal to family-linked firm -Monuments, pictures on currency Turning us into a tinpot authoritarian state

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

This seems like a great time to point out that law is not a discipline, so its practitioners (and teachers) aren’t disciplined. Rather, they are trained advocates. To them, the goal is not truth but to win an argument, and clever law profs enjoy trying to win silly arguments.

BING BONG EVERYONE 🧡💙

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

Here are remarks I gave at the Keeping the Republic Conference at Notre Dame. If you’ve followed me over the past decade or so, my skepticism toward the field’s fixation on polarization likely won’t come as much of a surprise. But here they are, for what they’re worth. substack.com/home/post/p-...

That’s right

It’s definitely Boise. Idaho is like 40% separatist militia, 30% typical MAGA, 18% armed, polygamist cult, and then 12% Blue-dot, beautiful mountain town Boise.

My favorite team’s QB is apparently worse at reading the room than he is at reading the defense.

New York Giants players, including linebacker Abdul Carter, (rightfully) seem pissed about Jaxson Dart palling around with the president. It’s the kind of thing a player should think about before backing an overtly white supremacist politician.

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

I wish people on here were more intellectually curious about this and less reflexively defensive. The fact that consumer sentiment is now decoupled from previously predictive economic variables does not have an easy answer, and caring about it is not a statement that your anxiety is irrational.

Trump 2 has been considerably more stable than Trump’s first admin, but 🚺 account for 4 of 5 cabinet departures, sending strong signals about whose voice belongs in decision-making. This cabinet is about to be as male as George H.W. Bush's! More on 🚺 & executive branch politics: tinyurl.com/yrvc5je7

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

My job market paper is finally in print and open access! Check it out if you get the chance.

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Changing the relationship status: how coalition history affects voter perceptions of parties - https://cup.org/3OVnR6B - @kendallcurtis.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Mitchell Robinson, when asked if he would be making the picture of him dunking on Embiid his phone background, said he would not because “It don’t got no truck in it.”

A political cartoon in the Chattanooga Times Free Press

🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊

Interrupting my usual poli sci message… to ask for a vote! (It’s always Poli Sci). My band, Mighty Mo Jazz Orchestra, has been nominated for a Best In KC Jazz award by the Pitch! Please vote for us to support local community jazz vote.thepitchkc.com/arts-and-ent...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.