Sen. Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cash—$50,000—and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president...you can get away with anything."

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.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Looks like a metalcore band forced to attend their guitarist's nephew's first communion

I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵

Excited and honored that “Creating Partisans” has won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for its contributions to research on pol. organizations and parties from @apsa.bsky.social! Many thanks to the committee & everyone who helped improve the book! @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3221): Folks got really mad at political scientists c.2017 when we started pointing out how extreme & authoritarian the GOP had become. "No, you're biased, your data is totally BS," etc. And well, here we are & it's clear it wasn't the bias/data:

I study political parties around the world and have never seen a governing party so openly contemptuous of its country, laws, and citizens. The GOP seems to hate America, Americans, our constitution, and democracy in general.

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🌟🎉 Celebrating @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (WashU)—recipient of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award! Her research is already shaping the field in big ways. Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar

The biggest analytical weakness of Americans in trying to understand the current moment is that their powers of analogy begin and end with US history. The idea that something qualitatively different might be arising simply doesn’t occur to them.

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✨ New Academic Year, New Speaker Series! ✨ We hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We’re thrilled to announce the #HotPoliticsLab Speaker Series lineup for the first semester of the 25/26 academic year. We look forward to welcoming you back for another year of thought-provoking discussions!

the U is back

Hahahhahahaha, New Hampshire stay a “libertarian” diva

Happy to see this article now "in print" at @polbehavior.bsky.social 🎉 Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life

We are proud to officially launch The Green Book Project Website today! Explore the rich history of Black travel and business during the Jim Crow era and add your own Green Book story to our interactive map: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

The Fed was designed to be insulated from politics to maintain the stability and credibility of our financial system. The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.

When a party becomes openly contemptuous of the liberal order and acts in a manner hostile to the norms and rules that make democracy possible, I don't think people are bound to respect their authority as legitimate nor are other parties obligated to treat them as one would a democratic partner.

Nothing subtle or hard to understand about what's happening. He's establishing an American autocracy right in front of us.

The Supreme Court’s conservatives bear SO much blame for this disaster. They really thought they could let Trump fire every agency leader EXCEPT members of the Fed, and Trump would abide by their stern admonition to leave the Fed alone. Embarrassing stupidity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.

if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma

You can tell yourself we are not living under a personalist authoritarian regime or you can listen to the spokesperson for that regime

More extortion from the economy’s central planners. Will your assets be next? The Republican Party is against a free and fair market

"Headlines in New York Times Show Uneasy Mix of Cowardice and Journalism"

You guys. The Lisa Cook story isn’t about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.

FirstView day for my PSRM article, “Presidential Negative Partisanship.” 🥳 I show presidents attack the opposition most (not persuade) when legislating is least likely to succeed—and those attacks mobilize their own side. cambridge.org/core/journal... Read on for the 🧵 version...

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"These are the proverbial adults in the room. They had the power to create friction for fascism. They have instead created a glide-path."

Shout out to Sequential Potential for our dope teaser comic. They also designed the cover and teaser comic for my last book Cycle of Coalition. These are really fun to produce and help communicate the central point of the project. Highly recommend spcomics.com doi.org/10.1017/9781...

1/4 Download our new book for FREE! Thiago, Laron, and I explain why studying whether and how voters know what parties want (and who goes with whom) is important and layout a framework for how to do this better. Check out the cover, promotional comic, and abstract cup.org/4mkBibw

I’m very excited for my year at @casbsstanford.bsky.social. By all means click that link to learn about my “meaty projects” 🥩🍖🧑🏽‍💻

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International Economics, Government and Business at the Copenhagen Business School is hiring and setting up pre-interviews at APSA 2025 (and online for those not attending). ABDs and early assistants in political science should consider this an open-field search members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...

Lots of smart people rightly pointing out that Antoni is utterly unqualified as an economist. But it’s very important to remember that this is a management position and that Antoni is utterly unqualified as a manager as well.

Obviously a tragedy for BLS and vital government data, but can we take a moment to appreciate how insanely dressed this moron is for the best day of his professional life? Bro, is that a double breasted VEST? We doing a pink contrast with mismatched gold tie and pocket square?? WTF, man?

UIUC is hiring this year!! Two positions in American Political Institutions and Political Behavior! Applications due 6:00pm (CST) on September 16, 2025 through jobs.illinois.edu. Our department is lovely and friendly and brilliant--happy to chat about our department and the positions!

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

And here it is. Property rights and a market economy cannot survive this authoritarian assault.

Public university presidents and boards, it is time to collectively come to the defense of UCLA. You are next.

Holy shit, I think I need to start reviewing less. SINGLE DIGIT AVERAGES for full professors?? Less than a paper a month seems scandalous

Full professors in departments with PhD programs still do a lot of reviews. But the number they complete has declined since the pandemic. doi.org/10.1017/S104...

We are closer to the precipice than people realize. Remember, Cornyn is asking *Kash Patel* and *Dan Bongino* to arrest Democrats. How long until other Rs start asking for Ds to be arrested in other contexts? How long do norms hold at the FBI?

Republicans have fully turned against free market capitalism

Damn, man, the tourism lobby in Florida must have really pissed Rubio off at some point

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

This is 💯 on point. Every last democracy on earth gives ultimate policy authority to the legislature. When it has the votes and the will, the legislature wins everytime.

New, from me: Trump just fired the head of the BLS, accusing her of rigging data. The reality is that by shooting the messenger reporting on the negative effects of his economic policies, Trump pushed America further into banana republic territory. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...