American political scholars don't even have models for this shit. This corruption is so brazen and transparently transactional for self-enrichment, it's not been seen in US politics in 100 years. At this scale, it's never been seen.

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

The details are horrific. “He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”

lol

Any social media post by an elected Democrat that doesn’t say what they are going to do is just proving @joshsternberg.com right.

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up and reassert its power. No more forever wars.

Translation: We found more pliable officials we can work with who won't ask too many questions about Venezuelan sovereignty

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Join us for the next LAPPRI Research Seminar on November 19th! Hosted by the Latin America Policy Process Research Initiative, this series features scholars who use policy process theories and methods to explore unique policy dynamics and challenges across Latin America. RSVP: lnkd.in/eKu8XfG3

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

She’s not wrong

The upcoming PSJ 53(3) will feature a special issue on policy design, and it marks a real milestone for the journal. Special issue editors, Dr. Saba Siddiki (Syracuse), Tomás Olivier (Syracuse), and Cali Curley (Miami), put in an incredible amount

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new initiative: the Latin America Policy Process Research Initiative (LAPPRI)! LAPPRI will serve as a hub for scholars dedicated to advancing policy process research in Latin America. @tomasolivier.bsky.social #policyprocess #research #LatinAmerica

A couple years ago, I was approached by some scientists at The Nature Conservancy with a proposal: Would I help them create a better global restoration opportunity map? The resulting paper is now out, and I will explain my view of it in this thread. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

Thanks to everyone who participated! This was such a great workshop, with lots of engaging conversations and the developing of a promising research agenda. I look forward to working on better understanding and theorizing about the policy process in Latin America!

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Our DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Thread on attacks on democracy and the ways to counter it - collective action by civil society, mass mobilization and political leaders taking risks. Everyone plays a part.

"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now. Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

Take that, penguins of Heard and McDonald islands!

It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 Trump has now broken the Tennessee Valley Authority 🚨 Having now fired 2 board members & after starting with only 6 of 9 seats filled, Trump has decimated TVA's independent board of directors. They no longer have quorum needed to decide anything. 1/ www.knoxnews.com/story/news/p...

rebranding the 15 min city.

Join us in our first ever Policy Design Summer studio! An opportunity to spend a weekend learning about policy design.

Why have Musk-backed PACs spent $10M on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race? It's not just to uphold WI's abortion ban and gerrymandered maps.  Tesla is suing WI over a state law that hurts its bottom line — a case that could be decided by its Supreme Court. Follow the money.

This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

Make no mistake—this is a direct result of President Trump’s tariffs and will make life more expensive for Minnesotans. Higher electricity costs today and more rising costs to follow if these reckless policies continue.

REMINDER: Join us for our next IGRI Research Seminar on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 12-1pm EST! Rachel McGovern will present on her recent publication, "The narrative policy framework and institutions," co-authored with Michael Jones. RSVP here, or at the QR code: t.co/dzZv9mHvut

This is the final reminder that we are accepting nominations for the APSA STEP Emerging Scholar Award. The deadline is Saturday, March 1. Looking forward to your nominations!

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

One week left! Nominate your best (and/or favorite) recent publication.

This week, the IGRI held its annual Doctoral Student Workshop at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social in Tempe, AZ. The event provided an in-depth learning experience guided by the IGRI Directorate: Saba Siddiki, @utebrady.bsky.social, and Christopher Frantz. Thank you to all who participated!

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

Explore the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework collection on PSJ’s website! This research unpacks how rules, norms, and strategies shape collective decision-making across various policy domains. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

Had an email from a former thesis student asking me to be a reference for a new job interview and laying out how each of her experiences at SU helped with this potential job. Super helpful reference when I get a call. Highly recommend if you reach out to people for a reference.

Thanks for sharing this, @psjeditor.bsky.social! @sechindra.bsky.social

This looks like a great paper--also consistent with related recent research that finds people who experience climate shocks are more likely to support climate action (no matter their political ideology). So, personal 👏experience 👏matters (and affects attitudes)

Political scientists, we need to up our game. Also, what might we throw? Stuffed Plato?

A way to protect your PayPal data

The viridis palettes are great perceptually uniform color maps for #dataviz, but sometimes at the extremes they're too pale/dark. With ggplot and #rstats, though, you can truncate the palette to avoid the paler colors. I wrote a little guide for how datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2024-12...

Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a pedo" by Elon Musk

I worry though about the tendency for the general fields of political science, public policy, and public administration to become captured by trend-chasing in lieu of reinforcing their strengths in understanding institutions and policy process. 2/5

Fuck every single one of these losers, and every politician who has emboldened them