Brian Jacob and @cohodes.bsky.social discussed Michigan’s current education issues, like retention and public funding, in a Bridge Michigan article. Read their comments: https://myumi.ch/P3Pmy

Another version of "never fucking surrender" aka hope in action.

Wild. One of the "woke" polices ended by 14 USDA Rural Development programs was to prioritize rural development in Energy Communities---areas with retiring coal plants or above average employment in extraction, processing, transport, or storage of coal, oil, or fossil gas.

Lots of speculation rn (such as this FT article) on what war in the Middle East means for the future of oil. What do we know about the conditions under which we reach tipping points in clean energy adoption? Political science can tell us a lot! 🧵

So much meritocracy! "Asked if he formally interviewed for his government job, Fox initially said that he 'didn’t remember,' before saying that he talked to several then-leaders at GSA over the secure messaging app Signal before joining."

The launch of my book Coverage Denied (out 4/23) will be at the White Whale Bookstore on 4/28. If you're in Pittsburgh, register to attend here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... And if you're not local, you can register for the livestream! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Hope you can make it!

This is not some lefty, hippy, environmentalist point of view. It's what investors are saying. www.ft.com/content/4696...

pin the party on the climate policy platform: A) Business-friendly tax incentives for domestic manufacturing B) Dismantle global fossil fuel infrastructure by force, increasing gas prices, forcing rapid transition to clean energy, killing fossil fuel export markets & end manufacturing tax credits

If ICE employees were engaged in this level of stalking, threatening, selling data on, and spying on citizens, elementary schools, news organizations, and abortion clinics *IN 2023*, imagine what it's like today. www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

Sadly, an angry ex has long been a common cause of deportation/family separation, which DHS encourages when promoting the ICE Tip Line on social media. Abusers, employers, and landlords also use it as a threat or a get out of jail free card for domestic violence or when workers get hurt on the job.

Angry spouses using the feds to snatch their ex is sadly super common www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u... A friend's husband was deported when his brother's ex got mad one night & called ICE on both brothers. 8-months pregnant, she was left homeless, but...you know...banality of evil #FamilySeparation

In my work on narrative formation & its impact on how people absorb new information & make decisions, the biggest hurdle to lab testing is that narratives are formed by repetition over-time, which is hard to replicate in a lab. But, it is easy to imagine a candidate with x, y, or z policy positions.

HAPPENING NOW: Come hear about my research with Karla Magaña on Racialization and Perceived Institutional Ideology judgelord.github.io/research/rac... + Lauren Mattioli on Appointments and Influence: Judicial Agenda Setting Across Three Presidential Administrations

5/ "The climate left has to change the narrative : Oil is not a victim of geopolitical disruptions, it's inherently disruptive for stability, sustainability, security.' @picharbonnier.bsky.social has argued this in his books. Now, facing acute disruptions, the whole world will electrify. FAST

Every year now, it will take more and more taxpayer dollars and state coercion to hold back the tide of cheaper and cheaper clean energy.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Coming up this week: Join us at 1 pm ET, Wednesday 3/18 for our next JAWS Session on executive politics! Read the papers, learn more about the participants, and register here: jawspolisci.network

The scary thing about a prediction market is that people with little information can randomly make a catastrophic event marginally more likely.

and that was after an election cycle dominated by both parties' elites demonizing immigrants, boosting "violent criminal" propaganda in the State of the Union, bipartisan anti-immigrant bills, competing over deportation numbers, ending pathways for legal status, who was tougher on immigrants, etc.

Not once does this story mention that the Supreme Court in 2007 rebuked the argument that EPA lacks authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Let's not let SCOTUS off the hook here: it will need to decide whether to change course, because otherwise this is likely dead in the water.

Thrilled to share that my paper with @judgelord.bsky.social and Justin Grimmer:"How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies" is out at the AJPS!

New in AJPS: "How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service" with @ellieneffpowell.bsky.social & Justin Grimmer +Data on 611,239 legislator requests to federal agencies on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social Paper and data are both open access: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Have you read Dr. @triofrancos.bsky.social’s new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism? Check out this interview in @thebaffler.com to learn more about her maxim for economies transitioning to clean energy: “Minimize extraction, maximize public good.” thebaffler.com/latest/schro...

Incredible personal reflections on organising from @alybatt.bsky.social Spadework www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

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Heritage gloating that they've made Democrats lurch to the right. 20 years later conservatives will then concoct a conspiracy theory that this was all a Democratic Party plan to destroy the US.

"Net Worth Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles)" Federal Reserve Economic Data

It couldnt figure out a bag of chips or an ROTC uniform but it could figure out he was black?

Profiles in "Knowing which way the wind is blowing."

my most lib opinion: so long as we have law enforcement officers, they should probably be able to pass an exam about what the law allows them to do without consulting notes

Why Are Electricity Prices Rising? www.distilled.earth/p/why-are-el...

wild asymmetric polarization against the idea of merit-based civil service. j

The real estate industry & its Wall Street financiers would greatly prefer that we pretend climate change doesn't exist. So imagine the challenge they now face with Trump's proposed privatization of mortgage giants Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac. @scrawford.bsky.social explores how this could play out.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Molly Roberts has a nice piece at @lawfaremedia.org on the Hatch Act during the shutdown. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Calling political sociologists and political scientists! Submissions are open for the 2nd People-ing Politics Mini-Conference at ESS! This year's theme is "Bringing the People Back In." To submit a paper, please use the ESS conference portal and be sure to choose our mini-conference. www.essnet.org

Befuddled scientists should understand that their animosity isn't mainly to our research; it is toward *us* and expertise as a source of independent voice they don't control. "We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country...The professors are the enemy."-Vance, 2021

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates). The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Government shutdowns offer a rare opportunity to un-submerge the submerged state. Something Democrats could/should be doing is every day of shutdown, pick some agency and focus on it for the day. Highlight what it does and what we're losing each day their staff are furloughed.

thanks! @commiedharma.bsky.social I also wrote a response to that piece from Commune, years ago when it was published fwiw viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/p...

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

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Important reminder here that the US is not the only place where fossil fuel interests are pushing back hard against climate science and clean energy 👇

This has been the time eternal argument about new technologies. It’s not the technology. It’s a policy choice. It’s why places like Belgium are reducing their workweek, while American tech gods want us to sleep on pullouts in our offices.

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.