Omg.

For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.

Welcome to the Rams. Unlike Cleveland, we promise to treat you right.

Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

ICE hides flight info because if they can get detainees to detention hubs in the south before lawyers and family can locate them, they face harsher courts. But jurisdiction doesn’t change until the flight lands. That’s where this tracking tool comes in. 1/ gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

This sign-maker uses the city’s own “uniform” to fix what he sees as a broken system with professional-grade materials. These posters are a message that acts as a megaphone for the hushed frustrations of the city. The full story on lataco.com 🚫🧊 🎥: Erwin Recinos

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

remember: the lower court had *already* blocked Alabama's map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander but 2 weeks ago, the Supreme Court instructed it to reconsider in light of Callais now the lower court is like....yeah so uh this is still unconstitutional! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Monarch caterpillar forming a chrysalis.

Nice to see this updated blue sign on San Francisquito Cyn. Rd. marking the 450+ dead from the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928. The sign acknowledges designer Mulholland visited the dam earlier that day... then blew off its leaks. A more visible memorial is in the works.

A brilliant and useful piece you should read by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social.

FFS. This is bad. Live Updates: Toxic Explosion Feared at California Chemical Plant

"This twenty-first-century version of public health is grifting all the way down." Only in America! Watch: MAGA's American Eugenics youtu.be/y6jjSW-1J6A

I introduced six Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice John Roberts for compromising the credibility of the Supreme Court. See my release below. cohen.house.gov/media-center...

Good Goly Gosh, what ever could it be? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reports: ICE detainees at Adelanto Detention Center (SoCal) have started a hunger strike to protest conditions. LA Times recently reported on allegations concerning conditions there: www.latimes.com/california/s...

YES!!! Nothing would bring this country to notice quicker than shutting down NCAA (and Pro) Football and Basketball www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

Sandy Fire explodes to more than 1,300 acres, spreads toward L.A. County

Representation scholars! Cool data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to all the CSUN grads!

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Why is Drake playing the circle game with all of us? I didn’t ask for this.

David Venturella, who spent more than a decade as an executive at the private-prison behemoth GEO Group, will be the next acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. GEO Group's biggest client? ICE.

The Trump administration has been building a system to strip legal permanent residents of their green cards, and now they have a dedicated unit to start pulling the trigger. Internal data obtained by the New York Times shows this new DHS unit has already reviewed nearly 2,900 cases,

My @angels.com have the worst record in baseball after squandering their opportunity to make a playoff run with Trout and Ohtani. Officially cursed. Move over, Boston. There’s a new curse in town. The curse of Ohtani.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Great illustration of why the Voting Rights Act banned "vote dilution" of minority voters, which means the Jim Crow tactic of spreading minority voters out across many districts in order to ensure they can never elect a representative of their choice.

Becerra takes the lead but Porter is salty she couldn't make any gains from Swalwell's exit. All others improve except for her. The front-runners are very clear at this point. Hopefully she will stop playing "wild card" and drop her campaign...Steyer can drop out too.

Watching The Secrets of Bees on Disney. And it just occurred to me, bees are more democratic than the U.S. at this point.

"The same Supreme Court that told Black voters in Alabama and Texas that they’d have to live with illegal maps because a primary was four months away had no problem blowing up an ongoing election in Louisiana."

the Supreme Court's order last night letting Alabama use a district map that lower courts already *found unconstitutional* confirms what I said last week Callais's harm goes beyond the VRA The GOP justices could only rewrite the VRA by rewriting the Constitution ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

Another #PRIEC in the books. Thanks to Pei-te Lien, @quicopedraza.bsky.social, and the folks at UC Santa Barbara for a wonderful conference!

Another @priec.bsky.social on the books! Thanks to the UCSB hosts, the PRIEC community, and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for continually pushing us forward. Always: interesting & exciting research constructive feedback engaged audiences stimulating conversations fun socials Host one! Come to the next!

13. Spillover of Hostile Media Frames of Asian Countries into American Public's Opinions of Asian Groups Jialing Zhou, UC Merced Q: when media says China, Japan is a threat, how much does that shape non-Asian views of people from those places? A: yes on China coverage, not so much for Japan #PRIEC

12. How much Race Matters: Impact of News Media for Attitudes about Migrants Guadalupe Madrigal, UCSB Argues: support for policy that benefits migrants traces to media coverage Finds: racial resentment appears to drive policy attitudes especially when media makes migrant adults more visible #PRIEC

11. Media Context of Reception: Intergroup Symbolic Environments & Migration Muniba Saleem & Ismaharif Ismail, UCSB Q: does negative media of minorities process diff for maj & min groups? A: for maj group -> support for policy harmful to Muslims; min group -> less gov trust #PRIEC

This! This right here is what sets our research community apart. “We rescue ourselves with love and integrity by investing in our ourselves & our needs!” -Prof. Lorrie Frasure, UCLA The CMPS team hyping the value of this cooperative crowd-sourcing, big samples of subgroups data source. #PRIEC

10. Exclusion in Political Polling, Voter Demobilization: Case of AsianAms Nathan Chan, LMU & Joyce Nguy, UCLA Finds: Asian Americans are largely excluded from analysis in political polling election reports & exposure to these exclusionary reports lowers their likelihood of voter engagement #PRIEC

9. Immigration-Based Voting Among Latinos 2016, 2020 Elections Juan Espinoza (undergrad) & Jason Morin, CSU Northridge Q: does immig linked fate hold up for Latinos controlling for PID? A: Kinda, still need account cross-racial mobilization, compare diff options voters face on ballot #PRIEC

8. Running in Context: Marginalization, PolAmbition, & Candidate Emergence Iris Acquarone, ASU Argues: election context excluding marginalized people activates latent pol ambition, but mobilization needs substance Test: surveyExp show salient marginalization + aim for inclusion —> run4office #PRIEC

7. When Exclusion Mobilizes: Institutional Design, Collective Action, & Pol Participation under Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Sonja Castaneda Dower, UChicago Q: How to pol voice when institutional channels are closed? A: Exclusion rechannels pol effort to consolidate alt institutions #PRIEC

6. Normative Expectations Prompting Color-Conscious & Color-Blind Mobilization Mckenzie Bennet, NotreDame Q: What are the predictors of White mobilization for racial justice? A: Racial socialization #PRIEC

5. Senators Good, Senate Bad: Institutional Design & Unequal Representation in Congress G. Agustin Markarian, LoyolaUChicago Q: Does the House represent less powerful groups better than the Senate? If so, why? A: The Senate is less representatively equal chamber. The filibuster explains why. #PRIEC

4. Racial Comparability in Authoritarianism Scales Bang Zheng, UTAustin Q: do black-white diffs in auth scales reflect true diffs in latent auth dispositions or meas non-equivalence item function? A: correcting meas diffs, blacks score higher underlying auth. B & W respondents see items similarly

3. Variations in perception of antisemitism among the American public. Bai Linh Hoang & Josh Slatter, UT Arlington RQ: Does nationality background of student criticizing state of Israel predict perceptions of antisemitic speech? Or, support / opposition to US government action toward the protester?

2. Pierce Christofferson, UCSB “Fentanyl & Fear: Public Perceptions of the Opioid Crisis and Undocumented Immigrants in the Western United States.” Does opioid concern predict human smuggling concern? A: Yes, and, survey exp shows differences rooted in partisan-identity & racial-identity. #PRIEC

1. Effects of Humorous Counterspeech on Attitudes Towards Undoc Immigrants Hyojin Lee & Kanu Pandey use survey exp to show humor disrupts anti-immigrant views & reduces support for anti-immig policy. Humor stalls online cruelty by activating moral outrage among pro-imm viewers. #PRIEC