🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨 Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theorists “should be free to start off with a stylised view of the facts – i.e. concentrate on broad tendencies, ignoring individual detail, and proceed on the 'as if' method, i.e. construct a hypothesis that could account for these stylised facts, without necessarily committing himself on the...”

Unprecedented and illegal: Russ Vought refuses to release White House budget as required by law. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo declaring millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings has left many Massachusetts immigration lawyers concerned that people with no criminal record will be sent to overcrowded detention facilities.

Last year I thought the career of the first Labour MP for Poole would say a lot about the restlessness of UK politics, writ small. Elected by six votes just over a year ago, he has now been suspended for rebelling against welfare cuts. www.ft.com/content/5852...

"Most of today’s superrich owe their wealth to their ownership stakes in companies that are de facto monopolies thanks to network effects," writes @pkrugman.bsky.social. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...

A estas alturas París ha excedido mis altísimas expectativas con la Fête de la Musique, así como la oferta cultural gastronómica. También resulta bastante bueno en precios, aunque en parte es posible que mi experiencia en la más cara ciudad de Copenhague todo ahora parezca razonable y a buen precio.

What’s next in money in politics?

Studying campaign finance and lobbying in the US still dominates but new exciting work in other topics and geographical regions is becoming more prominent

. @bcegerod.bsky.social and Hye Young You presenting data on what has been happening in the study of money in politics

Oí de un colega boricua que lleva un decenio de profesor en California, y cuyo supervisor expresó vocalmente y por escrito que el acento en inglés del boricua «le incomodaba». La polarización y el discurso xenófobo penetrando en espacios inesperados.

I'm willing to stake out a bet on the results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances for cryptocurrency holdings and usage if you want @mcuban.bsky.social

Estas movidas llevan desde Romero Barceló, cuando empezaron a evaluar estas estrategias a través del Consejo Asesor del Gobernador sobre Política Laboral...

Public ownership FTW. It's not just me, btw. cc @hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social

“AI has become an oligarchic project — and democracy an impediment.” Thread:

My universally unpopular opinion is that AI reveals why instructors need to take their role in assessment a lot more seriously. If AI can complete an assignment, and a human grader can't tell, it's not a good assignment. That's proof positive, in fact, of the busywork that AI will automate away.

A fundamental attack on public goods aimed at creating schemes to enrich the rich and funnel money to religious groups www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

Look at the focus: Harm to "markets" and "the global order" (nobody gives a *fuck* about the "global order") Companies, products & prices get hurt; the only mention of *people* is "investors." An inadequate and bloodless description of the harm Trump is inflicting on the American people.

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Liberation Day has become so commercialized. I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

No sabía que alguien podría hacer quedar a los niñatos del telegram como eruditos digitales, y sin embargo ahí está el vicepresidente estadounidense y los ministros de Estado y Guerra haciéndolo.

NEW: Senior polisci colleagues @ Columbia endorse our letter on how we would respond to the Trump attack. For expidiency we 5 did not ask for other signatures. Grateful for strong show of unity. @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

Fascinantes las peleas dentro del gabinete del Primer Ministro Musk.

Years ago someone on a chat board I was on said something that stuck with me: "Extreme competence is very sexy." She was saying it about Norm Abram.* * Master carpenter on This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, etc.

A functioning democracy requires the continuing responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals.

How does sexual orientation impact wealth? 💶 Dujeancourt, Boschini & Norden show that men in same-sex couples face a wealth penalty at lower percentiles but a premium at higher ones, while women’s penalty is persistent. doi.org/10.1093/ser/... #SER #wealthgap

The reason this is such a big deal is that Trumpism, an ideology of pathological insecurity and bullying, requires you to submit. When you don’t submit, it calls everything about them into question, and they can’t handle that. So don’t submit. Defy the fascist scum.

from decarbonise to weaponise the ECB, as long as it's within the mandate

Rape and support for rapists are now key aspects of U.S federal government policy. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Before lawmakers swear an oath to the Constitution, perhaps they should be required to read it

Yo intenté seguir usando aquella app por la comunidad boricua pero la verdad es que ya no tolero tanta propaganda facha e interacciones agresivas.

It’s critical for observers of international affairs to not overstate Trump’s specific impact, @profpaulpoast.bsky.social writes. Despite his best efforts, Trump can only steer US global leadership in the direction it was already going: down.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!

do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”

Los resultados definitivos para gobernador de P.R. en las elecciones generales de 2024 quedaron de la siguiente manera por % de la población de 25 años o más con al menos un bachillerato universitario en 2023, a nivel de precinto: 1/

Liberals comfortable with fascists, they can reform government after all, Gillian Tett edition. www.ft.com/content/f975...

What Musk is trying to do is have the ability to engage in impoundment of appropriations- funds Congress has ordered be spent- even if administrative agencies are resisting Trump and respecting the constitution, various statutes and court injunctions. Just by shutting off payment

In preview of my Monday morning piece, I'm going to say a little bit about why this is so concerning. This is not some "economy" thing. Its first & foremost the possibility that our legal order is modified so the law of the land is defined by Elon Musk at Treasury www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

UPDATE: Petro says that Colombia will send its presidential plane to the U.S. for “dignified” deportations. Some have interpreted this as Petro backing down. But Trump wants to use military planes for the visuals and this may not be enough to appease him. More developments to come, I’m sure.

3/ But strategy combinations matter. Durable regimes don’t rely on just one tool—they adapt. Some mix repression with media indoctrination, while others lean on co-optation. No one-size-fits-all formula.

2/ Using data from @V_DemInstitute and the Varieties of Indoctrination dataset, we analyzed how regimes use these tools over time. We even clustered regimes into groups based on strategy combinations.

1/ Autocrats combine tools to stay in power, but most research looks at them in isolation. We map 6 strategies—repression of rights & physical integrity, co-optation through institutions & resource distribution, and indoctrination via education & media—for a full picture.

How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇