I personally would like y'all to keep the sandwich jokes coming.

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

They hate us ‘cause they ain’t us.

"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential." - Shirley Chisholm

Sic semper tyrannis, and also good night.

Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates. If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years. Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

This hillbilly needs no elegy.

To be a Virginian either by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one’s Mother’s side, is an Introduction to any State in the Union, a Passport to any Foreign Country, and a Benediction from Above.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

There's a lot going on today, but a good friend of mine's family lost their home in Jamaica. Can you help them out please? www.gofundme.com/f/help-delro...

Supporting Democracy Begins in School: Why School Board Races Matter and How You Can Help grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/supporting...

“Standard Empirical Policy Analysis Does Not Support Universal Vouchers/ESAs” - killer title that is also 100% true. Check out this debate btw Doug Harris & Pat Wolf.

Bless his heart.

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

It's so nice how it's not pitch black in the morning anymore.

Well, this is a story all about how, this game got flipped turned upside down . . . .

UVA wins, Dodgers win, AND all my pickles sealed up in their water bath. What a great day!

Let’s go Trolley Dodgers!!!!

I explained to my toddler both about the World Series and Standard Time, so this is fine, right?

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

lol

“They were careless people, [Trump and his buddies]–they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

What a wild thing to encourage people to do the weekend before an incredibly important election with nary a peep about GOTV.

Prince Andrew to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.

You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access. If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.

JD Vance doesn't know anything about rednecks because he grew up in suburban Cincinnati–just like both of his parents.

This is good, and also, I can't get over how many folks tend to look down their noses at really great books we could assign kids to get them hooked on reading. If I had a nickel for every time someone rolled their eyes at The Hate U Give, I could probably retire. slate.com/life/2025/10...

Credit where credit is due! share.inquirer.com/GCZoYe

My kingdom for a Democratic leadership that understands this basic fact.

Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?

One thing I really appreciate about @mattbarnum.bsky.social is that he's never afraid to say something is complicated and needs more research! cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/the-southe...

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

Wow. One of the things they deleted was the history of the Individuals with Disabilities Act.

Amen.

How Does New Jersey Fund Its Schools — And How Can We Make It Fairer? - New Jersey Policy Perspective - www.njpp.org/publications...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

"Unlike the Oklahoma Catholic school at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case, Riverstone is not a charter school. Rather, both the BOCES and the Colorado education department have referred to it as a “contract school,” a term that’s not defined in state law."

I think there's a direct line between Trump's obvious dislike of women as a group and his wanton destruction of the East Wing, but I guess that's not a kitchen table issue or whatever.

Very straight forward electoral organizing concept. Going directly to Black voters about your political campaign and asking what they want or need from political representation in government. More Dems should try it 😏

Our state colleges are not owned by Trump and they aren’t for sale. UVA is a world renowned public university. Our principles should guide our actions, not politically motivated guidance and illegal threats from the DOJ. The letter @creighdeeds.bsky.social and I sent to Pres. Mahoney & the BOV:

The age of Big Data has hamstrung our elites even as it empowers them. When you think you can predict what people think, you don’t bother to, well, *ask* them. This not only makes you ignorant (and ignorant of your ignorance), it also deprives you of a power-building organizing opportunity.

Oh.

UVA strikes deal to anger its legislative body and slow alumni donations.

Co-chairing a search for an early career higher education faculty member. If you or a student of yours is on the market let me know! DMs open, etc