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I don't think people account for how much centrist-reactionary engagement with the right comes from a boredom with the left. Not saying its right! Just an understated cause.

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

This administration is also implicitly threatening his life with charges of treason

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I think universities have to be cognizant that public engagement means you still have to protect Black faculty. Kirk made his money sowing murderous, hateful perspectives about Black faculty in particular. That makes us vulnerable VERY vulnerable. There is a reason a handful a HBCUs canceled class.

I did it! I deleted a post that may have jeopardized my professional future because it expressed dissatisfaction with the status quo in a week where multiple people who didn’t do that did get fired. Please clap. 😃

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

Just remember that even saying the most obvious things about how dude lived his life has gotten a number of people fired this week. And this is the normal course of things. Ain’t no backup.

Greetings from #APSA! Vancouver is a beautiful city and a common filming location. The view from the conference center will look familiar if you've ever seen the Jackie Chan classic, Rumble In The Bronx.

If you think Trump turning the military on red states means he's going after his own supporters, you are goddamn stupid. Every state is purple; red states just have fewer urban ppl than blue. He's threatening *liberal* cities - mainly minorities. Ppl who already face oppression from their state

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

I was an IR major in T1 and I was required to write a memo as though I was a staffer in DT’s admin. My memo suggested ignoring an accidental bombing of civilians abroad and suggested the press sec should push a different story. I was yelled at but the assignment.

You could get into masculinity and cultus conservatism and political identity. But there is, IMO, always a base level (god help me) psychological desire for attention beneath this. That part seems to just be the natural distribution of traits.

Looking forward to sharing my research and meeting new people as I enter the Job Market at #APSA next week. I present this paper on a fantastic panel at 2pm on 9/12.

I woke up today and said "I can't believe APSA's in 2 weeks" and then I looked at my calendar and realized I leave in 9 days. 😅

“You risked your life out here to save the community,” the firefighter said. “This is how they treat us.”

I assume this because UM has proprietary AI and the more smart students “feeding” your AI the better it will be, presumably.

Are you a graduate student in political science? We want to hear from you! @apsa.bsky.social is currently running a survey to understand more about experiences and challenges of grad students. We will use results of this survey to help provide better resources and support.

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Yes lynching was both social control of the oppressed and signal to others to demonstrate the power of the oppressor [make sure that all white people know which side they should choose]

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

There's a lot going on in the academy right now and grad students are vulnerable to all of it. 100% of every donation goes straight to student recipients. The need is greater than our resources but please donate if you can 💛

It occurs to me SCOTUS gives no explanation, in part, to avoid establishing precedent that could benefit a future democrat, leaving these decisions to the whims of the 6 in perpetuity.

Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story. The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

And:

Some really crucial context on aid to Gaza:

Expectations about Black voter behavior often apply expectations based on Boomers to later generations...but they aren't the majority anymore. GenZ and Millennials are now half of the Black Voting Age Population.

This idea that families and churches “hold communities together” while true is so limited. Clubs, bars, and music venues also “hold communities together”

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can you imagine how many people arrived at Ellis Island and thought “I’m never going to see my family again, and that’s great”

Really looking forward to sharing my work on BLM mobilization and issue framing in 2020! Thank you to UC Irvine for offering such generous travel and housing support, which became essential when the NSF that was supporting other research was canceled last week.

During the election there was a lot of talk about people of color moving towards Trump. This afternoon @jawspolisci.bsky.social I'll share my research examining that tendency among Black voters. Is this happening, and if so how? Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

… is what Claudia Jean Cregg *would say* if you miss our panel on Black Politics next Wed, April 23 from 3pm et/12pm pt feat papers by @aricaschuett.bsky.social and Curtis Edmonds. Register 👉 american.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Details 👇

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I have an outfit that in my head is called “Black girl Randy Johnson.” Know that if you ever see me in it I am very amused that I’m secretly cosplaying a 90s baseball player who looks like General Custer and no one around me has a clue.

Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies. She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas. Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia. I can't stop thinking about her. 💔