Why aren't people protesting every week? Asked by people who don't protest. It's so damned annoying. ALSO people ARE protesting weekly. Why the hell don't you join them????

Donald Trump is openly conspiring to have his handpicked DOJ officials give him a $230 million "settlement" using taxpayer dollars, raising new questions about the salary Hunter Biden drew from a private company in Ukraine.

I was just in a long phone poll for the KLB gov campaign. I will be a data point in someone’s analysis.

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

The dude who singlehandedly controls the government is demanding it pay him a quarter of a billion dollars of our tax money as restitution for having been caught committing crimes.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Because of its hierarchical nature, the military is not traditionally seen as in institution that imparts the types of civic skills necessary to lead political change. Eager to read this and see if that generalization mischaracterizes the skills needed/obtained by Black service members.

It was one of the least effectual decisions in SCOTUS history, relative to its ambitions. every headline that says something like “scotus poised to end democracy” assumes things about the court’s authority that everyone can and should reject.

Another example of 'get in where you can get in' and everyone can do something of use... blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/a...

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

God gave me the Mariners in the ALCS so that I can have some joy while on the job market.

Does John Roberts have crypto?

This is now the blueprint for men to control trans women. Have sex with them and then threaten to go to police unless they do what he wants. It's ripe for abuse from men who will weaponize their shame. It also builds their narrative of trans women being sexual predators even when the victim.

Using AI or deepfakes would lack integrity so just use a photo from 30 years ago.

I just realized a paper I always cite from 1991 has 5 citations, one of them is me, and I don't recognize any of the other papers. I assumed this paper was really influential and everyone knew what I was talking about when I mentioned it. I have no idea how I found it.

None of the books are available, but this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen a celebrity do library.saintheron.com

More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. https://cnn.it/4pW8Xuj

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Seems like data worth centralizing

I will get to tell my grandkids someday that Lisa Cook followed me on Twitter.

I didn’t read any of the Hegseth stuff yesterday because I wanted to see the speech for myself first. Isn’t doing something like that in front of all the generals in the military really risky if they don’t take you seriously and they see how others don’t as well?

🚨Cool Paper Alert🚨 Lower Life expectancy in the South is caused by hurricanes. Why??? Path-dependent outcomes from climate disasters change the trajectories for individuals and communities.

Very Zohran-like election sign in Atlanta

Accidentally identifies the problem. Why so much focus on low quality academic work? Who is highlighting this work—influential journals and programs, or culture warring critics? A lot of research doesn’t have a political valence. Why fixate on a subset of a subset, and call it all of academia?

I was saving for an IKEA kitchen remodel for 3 years that we were going to start in 6 weeks.

Wow. Huge loss. RIP 👸🏾.

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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

#trains #transport #datavis #datascience chronotrains.com - great tool for estimating travel distance vs travel times created by Benjamin Tran Dinh tip by @forrest.nyc

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. 😃

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.

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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.

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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”