Had a great time presenting and learning from colleagues at @priec.bsky.social Thanks @dadakim.bsky.social and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for organizing PRIEC’s 20th anniversary🌟

Whoever took these candid photos deserves a raise. Thank you, @priec.bsky.social, for capturing so much of our 20th anniversary celebration conference. Excited for all of the other PRIECs this anniversary year!!!

Congratulations @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, and the rest of the @ucrpolisci.bsky.social crew for organizing a terrific program!!

It was exhilarating celebrating 20 years of PRIEC! 🎊

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

Do Trump's attacks on the media, congress, and the courts undermine citizens' views on democracy? Hear UCR professor @dadakim.bsky.social describe a recently published study on effects of anti-democratic speech on US voters: youtube.com/shorts/LybBe... #polisky

In my family we refer to young children as tlacuaches, and only use two tones when doing so: one when they are rascals and the other when they are cherubs. So fitting.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

When we train people to use AI, we're "training people to explain away the inconsistencies of Large Language Models, and to assume individual responsibility for what is an innate flaw in how large language models work." Fantastic essay: www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Meet Viviana Rivera-Burgos, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient Project Title: Puerto Rico Public Opinion Laboratory Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Baruch College, City University of New York Viviana Rivera-Burgos is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department…

WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.

Muppets? More like… 🎼 🎶 “Poor unfortunate souls In pain In need This one longing to be thinner That one wants to get the girl And do I help them? Yes, indeed.” -Ursula, circa 1989 🎵 🎶

Today, I voted to open impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump for the constitutional crisis he has incited. My statement:

Good to note the through line to antebellum south. I’ll add that weirdos pushing replacement conspiracy are projecting a very specific American *collective* guilt that also traces to 1st Nations genocide, displacement, & coast-to-coast land theft that even good folks in the North championed.

After being told no, Republicans are *still* trying to use their Big Ugly Bill to sell off and destroy our public lands. I'm going to fight like hell to stop it.

Truly a regression to the Republican mean, and certainly not from a statistical anomaly. Cult of personality is a hell of a drug.

I am so fucking happy for every person that knocked a door, made a video, put on a shirt, went out in the heat -- to put your heart & soul into a campaign and then win is the kind of thing that can fuel your activism for a decade.

The leaders who got us to this point were never going to be the ones who get us to the next one. A generational shift in power is here.

Federal troops on the streets of L.A. to crush immigration #protests? It’s not just unprecedented; It echoes the darkest chapters of U.S. #history. An expert traces how Trump’s move recalls the use of militarized force under Jim Crow: buff.ly/ziuetKp

Such an ugly timeline we are on. #NoKing www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Dear @repyassansari.bsky.social I am your constituent. Shut it down. There is no business more important than the people’s business, & that requires certainty in our constitutionally protected 1A rights. Not tomorrow. Not let’s wait and see. Now. Shut it down. Please. And, thank you. #NoKings

Dear Senator @schumer.senate.gov I love the energy & I agree that we need answers now. The only way for that to happen is for you to lead an effort to shut it down. No more votes, no more confirmations. Do not give an inch. You are the people’s check on tyranny. #NoKings

Dear @captmarkkelly.bsky.social I am your constituent. Shut it down. There is no business more important than the people’s business, which requires certainty in our constitutionally protected 1A rights. Not tomorrow, not let’s wait and see. Now. Shut it down. Please. And, thank you. #NoKings

Dear @gallego.senate.gov I am your constituent. Shut it down. There is no business more important than the people’s business, and that requires certainty in our constitutionally protected 1A rights. Not tomorrow, not let’s wait and see. Now. Shut it down. Please. And, thank you. #NoKings

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

What’s next if we don’t oppose this tyranny? FBI agents put their hands on an elected official - chosen by the people! - whose job is oversight of government. Padilla leads the subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, & border safety. #NoKings @gallego.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

To the Hands Off list that has our education, our health care, our social security, our emergency management response, our CDC, our early response weather systems, our VA, we now must add HANDS OFF our duly elected by the people U.S. Senators. #NoKings @gallego.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

Dear Sec of DHS KristiNoem & Dir of FBI Kash Patel: No ma’am, no sir. This is NOT how our democracy works. This is not our agreement in the constitution, & certainly beyond the pale of how we treat other humans. Period. #NoKings #HandsOffOurSenators @gallego.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

First member of Congress that law enforcement puts hands on is Latino, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla. Congress people are the watchers, should not be treated like this. DHS Sec Noem & FBI say Senator Padilla didn’t identify himself. Not true. He said: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions…”

Democrats are demanding answers, but the authoritarian Trump administration responds by arresting a United States Senator and continuing to leave Americans in the dark. I won’t back down. I stand with @padilla.senate.gov.

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

If they'll do this to a Senator, what will they do to you? The authoritarian moment has arrived in the US.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

This is just dumb.

The arguments against birthright citizenship aren't credible exercises of intellectual exploration; they are anti-constitutional themselves. The purpose of the Citizenship Clause was to end the debate. Entertaining anything other than citizenship by native birth is an attack on the 14th Amendment.

and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press

political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…

Protesters gather outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee following the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan.

Why do our legislatures look like they do? I wrote about a surprising answer that came about with new data. goodauthority.org/news/its-202...

Arresting judges is what a tyrant does. This is anti-American & anti-constitutional. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U.S. of A. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. No King #NoKing abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

We are in a constitutional crisis. I’m in El Salvador to shine a light on Kilmar’s story and keep the pressure on Donald Trump to secure his safe return home.

Overdue but very welcome: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hi friends, it's that time of the semester. My public opinion class has put together an original survey, and we'd be grateful if you'd take it! It should only take about 4-5 minutes to complete. virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please let this pathetic walkback be a lesson to everyone tempted to capitulate www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...