Sometimes going to grad school feels a lot like choosing the dinner with jay z

The job market has really shrunk for Black scholars. So many schools are doing their best to get rid of us or never hire us. I know way too many folks suing their institutions or the state over what they research and teach.

Consider that there are 0 Black political scientists at research universities in the mountain time zone region.

I've spent sometime over the last few months working on a way to generate quizzes for my students based on their own papers. I might write up a blog about my experiment later, but for now here is the code if anyone is interested in trying. github.com/reuning/quiz...

As western society proceeds in their propaganda of making a Israel out to be the good actor and victim of aggression, images like these tell a drastically different story. May these children live long lives and heal from these torturous years.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind. "In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history." x.com/SamDalrymple...

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Nashville, Tennessee, a shocking ICE blockade that resulted in shattered glass and suspected gunfire.

Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

the oversized shoe thing seems like the kind of minor detail that will be used 100s of years from now to efficiently explain what ~all of this~ was like

When you’re a first year PhD student asked to review for some pretty good journals

Was rereading Bartels's Ethnic antagonism article & found a good example of what not accounting for method can do. He estimates an acquiescence factor to control for method effects b/c outcomes and many predictors share response scales. These are hearty method effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Whatever we’re doing, it’s not enough.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Sending @repilhan.bsky.social sincere admiration tonight.

Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE. First no funding. Impeach Noem. Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN. Demand that Miller resign. Don’t let up.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

At some point, academics are going to need to take responsibility for the ways their research has influenced the most despicable ways society responds to "crime". Like, broken windows policing, the more and better police training academic crowd continues to harm without shame.

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’” Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:

Meanwhile… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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If there's an ICE watch in your city, sign up for trainings today!!!

Once the dam breaks…

This secret police force is brutal, indifferent to humanity, and acting with impunity. And the owner is on each, and every one of us to protest every single thing they do every single day, and whatever ways we can.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

another reason why people have given up on procedural or incremental reforms is that the courts just do not discipline killer cops

The casual way so many USians feel they have a right to an opinion about who runs another country (“I don’t like Maduro, but”)—in the congress, in the press, just amongst random dipshits—shows how imperial our mindset is. What happened in Venezuela is all our failure & all of our responsibility

He’s out of his freaking mind. The next target may be Mexico as he already warned their President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump. She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.

Venezuelan friends telling me stuff's blowing up in Caracas and power is out in parts of the city. Fuck this war criminal administration. Send them to hell.

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing. That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy. It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them. In a report out in Jan +

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

“some of us don’t need to be reminded to not buy starbucks on the strike because we have actual taste in coffee lol” oh really? should we tell everyone? should we tell Bella hadid??? Anyway, starbucks workers are now striking. Stand with labor and get your coffee elsewhere.

CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.

not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?

100 people. One hundred people. In this economy. You have got to be kidding me, this is some [signal drops]

@mattseybold.bsky.social I just read your new AV blog post about CUNY stepping in for public ed-tech. 1) Bold, love it; 2) Lina Khan, who is in the transition team, might be into it. Anyone we know has an in with her? Maybe @moacir.com who's doing digital librarian type work for the DSA...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...