thinking of Jessica Cisneros this morning and what could have been if those 2020 and 2022 primaries had gone slightly differently!

Reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t... And enjoying. Below.

Heartbreaking reading www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging?? like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak

I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging?? like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak

Some all-new collegiate punctuation marks to rival the Oxford comma, from New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g2qa5v

reviewing my second ever article and I'm afraid I'm reviewer 2 here

one of my funnier moments living in New Haven was defeating this guy's brother, who was also a city alderman at the time, in beer pong at a party

Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats

one of my funnier moments living in New Haven was defeating this guy's brother, who was also a city alderman at the time, in beer pong at a party

Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers

The problem was never "cancel culture." The problem is that our elites have no shame. And many are also pretty terrible people

Our @apsrjournal.bsky.social article is now in print! We develop a theory to explain why the public doesn't become more prosocial toward LGBTQ+ people after illegitimate anti-LGBTQ+ violence and provide causal, externally valid, evidence for the theory across 4 studies doi.org/10.1017/S000...

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

The problem was never "cancel culture." The problem is that our elites have no shame. And many are also pretty terrible people

I will be presenting some early stage work at @europeatharvard.bsky.social . Do join if you are around! ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

San Francisco will have a new representative for the first time since like 2 years after the first registered internet domain names !! It is wild to me that the leading city of the knowledge economy revolution has had the same representative throughout

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

San Francisco will have a new representative for the first time since like 2 years after the first registered internet domain names !! It is wild to me that the leading city of the knowledge economy revolution has had the same representative throughout

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

Sam Zacher & I have a paper under review basically to this effect. Among Democrats, renters have distinct left preferences in candidates (e.g. Sanders) and housing reforms (broadly YIMBYism). We find less distinction among Dem renters and homeowners with national social policy prefs.

Sam Zacher & I have a paper under review basically to this effect. Among Democrats, renters have distinct left preferences in candidates (e.g. Sanders) and housing reforms (broadly YIMBYism). We find less distinction among Dem renters and homeowners with national social policy prefs.

Democrats mostly campaign on economics. In addition to @rachelporter.bsky.social's evidence, this is true for the national party's platforms and legislative priorities, and what Dem MCs tweet about, regardless of their district or if they are a Progressive! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Democrats mostly campaign on economics. In addition to @rachelporter.bsky.social's evidence, this is true for the national party's platforms and legislative priorities, and what Dem MCs tweet about, regardless of their district or if they are a Progressive! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I don't think you are actually anti genocide if you're not also anti Nazi

Can't help but compare their story about No Kings yesterday to the anti-immigration protests in London last month. "Large crowds" when it's millions of left to center ppl and "huge crowd" when its tens of thousands of rightwingers (not remotely similar mobilization even controlling for US vs UK pop)

The ai dumping shit on protestors is just a crazy thing for a us president to post, even for him

Boston #NoKings It’s our country too.

Boston #NoKings It’s our country too.

Nationalism is wild. A Scottish acquaintance just insta posted abt being at a real life event commemorating English attacks in 1545. Like, my guy, that is a rather long time ago. A lot has happened with Scottish-English relations since, inc union bc Scotland was so bad at colonization by itself

Columbus is probably the single clearest example of the limits of the person of the times argument

Which also mentions this cool paper by @malpas.bsky.social et al! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nationalism is wild. A Scottish acquaintance just insta posted abt being at a real life event commemorating English attacks in 1545. Like, my guy, that is a rather long time ago. A lot has happened with Scottish-English relations since, inc union bc Scotland was so bad at colonization by itself

California!! Rare to feel political optimism, but CA is taking real action on housing affordability, its biggest issue, with #SB79. Last time I was home, I could see clear evidence of the state’s recent zoning liberalization in my parents’ neighborhood. So good!

California!! Rare to feel political optimism, but CA is taking real action on housing affordability, its biggest issue, with #SB79. Last time I was home, I could see clear evidence of the state’s recent zoning liberalization in my parents’ neighborhood. So good!

Also kinda incredible he could write this whole piece without mentioning that the first major modern British immigration controls were trying to restrict Jewish emigration from eastern Europe!

Proud to be from @rephuffman.bsky.social district. Rare to have a member of Congress speak like this

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This is a great opportunity for students interested in a PhD in political science in the US! We help break down opaque parts of the application process and provide students with individualized feedback. I recommend interested students apply, especially those not coming from elite R1 universities

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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I just walked by a wall with pro-Palestine messages in Cambridge, several miles from Auchincloss's district. Two volunteers were updating it: they were the most normie-looking 60 year-old white women. I don't think these Democrats have grasped the sea change of Palestine opinion among their voters

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You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM

Is anyone systematically tracking these university punishments for speech versus those for being insufficiently "woke" over the last decade?

Is anyone systematically tracking these university punishments for speech versus those for being insufficiently "woke" over the last decade?