IN NEW ISSUE: Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argueethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/VaeXszt @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argueethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/NRIhzdE @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

White racial resentment used to undermine support for the Supreme Court. Now it boosts it find ‪‪@kshoub.bsky.social‬ of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, @jamilscott.bsky.social of Georgetown University and @leahchristiani.bsky.social of Hunter College, CUNY blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argue ethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/lKIRdo7 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

It’s awesome that Senate Democrats are voting to pass Trump’s budget while he’s at the DOJ calling them a bunch of criminals and saying newspapers and MSNBC should be illegal. That’s great, good job guys.

If you think you can do better, the last 8 hours and 8 years absolutely prove that you can. #RunForSomething

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

Also for the love of god faculty wake the fuck up and pressure your institutions to stop the nonsense. Academia has become the primary site of repression because we allowed it to be. We invited this onto our students, our campuses, our nation.

Now we wait to see if the courts will protect, and compensate this man from this illegal transgression. Meanwhile his wife & lawyers don’t even know where he is. Make no mistake the process of deportation, successful or not, is torture.

I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

They’re deleting websites while we watch the Super Bowl This one for CHILD TAX CREDITS

And what code did he push to production in the meantime ?

Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.) www.politico.com/live-updates...

At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought. “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

These women are your FRIENDS They fight for FREEDOM

University presidents should be shouting about how Trump is shutting down the research that benefits *all* Americans, whether Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, better road materials, safer cars, more efficient air conditioning, etc etc.

So if Congressional Republicans fear Musk attacking them on X, and fear him siccing his followers there on them, they could weaken the power of X by leaving it. I would welcome having them here on Bluesky!

Democrats are finally starting to use the correct language - coup, constitutional crisis, and so forth. The next steps: -act like you believe it, instead of pivoting back to confirming Trump nominees between every angry speech -DIRECTLY lambast news outlets for not actually conveying the crisis

Private groups making lists of Black folks who they think are out of line is some Jim Crow shit, and it primes for extra legal violence.

If I study anxiety via threat-biased attention, the word "biased" gets me flagged. You can't design a study of humans without using at least one of the terms on the banned list, which means that biomedical, brain, social science research is now on ice in the USA

The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Let's talk about the history and present of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). It was introduced in the 90s as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 -- the last time Congress did a major reform of immigration. 🧵

Appreciate @schatz.bsky.social's hold on nominees for statement dept. A good start but too narrow given Musk's targeting of treasury & other agencies. Dems need to put blanket hold on all Sen related business and deny unanimous consent until Rs join Ds to shut down Musk's unconst. DOGE maneuvers

The fact that democrats didn’t come up with a plan to counter trump just *doing* project 2025 is baffling. They had months.

You can if you’re the democrats and you have yourselves to campaign against

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

Okay. Now my Senator is getting some momentum.

Well my Open Secrets activity where students investigate who donates to their MCs won’t work for Monday… everything now ends with “no data found.” Apparently they pipe in their data from federal websites. Is there another way for us to see top donors to candidates? Incl individuals + groups?

Presidency-ending scandals for everyone from Truman to Obama, happening on an hourly basis now

Let's be VERY clear here. Trump does *not* have the authority to withhold federal funding from public schools for what they teach. The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act is very explicitly clear on this. #EduSky www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...

1/ Happy to announce a new paper at @PolBehavior with Andreas Jozwiak & Eroll Kuhn. Recent work links ⬆️immigration flows to backlash, esp⬆️far right voting. We ask if it's a general feature of migration politics by testing effects of *co-ethnic* immigration. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argueethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/4hfsKQw @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW! Race, Voice, and Authority in Discussion Groups https://buff.ly/3C0DdjG By @elizabethelder.bsky.social , @profkarpo.bsky.social & Tali Mendelberg

This is us. We are pushing back. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argue that ethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polsudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/4hfsKQw @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

Really hard to understand why Luigi Mangione inspired so much support!

This was a fun surprise when catching up on podcasts this morning!