The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Just in time for federalism week. Ugh.

Someone please kill me right now.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

What is required for someone to be an American? 30% of Republicans say being White is very or somewhat important. www.pbump.net/o/what-makes...

historical comparison: in my 2004 survey, 10% of respondents said being white was very or somewhat important for being American vs. 18% in this YouGov survey. also, please keep putting these questions on your surveys! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I wrote a whole paper about revisions! They are a statistical best practice but can erode public trust in institutions. Governments don't revise their data unless they're forced to - which is why revisions are more prevalent among democracies (see Ireland, Greece) www.iasmingoes.com/papers/Goes-...

New paper. What happens when a presidential candidate steps way out of line, not only with the public, but even with his own voters? And on a highly salient issue? Candidates typically don’t do that—they’re too strategic. But Trump isn’t. He’s good for social science. 🧵

This error keeps popping up, this time in NYT In reality (Fig. 1), the US has ~1.1 times the police officers per capita of the OECD median The error stems from the fact that the US has uniquely decentralized federalism (you need to count multiple levels of govt) and much more private contracting

Love @goodauth.bsky.social generally and this fantastic writeup by @egojunk.bsky.social specifically! What a perfect resource on descriptive representation for my REP students — simultaneously an approachable introduction and a cornucopia of links for those who want to dive deeper 🤩

If you pay attention: everything they say they don’t like for Black people: affirmative action, diversity hires, quotas, identity politics, ideological litmus tests, they are trying to mandate and enforce for white people.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Students at CSU are losing their student visas for participating in protests supporting human rights in Gaza. The national headlines may be all about the ivies, but the Trump administration is violating students' First Amendment rights everywhere.