1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

wrote an op-ed in our local paper drawing attention to the effects of USAID cuts on Illinois businesses TL;DR it's bad!! How USAID funding cuts hurt Illinois www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

The White House's press release on widespread USAID fraud shows nothing of the sort, @charlesjkenny.bsky.social writes. He explains in a new blog post:

Interactive map of USAID agriculture cut impacts on farms, ports across the US storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29fc...

Andrew Natsios, USAID administrator in the George W. Bush administration, has a few things to say about the Trump/Musk/Rubio assault on the agency. Worth watching. No pulling punches. via PBSNewsHour www.youtube.com/live/ZI6XIKx...

Right on the money, from my esteemed colleague. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Interesting to not see Texas among the GOP states initially supporting Trump’s birthright citizenship EO irp.cdn-website.com/6a12d959/fil...

@benjaminhelms.bsky.social and I published a paper in 2022 showing that TPS, because it increases remittances, actually decreases subsequent unauthorized migration. academic.oup.com/isq/article-...

Quick effort by a group of USAID supporters to mobilize against the shutdown and takeover -- includes a rally in DC on Wednesday. Website here:

Our congressional delegation pursuing oversight on reports of Elon Musk’s illegal activity at USAID was just barred from entering the building on the orders of Musk and the Trump Administration. Nobody elected Musk — this is illegal and corrupt and we will keep fighting it.

FYI

Can the president dissolve USAID without an act of Congress? No. www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...

🚨Why do people turn out less in some places than others, even in compulsory voting systems?🚨 In our new paper, forthcoming at BJPS, we highlight the role of migratory turnover in increasing voting costs for communities and test it using new municipal panel data from Brazil.

OK, here is my pre-registered take: Trump will make American immigration attitudes great again, again. goodauthority.org/news/trump-2...

A 75-degree day in Houston - who knew it could happen?

Spot my newest office decoration.

Excited to share that my article "War on Aisle 5: Casualties, National Identity, and Consumer Behavior", coauthored with Sonal Pandya and Rajkumar Venkatesan, has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution! Take a look here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

"By extending temporary protection to certain people who are already here and giving them the opportunity to work, TPS is a smart and humane way to improve the lives of people living here and abroad." Check out my piece on TPS with David Leblang and Tom Jawetz with CNN www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/o...

The Biden administration has extended TPS to more Venezuelans, offering them legal labor market access in the US. In research with David Leblang, we find that TPS helps migrants send remittances home, and if anything, reduces subsequent migration. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/n...