Kudos to @supolisci.bsky.social Ph.D. candidates @nickdamico.bsky.social @hannahradner.bsky.social and Jingding Wang on their APSA prizes! Nick won a prize for his diss proposal while Hannah and Jingding each won an @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG fellowship! www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article...

Day 17: Using 2016 CMPS data, @nickdamico.bsky.social‬ finds widespread feelings of linked fate in the LGBTQ community in "Rainbow Consciousness? Exploring the Political Outcomes and Dynamics of Queer Linked Fate" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

"If the president of the United States says we're lying, and I have the truth, I'm going to publish the truth”: Jeffrey Goldberg on The Atlantic's decision to publish the Signal chats following the Trump administration’s initial response to the leak. theatln.tc/WOm72fnu

🚨New article alert🚨 SU PoliSci PhD candidate @nickdamico.bsky.social has a new article out at PS on "Rainbow Consciousness? Exploring the Political Outcomes and Dynamics of Queer Linked Fate". Congrats Nick! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It just seems insane to me that this would be legal, but what do I know.

Deeply disturbing

As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.

As we watch DOGE and the current US Presidents begin to purge LGBTQ+ folks from the government, a reminder that 75 years ago, the US government purged 10,000 queer people from the ranks of federal employees. nothing new under the sun mattachinesocietywashingtondc.org/wp-content/u...

Nearly one in 10 adults in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ, according to a large analysis from Gallup released Thursday — almost triple the share since Gallup began counting in 2012, and up by two-thirds since 2020. nyti.ms/42ZZGIN

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Gift link—latest from @jamellebouie.net on the stakes of what we’re facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

As with the climate, the American catastrophe has already happened. We are no longer afraid, then; we are *in* the distress we once feared. There’s not an “assault” on democracy, the media, the GOP, rule of law, liberal values. They’ve been vanquished. Our language & routines now have to catch up.