If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, stop acting like one.

The never ending march of self-appointed useful iditos who obviously know better continues…

Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

Such an absolutely incredible read. I've thought about having my students read it in my African politics course.

stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...

APSA-bound #polisky: register for the Pol. Psych Pre-Conf by Friday (8/15)! Featuring @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, @valentimvicente.bsky.social , @mjcohen.bsky.social, @agtheodoridis.bsky.social, S. Feldman, M. Pickup, L. Stephenson, T. Ollerenshaw, & O. Christley! www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-polit...

I'm a fan of @theatlantic.com, but the faux naïveté of this article is baffling. Why entertain the illusion that deploying the military to DC/LA/etc. has anything to do with safety? The article actually suggests practical changes, as if the admin. simply got the policy wrong. Embarrassing.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social has been really good about talking about this youth bulge crisis and how it is going to reshape our politics. Dems need to address this as a serious policy position.

Calling @ceaubin.bsky.social

Hey @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social - Great episode of The Next Level. Take a look at Tobias Cremer's "The Godless Crusade" about religion, populism, and right-wing identity politics. It directly addresses your convo on Chr. Nationalism. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

(This is my actual view, the above is just my snarky reply to those who whine about recognizing Palestine being a “reward” for 10/7)

I’ll repeat it until I’m blue in the face: it’s very important that recognition of Palestine not be taken as rewarding Hamas for 10/7. We must instead be clear that it’s punishing Israel for its hyper-aggressive intransigence over the past year+.

“It is time for American Jewry to take an accounting of how many of our communal institutions and leaders are continuing to defend and support a war that has left an unbearable path of death and destruction in its wake.” @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social

I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating. I was in Afgh. for a short time for USAID and had the pleasure to work with incredible Afghanis. I wrote letters to support their green cards. Their treatment by this administration is morally repugnant. Absolute betrayal

A stain upon our nation. Shame on us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Eye opening, even for those of us tuned in to the radicalization of the right.

This is exactly right. This has to be some of the mealiest-mouthed reporting in a long time.

To all of those think-tankers writing solemn papers about how to get to a ceasefire: The war will not end until Ukraine wins

Calling all political psych and political behavior #polisky scholars! Don't forget to register for the pre-conference this year before APSA. We have an excellent speaker lineup and we'll be discussing the psychology of authoritarianism.

It's true; it's not antisemitic to be critical of a nation-state. It is, however, deeply antisemitic to post an image attempting to draw connections between an imagined cabal of tangentially linked public figures purely on the basis of most of them (not even all) being Jewish.

An excellent piece in @theatlantic.com by the always excellent @radiofreetom.bsky.social : www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

These disgusting, racist attacks on Mamdani reflect the larger pivot of the GOP away from substance and policy toward pure hatred and xenophobia. This is what a party without ideas looks like.

An interesting piece in @theatlantic.com by @jonathanbchait.bsky.social about the Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani. But I think it pulls the main punch, which is that, in Trumpworld, the primary mode of performance *is* racism and hatred.

This excellent in @theatlantic.com piece highlights how a singular focus on Israel by so many distorts the situation, blinds us to potential solutions, and perpetrates a myth in which only Israelis have agency.

In 2013, I spent a small amount of time in Afghanistan with USAID. Many of our Afghan staff sought entry to the US to avoid Taliban retribution. I was proud to write them letters of support. The idea that we would repay their service with this betrayal is sickening.

For anyone interested in Lumumba and Congo, @stuartareid.bsky.social wrote an incredible book: "The Lumumba Plot." I highly, HIGHLY recommend it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616779...

I think @jonathanbchait.bsky.social does a great job detailing the fine line that many have had to walk over the past few years. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

In “Violent Riots and South African Satisfaction with Democracy”, @profjslewis.bsky.social finds that exposure to local violent riots is correlated to reduced satisfaction with democracy. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you to @timmiller.bsky.social and @thebulwark.com for continuing to champion the cause of someone unlawfully abducted and brought to a gulag in order to satisfy the terrible impulses of this autocratic government.

An excellent article from @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This was a KILLER episode, and @ceaubin.bsky.social is producing one of the slickest, best researched popular audience history podcasts out there.

As a side note, if anyone is interested in fun history podcasts, check out my friend @ceaubin.bsky.social 's pod, "This Guy Sucked." Really great episodes lately! www.thisguysucked.com

Now that Elon's on bad derech with Trump, I wonder if he'll fund my two research grants that he unceremoniously killed.

We have some news: Our fundraiser tonight for Andry with @crooked.com has SOLD OUT! But if you want to join @timmiller.bsky.social , @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jonlovett.bsky.social in helping him, donate now here: freeandry.org

Attention all #polisky folks interested in political psychology - we are happy to announce our pre-conference in Vancouver!!! We'll have excellent speakers, a panel discussion, and research poster presentations! Propose your poster here: forms.office.com/r/vPM6h7CHCg

This is so deeply sick

French Holocaust Memorial, Two Synagogues Vandalized With Green Paint in Paris www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...

An excellent piece

This is just awful. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

This piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social is excellent.

hey @avishaybsg.bsky.social - what do things feel like on the ground? Are things shifting?

"As sunlight fell over the same harbor my grandfather once described with such longing, I felt something shift. The past was no longer distant. It was real, present and deeply personal." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Great question

Hi #polisky comparativists and experimentalists ... I'm working on a piece from an RCT that I ran in Zimbabwe and wanted to know whether I might impose upon a few of you to give it a read. I will reimburse you with beers at APSA this September!

Is there an emoji for mic drop? School is in session

Well, this seems bad. www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

An unbelievable violation of everything that America should stand for.

"What if we didn't suck" is a surprisingly resonant message for Dems in 2025.

For those interested in the study of antisemitism in #polisky, I think Feinberg makes an excellent point here - we need to move toward a rigorous, standardized, and transparent approach. ejewishphilanthropy.com/from-crisis-...

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...