IF the Biden DOJ thought Homan had to perform an official act to charge him because of recent jurisprudence, then their $50,000 payment to him looks like a massive parlay bet that: (a) Biden/Harris would lose, (b) Trump would reappoint Homan, (c) Homan would do it, and (d) TRUMP’s DOJ WOULD INDICT.

they’re still posting pre-kickoff graphics with kickers’ touchback percentage. must not have gotten the memo that touchbacks aren’t good anymore

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

No, it shouldn't be just another Saturday. We demand our leaders to treat this like the abuse of power it is.

A story in three acts.

It is insanity that this hugely consequential news — whether Trump’s EO vomit tirade about H1Bs applies to current visa holders — is sourced *anonymously*! No one will go on record to clarify the new rules!? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

it’s really incredible, given how favorable the court environment is for him in expectation, how often Trump’s relationship with the courts is the Babadook why can’t you just be normal meme

Thrilled that my paper "Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States" with Nic Fishman, @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social, and @dashunwang.bsky.social was published in @science.org today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This kind of poll has been debunked over and over. It's clickbait that harms society by convincing people that their fellow citizens are stupider than they really are. academic.oup.com/poq/article-...

Incredible bullet list. No notes.

you are not nearly interesting enough for the government to go after you, specifically, for the crime of your email address appearing in the records of indivisible [dot] org

it is telling that no matter what you think about the evidence against derek chauvin as a legal matter, one thing is clear: george floyd is dead, chauvin was given a full trial with all the bells and whistles, and a jury of his peers convicted him. this has nothing to do with free speech principles.

I am sure that conservative evangelical megachurches are absolutely stumbling over themselves book hasan piker to come and mock them

This is probably obvious but the consolidation of the American economy into a handful of companies makes it a lot easier for a single strongman to control the economy

comedy is illegal again

people generally understand that when Obama says things like "we disagree that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake" that's a shiv, right?

This. I told a student group that I declined their debate invitation but that I would love to read something together and have a conversation. The response: crickets. Let's stop debating and try to talk with each other instead.

Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?

a lot of people approach political discussion as a contest where someone holds the single correct answer and whoever says the right words in the right combination will eventually force their opponent into submission. that can be good content, but it isn't "civil discourse" bsky.app/profile/mmas...

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

you should argue with the Searchlight Institute's mission statement instead of the New York Times headline. it's just as provocative, but cites Schattschneider. www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/our...

Tungsten Arm O'Doyle can move across town but he's still Tungsten Arm O'Doyle

I guess we have our answer to “who actually *should* take a call from Chotiner?”

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

you’d think dentists would have ideological objections to bubblegum flavored fluoride treatment

the reason they had to call it cancel "culture" was that the restrictions on speech they objected to were ~entirely enacted and enforced via social norms. what they're aiming to replace that with is backed by the state. that's much different. that point comes up in this WP: osf.io/7v4zj

seems like specifying that it's "true American patriots" doing the violence might be load-bearing here

from page one of my Intro American syllabus:

pacific time is a trip man. I had an 8am panel and missed uva kicking off

for all the talk about the university as a temple of inquiry, free thought, and diversity of perspectives helping society converge toward truth, this crowd has exactly one (1) take.

I would hazard a guess that people with more recognizable belief systems are likelier to be socialized into the proper channels of political conflict

Class by Education in the 2024 CCES.

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

landed in Vancouver —> self-service customs —> boarded train to the city (tap credit card to pay a single ride fare) in less than 30 minutes a better world is possible

Honoring democracy means eschewing terror as a political tool, but it also means taking people’s words and ideas seriously as a reflection of their goals and personal character.

that they're invoking the Butler shooting to explain their anger at the left is particularly egregious given that we know the Butler shooter wasn't left-wing! there's a lesson in there about not jumping to conclusions about shooters' motives that everyone is refusing to learn!

not that anyone here really needs to hear this but it’s actually extremely ~uncivil~ to pin a murder on an entire group of people without any evidence beyond political disagreement

Research: Believing that the mass public in the opposing party supports undemocratic tactics leads people to be more supportive of undemocratic tactics themselves. Being assured that a majority of your opponents oppose such radical tactics increases support for democratic norms osf.io/my987/download

a difference between this and the murder of Melissa Hortman — not morally, but practically and politically — is that everyone who works in the discourse personally knows Charlie Kirk at least in passing

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

especially frustrating in all this is that his stated reason for making a surprise/unannounced appearance at an event featuring a former hostage was to not draw attention away from that feature, which of course is exactly what comments like these are going to do

I've made ideological perception data I've been working on for a while available at the Harvard Dataverse and put together a website here voterperceptions.org with a bunch of visualizations about it and with too much explanation. I've spent too much time on this, so I hope people find it useful

this is insane, we know it's his signature, we don't need this level of analysis! the people claiming otherwise aren't arguing in good faith!! bsky.app/profile/wash...

New JEPS: Debunking NIMBY Myths Increases Support for Affordable Housing, Especially Near Respondents' Homes www.cambridge.org/core/service... -correcting stereotypes/misperceptions re: affordable housing increases support for building it -Effects often *larger* for housing near people's homes

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.