Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Never not funny. Never. 🍂

"Racializing Gender: Public Opinion at the Intersection" - @erincassese.bsky.social, @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social & Regina Branton www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Democratic women are disadvantaged in competitive district primaries, where party elites prioritize electability & view men as safer. Republican women are disadvantaged in safe district primaries, where elites & voters assume they are less conservative. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

watching kimmel tomorrow

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

"The idea that women’s bodies are state resources for sustaining population appears to be re-emerging" Whew. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

We are a country with a violence problem and a political problem, and sometimes those overlap, and we don't always know whether they're overlapping." - Dr. Lilly Mason

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Gonna tell my kid this was The Wiggles.

Bookmarks arrived. Wish I had them last week at #APSA2025!

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Re: weighted vest women. Here (from Century of Votes for Women), Corder and I talk about security moms in 2004, quoting the brilliant Sue Carroll (@cawp-ru.bsky.social). THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...

no absolutely not no www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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/...

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

I want every outfit that Helen Mirren wears in Thursday Murder Club.

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quo—and why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successors. @juliaazari.bsky.social's Backlash Presidents publishes September 23 (18 November UK pub). Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A new measure of democratic erosion just dropped. (21?)

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

NEW In her new book, former Vice-President Kamala Harris says she wanted to pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate but she knew she couldn’t do it because she was already asking America to accept a Black woman married to a Jewish man as their President. Full Story: bit.ly/46HJ21Y

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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

My contribution to the day's discourse: Actually, climate and LGBTQ issues are already among the Democratic Party's strongest issues. www.pbump.net/o/climate-ch...

The AEA released the committee's report on the 2023 climate survey and it's chock full of depressing stuff, but I couldn't help but notice this pull quote. Posted here without further commentary. 👀

Thank you to everyone who attended our 20th Anniversary roundtable at #APSA2025! @mlkrook.bsky.social , Karen Beckwith, Mary Caputi, @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cwolbrecht.bsky.social had an insightful conversation about their time as editors and the role of P&G in Political Science. 🧵1/8

🧵5/8 @cwolbrecht.bsky.social and @sfranceschet.bsky.social also reflected on their special edition on the gendered impacts of COVID. It was one of the first call for papers about the pandemic in 2020 and helped in growing the journal's reach. tinyurl.com/4k4aa5r8

The real problem with the Biden-era Democratic Party? They pursued policy goals rather than build the party. @johnsides.bsky.social shares insight from @samrosenfeld.bsky.social & Danny Scholzman: goodauthority.org/news/the-rea...

Anyway. Periodic job listings update. #psjminfo The market is worse than last year, but it's better than the COVID market. Interpret as you wish. www.politicalsciencejobs.org/job-listings

Chotiner interview with @lilymasonphd.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I drop everything for a @dieworkwear.bsky.social thread.

literally the NYT rn.

I can't remember the details, and can't find them now, for my favorite Robert Redford anecdote, but: When Indecent Proposal was being discussed, someone asked a film critic if she would sleep with Robert Redford for $1 million, and she replied, "Yes, but where would I get the money?"

Definitely time to rewatch Sneakers.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Apropos of, well, lot of things.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

This is such a good book, y'all. An important read for those interested in gender and American political development as well.

When I walked into our #APSA25 book roundtable, GOAT Jenny Mansbridge was in the front row with a copy of the book and I can die happy now.

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

“It is sometimes considered gauche, in the world of American political commentary, to give words the weight of their meaning.” Quite a line.