“Rather than heeding calls to pause the search until a fair & transparent process can be initiated, the Board regrettably chose to push an appointment without a duly constituted membership. This undermines the legitimacy of today’s appointment that will continue to be challenged.” - Todd Wolfson

I promise that if y’all get out of your bubbles & stop listening to the loud white guys who go on podcasts you can find actual Democratic policies & stances instead of what some guy running to be a runnerup in 2028 thinks will let him sidestep Black & Jewish voters.

@rokhanna.bsky.social: "Massie and I are drafting articles of impeachment as we speak about Pam Bondi and Blanche."

For some reason I thought that Pishko was an academic. And then I saw her white-privileged post. And then I saw that she’s in fact not an academic & is instead just an independent journalist who graduated from two Ivy League schools. That checks out.

"energy independence"

NEW AT DEMOGRAPHY: We use difference-in-difference approach using applicant vs. implemented counties w/ 287(g) ICE agreements 2000-2020 to identify a plausibly causal effect immigration enforcement leading to sizeable increase in Latino-White segregation. OPEN ACCESS PDF doi.org/10.1215/0070...

How long before this photo is memed

Here’s the Southern Baptist Convention’s top 10 news stories of 2025. Not a single one of the stories is on social justice or standing up to the Trump-Vance administration. www.baptistpress.com/resource-lib...

Trump administration targets Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande

A great overview of a great special issue, including our paper on the legacies of antifascist resistance in Italy. Thank you again @laiabalcells.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @andrearuggeri.bsky.social !

ICE has now started Operation Buckeye in Columbus, Ohio, a city with a large Somali community.

He's not kidding folks. It's a corker. "And yet, for all that this country gets right, Australia is a bit like the hottest girl in your freshman class. She looks fantastic in her crop top but suffers from crippling self-doubt." www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/o...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

It's disappointing to hear this. Sanders' performative, nativist, white-centric, blame-Democrats-for-everything movement has been an impediment to serious, mature substantive progress from the left, like the kind that used to be led by workhorses of the Senate, not showhorses like Sanders.

Bari Weiss, frankly, is a complete mediocrity (actually sub-mediocrity) who understands virtually nothing about either the news or higher education but has activist agendas of which she's 100% convinced are correct for both.

A free press cannot function if the government is able to exercise veto power over critical reporting simply by refusing to engage. The public has the right to question how CBS will ensure the independence and integrity of its journalism going forward.

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

CBS primetime shows look like they're all incredibly boring, formulaic procedurals based on the ads for them. Network TV used to be much better than this.

Read @jvl.bsky.social on "a focus group so vile that if it hadn’t been published approvingly by a Trump-loving publication, you’d have thought it was parody." www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the...

Beyond the Gates is providing helpful information about triple negative breast cancer right now.

hey #polisky - besides the annual meeting, APSA has a Virtual Research Meeting in April. connect.apsanet.org/vrm2026/ We're entirely shifting to a format of research groups: eight 90-minute sessions over two days where you curate a research network of 10-30 people to do cool shit. Examples:

Schumer moves to sue the Trump administration over Epstein files rollout

The Columbus, Ohio area, where Vance went to college, has serious white nationalism and antisemitism problems.

War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.

Just scheduled my car appointment online with something that was obviously an AI person. A brave new world.

A scathing, must-read report on the future of the Republican Party. This is what happens when party leaders like Donald Trump embrace and normalize antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and Holocaust deniers.

Happy holidays and warmest wishes from us to you! Please note that our team will be away for the holiday & approvals may be delayed. #polisky

@gtconway.bsky.social is an example of the broad liberal coalition against Trump’s authoritarianism. Conway is a conservative, a classical liberal committed to liberal democracy. He’s far more committed to liberal democracy than some of Bernie’s illiberal fellow travelers like Taibbi & Rogan.

Pope Leo's new US bishops are critics of Trump's migrant crackdown

Congress approved a housing assistance payment to troops months ago. Trump stole it from housing, turned it into checks in a symbolic amount, and pretended it was all his idea. Typical Trump. Gold plated, not solid gold.

Virtually every Republican has hugged Trump incredibly closely & now they’re completely tied to him. There’s reams of video, for example, of Lindsey Graham saying how completely he agrees with Trump. That’s going to be very helpful for @drannieandrews.com

Trump’s approval eating: 35% On the economy: 33% Percent saying the economy is getting worse: 71% Percent expecting their own financial situation to be worse a year from now: 60% Percent saying the economy’s in a recession: 58% The Trump-Vance administration is a failed administration

The 20 Most Unhinged MAGA Media Posts of 2025 (Part I)... brilliant and horrifying!! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats... "This month, Witkoff concluded his 6th trip to Russia, talking with Putin for five hours through midnight. Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine..." www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

I know a lot of white academics who live in lily-white college towns don’t think Democrats or allied groups do anything to build support. But here in much more diverse Columbia, SC, I saw a Black Voters Matter vehicle yesterday.

Ohio State should be ashamed of this man. They’re not. Instead they praise him.

Meanwhile Trump’s 2nd VP, JD Vance, encourages the bigotry that Heritage has embraced. Vance, of course, was meeting with Bannon to become the head of Heritage when he was still a “scholar” in OSU’s poli sci department with an office in Derby Hall that he rarely showed up at.

"For reasons only you know, you aligned the Heritage Foundation with the rising tide of antisemitism on the right."

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

Pope Leo in Christmas Greetings to Curia: “We can fall into the temptation of swinging between two opposite extremes: uniformity that fails to value differences, or the exacerbation of differences and viewpoints instead of seeking communion.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo called Vatican employees to learn simplicity and humility from Jesus’ birth this Christmas and “to ensure, all together, that this becomes increasingly the style of the Church in all its expressions.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Ohio Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Sherrod Brown met with several Columbus small business owners Wednesday for a roundtable on affordability. He’s held similar events in other cities around the state as part of his bid to return to the U.S. Senate. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/22/o...

Another way that the ultra-wealthy Trump & Vance are intentionally raising prices on ordinary, hard-working Americans.

Trump critic George Conway files to run for NY House seat

And this is also why Ohio State’s praise of Vance & their refusal to ever admit who he is bothers me so much. In addition to it being the flagship school of my home state & a school I spent a year at (during which I saw some of that school’s issues). It speaks to the lack of moral character of OSU.

@sallyjenx.bsky.social praised Weiss on here & tried to shame people who disagreed with her. She was wrong. Which was completely predictable.

Just as he did with tariffs, Trump is abusing “national security” justifications to raise prices for the American people — in this case electricity prices.

Wind farms are an essential part of a diversified energy strategy. Trump’s cancellation of approved, in-progress projects wastes public dollars and widens the gap between America and its competitors.