Institutions and millions of people

Will give you haikus, won't give you confidence intervals really seems like where Generative AI is as a technology

We’re in the middle of an authoritarian takeover and the one political scientist the press is listening to is Robert Fucking Putnam?

The FEC is named specifically: Agency,” unless otherwise indicated, means any authority of the United States that is an “agency” under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), and shall also include the Federal Election Commission. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Check out the latest piece by my friend and fellow @calstate.bsky.social political scientist, @jasonlmorin.bsky.social theconversation.com/deporting-mi...

Few things irritate me more than someone asking for time on your agenda so they can get stakeholder feedback only to find out they didn’t actually want feedback, they just wanted to check a box. #disingenuous

Big thanks to @poliscigrl.bsky.social for visiting my class and giving an incredible talk on election administration and skepticism!

My original point: The only way for the president to enforce impoundment against a determined Congress that fights back is by going further and spending unappropriated funds. And at that point he would be full Roman emperor "the Senate is just ceremonial."

That was, in fact, the entire frigging point of the ICA.

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law ..." - U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 7.

I really dislike Zoom, but at least we get to watch awesome @uclalaw panels on election law. #electionnerd

As of today, the Dallas Cowboys have longest NFC Championship drought in the NFL, at 30 years. And you see the funny thing about that is literally everything.

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

It's weird how I haven't seen any AI products that do the work of upper corporate management or college administrators....you'd think that the most expensive links in the chain would be where AI would be most cost effective...hm, this must just be an oversight that will be remedied soon.

WORK WITH ME: We are looking for a communications pro to come and promote the work of our religion team at Pew Research Center. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

So, is the New York leg just a free for all?

I think of these races every time people say their vote doesn’t matter. This is pretty normal in the Central Valley.

Good luck America www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?” The results were hilarious. Trans: 21% Muslim: 27% Jewish: 30% Black: 41% Live in NYC: 30% Gay or lesbian: 30% The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.” www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

New article alert! Read about poll worker retention in a a large-scale, nationwide, collaborative study - thanks to Bob Stein, @bcburden.bsky.social @mattlamb.bsky.social and everyone involved! www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

@polbehavior.bsky.social is now here! Please spread the word.

Is it possible that Ashton Kucher is punking us all on a huge scale?

Don’t scratch out candidates you dislike or write messages on your ballot. Thats what @bcburden.bsky.social and I advise in this piece that ran down under.

Check out our new report on ballot tracking in Colorado, Georgia, and California! This was a great project with Paul Gronke (EVIC) and Mindy Romero (CID @ USC). static1.squarespace.com/static/57b8c...

I’m pretty sure I’m reviewing an article by a Swiftie. If you based your manuscript title on a line from Blank Space, just know you are seen! #PoliSky

Happy to be a co-author on the In-Person Voting paper along with Bob Stein, David Kimball, Anita Manion, Mindy Romero and Gretchen Macht. Check them out here: electionlab.mit.edu/research/pro...

Check out the interactive election audit site that Lonna Atkeson, her great team at the LeRoy Collins Institute at FSU including @yimengli.bsky.social, Wendy Hansen, and I developed. You can sort results, look at ballots and learn about 100% retabulation audits! 2022voterdata.lci.fsu.edu #elections

Nice to be in an article about an important issue with some awesome folks - @bcburden.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social and Rachel Orey. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

There are several, but…

The power to clear all traffic in front of me and always get green lights.

There are several undesirable tasks associated with being dept. chair, but the worst may be organizing an event for a high-maintenance person you don’t really know on a topic you don’t care about.

Semester folks: How are we approaching the halfway point of the semester??? Didn’t we just start classes yesterday?

Paul is 100% correct!

Fun interactive graph of CA Senators and their terms. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Welp, this political knowledge question asking respondents to name the Speaker of the House just got a lot harder

I have some new polling data on US Senate and Laphonza Butler's appointment to the US Senate dropping soon! A representative survey of California voters on @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's pick. Stay tuned!

Good news out of Fresno! www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Every smartphone in America will get an alert Wednesday. Here's why. FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Oct. 4. www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Rest in peace Senator Dianne Feinstein. What a trailblazer in American politics.

RIP Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The Senate is now tied 50D-49R instead of 51-49. If 1 D votes w/ all 49 Rs, outcomes change. The last time a Senator died sending Senate this narrow and effectively a tie was 1953-54. @nicholasnapolio.bsky.social & I write about it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to be headed to MIT for a convening of election scientists and administrators. #electiongeeks #MEDSL #MIT