Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 4hthe whole marketing campaign around the new stadium was basically "there isn't a bad seat in the house" 140
Reposted by Zander FurnasBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5hLiteral No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't. 744593
Reposted by Zander FurnasJesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 4hAlito flew an insurrectionist flag over his house after January 6th, which was literally trying to overthrow Biden’s election. 0126
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 7hif we use dynamic scoring for tax cuts we should also use it for education spending imo 02410
Reposted by Zander FurnasDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9hPulte is the most shameless, but the overall picture is bad. We now have Inspector Generals who are party members, or previously worked for the people they are supposed to be investigating. Career IG officials know they will be fired for doing their job. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-... 118547
Reposted by Zander FurnasDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9hDo you like "intellectual diversity" as a euphemism for imposing conservative political thought on campus? You will love "civility"! After all, the marketplace of ideas sometimes needs a subsidy! 312730
Reposted by Zander Furnaselpidio ortiz @bwmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026tired: one billion americans wired: one billion supreme court justices 1221
Reposted by Zander FurnasTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026sent this to everyone. 631892
Reposted by Zander FurnasBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes 782756507
Reposted by Zander FurnasKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"? 682987693
Reposted by Zander FurnasLily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy. 10476163
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 01/10/2026"Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy" (Hall and Deardoff 2026), but instead it is "Industry Funding as Epistemic Subsidy" 093
Reposted by Zander FurnasTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7769278
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 01/10/2026if i were a high political or military figure in an autocratic regime (the kind that gives out a ludicrous number of honorifics and medals and decorations) i would get genuine joy each time i got a little badge, medal, or treat i know this because of how i feel when i add some random line to my cv 170
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 01/10/2026wait so if I am awesome then AI will just amplify how awesome i am? 120
Reposted by Zander Furnasjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592563411
Reposted by Zander FurnasZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And he’ll combine that with trying to overthrow Congress—either directly or by nakedly usurping yet more core legislative powers. The appropriations clause is already under severe stress. 2142
Reposted by Zander FurnasNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison. 28622175
Reposted by Zander FurnasAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You really can’t make this shit up. 785147904355
Reposted by Zander Furnasdavid. @david.uncensored.zip · 01/10/2026They come in regular envelopes so they cant be easily id and stolen. 219035
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 01/10/2026there is a lot of variance in what a Maine "private island" could be, because there are lots of little islands. My family semi-considered buying one that we had rented one summer, and it would have been less than 1 million dollars at the time (15+ years ago). 120
Reposted by Zander FurnasLAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the other thing here is its hilarious that conservative justices and movement figures in general are just desperate to spend time in New England, the one place in this country where you are guaranteed to be surrounded by libs at all times in all locations. 910410
Reposted by Zander FurnasInnocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Government legal advice should not be secret. If there are facts in the memo that are classified, redact them. But it’s repugnant to democracy & rule of law that we aren’t allowed to see the government’s reasoning for why intentional killing of people on boats suspected of carrying drugs is legal. 2258
Reposted by Zander FurnasDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...startribune.comPerry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic... 16755289
Reposted by Zander FurnasMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations 181075193
Reposted by Zander FurnasSarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 01/10/2026no humanities except for grok 1177
Reposted by Zander Furnas Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026mf really went l'état, c'est moi. 48817
Reposted by Zander FurnasRachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Turns out, political science deciding that all our intro to gov will gloss over the fact that the bill of rights were ignored for 100 years and the rights guaranteed by the actual constitution were ignored (habeas, right to travel) to ensure property rights over slaves. We should be teaching Prigg. 14110
Reposted by Zander FurnasBig Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Competent IT people may not be fierce warfighters. Who needs them? 385
Reposted by Zander FurnasWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026yeah the 'why would you ever want this, health insurance is super simple and easy to navigate, you fool, you idiot, you dunce' replies are what I mean by people twisting themselves into absurd pretzels due to (often understandable) dislike of this stuff. 61547
Reposted by Zander FurnasMatthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In studies from Turkey and South Korea, accuracy reminders and credible sources helped people respond to corrections, especially for scientific misinformation. However, these effects depended on how important the issue was to them. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comSource credibility and issue type effects in misinformation correction in two non-western countries - Acta PoliticaThis paper investigates how individuals respond to corrective interventions based on accuracy nudges and source credibility cues, with a particular focus on how these effects vary across issue types a... 051
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 30/09/2026i hear you, but i am more worried about them getting things paid for them by third parties than i am by the government paying for things for them, conflict of interest/ethically speaking 000
Reposted by Zander Furnasmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext) 2363079
Reposted by Zander FurnasAlex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New from Hainmueller and Laitin on the causal effects of becoming a citizen on wages. Short story: the observational ests overstate the premium relative to the experimental ests. Authors conclude "observational averages should not be used as causal forecasts for policy" doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 12512