Sign in

Ben Lempert

@benlempert.bsky.social
2.1K followers 177 following 9 posts

environmental lawyer, sometime political science Ph.D. student @ UMich. (views my own.)

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Ben Lempert
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It gets a little more wild each time they say it. So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'
they must show that voters engage in racial bloc voting that cannot be explained by partisan affiliationsimply pointing to inter-party racial polarization proves nothingThe mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns.
17978233
Reposted by Ben Lempert
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Started/going
683262564
Ben Lempert @benlempert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
000
Reposted by Ben Lempert
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
Strange, twisted rearing form in bronze
321951
Ben Lempert @benlempert.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
www.latimes.com/business/sto... The losses the CA state insurer of last resort took on are being funded (in part) by an equal percentage increase to policy holders across the state, regardless of fire risk at any specific property? (Let alone consideration of property value or income??)
latimes.com
California insurers set to charge homeowners for L.A. County fire costs
Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the costs of claims arising out of the January firestorms in Los Angeles County.
140
Ben Lempert @benlempert.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I have found the silver bullet for getting republicans on board with decarbonization: Reagan loved heat pumps (according to the Reagan library)
1133
Reposted by Ben Lempert
Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/06/2025
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
702473658
Reposted by Ben Lempert
Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My paper just came out in PPR today, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It's about interesting relationships that our attitudes bear to the world. I argue that belief is very different from other attitudes, and this difference follows from its relationship to the truth of token contents.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Some attitudes we usually do not have
I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \ps...
2389
Reposted by Ben Lempert
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It was always clear why Ganz’s left-wing interlocutors fought with him: To do so would be to admit that US governance could get much worse — or that professional-class liberals, who academic leftists define themselves against, might be right about something. www.unpopularfront.news/p/there-was-...
unpopularfront.news
There Was Never Any "Fascism Debate"
They Refused to Engage
719228