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Big Data Kane

@cmwitko.bsky.social
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Political Science and Public Policy E pluribus unum🇺🇸 Most recent coauthored book: www.russellsage.org/publications/hi…

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 5h
I was talking with a new junior professor at UC Davis and they came from a place with a 4-4 teaching load. I started with a heavy teaching load also. If you started with a heavy teaching load you really appreciate working at an R1 and you also see the Matthew effect for faculty starting at R1s.
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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
6/6 🧵In @socioeconreview.bsky.social @schechtlm.eurosky.social shows that there is more democratic backsliding in 🇺🇸 states where wealth concentration has increased more. Causality addressed by state FEs and shift-share instrument doi.org/rrnj
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And yes this analysis does not require a PhD in political science. 😂
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To put it mildly Trump supporters are very resistant to any information that doesn’t fit Trump’s propaganda laundered by right wing media. But the thing about gas and grocery prices are that they are experienced by most people directly, and it is easy to tie gas prices directly to HIS Iran war.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yup poor base running is definitely something that has been happening for years. Especially in post season.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is more like the post season Yankees of recent years. They tricked us against the Red Sox.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
👎😂
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No notes
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New College of Florida prez dismisses plummeting rankings because it is partly based on subjective opinions from others in higher ed….sorry it is clearly bad if you are a higher ed institution and other administrators and profs think you aren’t good. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
insidehighered.com
How Colleges Spin Rankings Outcomes
Every outcome in the U.S. News rankings seemed to be good news this year according to a wave of press releases that touted how well colleges performed—even in cases where they slipped.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes indeed
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hard to remember a game with two more contemptible QBs.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really really bad
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Punch it like Fonzie and the juke box (this may not make any sense to you depending on your age)
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol. Can’t spell IT without “T”!
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Competent IT people may not be fierce warfighters. Who needs them?
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Trump’s AI said there was no fraud in 2020 and they programmed it to not say that anymore. Does anybody wonder what else LLMs may be censoring or how they might do so in the future?
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m glad Ben Rice made me eat my words.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another amazing Trump decision. She will probably still win but going to be close.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don, none of this was intended for people who use logic. That’s your mistake.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am going to tell my kids find someone that loves you the way the Yankees love leaving runners on base in the postseason.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that Jack Smith was watching Hawkeyes game and not a Hawks game doesn’t mean the conspiracy theory is wrong, it just means the conspiracy is even more serpentine and elaborate than Schmitt imagined. Live shot of Schmitt’s DC office.
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Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia Charlie and Pepe Silvia
ALT: Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia Charlie and Pepe Silvia
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 29/09/2026
#OpenAccess from State Politics and Policy Quarterly - Can Issue Publics Overcome Inequalities in State Policy Knowledge? - cup.org/4huErnU - @mjnelson.bsky.social & @cmwitko.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo of "State Politics & Policy Quarterly" next to a stylized map of the United States.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve said for a while he’s China’s best president ever. Absolutely nuts.
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Steve Rogers @steverogersinfo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nice work! It helps fill in an assumption underlying an analysis in Accountability in State Legislatures, where voters hold their state legislature accountable for the issues they care about most.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They are really backed into a corner because he would 100% endorse a Dem if they criticize him too much.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UNC Sociology is hiring an OPEN-RANK position for a Population Health and Aging scholar! We are especially interested in more advanced and senior scholars. Full position details, qualifications, and application instructions are available at: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325...
Position Summary: The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an open rank (tenure-track) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We are seeking candidates with research and teaching interests in population health and aging. This is the first of an anticipated five related searches over the next four years in a new UNC-Chapel Hill initiative on biosocial health and aging. We seek applications from scholars who exhibit a record of strong and innovative research and excellence in teaching. Candidates are expected to hold a Ph.D. in Sociology or a related field by July 1, 2027.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New paper with @mjnelson.bsky.social Affluent + highly educated are more knowledgeable about state policies. Issue publics reduce knowledge disparities for some groups (LGBT on LGBT issues, women on abortion), but these disparities remain within issue publics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cambridge.org
Can Issue Publics Overcome Inequalities in State Policy Knowledge? | State Politics & Policy Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Can Issue Publics Overcome Inequalities in State Policy Knowledge?
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amid the AI boom, labor's share of national income fell to a new low this year. www.axios.com/2026/08/06/a...
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Super interesting survey by @kff.org that is consistent with the findings of my book Rural Pain, Republican Gain. Rural voters are frustrated with healthcare and economic outcomes. But rural Republicans (the vast majority of rural people) still trust Republicans more than Dems on these issues.
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Rural Pain, Republican Gain
An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party—not despite this harm, but becaus...
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Normally after the primary a candidate could tack to the center and even criticize and distance themself from the president of their own party. The issue is Trump would 100% tell his people to vote for a Dem if a Republican goes too far against him.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also the article states this is the second time He made this “mistake”
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why insert the word “mistaken”? We have no idea whether it was a mistake or an intentional attempt to obscure the truth. Even this far in the media continues to minimize the Trump administration corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b...
nytimes.com
Bessent Mistakenly Failed to Report Holdings of JP Morgan Stock
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s finances were reviewed by the inspector general after Mr. Bessent incorrectly listed at least $100,000 of the stock, which was owned by his husband, as cash.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Culture war is a luxury good.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How is everyone using SI in their classes?
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Soon we're going to enter a period when people will be looking for ways to fortify and improve democracy. One thing that needs to be on the agenda is this: ***Electoral democracy has built-in biases that prevent working-class people from holding office.*** www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😂🤦🏻
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Continuing to beclown yourself for Trump at this point seems a strange choice. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Rubio defends Trump’s banning media organizations, arguing there aren’t ‘soldiers kicking down the doors’ of the outlets
“They’re just not allowed to work from the workspace at the White House,” the secretary of state said in an interview on “TODAY,” referring to CNN, Politico and MS NOW.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The vast majority denied SNAP are denied for procedural reasons. Even 4 in 10 of those with NO INCOME in the previous year are denied, with 80% of those denied for *procedural reasons*, or, effectively, missing paperwork. And The One Big Beautiful Bill is making this so much worse.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
70% of Americans say more Americans working in factories would be better for America 33% actually say they'd be better off working in a factory
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Go Blue!
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What do faculty senates do? Wrong answers only: “We wanted to have independence…otherwise, we would have faculty senates deciding who’s going to be teaching these courses and what the curricula are, and we had significant evidence to suggest to us that that would not be a wise thing to do”
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
35% of OB GYNs (net) have left Idaho since Dobbs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Abortion Rights Activists in Idaho Find Their Pitch: Bring Back the Doctors
Organizers of a referendum to repeal an abortion ban in deep-red Idaho are far more focused on how the ban has broadly affected health care in the state.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The air travel system is a complete dumpster fire. It’s actually stunning how much it has deteriorated in the last decade or so.
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Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My story at the time: www.nextgov.com/digital-gove... And the rulemaking where DOL says that it will issue a new rule on the database, "if such a database is to be pursued." www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Labor seeks to require confidential unemployment data from states
The Labor Department is considering creating a single, national claims database for unemployment compensation information.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here is a link to the paper that @stano.bsky.social posted about yesterday. BLUF: anti-feminist attitudes have long predicted Republican pres voting, but these attitudes are only recently more likely to be found among unmarried men without college degrees. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Backlashes to Gender Equality and Authoritarian Populism in the U.S. - Stan Oklobdzija, Christopher Witko, 2026
According to recent scholarship, backlash toward gender equality is fueling support for the authoritarian and populist right in many countries and, perhaps, the...
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
America is finding out that owning the libs is very expensive.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Been meaning to post this, but @cmwitko.bsky.social and I published a new article showing that starting in the Trump era, unmarried men without college degrees started displaying more hostility towards "feminism" than their married or educated counterparts. Part of a larger project we're doing.
According to recent scholarship, backlash toward gender equality is fueling support for the authoritarian and populist right in many countries and, perhaps, the rise of Trumpism in the U.S. Yet, there are potentially different types of backlash to gender equality. We argue that the rising status of women over the past several decades may result in anti-feminist attitudes, not just among older men who yearn for the traditional gender arrangements of their youth as some scholars argue, but also among younger, single men lacking college degrees, who are less attractive partners for women. We call this “mate-value backlash.” Using ANES data, we find that anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees.
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve been saying this for years but I also think social ostracism has declined for this sort of stuff.
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