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Julian

@julsdemos.bsky.social
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That’s peace | Health Policy PhD Student @UCBerkeley | MPP 24’ @GoldmanSchool | policing, violence, politics, racial inequality and health | Fruitridge Forever.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Emily Arnesen and Kyutaro Matsuzawa's research in @restatjournal.bsky.social shows that intimate partner violence can increase by 10% in a team’s home market after an upset loss, and the effect is greater when mobile sports betting enters the picture: direct.mit.edu/rest/article...
A screenshot of an abstract from an article written by Emily Arnesen and Kyutaro Matsuzawa, published March 13 2026. The title is "Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues and Intimate Partner Violence"

The abstract: This study emplores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues stemming from NFL home team upset losses and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using 1995-2022 crime data from NIBRS, replicating and extending Card and Dahl (2011)'s model, we find that legalized gambling increases the impact of upset losses on IPV by 10 percentage points. The effect is larger in states with mobile betting, where higher bets were placed, around paydays, and for teams on a winning streak. These results suggest that financial losses from gambling amplify emotional reactions to unexpected team losses.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) violated state law when he seized 650k ballots from last year's redistricting referendum. The ruling marks the end of a battle spurred by Bianco's pursuit of debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy.
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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement
The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Regarding Mangione: it’s been wild to see some on the left celebrate this brutal, vigilante killing. Healthcare in this country is a disaster, to be sure. But it’s hard not to see pretty white guy privilege in Mangione becoming a folk hero. The mostly uncritical defense of this guy is just weird.
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Unapologetic heat.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Here is what OMB rule means for states/local governments (>$1 trillion in revenue at risk): 1) More admin burdens: inestimable amount of new paperwork, allowance for agencies to add vague new “risk factors” in grant determination, vast expansion of E-verify, Buy America provisions on everything…
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/06/2026
"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Clickbait Crime News? Metrics and Professional
Authority in Local Newsrooms
Jonathan Ben-Menachem
Columbia University
Abstract: Existing research on newsroom metrics documents how journalists construct compatibility
between discordant professional and commercial evaluation frameworks. This study examines the
underexplored case where metrics validate existing practices. Drawing on interviews with 58 crime
journalists in 40 U.S. newsrooms, I find that reporters whose work consistently performed well on
audience metrics often defended professional evaluation criteria. Editors facilitated this defense

through brokerage, absorbing commercial logics so reporters could experience their work as profes-
sionally guided. Market position structured interpretive responses: reporters could avoid metrics,

override them, selectively appropriate them, or integrate them into practice. The transition from
pageview to subscription regimes reshaped whether concordance was experienced as contaminating
or legitimating. Even under concordance, journalists defended professional evaluation criteria.
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CnEVPost @cnevpost.com · 10/06/2026
China's gasoline car sales plunge 41.8% in May as combustion era fades China's domestic sales of traditional fuel passenger vehicles fell to 497,000 units in May, down 357,000 units from a year earlier. cnev.co/RvyQBbc 👇
cnev.co
China's gasoline car sales plunge 41.8% in May as combustion era fades
China's domestic sales of traditional fuel passenger vehicles fell to 497,000 units in May, down 357,000 units from a year earlier.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
diabetesjournals.org
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
One of my favorite health policy research topics I became interested since grad school. And it’s featured on one of my favorite podcasts !
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the Great Palestinian Revolt in Palestine both began on April 19th.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/03/2026
A major housing bill that would discourage building rental homes “reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital,” Henry Grabar argues.
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How to Keep the Suburbs Tenant-Free
The housing bill now in Congress may seek to increase the housing supply—but not for renters.
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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
2030 Census testing--planned for 2026--has been canceled in most of the planned locations. Cancelations include tribal and rural areas. Details in this 🧵
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/01/2026
UPDATE: Bondi, Noem and Gabbard did not show up.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Visa announces it will allow customers to direct credit card rewards into Trump accounts. Trump is calling the move a “big deal.” Visa, the largest credit card processsor in the US, is facing an antitrust lawsuit filed under Biden's DOJ.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Dangerous, astonishingly naive and disgusting. Any institution affiliated with this individual’s career should be deeply ashamed for producing such non-sense.
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
We . Are . Everywhere.
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
😭😭😭😂😂😂
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
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NPR @npr.org · 05/12/2025
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
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Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
One favorite papers over the last few years. The mobility of stratified state building and coercive practices.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
whatimreading.net
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Today, the president of the US wrote a “memo” suspending Congress’ control over appropriations. Also, a Supreme Court justice suggested that maybe congressional laws just “expire” when the Court thinks they’re no longer needed. The Speaker of the House hasn’t commented on either.
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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The massive agency of secret police wants to vacuum information and build files on Americans to figure out who they should sweep up and remove from the country. I recommend reading the fantastic book IBM and the Holocaust to think about how tech companies facilitate fascism.
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Literally scouring the internet for said data 😭
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It feels crazy to have a book basically covering several years of what you spent most of your time doing 😭. Hype to read this.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"The drones won't just be eyes in the sky. They will be able to communicate with homeless people. The department said this will prevent officers from exposing themselves to potential risk, such as loose animals, terrain issues and other hazards until they are sure it is safe to move in."
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Sacramento County to use drones to track homeless people on probation
The county's probation department said it needs the drones to contact homeless people who are on probation, specifically in hard-to-reach spots like along the American Parkway.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357
nber.org
The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wait I can’t see likes here either?!?! 😭😭🥲🥲😔😔
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Julian @julsdemos.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Bummed about missing all the historical tweets with mounds of unique information. However being able to read insights from @jamellebouie.net again is worth it.
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