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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYT publishing Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay on the individually insurmountable difficulties of a segregated school system last week, only to now release this heavy-lift, consulted-many-experts, deep dive into what can improve schools that does not mention the word integration.

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would add to this that the whole point of an academic publications is that they are supposed to be records of things you have learned through careful scholarship. If they contain non-existent references, they are a misrepresentation of what is assumed to be the process behind the product.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This came on my timeline without context and wow, the blood pressure spike when I got to the second sentence… had me in the first half etc. anyway yes it is fraud.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Had some fun trying to think about how to dramatize voters' choices in the 2024 election, so I pulled CES data and let you guess how respondents (validated voters) actually voted (or said they did) in 2024. profmusgrave.github.io/votergame2024/

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Who did I vote for?

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Before #APSA: I’m not really sure about my next thing. I’ll focus on teaching for a while and think on it After APSA: How will I finish these five book projects before I die

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Why do political scientists all dress so badly and recognizably” I think, as I walk down the street in Boston and get visibly identified as a political scientist by fellow APSA-goers

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On the list of "tenured scholars who tenure right", @adambonica.bsky.social unquestioningly holding the top spot right now. data4democracy.substack.com/p/with-fear-...

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With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026

uhhhhh

investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.

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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For the past six months @mariaa.bsky.social and I have been working on creating an improved research experience on atproto. It's now live! Check out: lea.ac

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Lea: research-oriented social media

Introducing a beta-version of our new research-focused social media platform

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The only way celebrity news could make me sadder than this is if it turned out Colbert is cheating on his wife.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

More than 500 scholars agree: "We write to urge Congress to do what most democracies have already done: adopt proportional representation." proud to be among them. medium.com/@scholars-re...

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Letter to Congress: End the Redistricting Wars by Adopting Proportional Representation

Gerrymandering persists because single-member districts allow it.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I really hope Student 22 is on bluesky so they get to see how much all the profs love them.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Across countries & within the US, the same relationship appears: In places of concentrated wealth, individuals’ willingness to help others and engage in volunteerism tends to decrease." Important work by @schechtlm.eurosky.social & colleagues in @contexts.org. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Picture of an article in Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association. Article is titled 'Wealth Concentration and Prosocial Behavior in Everyday Life' by Manuel Schechtl, Nhat an Trinh, Rafael Carranza, & Fabian Pfeffer.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/06/2026

"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

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Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses

The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

NYC producing competing scaffolding content for this weekend.

Crowds fill St Marks Place to celebrate Knicks win as some folks climb scaffolding

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My most “kids get off my lawn” opinion:

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I was listening to a podcast, and this segment struck me. Who wants to play "guess who this refers to"?

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Moon content is the wholesome content I did not know I needed. With all the sudden swings of dopamine I crave (Nutella! Wife who died!) but none of the bomb threats.

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Zach Dickson @zachdickson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

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Elizabeth Mitchell Elder @elizabethelder.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Had a lovely conversation about my book with Miranda Melcher of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Take a listen for a preview of the book’s arguments about company power, state capacity, and public alienation in mining towns: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Elizabeth Mitchell Elder,

Podcast Episode · New Books with Miranda Melcher · March 22 · 32m

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Because I am a survey researcher, I usually take most surveys that I am asked to participate in. But I am reaching saturation on surveys about AI use in academia... how many teams are out there working on this? Everyone?

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social. Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other. This has potentially big issues for conclusions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Acquiescence Bias and Criterion Validity: Problems and Potential Solutions for Agree-Disagree Scales - Political Behavior

Political Behavior - Scholars frequently measure dispositions like populism, conspiracism, racism, and sexism by asking survey respondents whether they agree or disagree with statements...

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Doing my share to reduce the bias of the published research record by file drawering a study with significant results

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

You let a public opinion scholar design a yard sign

Yard sign saying “Abolish ICE is now a moderate position”

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This law group led by @rickpildes.bsky.social had me write for their 100 Ideas series on US democracy My idea: the rule of law cannot coexist with this level of wealth concentration. Once Musk, Bezos, Zuck, & a few others bend the knee, the authoritarian consolidates too much power

"[Flor where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise an extreme democracy, or a pure oligarchy; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme." It seems that American society has forgotten this wisdom of Aristotle over two thousand years ago: extreme wealth inequality destroys constitutions. It's time we remembered.
Aristotle was concerned with the extremes of both oligarchy and democracy. The Framers were well aware of Aristotle's concern as they designed the U.S.
Constitution, which would feature democratic elections as well as strong protections for civil liberties, checks and balances, and (probably too heavily weighted) legislative representation for geographic minorities.
But Aristotle could not have anticipated the particular level of top- heavy wealth inequality in 21st century America. It is not the kind of inequality easily captured in a Gini coefficient or in comparisons between the 1% and 99%. American wealth inequality is characterized by the very, very top of the distribution. The top 12 billionaires in the United States, most of them in the tech sector, hold a combined wealth of over $2 trillion. The pace of wealth accumulation at the top is only increasing. Elon Musk, the wealthiest individual in human history and likely to be the first trillionaire, doubled his net worth in just the calendar year of 2024.
It is this wealth inequality, combined with a particular technological moment, that has dismantled electoral democracy and the rule of law.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

Infographic titled “2025 Billionaire Gains vs. Grocery Spending.” On the left, a large gold square shows that the top 100 richest Americans gained $995 billion in wealth in 2025, about $7,595 per U.S. household, representing wealth gains for just 100 individuals. On the right, a slightly smaller green square shows total U.S. grocery spending of $775 billion, about $5,916 per household, covering roughly 131 million households. A callout at the bottom reads “The Scale of Inequality,” noting that billionaire wealth gains exceeded national grocery spending by $220 billion. Sources listed: Bloomberg Billionaire Index and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics

This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000.

Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts.

Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age.

Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts.

Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations.

The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone. 🤔But do citizens buy that story? With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm

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Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation | Journal of Public Policy | Cambridge Core

Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

“Deciding to Win' also displays little awareness of what winning elections is for. There is an obvious reason why the Democratic Party ought not abandon its commitment to preventing the climate crisis," writes @davekarpf.bsky.social. Excellent piece. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections

A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isn’t the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 28/10/2025

A guy I used to work with was a tenured psych/CS professor as well as on an elite amateur crew team. He said "you're never going to make learning easier, just like you're never going to make rowing easier." I think about that a lot.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I need the “this is fine” mouse but with popcorn looking out the window at a different burning house.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Here is a very niche sign of how far the US has fallen. If you attend a political science conference today, you will hear scholars stumbling over how to introduce datasets that until last year were known as describing "wealthy industrialized democracies".

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

What a treat, in every sense of the word, to be in Munich for the #isiwealthconference2025 @isi-munich.bsky.social

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Portland‘s protest frogs are multiplying”

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I laughed. But also, completely seriously, can anyone point me to things written on Duverger vs. recent polls out of the UK?

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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our findings...

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How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This one neat trick can help you teach US politics during an institutional collapse: Tell the truth. That's it. Just tell it like it is. Be radical.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

You know what's quaint? Walking into a classroom of 20-yr olds, who have known nothing but the Trump era in politics, and explaining to them that ten years ago we Elders had a Big Debate™ about whether Trump support was *really* about racial attitudes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Did the Bright Lines survey (yes absolutely a humblebrag) and the rate at which the questions and scenarios are getting darker with each subsequent survey could be its own research project.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I offer up “Borgen” as a tv series that political scientists appreciate for getting politics right.

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

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Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

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