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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Very enjoyable to see Andy Ogles lose.

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🏛️ Do party youth wings get a real say? @sofiamarini.bsky.social and @henrikseeberg.bsky.social hand-code 57 youth wing statutes from 11 countries. Most of them have high levels of internal democracy and autonomy from the senior party but low access to the senior party. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Description of the article "How political parties' youth wings are organised: comparative evidence from 57 statutes in 11 countries" by Sofia Marini and Henrik Bech Seeberg, published online first in West European Politics.

Scatter plot of internal democracy in the parent party (x-axis) against internal democracy in its youth wing (y-axis), one marker per pair, with several cases labelled (SF, Forza Italia, Parti Socialiste, Høyre). The fitted line is almost flat and the association is not statistically significant, so knowing how internally democratic a senior party is tells you little about its youth wing.

Small-multiple plot showing the distribution of internal democracy, autonomy and access for the youth wings of each of the 11 countries, with medians marked. Youth wings look more alike within a country than across countries: autonomy is uniformly high in Denmark, Norway and Sweden but low and dispersed in Italy, France and Portugal, and access sits near zero almost everywhere except a few Finnish and Italian cases. Country differences account for much of the variation in internal democracy and autonomy, while party family accounts for essentially none.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hot takes suggest that spending more on public schools doesn't help. But this cool paper (political scientists publishing in an econ journal 😎) shows that increasing public school spending improves test scores and graduation rates. gated: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I never spoke on this publicly but we were also subject to an anonymous false report— we thought it was a political attack, but it turned out it was the deranged 44 yo racist who lives downstairs with his mom. Despite clear lies (padded room, wrong gender of child), CPS “had” to investigate 🧵

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Nate Kruger @natekruger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Our girls are ready for the Knicks game tonight!! Even in Nashville, it’s New York or nowhere💙🧡

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The job market has really shrunk for Black scholars. So many schools are doing their best to get rid of us or never hire us. I know way too many folks suing their institutions or the state over what they research and teach.

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Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Consider that there are 0 Black political scientists at research universities in the mountain time zone region.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I've spent sometime over the last few months working on a way to generate quizzes for my students based on their own papers. I might write up a blog about my experiment later, but for now here is the code if anyone is interested in trying. github.com/reuning/quiz...

Quiz Generator

A local LLM-powered quiz generation tool that creates multiple-choice quizzes from student assignments and documents. There are examples if you are interested in what the results looks like.

Currently it uses a local LLM through Ollama. There are validation checks to make sure it produces the right number of questions, and options. I also have set it up to use randomization via python on the answers (when I initially ran it without that almost every anser was B). I personally had good luck with Qwen 3.5.
Why?

There are two related purposes to this idea:

A student who has spent time working and writing a paper ought to be able to easily answer questions about that paper. Yes, this was partially created out of a concern over AI use.

I am a firm believer that the purpose of writing is to learn, I hope that this quiz demonstrates to students what they learned through their own research.

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Andy Pinedo @profandy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As western society proceeds in their propaganda of making a Israel out to be the good actor and victim of aggression, images like these tell a drastically different story. May these children live long lives and heal from these torturous years.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Yet never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing. A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind. "In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history." x.com/SamDalrymple...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Nashville, Tennessee, a shocking ICE blockade that resulted in shattered glass and suspected gunfire.

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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the oversized shoe thing seems like the kind of minor detail that will be used 100s of years from now to efficiently explain what ~all of this~ was like

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Nate Kruger @natekruger.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When you’re a first year PhD student asked to review for some pretty good journals

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Was rereading Bartels's Ethnic antagonism article & found a good example of what not accounting for method can do. He estimates an acquiescence factor to control for method effects b/c outcomes and many predictors share response scales. These are hearty method effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Whatever we’re doing, it’s not enough.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/01/2026

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-bein…

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/01/2026

"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

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Trump Is Making America Stupider

How MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public sectors.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Sending @repilhan.bsky.social sincere admiration tonight.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE. First no funding. Impeach Noem. Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN. Demand that Miller resign. Don’t let up.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

At some point, academics are going to need to take responsibility for the ways their research has influenced the most despicable ways society responds to "crime". Like, broken windows policing, the more and better police training academic crowd continues to harm without shame.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’” Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:

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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

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FurPlanet Productions @furplanet.com · 14/01/2026

Why not help a trans Girl Scout meet their cookie-selling goals? This link has a list of Scouts you can buy from. Each link goes to the individual's order page. Please order from those who haven't met goal yet, there are lots to choose from. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...

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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Nate Kruger @natekruger.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

If there's an ICE watch in your city, sign up for trainings today!!!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Once the dam breaks…

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This secret police force is brutal, indifferent to humanity, and acting with impunity. And the owner is on each, and every one of us to protest every single thing they do every single day, and whatever ways we can.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 07/01/2026

another reason why people have given up on procedural or incremental reforms is that the courts just do not discipline killer cops

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The casual way so many USians feel they have a right to an opinion about who runs another country (“I don’t like Maduro, but”)—in the congress, in the press, just amongst random dipshits—shows how imperial our mindset is. What happened in Venezuela is all our failure & all of our responsibility

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

He’s out of his freaking mind. The next target may be Mexico as he already warned their President Claudia Sheinbaum.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump. She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026

Venezuelan friends telling me stuff's blowing up in Caracas and power is out in parts of the city. Fuck this war criminal administration. Send them to hell.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

A Quote Tweet from NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino @VickieForNYC stating:

“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it.

“We need to take every seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders.

“The administration needs to begin developing a formal legal framework for the denaturalization process and get it over with before we end up with another 9/11 or worse. Enough is enough.”

The quoted tweet from @DrewPavlu stating:
“AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK GUN OFF SHOOTER

“TERROR ATTACK SYDNEY AT LEAST 10 DEAD

“AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK DOWN GUNMAN”

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing. That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy. It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them. In a report out in Jan +

Chart with Turnout on the Y axis & election year (2016, 2020, and 2024) on the X axis. 6 lines, 3 for White, Black, and Hispanic in households making over $100k/year, 3 for the same groups in households making under $30k/year.

Overall you can see turnout increasing among higher-income people in all three racial groups, and declining (White and Black) or staying flat (Hispanic) among low-income people; the turnout gap by income is much larger in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016.

from 2016 -> 2024:
- White $100k turnout goes from 65% to 78% while white under $30k turnout goes from 55% to 49%
- Black over $100k turnout goes from 51% to 64% while Black under $30k turnout goes from 48% to 33%
- Hispanic over $100k turnout goes from 52% to 67% while Hispanic under $30k turnout stays flat at about 36% (higher in 2020 at 42%).

Caption: "Our analysis, Cooperative Election Survey Data, Validated Votes."

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“some of us don’t need to be reminded to not buy starbucks on the strike because we have actual taste in coffee lol” oh really? should we tell everyone? should we tell Bella hadid??? Anyway, starbucks workers are now striking. Stand with labor and get your coffee elsewhere.

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