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Every single drop of political capital they had went into ICE raids drumming up Kristallnacht content for Twitter, Trump family corruption, and plunging us into a war we decisively and irrevocably lost in a matter of weeks. The best they can hope for now is avoiding a prison cell.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2h

If the GOP were a competent authoritarian movement, American democracy would be hosed right now and we probably wouldn't see free and fair elections for another couple of decades. Thankfully, these people are monkeys and they missed the best shot they had in our lifetime.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 5h

"They like Trump and they want him to rule us like a king." --@mtsw.bsky.social

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 6h

"Young girl who gave me that bracelet. She told me what she saw. A darkness. It cannot be understood. It exists outside of time, space. Not a man. A monster. No one believed this girl. But I did. So you can tell your friends. That’s what we’re doing. We’re cleansing the world of an ancient evil."

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 7h

It should be noted though that the article has plenty of Democrats talking about bending these companies over the barrel.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 7h

I don't have the data and can't find it, but I imagine that the average tenure for the Democratic member of Congress is longer and that there's been less turnover in that caucus than in the GOP. Couple that with no party rule on rotating chairs and you get D's who are much more conservative.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 8h

Again, the people most directly responsible for this are ordinary Republican voters. This is what they want and they demonstrate this preference over and over again at the polls. They are not being tricked and there is nothing you can do to make them behave differently.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 12h

AI has made coding surveys easier as well as testing them on simulated respondents. The big problem is that ensuring you're not just running that survey on other people's bots means spending a lot more money than you would have before.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 12h

You only have one life and a finite number of days on this planet. You are under no obligation to include someone in it if they make those precious days worse.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

UT has a 25% acceptance rate and guarantees 90% of slots to Texas kids. The top 5% of each high school graduating class are automatically in.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A very simple, but important thing to remember about racists is that they are always massive, massive losers with extremely justified feelings of inadequacy.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The post Citizens United era rests on two load-bearing fantasies: 1. Candidate campaigns don't coordinate with super PACs. 2. 501c4's are organized to promote social welfare, not just purchase electoral ads.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is babysitting a thing in other countries? I remember going to places in Brazil and seeing parents just leave their kids at a giant kids table to watch cartoons while they were off dancing at the other end of the restaurant.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My partner's Trump voter parents are apparently mad at how much gas costs and wonder why Trump won't "stop the war" so they'll go back down. Must be neat to go through life with a Bugs Bunny cartoon understanding of the world.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'll be presenting the paper at @appam.bsky.social next month if you're around. Feedback welcome and feel free to use it as a reference when arguing with strangers online!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a friend who trained herself to be able to take a nap while sitting in an office chair I would give up being able to speak one of the languages I speak for that talent.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Copenhagen really might be the world's best administered city. At least it's the best I've ever been to.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Copenhagen cleaned up the bay it sits on and turned the old piers into mixed use neighborhoods. Here's another one in the north of the city, Århusgadekvarteret.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kinda crazy when I go to a building on campus that's max 60 years old and it's very clear that the women's bathrooms were not included in the original design. Dude in charge of construction was really that sure that feminism was a fad, huh?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@nmarantz.bsky.social (UCI), Carolina Reid (UCB) and I have a new working paper on how the built environment influences school segregation. Looking at attendance boundary shifts over an 8-year period, we find that schools that draw students from more single-family homes grow Whiter/more Asian.

osf.io

Single Family Schoolyards: Residential Zoning and School Segregation

Though the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawed explicit segregation of public schools, segregation has remained stubbornly persistent in the intervening decades. What...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A copy of every article I've written is on my website if it's not already open access. Screw those people.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is not only moral to pirate scientific articles, it's actually one of the best things you can do for science. The presses that produce them are utter parasites and anything that hastens their bankruptcy is a great service to the world.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

California needs to take over local transit agency operations and start funding operations at the state level. It's insane that Orange County's agency can just destroy regional rail for the entire LA metro area.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congress Rules Knowers: The House can defund any agency via majority vote, but without Senate approval or the President's signature, a budget doesn't get passed and the government shuts down, right?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is truly OK to hate the people who voted for this, to think they're inferior as human beings, and to mourn the fact that you have to share a county with such degenerates.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No matter what your views are on "Talkin' Rape," I hope we can all agree to discuss our differences without resorting to The People's Elbow, The Tombstone Piledriver or The Gorilla Press Slam.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I actually appreciate this guy for posting this because this is a great summary of White Loser Culture--a culture developed by just being handed every success in life for decades by virtue of being White.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's OK to think that people who voted for Trump are both stupid and terrible.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anything fun happening in Boston in the beginning of November? I'll be there for a conference, but I'm not trying to spend the entire time stuck in the convention center.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We're all so happy to stay in our safe ideological bubble, rather than reach across the divide and talk rape.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was listening to The Daily about restaurants and the reporter said the biggest costs for an owner are food, labor and credit card fees, in that order. Really surprised not to see rent up there?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just noticed that the coffee I usually buy was way cheaper than it has been. Trump put back coffee?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Digital advertising monopolies like Google and Facebook killed the newspaper industry, but it's worth it to live in a world where citizens stayed informed by watching an AI joke thief that is also porno.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love that the rise of social media transformed culture into something akin to copper wire to be pulled out of street lamps.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even for people whose ancestors came from Europe, it is bizarre to think that things are worse now than they were 200 years ago.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I once met a leftist who was thoroughly convinced that every generation of their family lived worse since their ancestors left Ireland and settled in Texas 150 years ago.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The problem with Chud Thought is that eventually you run out liberalism's peace and prosperity." --Margaret Thatcher, probably.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think an underdiscussed reason for the rise of the global authoritarian right is that people around the world have just gotten a lot wealthier in the last 30 years and now see themselves as a monied class that are being taken advantage of rather than an oppressed proletariat.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This guy's entire claim to fame is that he is a criminal who was pardoned by America's criminal president because their two criminal enterprises are connected. The NYT should go interview Lil Durk and see if he thinks we'll have a true Philosopher King in our lifetime.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Naw, McClellan was just afraid of his own shadow and no one better came onto the scene until Meade. Interesting what if though if Hooker didn't get bonked on the head at Chancellorsville.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think of it as able to provide a public good or solve a collective action problem. A well-governed society, facing an epidemic of school shootings, would not advise parents to buy bullet-proof backpacks for their children, for instance.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[Police knocking on the door of a rusty panel van parked outside of an elementary school]: Sir, we got a call that you might be violating banking laws.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we are just comparing people who held elected office, what is the ratio of Republicans to Democrats who have been arrested for pedo stuff? Seriously, is it at 10:1 yet?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The current president is from the Socialist Worker's Party. They're not outright Marxists anymore, but you'd find lots of overlap with America's progressive left.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Broadly speaking, Europe is poor but well-governed while the US is rich but poorly governed.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a good article about what's happening in Spain. Their inability to build new housing is turning an influx of tourism and high-earning temporary residents into a giant liability rather than the asset it should be.

ft.com

The right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis

Evictions and spiralling rents are the symptom, not the underlying disease

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The big thing at the start of the Civil War is that every general learned military tactics designed for muskets that are accurate to 50 yards while both armies carried new rifles that were accurate to 500. Robert E. Lee's "genius" was seeing this early and ordering the his troops to dig trenches.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On one hand, the illustrations in this book terrified an entire generation of children. On the other, kids today are probably watching cartel executions on their phones so scary pictures seem kind of quaint.

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