Ben Lempert

@benlempert.bsky.social

environmental lawyer, sometime political science Ph.D. student @ UMich. (views my own.)

It gets a little more wild each time they say it. So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'

they must show that voters engage in racial bloc voting that cannot be explained by partisan affiliationsimply pointing to inter-party racial polarization proves nothingThe mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns.

Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org

Strange, twisted rearing form in bronze

www.latimes.com/business/sto... The losses the CA state insurer of last resort took on are being funded (in part) by an equal percentage increase to policy holders across the state, regardless of fire risk at any specific property? (Let alone consideration of property value or income??)

California insurers set to charge homeowners for L.A. County fire costs

Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the costs of claims arising out of the January firestorms in Los Angeles County.

latimes.com

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

My paper just came out in PPR today, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It's about interesting relationships that our attitudes bear to the world. I argue that belief is very different from other attitudes, and this difference follows from its relationship to the truth of token contents.

Some attitudes we usually do not have

I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \ps...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com