They - sent mail to a wrong address, so he missed a hearing & got a removal order - rammed his car with an unmarked SUV - shot him in the back - lied to local police - didn't let doctors remove the bullet And being shot while someone happened to be filming was likely his only chance at due process.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d ago

They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.

exposure to these tears is uneven millions of white people go months not thinking about ethnic cleansing at all --- sharing these stories matters

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 6d ago

In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.

Ren Farley, a giant among sociologists and Detroit scholars. As a student I got to take his legendary Detroit class. We were in touch again a few years ago about a project I was working on using data he had collected years before. I'll always remember him as a kind and generous scholar. RIP.

UM Population Studies Center@um-psc.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ren Farley, a force of nature, dedicated his life to addressing racial inequality and residential segregation. He left a mark on demography, on the city of Detroit, and on all the people in his orbit. myumi.ch/G7974

Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for giving a platform to Lauren Supplee to highlight this important issue. This is something I wrote about early in the Trump administration when DOGE was running rampant... substack.com/inbox/post/2...

The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted

Here’s How We Fix It

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Job alert! @harbatkat.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc to help lead research on Michigan's Partnership Model of school and district turnaround. We're looking for qualitative or mixed-method researcher, and hoping to hire ASAP. Reach out with any questions! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

A reminder that Bowdoin College is looking for two new colleagues in Government -- in public policy, with a focus on AI (regulation of same is one obvious angle, but hardly the only possibility), and in African politics. Review of applications begins soon - details in the thread below! #polisky

Spending $2 billion to pay companies to *not* build new cheap clean energy projects should have been a huge scandal. Looks like we paid far more for civil servants to *not* go to work. Breathtaking waste, fraud, abuse, and inefficiency. Also read and follow @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

Kevin Bogardus@kevinbogardus.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wanted to know how much EPA spent on admin leave after 1000s were paid not to work, often for months So I filed a #FOIA —> EPA denied me —> I appealed —> I won And EPA spent almost $200M on leave Many never returned to work #FOIA4eva More here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Important questions that any member of Congress could ask.👇 Many of us predicted that agencies would end up doing a lot of costly re-hiring. The public ought to know what last year's effort to traumatize the civil service cost us (and will cost us). presentofcoding.substack.com/p/what-happe...

What Happened to the Federal Workforce?

And are there mice in your building or not?

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My research over the last several years has convinced me that organized tenants can transform our broken politics. But some folks don't yet discern the possibilities of tenant power. This piece offers insights on the real possibilities of power from the margins. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Why more tenants are forming unions

Tenant unions are becoming more common across the country as tenants struggle to afford rent.

marketplace.org

On 9-11, I was in college. I went to class - ancient political thought. The prof gave a lecture on the nature of empire and blowback in imperial Rome. She didn’t get fired. Her comments were not so “outrageous” that everyone who she ever met had to answer for her. Miss those days

From a grad school classmate and #OBGYN I have a great amount of respect for: All of this.

If you want to understand how fucked the social safety net system is, just watch this by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Deloitte's made over $6 billion to make it harder for Americans to get healthcare & food aid. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

We Investigated The Biggest Welfare Scam In The Country

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Very cool. From the thread: "For researchers, this change in models approach unlocks opportunity for iterative, collaborative work with the models, allowing the models to do what they do well (counting) freeing time of expert researchers to do what we do best, using judgment to infer meaning."

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 3w ago

Last year, we ran an experiment: could frontier AI models accurately code open-ended survey responses? The leading model at the time GPT-5, was entirely unreliable. We just ran it again with new data and the latest models, and difference is dramatic, not just in the results but also in the method.

Spending $2 billion to pay companies to *not* build new cheap clean energy projects should have been a huge scandal. Looks like we paid far more for civil servants to *not* go to work. Breathtaking waste, fraud, abuse, and inefficiency. Also read and follow @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

Kevin Bogardus@kevinbogardus.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wanted to know how much EPA spent on admin leave after 1000s were paid not to work, often for months So I filed a #FOIA —> EPA denied me —> I appealed —> I won And EPA spent almost $200M on leave Many never returned to work #FOIA4eva More here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

A call to journalists to check an underappreciated bias. Speaking truth to power does not mean that government must be the villan of of every story --- landlords, contractors, even potholes can be antagonists. The truth is, sometimes government works, and sometimes it does not.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

New from me: The NY Times piece criticized Mamdani for using influencers to share his agenda. But negativity bias means that legacy media like the Times does not cover substantive government stories about Mamdani trying to make the government work better. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post...

14/ Are workers with these skills required anywhere else in the economy? HVAC, Utility, Construction, Electricians @jwmason.bsky.social. Union Jobs & skill shortages & training was supposed to be part of green boom. The Economist on US job creation from AI boom: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

I talked to @donmoyn.bsky.social about the state of the government for my newsletter "It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work."

The federal government is falling apart

Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

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Anti cross dressing ordinances over time in the US. What's remarkable is how much of this nucleated around St Louis and the Mississippi River in the mid 19th century. There's a story there to find.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

Statutory diffusion will be trivial to run on this corpus. Basically, you can measure how statutory text spread from state to state over time and how the language evolved. This kind of work used to take years with a team of RAs. It can now be done in an afternoon.

Multigenerational housing is on the rise. What is driving this increase? @natashap.bsky.social told @sfstandard.com, “The increase is likely driven by a lack of affordable housing, childcare, and eldercare, and the increase in single parents." Read: https://myumi.ch/e7722

New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

UW-Madison Poli Sci has THREE searches for TT assistant professors: Environmental politics: go.wisc.edu/1gk366 Chinese politics: go.wisc.edu/847082 American political thought: go.wisc.edu/lfwg6o I am not on any of the search committees, but happy to chat about the dept/UW/Madison/etc at APSA!

Brown, Pietrzak, & @alexandersahn.bsky.social have a cool new working paper showing that people who live near new homeless shelters & supportive housing actually *increase* their support for more spending on homeless services ungated osf.io/preprints/so...

possible milestone for @mirandayaver.bsky.social's book: lent to a grad student *and returned*

"Texas Tech is using A.I. to ferret out books and other materials that touch on topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologues are wielding technology to sideline subject-matter experts."

A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

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First consideration will be given to applications received by September 13

Devin Judge-Lord@judgelord.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're hiring. Associate/Full Professor of Democracy Policy apply.interfolio.com/188470

An exemplary scholar and mentor. Well deserved. Come to his Gaus Award Lecture: "Varieties of Expertise: Engaging Stakeholders through Constructed Collaboration" on Friday, Sept. 4, at 6:30pm at #APSA2026

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · last mo.

David L. Weimer Receives the 2026 John Gaus Award The John Gaus Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of… http://politicalsciencenow.com/david-l-weimer-receives-the-2026-john-gaus-award/

The U.S. has long used the promise of papers to incentivize - cooperation with police in solving crimes - cooperation in counter-narcotics operations - cooperation with the military & CIA - serving in the military The credibility of the U.S. government is on fire.

hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · last mo.

My paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social--on how Black migration via the Great Migration led northern cities to replace mayors with appointed city managers--has found a home at Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) ungated page proofs: drive.google.com/file/d/1bFea...

The bigger scandal is what the other 4% cost us.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GAO finds 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants cannot be verified federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-news...

New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...