Liberals say that public executions have no place in our democracy. They’re wrong—public executions have no place in our republic.
Rob Mickey
@robmickey.bsky.social
Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...
Carson is the second female Nobel winner in recent years to have been denied tenure. Katalin Karikó was denied tenure at Penn www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
Researcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To Apologize
Katalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.
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Starting next Monday, this gem in the Elements series I edit will be FREE to download. Highly relevant and timely scholarship from 2 major voices in Latino Politics 🇵🇪 /🇲🇽 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Walls, Cages, and Family Separation
Cambridge Core - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Walls, Cages, and Family Separation
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My book, "The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable," is here! I hope you'll grab a copy if you're interested in cities 🏙️, elections 🗳️, and how we can make them better 📚📦 www.amazon.com/Fog-Accounta...
The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable (Chicago Studies in American Politics): de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin: 9780226849102: Amazon.co...
The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable (Chicago Studies in American Politics) [de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* sh...
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It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Professors @brendannyhan.bsky.social and Jeffrey Friedman offer strategies for countering AI and restoring confidence in the integrity of writing assignments. “Removing such assignments from undergraduate curricula would, we believe, significantly erode the value of higher education,” they say.
How to Assign Research Papers Again
Three ways to counter AI and restore confidence in the integrity of student writing.
chronicle.com
On the topic of books I was fortunate enough to blurb, here's my two cents on Justin de Benedictis-Kesnner's (@jdbk.bsky.social) comprehensive tour de force, "The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable."
Dan Hopkins@dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 6d agoOn the theme of Canadian elections, I'm delighted to have been able to give a blurb for Eric Merkley's @ericmerkley.bsky.social awesome new book "Polarization, Eh?". You can't understand polarization on either side of the border without this book.
Sebastian Berhalter was raised in the Concacaf shithousery mines, he's a natural
CAVAN SULLIVAN THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS! #USMNT x VW
German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last wk.Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
Weird that you haven't heard Bob Mitchum's version:
Sunny
YouTube video by Robert Mitchum - Topic
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.Special Friday night treat: Greg Howe's cover of the great classic "Sunny." This has to be one of the best versions of this tune. Boney M's 1976 version is also great. But with this one, no matter how many times you listen to it, you'll always find something new. www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVb...
For a while, though, rabbis debated whether a golem counted in a minyan (I guess golem were boys?).
Shana Gadarian@sgadarian.bsky.social · last wk.This is actually what our rabbi's Rosh Hashanah sermon was about. A round rejection that AI has a soul and is conscious (and therefore would count in a minyan).
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
journalofdemocracy.org
“The State Department’s Office of Remigration, a small unit carved out of its refugee bureau, has pledged at least $410 million in taxpayer money to secure deals with 31 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America, that agree to accept third-country deportees.” [Linda Chavez, @theunpopulist.net]
The Supreme Court Just Consigned Migrants to Cruelty Far Beyond Their Crimes
Letting the administration deport them for now to nasty third-country dictatorships should shock our conscience
theunpopulist.net
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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CNN@cnn.com · 2w agoMigrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. https://cnn.it/4huSk5M
HUGE congrats to -- among others -- two amazing historically-minded scholars who just won a MacArthur Fellowship: Ellora Derenoncourt and @arielron.bsky.social!!!!!!! They're amazing.
The files from New York Times v OpenAI are insane. I'm no big city lawyer but seems like it's a bunch of open bragging about theft?
@pkrugman.bsky.social talks to Farrell and Newman about weaponized interdependence @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social Read the original article direct.mit.edu/isec/article... @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/henry-farr...
Henry Farrell and Abe Newman on Weaponized Interdependence
SWIFT, the Strait, and a world of economic confrontation
paulkrugman.substack.com
1. This is the platonic ideal of a Union goal. While the results have changed under Richter, the game model has not. 2. Just holy shit, Cavan Sullivan. Running out of superlatives.