So the Stars and Stripes reporter will probably get fired for writing this article. Seeing stories like this juxtaposed with articles about extreme heat and wildfires is remarkable and tragic. www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says

Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

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Florida Democrats nominating a former Republican for Governor and a DSA type for US Senate is a bad sign for the party brand as a whole.

If it wants to win the left must destroy the Internet Archive

My worst day on Capitol Hill was better and more supportive than my 90th percentile day in my first tenure track job

Sasho Todorov@sashotodorov.bsky.social · last mo.

I feel like academia desperately needs a "you must rotate out into some real world secondment for a year every decade or so" because being in forever school really does seem to cripple a lot of people's emotional development.

For the "more parties" crowd, we have a third party in Vermont ("Progressives" who are left of Democrats), and this is their primary ballot.

In advance of this fall's gubernatorial election in Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott is not looking as invincible as in years past according to UNH poll.

UNH poll shows tight race for VT Democratic gubernatorial primary. Median voter reports not knowing enough about both top-2 candidates (Janoo/Richards) just a few weeks before the primary. Slight preference for Janoo, but Richards does better head to head. Noisy either way

standby for some Vermont electoral analysis from a very timely UNH poll that just dropped. Poll here: scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Now that Republicans care about soccer, if we want the USMNT to have a better shot in the World Cup, maybe we increase legal immigration and create better pathways to citizenship?

This is exactly what I've been thinking about blogging about. The new pivot point where the extension rules switch from "makes the negotiation easy and keeps role players in place" to "is the trigger for a star player to get traded."

Michael Pina@michaelvpina.bsky.social · 2mo ago

nba offseason winners and losers! www.theringer.com/2026/07/06/n...

This is correct. It went from a "crazy idea" that the various Law Knowers said was obviously stupid, to a nearly-there cause that can be won if Rs get to replace Sotomayor. And in the meantime, Rs who were otherwise happy w Trump on immigration have new demands to stop "birth tourism."

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.

One of the bleakest things about American politics is that we're reflexively anti expert on issues that truly have right and wrong answers, but are slavishly obsequious to experts in "the law and the constitution" despite that field being completely made up and fake.

i took the political compass quiz and it said i was "somebody with too many thoughts about bad questionnaire design to continue taking the political compass quiz"

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

I know Substack is good for authors, or assume it is I guess, but it is a godawful platform for readers

Given the increasingly obvious strategic failure of the War in Iran, where are the calls for resignation for Hegseth, Rubio or the like? Or since it's so Trump driven, is acting like this actually worked the only option?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Much like my colleagues that use R, Claude is so annoyed every time I ask it to write Stata code.

This could work for journal submissions too. I reviewed a paper the other day I highly suspect to be AI slop and would like to update my priors on the authors. This shouldn't only fall on editors.

Mail-in ballot curing is not worth the externalities it is posing.

FYI this overleaf feature is not ready for prime time. It misses column breaks and hallucinates data

When Kriner and Reeves wrote The Particularistic President ~10 years ago, they argued that presidents are incentivized to "fudge" policy goods allocations to benefit their supporters and swing voters They did not anticipate presidents punishing outpartisans. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

The Particularistic President

Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - The Particularistic President

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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump makes the same corrupt authoritarian pitch to CA voters that he made to Hungarians: I will send lots of US taxpayer dollars to you if you vote for my guy.

my core belief is that no government or government official should have an NDA and upon candidacy for public office or acceptance of a nomination to a government position it should void samesaid NDA.

Virginia Sapiro@vsapiro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The answer is no. Protect our democracy. Degrees of classification are sufficient. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

You couldn't make up a better avatar of the 119th Congress than a Congressman who misses all floor votes but still trades stocks.

Some of the strongest evidence I've seen for term limits in the US Senate.

I've said many times before. The main weakness of political scientists' attitudinal model of Supreme Court justices' behavior is that it is probably not cynical enough.

The same issue applies to researchers. Right now, why would journal editors give space to "the government hands out benefits to connected interests" when it's blatantly obvious.

The Weekday@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Courtney grills McMahon on increasing education costs for nurses COURTNEY: We have a nursing shortage, and you're worsening it. What do you say to nurses who asked for your consideration? McMAHON: Nurses are an incredibly respected profession COURTNEY: Your rule certainly doesn't show that

I've thought alot about how we should define "lobbying" and this paper gets at how observing "lobbying" through LDA reports doesn't capture it all, or even nearly half of it.

Eashwar Nagaraj@economeash.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In my paper, I find that 40% of firms that initiate lobbying are not named in LDA filings.

This is a remarkable paper on lobbying.

Eashwar Nagaraj@economeash.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 How big is the market for "shadow lobbying"? 🚨 In my JMP, I use 4.5 trillion pings from 179 million smartphones spatially merged to building shapefiles and observe movement between lobbyists' offices, corporate headquarters, and the federal government in DC. Draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....