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LaGina Gause

@laginagause.bsky.social

Political science, Associate professor. Research: race and class inequality, political representation and protesting in the United States. Howard University and University of Michigan alumna.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 2w ago

I won’t share the video of the public execution by police of a yet unnamed Black man in Madison, WI. With four white Madison cops on him, one cop pulled out his firearm and shot the victim in the head at least three times at point blank range. 1/2

Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social · 3w ago

At 250 years, America is being offered three origin stories, refusal, recovery, and ethno-nationalist sovereignty. All three ask us to stop trusting one another. In my new piece, I reflect on the stakes of our fascination with origin stories. Have a read: www.anativeson.org/p/the-idolat...

The Idolatry of Origins: America at 250 Years

by Melvin L. Rogers, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor, Brown University

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Marcus Board Jr.@profmbj.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to join my colleagues! Pop into our discussion on the unfinished revolution - link below us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nay: the Cunty Seafood @notoriouslynay.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

This nation took memorial day and made it national without acknowledging it is a Black tradition and why. www.history.com/articles/mem...

One of the First Memorial Days Was Held by Freed Slaves | HISTORY

At the close of the Civil War, people recently freed from slavery in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers.

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LaGina Gause @laginagause.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out my new @journalrep.bsky.social with incoming @umfordschool.bsky.social PhD student Alyson Otanez and UCSD’s Marisa Abrajano.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social - Understanding How Race, Partisanship, and Gender Affect Attitudes on the Environment and Climate Change in the U.S. - https://cup.org/4uolit1 - Marisa Abrajano, @laginagause.bsky.social & Alyson Otanez #FirstView

Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out @laginagause.bsky.social, Devin Wright, and Chris Stout study on how #HBCUs improve descriptive representation for Black people in “The Link Between Educational Socialization, Descriptive Representation, and Substantive Representation,”  buff.ly/VrSPY59  #BHM #polisky

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

A final but especially important reason that popularism has put the United States at greater, not lower, risk of authoritarianism is the Democratic Party’s overly cautious use of institutional authority and political power beyond elections. Popularism doesn’t just urge candidates to check the polls before making a campaign decision; by defining politics down to poll-watching, it trains leaders to check with polls before governing—any use of their legislative and administrative power. Successful opposition parties in authoritarian environments around the world don’t do this: they engage in politics in order to wield power, not just to win or maintain it. But in the United States, the opposition party sees elections as its only tool, even as the regime repeatedly and brazenly threatens electoral integrity. The implicit pitch is “at least if you vote for us, you keep the right from governing.” Examples of Democratic squeamishness about power abound. The Democrats have just now begun to engage in partisan gerrymandering, fifteen years after Republicans used it to tremendous gain. And Democratic politicians who call Trump a dictator have voted for nearly all of his nominees in the Senate.

In this, Democratic leaders are the ultimate popularists—waiting to use their institutional power until it is overwhelmingly clear that public opinion is on their side. The results have been disastrous. Most consequential was the hesitancy of the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland to swiftly and aggressively prosecute Trump for the coup attempt on January 6, 2021. That’s exactly the opposite of what Lula’s government has done to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil after Bolsonaro’s own coup attempt. As seen across more than two dozen other countries that convicted or banned from office national leaders for constitutional violations and crimes since 2010, this is not an impossible task.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

LaGina Gause @laginagause.bsky.social · 6mo ago

People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.

The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism

The United States continues to evade scrutiny as a place that actively represses, expels, and rules over subsets of its population. This oversight has foreclosed investigation into the empirical relat...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

"the most widely accepted definition of the working class" !!!! wow my eyes just bulged out of my head lol and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

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LaGina Gause @laginagause.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This clip powerful for raising concerns about the racial implications of AI use. It should also make teachers, politicians, and every AI user think more critically about AI usage.

Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4. One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10mo ago

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not to pile on, but www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Duke Was Paring Back Diversity Programs. Trump Targeted It Anyway.

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Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social: Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“It’s not just these two reporters’ fates that are at stake here—and that’s important enough—but also the fundamental, constitutional right of a free press.”

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 10mo ago

Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week. Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Authoritarianism often enters through crime policy & policing bc public so often demands more & tougher policing. Yanilda González shows this in Authoritarian Police in Democracy. A while back I was in conversation w/ her & other policing scholars for @annualreviews.bsky.social. Highly recommend.

Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States | Annual Reviews

Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American democracy with fellow political scientists Cathy J. Cohen (Universit...

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 11mo ago

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“A racial reckoning?” New study by @amengel.bsky.social & Cindy Kam: “Challenging the conventional wisdom, our analyses demonstrate that racial attitudes changed following George Floyd’s murder, but in ways dependent upon attitude measure and population subgroup.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A racial reckoning? racial attitudes in the wake of the
murder of George Floyd
Andrew M. Engelhardt and Cindy D. Kam

Abstract
Did George Floyd’s murder and its ensuing protests produce a racial reckoning? Conventional social-science accounts, emphasizing the stability of racial attitudes, dismiss this possibility. In contrast, we theorize
how these events may have altered Americans’ racial attitudes, in broadly progressive or in potentially countervailing ways across partisan and racial subgroups. An original content analysis of partisan media
demonstrates how the information environment framed Black Americans before and after the summer of 2020. Then we examine temporal trends using three different attitude measures: most important problem judgments, explicit favorability towards Whites versus Blacks, and implicit associations. Challenging
the conventional wisdom, our analyses demonstrate that racial attitudes changed following George Floyd’s
murder, but in ways dependent upon attitude measure and population subgroup.

Figure 1 shows four scatterplots with Lowess smoothing lines comparing Fox (gray squares, gray line) and MSNBC (black circles, black line) coverage of Black Americans in 2020, with a vertical red line marking George Floyd’s murder on May 25.

Top left (Daily Counts of Activism Frames): Both networks show a sharp spike in activism-related mentions immediately after Floyd’s murder, then declining through the year, with similar levels across Fox and MSNBC.

Top right (Daily Proportion of Mentions containing Activism Frames): The share of mentions with activism frames rises briefly after Floyd’s murder for both networks but quickly declines, with no clear partisan difference.

Bottom left (Daily Counts of Backlash Frames): Fox shows a much larger spike in backlash-related mentions (e.g., “violence,” “mob”) after May, while MSNBC increases more modestly.

Bottom right (Daily Proportion of Mentions containing Backlash Frames): From June to October, nearly half of Fox’s mentions of Black Americans include backlash frames, roughly twice the rate of MSNBC, which remains lower throughout.

Overall, the figure shows that while both networks used more activism frames immediately after Floyd’s murder, Fox emphasized backlash frames much more heavily than MSNBC in the following months.

Figure 2 shows six scatterplots with Lowess smoothing lines tracking mentions of racism or race relations as the most important problem in Gallup polls (2017–2021). Each dot is a monthly estimate, with a vertical red line marking George Floyd’s murder in May 2020.

Top row:
Full Sample: Mentions are low (under 5%) before 2020, then spike sharply in June 2020 (~16%) before falling but remaining above pre-2020 levels.

Among Whites: Similar pattern as the full sample, with a ~10-point jump in June 2020, followed by a decline but remaining elevated relative to earlier years.

Among Blacks: Higher baseline concern compared to Whites; mentions spike by ~21 points after Floyd’s murder and remain elevated through 2021.

Bottom row:
Among White Republicans: Very low pre-2020 mentions, a modest rise (~6 points) in June 2020, then rapid decline toward baseline.

Among White Independents: Clear but moderate spike in June 2020, with some persistence above baseline.

Among White Democrats: Low pre-2020 mentions, sharp June 2020 spike (~14 points), then decline but sustained higher levels through 2021.

Overall, the figure shows a sharp discontinuity after Floyd’s murder across all groups, with the most sustained increases among Black respondents and White Democrats, and weaker persistence among White Republicans.

Figure 4 presents six scatterplots of predicted weekly average IAT D-scores for 2019 (gray squares, gray line) and 2020 (black circles, black line), with a vertical red line marking George Floyd’s murder on May 25. Higher D-scores indicate stronger implicit anti-Black bias.

Top row:

Full Sample: Bias was declining before Floyd’s murder and drops further afterward in 2020, diverging from 2019.

Among Whites: A clear decline in D-scores appears after Floyd’s murder, with lower bias sustained through 2020.

Among Blacks: No sharp discontinuity; scores remain stable across 2019 and 2020.

Bottom row:

Among White Conservatives: Noticeable decline in anti-Black bias after May 2020, sustained through the year.

Among White Neutrals: A clear drop in bias after Floyd’s murder, somewhat larger than among liberals.

Among White Liberals: Small decline in bias after May 2020, though less pronounced than among conservatives or neutrals.

Overall, the figure shows that implicit anti-Black bias decreased among White respondents across ideological groups after Floyd’s murder, with larger reductions among conservatives and neutrals than liberals. Black respondents show little change, consistent with already low baseline bias.

Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · last yr.

We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last yr.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social