I've made ideological perception data I've been working on for a while available at the Harvard Dataverse and put together a website here voterperceptions.org with a bunch of visualizations about it and with too much explanation. I've spent too much time on this, so I hope people find it useful
Laura Bucci
@laurabucci.bsky.social
Associate Prof. Political Science; Research union decline in the US states; Pol. Behavior; Philadelphia; RI❤️; Pr knitting=1 Posts are yelling into the void
Cuomo under investigation: 🙂 By the Trump justice dept: 😟
In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
Non religious husband is unimpressed to see me at my *Most Catholic*
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
we're gonna keep appointing new, increasingly more vance-hostile popes until he converts back to protestantism
A new pope has been chosen. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.
if you’re in line to become the next Pope, STAY IN LINE
Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
Catholicism is like everyone here is a loser [positive]
We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.
Somewhere there is an NYU liberal arts major who touched an idol at the same time as Bill Kristol who is now telling their polycule why we need to get troops back in afghanistan
The only way for them to use this data is retaliatory. So here’s your nightmare fuel for the day. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
npr.org
Yeah, rich women can go into space, but can they go into the ocean in a taped together submersible directed by an Xbox controller
You mean to tell me if we get sent to a prison in another country accidentally, John Roberts can just keep me there ?
Can you please think for a second how this data is about to be used by people without great intentions? You’re playing with fire.
Here are the party leanings of various universities. Look at how right-leaning BYU (my alma-mater) employees are! {BYU employees are significantly more to the right than even Liberty U. employees--wow!}
I want one former staffer to say “actually that’s on me, my bad”
One of the surest signs of a colossal fuckup in American politics is when the staffers start placing “I want everybody to know this wasn’t my fault” stories to protect their future job prospects
Do you think they’ll bring back the printed cloth flour sacks so I can make clothes for the baby?
elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times”
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.