"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

faculty during the first week vs the last week of classes. best wishes to all for wrapping up the spring semester! 🤓

Thanks to @anncurry.bsky.social for highlighting the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, which has received far too little attention 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Opinion | Is It Too Much to Ask to Care About Sudan?

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I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

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New paper published in European Societies. "Results showed dramatic levels of ethnic discrimination: a Roma person would need to contact nine landlords to secure a viewing whereas a non-Roma person only two.”with @lindatropp.bsky.social @lioramorhayim.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

Ethnic discrimination in the Hungarian rental housing market

Abstract. This paper explores the degree of discrimination faced by Roma home-seekers, who are members of the largest ethnic minority group in Europe. We first measure the extent of ethnic discriminat...

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as @maddow.bsky.social notes, there are *so* many reasons to show up to a No Kings protest tomorrow... doesn't matter where or why, just do it! (and be sure to register, to help organizers and data analysts track crowd size 🤓) youtube.com/shorts/B8dsN...

No Kings protests were already huge. And that was before...

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We’re going to make history next weekend and welcome so many new people into organizing against the regime. #NoKings

Should we spend $22 BILLION on another illegal war in the Middle East—or on building 100,000 affordable housing units in America? Trump chose an illegal war. What would you choose?

Trump has already spent more in 9 days on his war with Iran than the USDA spends in an entire year on giving breakfasts to kids in school. So much for America First.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America

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We could really use your help to make No Kings Day as big and powerful as possible. Your support will power the thousands of massive and peaceful events planned across the US and the world. Please pitch in if you can to make March 28 a day of nonviolent protest that will echo across the planet.

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The world is watching Trump turn our nation into a rogue state as he threatens our allies, abandons the vulnerable and unleashes chaos that impacts their families directly and indirectly. Iranian civilians went from a brave struggle against their own tyrannical government to fleeing bombs from ours.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "The human rights that we are gonna protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder. The human rights we are going to protect are of the peaceable citizens who have an absolute human right to live in physical safety and security every day of their lives."

It’s time to reveal the billionaire donors flooding American elections with potent dark money. I’m introducing the DISCLOSE Act with Senator Whitehouse and Rep. Pappas to make our money-drenched elections more transparent for all citizens.

From the abstract: "We find clear and consistent evidence that whites who receive their political news from Fox News are significantly more likely to support core tenets of the GRT [Great Replacement Theory] than those who do not." led by: @jesserhodesumass.bsky.social available: cup.org/4d01aYr

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

one after another in my feed, this is what cross-party solidarity can look like🙏🏻 @warnock.senate.gov @lincolnproject.us

Warnock: "We heard tonight the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present case he can for the midterms. It was half lies, half grievances. He knows he is quickly losing power."

I’ve gone to every State of the Union since I was elected to Congress—including during Trump’s first term. I’d rather stick needles in my eyes than listen to his manifesto of mistruths.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

check out this hugely important and informative thread about protest activities across the US by @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues

Erica Chenoweth@chenoweth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is a pogrom

Joe Robertson@joro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

"Together, we are America"

Those cuts to science, culture, medicine? They aren't just about research, they are about power. Episode Three of Autocracy in America: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education

It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

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@nytimes.com editorial board tracks 12 markers of democratic erosion, and where we currently stand in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Americans face a fusion of public power and private wealth to a degree not seen in the past century, if ever. Our latest report outlines nine solutions to combat corruption. Far-reaching reforms are long-overdue. bit.ly/4r62EnZ

Nine Solutions for Political Corruption

A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue.

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@drzilwhite.bsky.social @ericdknowles.bsky.social you (and @pbump.com) might also be interested in a new paper recently accepted for publication, showing that greater consumption of Fox news corresponds with stronger endorsement of "great replacement theory" beliefs (can email if interested)

Eric Knowles@ericdknowles.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This was a paper with @lindatropp.bsky.social and Mao Mogami. 🙂 psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-...