Pierre-Yves Baudot

@pyb.bsky.social

Professeur de science politique à Paris-1 / political sociology, Disability policies, Politics of Rights and a little bit of Lockdown Studies

I appreciate @natecohn.bsky.social & Eve Washington's NYT piece pointing out that random simulations of nonpartisan districting tend to produce many minority opportunity districts, perhaps as many as we have now. But although the subhead comes close, the authors do not ever quite say the key point—

highlighted text (subhead): Our simulations debunk the notion that the act created artificial minority districts that wouldn't otherwise exist.

"ICE doesn’t care if you can’t hear." Deaf immigrants return to sign language classes and community resources, but their fears still linger—an arrest, with hands behind their backs and no interpreters, often means the loss of any way to communicate at all. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/13/d...

Deaf immigrants meet to learn ASL but remain cautious of continued ICE presence in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer

Deaf immigrants have been held in detention for months, without the free access to video phones that they are legally entitled to.

minnesotareformer.com

In 1931, Albert Einstein and W.E.B. DuBois wrote to each other in German; DuBois asked Einstein to write an article for THE CRISIS. DuBois translated it and wrote as intro: "He is a brilliant advocate of disarmament and world Peace and he hates race prejudice because as a Jew he knows what it is."

Albert Einstein’s Little-Known Correspondence with W.E.B. Du Bois About Equality and Racial Justice

“Professor Einstein is not a mere mathematical mind. He is a living being, sympathetic with all human advance… and he hates race prejudice because as a Jew he knows what it is.”

themarginalian.org

Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Albert Einstein was born 147 yrs ago #BOTD Einstein corresponded with W.E.B. Du Bois while still in Germany. After fleeing to the U.S: "As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail."

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Intéressant de rappeler que l’an dernier, Yaël Braun-Privet avait initialement refusé une minute de silence en la mémoire d’Aboubakar Cissé, poignardé à 57 reprises alors qu’il priait dans une mosquée, au motif que l’hémicycle n’honorait plus « les cas individuels ». www.humanite.fr/politique/br...

LCP-Assemblée nationale@lcp.fr · 7mo ago

🔴🏛️ [INFO LCP] Mort de Quentin Deranque à Lyon : l'Assemblée nationale observera une minute de silence cet après-midi en ouverture de la séance de questions au gouvernement (sources parlementaires). #DirectAN