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Just-out YouGov polling shows Trump's approval on the economy continuing to plunge — and his handling of immigration turning negative very sharply. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 62 comments

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

Like others I’ve struggled to process the attacks on civil society. I appreciated the chance to talk w @mariaressa.bsky.social, @vickymurillo.bsky.social, & @timfrye.bsky.social about concrete lessons for how civil society can defend itself against these attacks. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVE5...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

submitted 29 days ago • 658 comments

Autocrats always try to dismantle universities and other sites of free thought. But the current effort to destroy American institutions is also a reactionary backlash against real progress on racial justice in this country. Backlash only happens when movements are winning the argument.

submitted 29 days ago • 24 comments

NEW Economist/YouGov Poll, Apr 13-15 42% of U.S. adult citizens have a favorable view of Donald Trump 53% have an unfavorable view Net -12 Last week 43% | 54% | -11 Start of term 50% | 48% | +3 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

A NBA basketball coach has now said more publicly about defending academic principles than most university presidents.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

University coalitions work: Even small alliances amplify voices, share resources, and create leverage. When institutions stand together on principles, they strengthen their defense and make their values visible. This is the way.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Pampered Idiot, by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807–45, 📸 by @b_smialowski

submitted 31 days ago • 82 comments

Meanwhile

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

This is a must read for anyone who is interested in the politics of economic inequality in the US. Congrats!!!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The 245-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences releases a statement rejecting assaults on scholarly and cultural institutions, the rule of law, & open inquiry--and calls on all Americans to "help fortify" democratic civic culture. www.amacad.org/news/board-s...

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Taxes for thee but not for me.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 38 days ago • 264 comments

For 40 years, the GOP used policy to push people into the stock market and now they’re just watching while Trump tanks it on a tariff gambit that nobody thinks will work. Good luck trying to privatize anything ever again

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

submitted 39 days ago • 260 comments

For 40 years, the GOP used policy to push people into the stock market and now they’re just watching while Trump tanks it on a tariff gambit that nobody thinks will work. Good luck trying to privatize anything ever again

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

submitted 39 days ago • 342 comments

Check out a new working paper. We find that while anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with GOP voting, it is only beginning in the Trump era that these attitudes are more likely to be found among single, young, low SES men.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

submitted 57 days ago • 54 comments

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

submitted 54 days ago • 15 comments

JOP no longer requires pre registration for experiments (though still recommended)

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 56 days ago • 1069 comments

Important piece on how universities fought Orbán and can fight Trump today www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

Truth 😬

submitted 57 days ago • 12 comments

Really key point here. The overall national poverty rate would be 6.5 points higher without social security, it reduces poverty by a much larger multiple than any other US gov't program. And again, this is in terms of the total population, not the poverty rate of seniors alone.

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

submitted 57 days ago • 113 comments

A struggling working class along with huge GOP cuts to government spending is a recipe for big thermostatic backlash especially around health care and wage subsidies.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Welfare for the Wealthy.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

A good read today. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 59 days ago • 73 comments

The most depraved and dangerous criminal is owed a hearing before he is punished, and we are all at risk if he doesn't get it.

submitted 60 days ago • 57 comments

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

submitted 63 days ago • 22 comments

bright red authoritarian flags here

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New preprint! A general overview of stats in public policy research with this (oversimplified but still helpful) separation of methods into description, explanation, and prediction #policysky HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/ SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

Call to action: Veterans March in DC on March 14. If you know a vet or active service member talk to them about the danger of the Trump regime and encourage them to participate. “We dont take an oath to a king.” -Gen Mark Milley #3E #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity

submitted 71 days ago • 130 comments

Yes, your local public school is at risk. What happens next: 1) No personnel left to administer categorical K-12 funding 2) Those funds get block granted 3) Red states funnel the money into vouchers instead of supporting America’s most disadvantaged kids

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Listen to every word.

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

Treaties and institutions remain, but countries act as if they don’t. Welcome to the age of zombie internationalism. goodauthority.org/news/the-com...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

The House Republican government funding bill would give more money to defense while cutting domestic operations. Many media outlets are incorrectly describing the GOP bill a just a simple extension of current spending levels, but that is dead wrong.

submitted 65 days ago • 7 comments

1/ This is wildly illegal. That is not a question on which reasonable legally informed folks can disagree. It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal. And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.

submitted 66 days ago • 120 comments

Also health care opinions tend to be more intensely held - it’s a priority for voters

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

I would add that Trump is hurting his voters because he can't run again or doesn't plan to run again on a fair playing field. We are experiencing the actions of a would be authoritarian who will never again have to face voters and be held accountable and is acting like it.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 70 days ago • 131 comments