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he's right and he's right to say it

submitted 9 hours ago • 131 comments

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

submitted 3 days ago • 832 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 7 days ago • 128 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 9 days ago • 141 comments

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 11 days ago • 2249 comments

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

submitted 11 days ago • 303 comments

Stop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy It's going to be up to us to bring it back to life open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

NYT: “How will Trump’s illegal military takeover of LA play for Democrats?” I’m just a political communication scholar standing in front of our paper of record asking for them to not strategy frame an authoritarian takeover. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 14 days ago • 504 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 17 days ago • 404 comments

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 19 days ago • 327 comments

Dominican man thrown to the ground and arrested outside immigration courtroom just now, an activist, who is a US citizen was also taken away in the chaotic scene. A lawyer later tried to ask the remaining agents where the activist was taken. "you just arrested a US citizen which is illegal."

submitted 19 days ago • 144 comments

Utilizing my domain knowledge as someone who has published on the Voting Rights Act, this would be a very bad idea

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The reason why this article is so bad is that the only argument it marshals against international students is a fallacy. There isn’t a fixed set of slots for people to compete for, given by nature. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 37 comments

That’s a lede @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

A truly historic fumbling of the bag by Alabama if they end up back under pre-clearance because of this

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 alt-academic job at UC Berkeley running data collection & analysis for the Brennan Center's Voting Laws Roundup. Job involves collecting, handcoding, and ML/LLM modeling legislative text on voting laws, managing RAs, etc. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

submitted 52 days ago • 469 comments

On today’s episode of, “tasks I thought would be difficult but instead only took 15 minutes,” I have finally upgraded the RAM on my Dell XPS

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Well, to the student who asked me yesterday if I thought we were on track for a recession this year, I would like to slightly amend my answer.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 57 days ago • 1327 comments

Quite the quote.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

submitted 62 days ago • 47 comments

Anyone have an idea if Sinners is going to be in theaters in a month, or will I need to go watch it on my own the next couple weeks?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 63 days ago • 16 comments

Today is a great day to switch away from dairy milk

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

"To what extent is the constitutional order still in effect? If we must ask, we are fully in a crisis situation; once we don’t have to ask anymore, the constitutional order will have already been overthrown," writes @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

There's a lot more to the deportation deal between Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele that you REALLY need to know about. WATCH:

submitted 67 days ago • 31 comments

This is why you don’t negotiate with authoritarians

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 69 days ago • 94 comments

I will be teaching my undergraduate students about the effect of racial and political violence in the South on voting behavior and economic outcomes in a half hour. I was unsure if I would dedicate a class to this topic before the semester started, but I think I made the correct call.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment