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Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
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y'all, I shared something that was fake, someone told me it was fake, so I deleted it and thanked the person who told me. It's not that hard.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Mountainhead prepared me for this outcome.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

random political science thought - Elon Musk said Trump should be impeached and no one expects him to articulate a constitutional basis for his claim.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This all gets even better: crypto is getting lit up.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Did anyone think he wasn’t in the Epstein files?

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

This

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Maybe watching Mountainhead last night was a mistake.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think Elon Musk should absolutely put all of his time and money into creating a third party. This will go well for him.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Nope. Not going back to Twitter. Not even for this.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I'm not sure who else out there needs to know this, but just in case, there's a new season of LEGO Masters.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I remember when, early at my career at UT, my top student in a huge Intro to American Politics class told me that he was taking his US Citizenship test soon, and I tried to joke with him about how easy it would be for him. He wasn't sure that a top score in a 200 person class made him a sure bet.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I remember when Rick Perry was considered conservative.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Huge scale of destruction - on science, technology, on students and researchers' careers, on patients, caregivers, private industry and for no discernable gain.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Lynn Biyendolo scores. It's what she does.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Sentnor is too modest but they really were nice team goals #uswnt

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I miss Lavelle but oh my goodness is it wonderful to have Yohannes!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Goooooaaaaaalllllll!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I was not emotionally prepared for Becky Sauerbrunn’s retirement interviews. #USWNT

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

ad watch - this looks interesting.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The world is on fire, but USWNT is playing in 2 hours and I cannot wait.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing in my training has prepared me for this level of crazy.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

If the FEMA head can be unaware of hurricane season then can I be unaware of tax season?

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

please, they're not even dating.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Trump has picked 2022 law school grad Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate (such “physical prowess”) who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

Constitutional issues aside, I’m trying to think of a person less likely to have ever had a library card.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

That goal felt more legit.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Defense is underrated in soccer.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

2 days with cold showers and no power really changes your perspective on things like laundry.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Power outages in Austin mean you take a break from your federal and state political angst and just stew in your municipal angst for a bit.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Stormy night at Q2

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

You know it's bad when judges are using exclamation points.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students. *They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase *Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments