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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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I love seeing all the couples celebrating Loving v Virginia today on social media.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Other US Senators are going to stand up for him, right? From both sides of the aisle? And please, if you're going to respond that this is hopelessly naive, spare me. I see what's going on in our politics. I expect more.

Way down on my list of complaints, but still worth noting - they're not socialists.

I would like the major news outlets to imagine that this is Sen. Cornyn or Sen. Cotton and headline accordingly.

New at Tusk: A fellow scholar was recently arrested at a peaceful protest in L.A., along with several journalists. Here's their account.

Most political parties try to expand their voter base.

Not a lot of good news lately, but this makes me happy.

Trump approval, Quinnipiac: January 46-43 February 45-49 March 42-53 April 41-53 Today 38-54

Petition to let USMNT borrow a couple of USWNT players until they get themselves sorted out.

PKs… awesome.

I like Yamal’s “are you kidding me?” look. Really good for such a young guy.

Apparently there’s football, tennis and golf going on. Thank goodness for this place!

Portugal - Spain is awesome because neither team can defend. Commentary from 13 yo boys in my house.

The European soccer embrace of Sweet Caroline...

as someone who grew up in Southern California, I never in my life thought I'd see an administration that was too extreme for the LAPD. Wild times, and I'm thinking of everyone's safety tonight.

#usmnt might not be ready for the world cup...

#usmnt, really?

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.

Mountainhead prepared me for this outcome.