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albertsonb2.bsky.social
Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
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Plenty of games in Canada and Mexico. So in soccer lingo, the US commits an own goal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

oh @meninblazers.bsky.social, do my steadfast efforts to make sports bluesky happen give me a possible in for the event in Austin I've been waitlisted for? Shameless ask for me and my 2 soccer fans.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Is there a team that’s going to prove me wrong? Please?

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Club World Cup, aka your favorite MLS team is crap.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There's a good story to be written about older Americans who are pissed off about Trump and are newly politicized. Maybe before they were fairly reliable voters, but now they're protesters. They're retired and are looking for ways to engage.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I’m thrilled to announce that, after ten years of research, my book on the birth of democracy in South America is finally out! I'm especially excited to be publishing it #openaccess, which means you can download a PDF for free at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Kudos to @gelliottmorris.com for this work - you know who really ought to pay attention? Democrats in office who want to keep their jobs, and the people who want to unseat them.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I didn't see this from my angle. Other notable news from Austin FC - we scored in the first half (gasp), and actually won. Amazing.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

San Diego, not exactly known for liberal politics…

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Austin

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We have self-reports or news accounts from 320 of the 2,000 No Kings Day events across the US today. Up to an unofficial tally of about 575,000 people now. Extrpaolating from that, total would be around 4.5m people, or about 1.3% of the pop. Some error I'm sure. Thanks to everyone crowdsourcing!

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

The LA crowd is huge, but then you consider there's also Santa Monica, Long Beach, etc...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

I'm not sure about what media to pay for these days, but I never question my subscription to boltsmag.org. I appreciate the attention to what actually gets done in state and local politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 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 3 days ago • 53 comments

Strib coverage is in front of their paywall. Please follow their coverage and resist the urge to speculate about *anything* about the attack itself. www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

If only someone had warned that fascist thugs in uniforms refusing to identify themselves would lead to other fascist thugs exploiting those uniforms for their own grim purposes.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Does anyone know why the protest in Austin is in the evening? Just curious about the timing.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is scary. As Tesla's robotaxi prepares for launch in Austin, it failed safety tests six times. It blew through school bus stop signs at full speed, running over the manikins and driving off — completing a hit-and-run. 😮 www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

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

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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. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments