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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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PKs… awesome.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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

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

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The European soccer embrace of Sweet Caroline...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

#usmnt, really?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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 3 days ago • 4 comments

Mountainhead prepared me for this outcome.

submitted 3 days 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 4 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

This

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Maybe watching Mountainhead last night was a mistake.

submitted 4 days 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 4 days ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 4 days 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 4 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 4 days ago • 2 comments

I remember when Rick Perry was considered conservative.

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

submitted 5 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 5 days ago • 3 comments