Good to see a current US Senator talking this way.
(No sarcasm.)
11.03.2026 21:52
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Good to see a current US Senator talking this way.
(No sarcasm.)
I know this is a crazy idea, but do any of the commentators who got snookered by anonymous Republicans into sticking with "Trump is strong on immigration, the public actually loves deportations" for far too long feel like it's time to ask themselves why they got so easily taken?
Chili's is a corporation, it has no personal values or lifestyle.
It would be an interesting piece of research to compare partisan gaps on 2020s vs 2010s vs earlier periods of immigration salience (much wider now) with the widest ever salience gaps on other issues (eg unemployment, defence, NHS) in last 50 years
Important work exploring Rogan's audience:π
"...younger, male, & with low educational attainment"
More "conspiratorial" thinking & "conservative media consumption"
"politically diverse yet culturally unified"
intensifies "cultural polarization."
Preprint: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
As we say in Welsh, llongyfarchiadau! I suggest doing literally any nice thing youβve been putting off for prior lack of time/thinking itβs not fiscally sound.
Beginning to think that right wing defenses of free speech and opposition to cancel culture might not have been completely sincere
Roberts Courts legacy is to make it harder for ordinary people to engage in the most basic form of participation (voting), for that participation to matter (letting gerrymandering stand), while removing any constraints from billionaire influence on politics
In remarks before the U.S. Judicial Conference, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took aim at the Supreme Court's shadow docket.
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I decided to remove my final lecture "How to improve intergroup relations" - I talk about recategorisation, contact theory etc. To be honest, at the peak of this global invasion, I no longer believe any of these theories to make a difference. We need sane leaders to start with for anything to work.
"But he can't do that"
Yes, like he can't do all the other things.
Again, it is not doomerism to ponder these scenarios, which are obviously illegal & unconstitutional, because the institutions are not self-enforcing, & he's gotten away with all the other things so far.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Kids: Read one (1) book
ββ¦polarization is good. Thatβs when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.β This and other hopeful takesβ> www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
The Iran War is yet just another installment in my oft repeated observation: Trump does not pursue policy in the traditional sense, nor does he engage in good faith negotiation. He demands concessions that give him wealth, status, submission, or subservience. I see no strategic goal or plan.
While "non-Whites" typically get excluded in analyses of class politics in the US, some of the real action will be what working class Latinos (and others) will do in 2026 and 2028.
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βͺοΈ ignore 97% of the studies done
βͺοΈ claim there aren't enough studies
βͺοΈ ban care for trans teenagers on that basis
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-nhs-en...
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
Politicians need to start explaining this to voters otherwise they will get the blame for the rising cost of living. This is America and Trumpβs doing.
Yes, I admit this is a more angry video than I usually publish, but, hey, I am angry. As with removing puberty blockers for trans young people this has nothing to do with preventing medical harm. If it were the bans would be blanket bans. This is about saying trans individuals should not exist.
On Sunday, one of Germanyβs largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germanyβs industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. π§΅
Fascinating thread - one thing that leapt out for me was a formerly dominant centre left party being squeezed by Greens in diverse graduate heavy cities and by the radical right in economically insecure manufacturing towns. Certain patterns keep repeating
"Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it."
-- Hannah Arendt
www.jstor.org/stable/23025...
By blocking Chevening scholars from coming to the UK the Home Secretary has officially put paid to any arguments that her hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies are anything other than right wing xenophobia. These are the best and the brightest, and she is blocking them.
My experience of national identity has always been people excluding others from it (especially as an immigrant), or using it to justify terrible things. You're welcome to fight for better versions of these, but it's valid to just abstain from the whole thing, really.
Political scientists in election years: No. Presidents can't really affect gas prices. It's a silly way to judge a president.
Political scientists in 2026: So, actually...
Big Congrats, Dr CvetiΔ!
Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.
Excited to share a new paper with @jfischman, just accepted at JEL.
We argue that empirical research tends to be biased and overconfident due to a weakness in the dominant econometric framework: insufficient attention paid to humans βin the loopβ with the research process. 1/
Once again, the culture warriors deeply misunderstand the deep underlying psyche of the British people. The British people were offered nice animals and they overwhelmingly favoured nice animals.
