Was rereading Bartels's Ethnic antagonism article & found a good example of what not accounting for method can do. He estimates an acquiescence factor to control for method effects b/c outcomes and many predictors share response scales. These are hearty method effects.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Whatever we’re doing, it’s not enough.
30.01.2026 04:55 — 👍 1031 🔁 401 💬 15 📌 16
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/
30.01.2026 02:15 — 👍 7905 🔁 2081 💬 65 📌 67
"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
Sending @repilhan.bsky.social sincere admiration tonight.
28.01.2026 04:09 — 👍 2691 🔁 424 💬 68 📌 38
Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE.
First no funding.
Impeach Noem.
Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN.
Demand that Miller resign.
Don’t let up.
It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
At some point, academics are going to need to take responsibility for the ways their research has influenced the most despicable ways society responds to "crime". Like, broken windows policing, the more and better police training academic crowd continues to harm without shame.
27.01.2026 21:17 — 👍 47 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
This is a MUST-READ affidavit.
This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’”
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:
Meanwhile…
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
Why not help a trans Girl Scout meet their cookie-selling goals?
This link has a list of Scouts you can buy from. Each link goes to the individual's order page.
Please order from those who haven't met goal yet, there are lots to choose from. 🏳️⚧️
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If there's an ICE watch in your city, sign up for trainings today!!!
11.01.2026 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Once the dam breaks…
09.01.2026 00:08 — 👍 1129 🔁 69 💬 22 📌 3This secret police force is brutal, indifferent to humanity, and acting with impunity. And the owner is on each, and every one of us to protest every single thing they do every single day, and whatever ways we can.
07.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 1481 🔁 181 💬 12 📌 2A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
08.01.2026 01:05 — 👍 33149 🔁 9053 💬 514 📌 417another reason why people have given up on procedural or incremental reforms is that the courts just do not discipline killer cops
07.01.2026 22:06 — 👍 89 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0The casual way so many USians feel they have a right to an opinion about who runs another country (“I don’t like Maduro, but”)—in the congress, in the press, just amongst random dipshits—shows how imperial our mindset is. What happened in Venezuela is all our failure & all of our responsibility
04.01.2026 07:27 — 👍 146 🔁 38 💬 7 📌 1Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.
04.01.2026 00:36 — 👍 2744 🔁 766 💬 20 📌 0He’s out of his freaking mind. The next target may be Mexico as he already warned their President Claudia Sheinbaum.
03.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 250 🔁 90 💬 38 📌 12
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump. She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.
03.01.2026 20:03 — 👍 2398 🔁 821 💬 80 📌 52I'm deeply sorry to the people of Venezuela. There is no opposition party in the United States to counter the fascist regime's actions and the population is easily demagogued.
03.01.2026 07:53 — 👍 3417 🔁 814 💬 9 📌 0Venezuelan friends telling me stuff's blowing up in Caracas and power is out in parts of the city. Fuck this war criminal administration. Send them to hell.
03.01.2026 06:52 — 👍 2472 🔁 537 💬 29 📌 23GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM
15.12.2025 22:36 — 👍 1166 🔁 554 💬 5 📌 3
A Quote Tweet from NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino @VickieForNYC stating: “We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it. “We need to take every seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders. “The administration needs to begin developing a formal legal framework for the denaturalization process and get it over with before we end up with another 9/11 or worse. Enough is enough.” The quoted tweet from @DrewPavlu stating: “AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK GUN OFF SHOOTER “TERROR ATTACK SYDNEY AT LEAST 10 DEAD “AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK DOWN GUNMAN”
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
Chart with Turnout on the Y axis & election year (2016, 2020, and 2024) on the X axis. 6 lines, 3 for White, Black, and Hispanic in households making over $100k/year, 3 for the same groups in households making under $30k/year. Overall you can see turnout increasing among higher-income people in all three racial groups, and declining (White and Black) or staying flat (Hispanic) among low-income people; the turnout gap by income is much larger in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016. from 2016 -> 2024: - White $100k turnout goes from 65% to 78% while white under $30k turnout goes from 55% to 49% - Black over $100k turnout goes from 51% to 64% while Black under $30k turnout goes from 48% to 33% - Hispanic over $100k turnout goes from 52% to 67% while Hispanic under $30k turnout stays flat at about 36% (higher in 2020 at 42%). Caption: "Our analysis, Cooperative Election Survey Data, Validated Votes."
image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing.
That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy.
It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them.
In a report out in Jan +
"outing my age" is lowkey main character energy
25.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
