Chris Maggio

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.

Steep Decline in Visas Issued to Students in India India has been the engine of the post-pandemic international-enrollment rebound. But visa issuances to students in India in May through August 2025 nosedived by 61 percent compared to the same time period in 2024. from https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-drop-in-international-students-last-year-was-worse-than-we-thought

this is a remarkable chart

Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”

Anybody I know teaching at John Jay this semester?

i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?

The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.

I’m certain that when what remains of Iran’s security forces begins its existential crackdown on civil dissent, we will welcome Iran’s dissident refugees and fast-track their asylum applications

Trump’s 2016 criticism of the Iraq war was the US didn’t do enough war crimes. He argued that the US should’ve stolen oil and killed insurgents’ innocent family members.

That’s what some prominent media figures presented to the public as isolationist, anti-intervention, anti-war, “Donald the Dove.”

Here is his justification and his examples. Surely if one candidate is lying through his teeth and likely to take the country into a disastrous war, that is the core message to convey to voters.

Such a perfect example of Pundit Brain at work: Harper says he always knew Trump was lying about being the peace candidate — but still turned that into criticism of Harris.

Two categories of analysts who might take a step back, away from the microphone or keyboard, this weekend:

—Those who assured us that Trump was the real anti-war candidate.

—Those who assured us that invading Iraq was necessary and would work out great.

a confederacy of clowns

Trump's Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire

i think this is bad

It is surreal that we are still locked in the never-ending debate over whether military intervention on behalf of democracy and human rights is good, when the current administration has been extremely explicit they are not intervening on behalf of democracy and human rights

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Not causal but I really like the SEM approach in this article trying to disentangle the effect of context on support for Trump via contact, group threat, and White identity

lindatropp.com/media/pages/...

I’m definitely guilty of this, but I hope with the relational part at least provide some new perspective.

Totally, which is why I often cite your work here!

And my dissertation is all about backlash so maybe I could be helpful!

www.proquest.com/openview/0e9...

Prejudice specifically defined: predictors of group-specific racial/ethnic attitudes in the United States Post-1965 immigration has led to a new configuration of racial/ethnic diversity in the United States. Subsequently, White Americans have demonstrated more positive attitudes toward certain racial/e...

Would actually be really helpful to me as I think through some stuff I’m working on about attitudes toward different immigrant groups from a relational perspective. Kind of a part 2 of this paper

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interesting. Would love to hear more about what you’re working on. More than just a 5am exchange because I can’t sleep at least!

I totally get it! Hope this is helpful!

Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Immigrants Prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants, and the consequences of these negative attitudes and behavior, are key determinants of the economic, sociocultural, and civic-political future of receiv...

Not sure if this is helpful and you likely have already seen it but this is one of my go-to lit reviews

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.

And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.

They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.

What does this tell you?

I use these words advisedly: Holy fucking shit.

DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld The Justice Department didn’t release notes from several interviews a woman gave to FBI agents in 2019.

NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Anybody in NY, NJ, CT, PA, or FL interested in teaching grad research methods in the fall?