Nate Ela

Oh, how so much do I miss my @washingtonpost.com @postopinions.bsky.social subscription. Missing out on some really 🔥 opinion pieces...

A major problem for PA, and Philly in particular

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up

The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Someone’s ordering a bunch of pizza near the pentagon…

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

Never knew this. So, the commie-hating son of a (one-time) communist. Something more Oedipal that I’d realized going on here.

he was about to just say “o gajo” but then last second remembered that’s Portuguese-Portuguese, not brasileiro

This too:

Sharing this because it’s good and I recommend it:

Also on the light/zesty tip, fresh cranberry and ginger relish:

Hashed Brussels Sprouts With Lemon (Published 2006)

Hashed Brussels sprouts… such a nice contrast to the heavier stuff on the plate, and such a pain to prepare it’s perfect to do just once a year.

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Preview of coming attractions in the American Southwest.

Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound.

Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.

Imagine being Sotomayor & Jackson reading all these headlines, and thinking back to this exchange

ngl just applying for a national geographic society grant feels like realizing a nerd dream from my state-geography-bee childhood; think i'd completely lose it if the thing actually gets approved and i get to put Explorer on the cv

I’m old enough to remember when Covid achieved the same feat. But it didn’t tweet “You’re welcome.”

Do it! (But only if it makes retirement more enjoyable.)

Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi

I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like

strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,

etc

just to make a point

The history and tradition of Signature Abessention starts today

If you’re in academia, you should read this while thing

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

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Looks like the new VA governor will have some straightening out to do at UVA.

Here is the statement on the initial TAMU system proposal. The adopted rule apparently prohibits "advocacy" of "race and gender ideology" without approval.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Yes I also thought of NEXT LIVES HERE, and remember when they put up that sign. Which, if the slogan ever changes, and the sign comes down, will presumably endure as a permanent shadow on the building's facade.

A legal duty to vote could help address that (if we’re envisioning big reforms, one can dream…)