Robert (Bob) Kubinec

The outlook for public education in America will remain poor until the American people decide they want to defend it.

Cluster of protesters outside a bank with the green Citizens logo above them.

In December, @paulthedogman.bsky.social and I closed our account at Citizens Bank to tell them we won’t do business with a “community” bank that finances ICE prisons.
Today, joined with protesters all over the East Coast to send them the same message. #DeICECitizens

Uh huh. Tell me, what happened to the last US-backed regime in Iran that primarily existed to keep their oil out of local control?

Bluesky school of philosophy

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

A post from a random account with a deer pic but it's on the money.

Where did the Houthi rebellion come from? The dictator at the time killed a Houthi chieftain and his brother swore vengeance. Ten years later the Houthis are shooting down container ships in the Red Sea 😱.

I mean you could always have done that with code before.

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping.

There is no justification.

Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration.

Full stop.

So I think this is how it should be taught (obviously) but I also would like state legislators to stop trying to force teachers to say or not say specific things in the classroom.

Well, I’m sure THIS passage from Schelling won’t raise any eyebrows during this conflict in my predominantly Middle Eastern classroom on Monday!

Once I submit my article to the APSR, I am one who determines when it will be published--whether the editorial board realizes it or not.

Time to pull out the rollerblades!

All of your lpms are belong to us

FOLKS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU USE OLS ON A BOUNDED CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 🤦

Public Opinion in Authoritarian Regimes AbstractDespite lacking competitive elections and strong protections for political freedoms, politics in authoritarian regimes is still influenced by the o

How do everyday people in authoritarian regimes think about politics? And how do the public's attitudes shape the way autocrats govern? Tony Zirui Yang and I have a new chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics that reviews academic research on these questions: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Honestly the most interesting output from silicon samples is the presence of bias in the LLMs.

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

I was a Republican during the GW Bush years and I remember very well defending the Iraq War (I was on the college debate circuit). As I kept hearing arguments & seeing consequences, though, it became harder and harder to do defend.

GW Bush finished his 2nd term with a 22 percent approval rating.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Which is disappointing, but important to remember this kind of dissimulation is costly. The way that Tillis snapped at Noem shows the type of strain that this form of hypocrisy creates. It's hard, but we need to keep confronting people with their shifting stances and broken promises.

Excellent anti-nudge arguments here

I thought for Biden you might be thinking of anti-ISIS fighting

For sure, I'm just being a pedantic academic online

Mmm not sure I want to go with you there

Biden?

Did Dobbs have a chilling effect on survey responses?

In POQ, Kam & Marcellin find that women were less willing to disclose their pregnancy status in the nation's premier health survey (BRFSS), on the heels of the Dobbs decision.

Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

I think someone should point out that if China were to attack Taiwan, now would be the perfect time.

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others...But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret." (Matthew 6:5-6)

Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...