David Kimball

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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Harold When Zohran Mamdani won the primary race for New York mayor, the Democratic establishment's lukewarm response echoed the treatment of another charismatic, unconventional candidate decades earlier. Thi...

As NYC’s Democratic establishment attempts to resist the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, we look back at another mayoral candidate who upset the established political machine. link.podtrac.com/829uwl76

The assault is horrifying on its own, but then there's the other agent shouting "...or else you're next" while another fixes their face shroud.

Help the Sanford Family My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on September 28. Multiple families were left griev...

WOW. LDS church member launches GoFundMe for the family of the Michigan Mormon church attacker. So far they've raised $100,000. Comments include: "Praying for your family" "You and your family are loved," "We forgive him"
www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfo...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’ WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.

It won 51 seats - an outright majority.

Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.

A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Moreover, @cselmendorf.bsky.social, Clayton Nall and I found that pro-housing policies are some of the **least popular** housing policies when you ask people which policies they prefer (x axis) and which they think would be most effective in bringing down costs (y axis.)

Figure 1.7 illustrates the extent to which countries that spend more on health have better health outcomes. There is a clear positive association between health spending per capita and life expectancy at birth (Figure 1.7). Among the 38 OECD countries, 18 spend more and have higher life expectancy than the OECD average (top right quadrant). A further 11 countries spend less and have lower life expectancy than the OECD average (bottom left quadrant). Of particular interest are countries that deviate from this basic relationship. Eight countries spend less than the OECD average but achieve higher life expectancy overall (top left quadrant). This may indicate relatively good value for money of health systems, notwithstanding the fact that many other factors also have an impact on health outcomes. These eight countries are Korea, Spain, Italy, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia. The only country in the bottom right quadrant is the United States, with much higher spending than all other OECD countries but lower life expectancy than the OECD average.

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy.

More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.”

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I guess nothing matters anymore but what the vice president is saying here is demonstrably untrue.
See Kalmoe & Mason (2022) and just about any other academic study on US political violence.

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave

This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.

Really striking that the movement that campaigned vigorously against cancel culture as un-American is demanding now that people get fired because they posted "disrespectful things" about Kirk after his assassination.

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ON TV TONIGHT (columns for 8:00, 9:00, 10:00) ABC: Attack On America America Attacked America In Crisis America Still In Crisis NBC: A Nation Looks Around For Someone To Hit America On The Verge Of Flying Off The Handle America's Time Of Trial: Who Fucking Wants Some? You? Do You? How 'Bout You? CBS Dan Rather's 83rd Straight Hour On The Air Dan Rather Seriously Loses His Shit Medicating Dan Rather BET Wartime At The Apollo Tavis Smiley Presents: Terrorists Strike America-The White Man Finds Somebody Else To Fear And Demonize For A Change MTV The 100 Greatest, But, In Light Of Recent Events, Not As Important As Being Good To Our Loved Ones, Videos Of All Time Yo! MTV Extends Its Condolences Talking To Blink 182 About The Tragedy Carson Daly In Way Over His Head Lifetime Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls History Last Tuesday In History Two Weeks Ago, As Told By Those Who Lived It Last Tuesday In History (rerun)

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

Emerald Fennell Assures Fans ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Be Faithful Adaptation Of ‘Twilight’

Emerald Fennell Assures Fans ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Be Faithful Adaptation Of ‘Twilight’ https://theonion.com/emerald-fennell-assures-fans-wuthering-heights-will-be-faithful-adaptation-of-twilight/

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"

Opinion | Why I Am Not a Liberal

David Brooks is desperate for "lefties who are willing to spend money fighting poverty but also willing to promote the traditional values and practices that enable people to rise” and I feel like he should go to any mainline Protestant Church on a Sunday

AfD loses. Badly, and in the first round. It’s just a mayoral election, but Meißen is the heart of Saxony and as the thread points out, AfD invested a lot in this race.

"The gerrymandering battle has a historical precedent. It’s a warning we should heed." #ELB Alex Keyssar oped in The Boston Globe: The framers of the Constitution — assembling in 1787, a time when political parties did not exist — chose to leave it to the state Legislatures to decide how to ...

“The gerrymandering battle has a historical precedent. It’s a warning we should heed.” electionlawblog.org?p=151883

Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says

Hard-Nosed Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

This is a really excellent, "America, what went wrong" article (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Warnings From Weimar Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

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I'm so jazzed that this is in print! it was a dream team! @profdansmith.bsky.social @fiva.no @alicirone.bsky.social

Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

"the Third Way memo reads less like an audit of Democrats’ language and more like a list of terms Republicans tell us Democrats are saying"

Chart tracking wealth by race from 2019:Q1 to 2025:Q1

My class on the racial wealth gap is always a good excuse to show more people the Fed Reserve’s quarterly wealth estimate from Distributional Financial Accounts. This graph shows their estimate that white wealth increased by 45 trillion since 2019. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern

New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick.

Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...