David Fortunato

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The proposition of liberalism is dead simple: An attack on the basic rights and political equality of one group is an attack on all of us. We do not know when fascists will turn the violent arms of the state against our group, so we must treat an injury to every group as if it were against our own.

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We usually think that social identities precede preferences

We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences

Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

For the first time since I came to Congress, I won't attend the State of the Union address. President Trump has shown complete disregard for Congress, the laws of our land & the Constitution, and has not respected the office of the Presidency. I don't respect him & won't attend his speech tomorrow.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Real autocracy shit.

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It will be interesting to see how American media will rationalize this and make it sound meaningful instead of simply concluding that the man is out of his mind

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

🏘️ Why is restrictive zoning linked to racial segregation?

➡️ Using agent based models and parcel level zoning data, @trounstine.bsky.social shows that restrictive rules cluster housing costs and, with unequal wealth & homophily, foster racial segregation www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

🎙️ New episode out on Politically In/Sane !

Why do political elites so often misread the public -- and what does that do to democracy?

In Ep. 4, we talk with Dr. @miguelpereira.bsky.social (LSE) about Political Elites and their blind spots !
🎧 shorturl.at/ok4Nv

@lsegovernment.bsky.social

Who found the baby?!

The Republicans Made Peace With Science The Trump administration’s hostility to science is real, but it isn’t matched by the rest of the GOP’s.

I've got a piece out today @theatlantic.com with @dashunwang.bsky.social on how the Republican Party in Congress continues to fund science, pushing back against the Trump Administration's most anti science funding proposals. (gift link)

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Interested in learning more advanced approaches to text analysis, machine learning or network analysis this summer? The University of Strathclyde @strathpolir.bsky.social is offering successive methods classes this June.

In a recent seminar I referred to the American legal industry as “a rapacious rent-extraction device that taxes each and every meaningful US transaction.”

My colleagues giggled but I was dead serious.

And our inefficient legal system doesn’t even protect civil rights!

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Folks, some news. No, not that kind of news – what do you think this is, LinkedIn? It's this:

1. The applied causal graphs workshop deadline is 28th Feb. so get your abstracts in and hang out with us in Potsdam this May. Form and description is below

2. @dagophile.bsky.social is giving a keynote 🥳

Funny to read this post after reading a set of reviews that uniformly encourage me to present my findings in a manner that (I think) overstates the findings…

Trust a doctor wearing multiple bracelets as much as you’d trust a used car salesman wearing a pinky ring

Jeff, my man, surely you’re not suggesting that personalist movements don’t select on competence?

"Do Voters Respond to the Economy or to News Reporting on the Economy? A Mediation Analysis" by Mark A. Kayser and Michael Peress.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

‼️ New paper out in @polbehavior.bsky.social !

We ask whether the politically active (in terms of electoral or other forms of participation) are better represented? See Jesper's detailed 🧵 below for more info on the paper! 👇

The grand tradition of pivoting to books, where a well-established scholar can write any old damned thing they want with basically no scrutiny or push back from reviewers and editors.

OTOH, 💯. OTOH, it's hard to blame voters who don't follow politics closely. <Everything> they saw & heard in the media, from 2016 onward, told them 🇺🇸 politics still had two "normal" political parties, with normal platforms. It's only in 2025 that "the GOP are fascist extremists" has broken through.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Now that I’ve learned your narc door bells can find lost puppies, I no longer mind living in a surveillance state!

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Here's the disgusting way black employees were treated at Donald Trump's casino "They put us all in the back."

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Out-group homogeneity as evidence of left-right identification in multi-party democracies - https://cup.org/4aaK88p

- Nick Lin, Lie Philip Santoso & Randolph T. Stevenson

#FirstView