David Fortunato

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

The GOP is turning the US into Russia.

(This is very bad. Russia sucks)

Moving to PR with each state serving as a MMD would be normal procedure.

I’d also say that normal procedure could be used make each state’s 2 senators selected simultaneously under whatever rules Congress would like, provided the states are staggered in thirds

Musk promoting a post of the EU flag turning into the Nazi flag

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.

It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

Jonathan “Jon” Bendor, an “Intellectual Omnivore,” Dies at Age 75 A true scholar who inspired generations of students and colleagues

I'm so sad to know that Jon Bendor passed away. He's an intellectual giant: www.gsb.stanford.edu/newsroom/sch...

Too easy?

Unless, of course, you’d like to be pedantic and acknowledge that several stadia are in conservative suburbs of liberal cities, but I don’t see ol’ Jerruh Jones scrambling to rebrand his team the “Dallas Cowboys of Irving, TX.”

This is hilarious because basically all cities are “blue.”

I’m fairly certain the only Republican city with a stadium large enough for a World Cup game is Jacksonville, so… good luck with that

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

I’m not really picking up on any real problems being identified here.

I read your primary concern as being with a potential dilution of the “credibility revolution” brand. Is that an accurate reading?

In Donald Trump’s America, you can be a lying, corrupt politician or corporate goon and count on a pardon. But if you’re a hardworking immigrant who’s done nothing wrong, you can expect to be harassed and beaten by masked thugs enforcing this administration’s vile immigration policies. Shameful.

📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.

Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.

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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

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Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

MTG resigning literally the day after she vests her Congressional pension is a little too on the nose.

Every time I watch an NBA or NFL game I’m astounded that I’m not getting pounded with ads informing me that the Trumps are taking money from the people that financed 9/11.

Free ad idea for the @housedemocrats.bsky.social

You don’t have to poll-test this one.

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

What are the odds that someone who can design such an agent would find it worth their time to infiltrate survey pools?

You wouldn’t just need agents, you’d also need to set up multiple respondent profiles, with independent IP addresses, etc.

Seems like a big time sink (for Americans anyway)

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation

TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

Holy shit

The plague of white on white violence from the pro-crime GOP continues

As a reminder, two of the biggest supporters of moving to gold open access were the US defence department and pharmaceutical sector, both of whom only read and seldom publish.

I never understood how academics were duped into the perverse incentives that are now serving AI companies free content.

We’ve built two justice systems in the US—one that bends over backward to shield the wealthy and powerful, and another that comes down hard and fast on the poor and marginalized. Trump and Epstein show that it’s easier to squeeze a rich man through the eye of a needle than to see one sent to prison.

Unreal. Many of us have had elderly relatives be misled by Fox, but none of them have the power to deploy the military inside our own country.

Epstein had kompromat on Trump and was prepared to take advantage of it

The guy with probably the best name recognition after Harris being indistinguishable from 0 is not what I would call registering

1st Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago | Becker Friedman Institute

Really looking forward to the first annual Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago (OPEC!) this coming Saturday.

@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.

Trump’s new tick of saying “are you ready?” right before telling a clear, ridiculous lie could be an amazing time save for fact checkers