David Tully

Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.

Father of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok first to be convicted under Hong Kong national security law Officials arrested Kwok Yin-sang after he tried to end his daughter’s insurance policy and withdraw the funds

The conviction of Anna Kwok's father under the NSL is a new low for the Hong Kong police state.

How Americans See Immigration Officers’ Behaviors and Civilian Actions Americans overwhelmingly say it is acceptable to record immigration arrests. Most also say it’s unacceptable for ICE, CBP officers to hide their identities.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

😬😬😬 these demos are brutal.

한중 관계 설정 기조​

- 경제 협력 중심으로 관계 강화해야 50% > 한미동맹 고려해 원칙과 거리 유지해야 41%​​

To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

ROK-Japan leaders playing drums to the tune of K-Pop Demon Hunter's "Golden" at 7:55 mark
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQz...

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

As Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan's book "Why Civil Resistance Works", one key to success is being able to leverage pre-existing networks as pathways for mobilization (e.g. Church networks in the Philippine case)

In 2026 America, the networks being mobilized are parent-teacher organizations

이 문제에 관해 대통령이 "남성 역차별 살피라" 정도의 관심과 집요함도 보일 것 같지 않아서 절망적이다. 남성들은 이 한국 남성 문제를 해결하는 데 관심이 없고, 한국의 의사결정권자 자리에는 남성이 너무 많다.

Methods sections that once said "Qualtrics panel" are going to now need more specific

Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"

Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

This year’s LegCo election saw an unprecedented jump in the number of invalid ballots cast. The percentage was even higher in functional constituencies like Social Welfare (9.78%) and Education, which leaned pro-democracy before the 2021 overhaul.

More via Ming Pao: news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%8...

첫 눈이 온 밤, 서울.

First Snow, Seoul.

having grown up in Ohio I am continually perplexed about the amount of snow that will trigger school and ship closings here in DC

The student has been arrested, according to the SCMP

National security police arrest former district councillor, volunteer over Tai Po fire comments National security police have arrested a former district councillor and a volunteer for allegedly attempting to incite discord through comments about the Wang Fuk Court fire in Tai Po that has killed ...

Hong Kong’s National Security Police have arrested former district councillor Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung and a female volunteer for “attempting to incite discord” for comments made about the Tai Po fire

www.thestandard.com.hk/hong-kong-ne...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is still one of my very favorite pieces of writing, both to see and perform.

South Korea agreed to invest $350B in the US in exchange for lower tariffs on cars.

But moving that much money abroad could destabilize Korea's currency. And if their currency becomes too unstable, the tariff deal pauses.

How does Seoul solve this? koreapro.org/2025/11/curr...

I swear if they only let HUNTR/X play the freaking Super Bowl, it would heal America’s honmoon

FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.

I run the political science DDRIG.

There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration.
Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds

Chinese tourists in Taiwan are currently mostly composed of Chinese citizens living overseas visiting Taiwan proper and of Mainland Chinese citizens visiting Matsu & Kinmen. A limited number of individual travelers also manage to visit Taiwan proper through religious exchange or visiting relatives.

쿠팡맨 2달 뛴 박지현 "새벽배송은 강요된 선택" 박지현 전 더불어민주당 비상대책위원장이 두 달간 쿠팡 물류센터에서 일한 뒤 "새벽배송은 개인의 선택이 아니라 구조가 만든 강요된 선택"이라고 지적했다. 박 전 비대위원장은 지난 19일 SNS에 '일당 19만원, 그

쿠팡맨 2달 뛴 박지현 "새벽배송은 강요된 선택"
n.news.naver.com/article/079/...
역시 일을 해봐야 말할 수 있는게 있다.

한달 일하고 나서 “쿠팡 알바를 하고 왔다. 새벽 1시부터 오전 9시까지 19만 9548원. 추가 수당이 붙어 꽤 짭짤했다" 라고 쓰던 분이..

Not all Koreans are happy w/ this framing. Below, the Hankyoreh newspaper warns against seeing S. Korea as "a military stronghold within a striking distance of China."

"For Brunson, such musings may read like an original 'strategic suggestion.' But for Koreans, they are a matter of life and death."