Francisco I. Pedraza

Had a great time presenting and learning from colleagues at @priec.bsky.social Thanks @dadakim.bsky.social and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for organizing PRIEC’s 20th anniversary🌟

Whoever took these candid photos deserves a raise. Thank you, @priec.bsky.social, for capturing so much of our 20th anniversary celebration conference. Excited for all of the other PRIECs this anniversary year!!!

Left to right, Francisco Pedraza (Arizona State University), Kim Yi Dionne (UC Riverside), Maricruz Osorio (Bentley University), Shaun Bowler (UC Riverside). Standing in front of the PRIEC pipe and banner with repeat step of PRIEC logo

Congratulations @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, and the rest of the @ucrpolisci.bsky.social crew for organizing a terrific program!!

It was exhilarating celebrating 20 years of PRIEC! 🎊

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📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

YouTube video by Political Science Research Do Trump's attacks on the media, congress, and the courts undermine citizens' views on democracy?

Do Trump's attacks on the media, congress, and the courts undermine citizens' views on democracy? Hear UCR professor @dadakim.bsky.social describe a recently published study on effects of anti-democratic speech on US voters: youtube.com/shorts/LybBe...
#polisky

In my family we refer to young children as tlacuaches, and only use two tones when doing so: one when they are rascals and the other when they are cherubs. So fitting.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

When we train people to use AI, we're "training people to explain away the inconsistencies of Large Language Models, and to assume individual responsibility for what is an innate flaw in how large language models work." Fantastic essay: www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣

This is a must-watch. 🔥

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Converse (1964)

Meet Viviana Rivera-Burgos, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient Project Title: Puerto Rico Public Opinion Laboratory Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Baruch College, City University of New York Viviana Rivera-Burgos is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Baruch College in the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University and her B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez. Viviana specializes in American public opinion and political behavior, particularly as they relate to racial and ethnic minorities.

Meet Viviana Rivera-Burgos, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient

Project Title: Puerto Rico Public Opinion Laboratory Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Baruch College, City University of New York Viviana Rivera-Burgos is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department…

WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.

Muppets? More like…
🎼 🎶
“Poor unfortunate souls
In pain
In need
This one longing to be thinner
That one wants to get the girl
And do I help them?
Yes, indeed.”
-Ursula, circa 1989
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True. And when I come across this particular combo of poster demographic + comment, I’m always tempted to share this gem of an entry in Urban Dictionary (which for the record, I abhor and do not use)

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

Today, I voted to open impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump for the constitutional crisis he has incited. My statement:

Good to note the through line to antebellum south.

I’ll add that weirdos pushing replacement conspiracy are projecting a very specific American *collective* guilt that also traces to 1st Nations genocide, displacement, & coast-to-coast land theft that even good folks in the North championed.

After being told no, Republicans are *still* trying to use their Big Ugly Bill to sell off and destroy our public lands.

I'm going to fight like hell to stop it.

Truly a regression to the Republican mean, and certainly not from a statistical anomaly. Cult of personality is a hell of a drug.

I am so fucking happy for every person that knocked a door, made a video, put on a shirt, went out in the heat -- to put your heart & soul into a campaign and then win is the kind of thing that can fuel your activism for a decade.

The leaders who got us to this point were never going to be the ones who get us to the next one.

A generational shift in power is here.

Read this comment thread and snort-laughed. Lordt, have mercy and forgive Pete, for they know not what they are saying/asking. lol

The use of federal troops to quell Los Angeles protests recalls militarized law enforcement during the Civil Rights Movement During Jim Crow segregation, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial authoritarians.

Federal troops on the streets of L.A. to crush immigration #protests?

It’s not just unprecedented; It echoes the darkest chapters of U.S. #history.

An expert traces how Trump’s move recalls the use of militarized force under Jim Crow: buff.ly/ziuetKp

Minnesota Rep. Hortman and husband killed, Sen. Hoffman and wife wounded in politically motivated shootings, Gov. Walz says Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in politically motivated shootings overnight, Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday.

Such an ugly timeline we are on.

#NoKing

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Dear @repyassansari.bsky.social

I am your constituent.

Shut it down. There is no business more important than the people’s business, & that requires certainty in our constitutionally protected 1A rights.

Not tomorrow. Not let’s wait and see. Now. Shut it down.

Please. And, thank you.
#NoKings

Dear Senator @schumer.senate.gov

I love the energy & I agree that we need answers now.

The only way for that to happen is for you to lead an effort to shut it down. No more votes, no more confirmations. Do not give an inch. You are the people’s check on tyranny.

#NoKings

Dear @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

I am your constituent.

Shut it down.

There is no business more important than the people’s business, which requires certainty in our constitutionally protected 1A rights.

Not tomorrow, not let’s wait and see. Now. Shut it down.
Please. And, thank you.
#NoKings

Dear @gallego.senate.gov

I am your constituent.

Shut it down.

There is no business more important than the people’s business, and that requires certainty in our constitutionally protected 1A rights.

Not tomorrow, not let’s wait and see. Now. Shut it down.

Please. And, thank you.
#NoKings

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.