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Bench Presses, Pull Ups … Kid Rock? The White House Had a Very Manly Week.

"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week posted a video of himself in which he wore jeans in a hot tub, chugged a glass of whole milk and rode an exercise bike in a sauna. These activities were all performed shirtless and under the supervision of the musician Kid Rock."

I'm looking to hire an RA in Lahore for a project with @yasirkhan.bsky.social and Bakhtawar Ali. Please see details below.

Periodic google search: “what sport is Super Bowl?”

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

When is India's National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6)- 2023-24 data being released?

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

The complicated impacts of maternity leave garimasharma.com/files/matben...

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

Thrilled to have presented our work with @saadgulzar.bsky.social and @juanfeliperiano.bsky.social "Pay-to-Play: Campaign Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement" at the XLIII Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference at Caltech piep.caltech.edu/selected-pap...

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

UCLA CCPR Faculty Affiliate Professor Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, highlights new ICE data showing federal crackdowns are arresting mostly immigrants with no criminal record — far more non-offenders than serious criminals. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!

Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...

Thread follows!

Video: We Charted the Decline in International Students to the U.S. The Upshot reporter Aatish Bhatia walks through a chart he created showing the decline, by country, of international students arriving to the United States this year.

www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...

Very well said

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Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Mamdani Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate

on.ft.com/4ovCLwn Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments

Maguire… wrote that… Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”

What's the book/article on to read on the farmers' movement 2020-21 in India?

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 Bernie Sanders 200000 Number of Donations 150000 100000 50000 Elizabeth Warren 60000 40000 20000 01 25 50 Donor Age 75

Hakeem Jeffries 40000 30000 20000 10000 Nancy Pelosi 100000 Number of Donations 75000 50000 25000 Suzan DelBene 2000 1500 1000 500 25 50 75 Donor Age

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Very interesting spillover effects into other domains and within families! Congratulations!!

For instance, I recall that your own previous work showed (I hope I’m remembering correctly) that CP is basically European politics, with some sprinkles of work on Latin America.

I worry that this argument assumes fixed selection into CP and AS. Why not (perhaps concurrently) broaden recruitment of area experts into CP? I think the separation will continue to encourage the terrible pipeline development we continue to see in many geographic areas of research. (1/2)

I am curious so will try soon!

but why (would you think to do that)? 😅

Just posted a new review paper I co-authored with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social. It is prepared for the Annual Review of Political Science. Comments welcome!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixtd6...

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

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Season 3, Episode 1: The Green Grass

Read the NYtimes piece then do yourself a favor and listen season 3 of this podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7qWV...

Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

FWIW I thought Adam Bonica had a good discussion in his Substack