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I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

J.B. Pritzker is just going to mind-meld with all these guys. He's the Professor X of beefy dudes.

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

I feel like these days, an effective member of Congress will spend about 30% of their day doing bits.

It would be a really funny bit for Rep. Grijalva carry her family Bible or whatever and follow Mike Johnson around wherever he goes so he can swear her in real quick.

As a broader point, we really need to end this idea among many Democratic policymakers that mass transit is simply a government charity to help those too poor to own a car. The fundamental problem of our urban areas is geometry.

Pretty incredible that California policymakers would rather build essential infrastructure using expensive and polluting technology when there's a cheaper, cleaner and far more widely adopted technology whose only downside are overhead wires that upset the only weirdest and dumbest people on Earth.

Oh yeah, there's several people. @leedrutman.bsky.social comes immediately to mind.

Ummm....a convention on the constitution?

But seriously, any serious reforms would require amending the constitution which is near impossible given the rules governing that sort of thing.

If your party controls Congress and the Supreme Court, your President gets to a be a dictator and there's nothing that can be done about that.

The fundamental defect of our constitution is that it has no mechanism at all for dealing with partisanship but every single one of its mechanisms for checking authoritarianism must be enforced on a partisan basis.

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Imagine someone started a group that combed through political donations and posted target lists of professors who donated to Republicans. Then, people used that target list to harass and threaten those professors. That group would probably not be welcome on campuses any longer and for good reason.

"You children call it 'Indie Sleaze' but we had many names for it when I was a boy...."

One of the undergrads working in the front office asked me what music was cool when I was college and this is how I felt.

Imaging a Bonus Army of federal workers and National Guard troops put on 29-day rotations to stiff them for full benefits camped out on the Capitol Mall.

For precisely this reason, there needs to be extremely clear proclamations of exactly what will happen to people who interfere with free and fair elections from Democratic members of Congress and Governors. Their decision calculus is also driven by what they think the price of failure will be.

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Sooner rather than later, Blue States will need to field law enforcement agents and military personnel that we're confident will be loyal to the voters of that state and not the Republican Party.

If only we had the ability to harness "pick me" energy, we could power Las Vegas for a year with this essay alone.

a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a tank ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a tank

"Gavin Newsom, heart of a dragon //
Sign SB 79 with your mighty pen //
Lead your Californians to victory //
By building multifamily housing //
In close proximity to high-frequency mass transit in eight urban counties"

Between my column a few weeks ago and this today, California's Serbian-American community has really been stepping up to promote SB 79 in the pages of CalMatters.

I have taught at both and the major difference between a school with a 5% admit rate and one with a 95% admit rate is how miserable your life will be after you give a mediocre student a C.

Joe Biden is extremely old and like all extremely old people, gets very tired which exacerbates his existing speech impediment.

Trump has a tumor, arterial plaque and a blood clot playing a game of Mario Kart inside of him.

This dude 100% has something terminal that he's hiding from the world. You think he just discovered introspection on his own?

No political movement will collapse faster than Republicanism the moment Trump is out of the picture. All of his heirs can't wait to knife each other and none of them individually has even 10% of the juice that Trump has with the median chud voter.

Food halls are excellent and cities in California should be repurposing surface parking lots in their urban cores to fashion impromptu food halls from food trucks.

Every American will soon be a political party of one.

We are fast approaching a point where an algorithm will be determining what content keeps you engaged and will feed those parameters into another algorithm which will generate video specifically for you that's imperceptibly different from real footage.

I can't help but find the anti-tourism protests in Spain and Portugal hilarious. Like let's all gather at Praça de Santíssima Escravidão in front of the Catedral de los Masacres Indigenas so we can wave signs at the people who flew in to buy ice cream.