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My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

Looks extremely cool #PRIEC

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The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.

Crime is decreasing across the country despite a police-staffing crisis, Henry Grabar reports. He explores what might be responsible for the trend:

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!

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This sounds less like a grievance and more like a practical how-to for junior scholars!

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.

"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective?

In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported.

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How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 1 Do judges’ professional backgrounds affect their rulings? We investigate this question by looking at the impact of judges’ public defender experience on sentencing. Leveraging thousands of sentences, ...

Officially out with @mayasen.bsky.social! We find defendants assigned to former public defenders are less likely to be incarcerated, providing insight into the relationship between criminal legal disparities and judicial characteristics.
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Amazing thank you 🙏

Just linked it up on my voting rights syllabus for the spring!!

This morning at @thejop.bsky.social blog, Mike and I discuss our new paper on the effects of getting the Voting Rights Act on the turnout gap — and what it might mean for the case before the Court right now.

A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall!
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Check out this outstanding opportunity to be mentorwd by the one and only @allipatter.bsky.social!! (w/ guest appearances from myself & @arielrwhite.bsky.social!)

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The effect of mass shootings on voter turnout in the United States Following mass shootings, localized voter turnout increases, as does support for a gun reform ballot initiative.

New research finds mass shootings may increase voter turnout and support for gun reform initiatives in the United States, but the effect is hyperlocalized near the incidents.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4qYXFWP

The audience loved this project when it was presented at #Justice&Injustice!! Congrats to Nirvikar!

Texas universities deploy AI for course audits Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Minority Power

"Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages."

#SocialPsyc

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e

Data is anti-fascist Last week, this newsletter was refreshingly apolitical. Well, that was then. Chapter 1 What they want you to believe about immigrants You don't need to travel too far up the branches of White House...

In the newsletter this week, I point out that Stephen Miller’s great-replacement rhetoric depends on demonstrably false assumptions about immigrants’ politics.
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The Conservative Overhaul of the University of Texas Is Underway

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A baller move by uni leaders in forward thinking states would be poach clusters of scholars from TX institutions. You’d inject a generation’s worth of teaching and productivity power to your school for bargain basement prices.

Paging Ass. Deans across the nation.

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¡¡VOLUME 23, ISSUE 4 IS NOW OUT!!

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@JamesTalarico : What would Jesus do about a healthcare system that forces the sick to start GoFundMe pages to afford life-saving surgeries? We Christians are called to do more than charity. We are called to challenge the systems that make charity necessary.

One of the unique things Talarico does is market progressive ideas in a religious frame. He is BOTH radical and moderate. This is the kind of thing that unidimensional discussions of “electability” can miss. This isn’t about the TX primary but about how “electability”-stans are thinking too small.

And another from our UT team w/ @mfroman.bsky.social #DerekEpp #ChrisCassella @klarafredriksson.bsky.social: "The George Floyd Effect: How Protests and Public Scrutiny Changed Police Behavior"

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From our good friends @arielrwhite.bsky.social #LaurelEckhouse & #JasmineEnglish: "How Police Behavior Shapes Perceptions of Protests"

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Hey hey hey y'all! Interested in the politics of #policing? The new issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social has MANY great articles!

Lead by rockstar @averrilli.bsky.social ⭐ & w/ @mfroman.bsky.social (& me): "Policing Socio-Geographic Boundaries and Inequality" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I loved this conversation for Inside Philanthropy about my forthcoming book and my work at Arnold Ventures.

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