📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
it’s so anti learning. I hate it.
They’re also *not wrong* we have a political economy where young people have very little space to be less than perfect. The job market is collapsing for them - I’ve recently found myself being a sympathetic ear for freaked undergrads who are not my students bc I do small talk when I travel.
Having had to talk down multiple freshman from a ledge when they made the first B of their life on the first assignment in my classes when teaching at an elite liberal arts school, a lot of these young adults have been socialized that anything less than an A+ is failure.
Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible.
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
“The absurdity of adults dancing in inflatable costumes during anti-ICE demonstrations is meant to display community joy, protesters say, and helps to dispel the Trump administration’s narrative that Portland is a crime-ridden “war zone,” a characterization local and state leaders say is false.”
Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9
doi.org/10.1177/1065...
Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.
In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
We’ve never had a shutdown under a competitive authoritarian regime before. This matters because the rules of the game have changed. If congressional leaders act as if the old rules apply, they will lose. The executive seeks to consolidate power and does not negotiate in good faith.
The issue with gifted classes isn't the content, its that testing INTO gifted classes is a structure based in racism and classism.
Many students who would benefit from these classes never get the chance, that's why Mamdani wants to shift away from this program.
#psjminfo
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers ⤵️
🌈 Gender, Sexuality, and Political Careers
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Fully 80% of the CDC's budget goes out to state and local health departments. Slashing the CDC's budget is going to be felt by "every person in every community across this country, whether they realize it or not.” my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I find this weird bc isn’t vehicular cycling riding defensively? Isn’t taking the lane riding defensively? Isn’t looking both ways before crossing the street walking defensivel? wtf is this.
Meanwhile the right is definitely polarizing safe streets and transit.
Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: melodyschreiber@pm.me
see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.
"Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries."
gifting this piece from Roxane Gay -
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Love to give an impromptu lecture on previous quorum busting efforts by TX dems to prevent gerrymandering to my friends because it’s very important to me that everyone knows about the killer Ds and the Texas 11.
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
To be honest I don't think the solutions to AI in education are hard to imagine they are just hard to fund.
You need more in class time and smaller classes where faculty can engage more with students in the process of learning. This all costs money though as you have to grow more faculty.
"when it comes to income, Black two-parent families had about 60 percent of the income of white two-parent families and only 25 percent of the wealth"
www.vox.com/policy/46177...
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis
Today is my birthday. 35 years ago my mom had more access to abortion than women do today in the state of Texas.
I‘m so mad.
Wendy Davis did not bust her ass on the floor of the TX statehouse for appeasing pundit dudes to just throw away the legacy of Dems fighting for women in red states.
You know what would be a better strategy than running pro-life Dems in red states where pro-choice referendums passed.
Figuring out who is voting republican & for pro-choice referendums to figure out how we can win them to the Dems.
But no it’s easier to just give up on women’s autonomy 🙃.
Really wondering what will happen in ~20 years when the young trad wives discover Betty Friedan.
