Yes! Particularly wild given that Chalamet grew up in publicly-funded housing for performing artists in NYC. Regardless of what he feels about certain art forms, this upbringing probably played a role in fostering his own creative endeavors.
My partner is in the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, and we both agree opera has work to do to broaden its appeal.
However, these companies also employ hundreds—sometimes thousands—of employees, many of whom are unionized.
Both artistically and politically, Chalamet’s point is a horrendous one.
The Catholic Bishops are entirely right. The crusade to end birthright citizenship is immoral, inconsistent with our law, and an affront to the dignity of children born in the United States. And the people working in earnest to undermine it should be ashamed of themselves.
Just insane cruelty.
This guy gets it.
My submission to National Geographic.
Using our most recent GenForward data, Diane Wong writes that “young people express widespread concern about the power of federal agencies and the use of force by law enforcement…76% of Black, 72% of AAPI, 69% of Latinx, and 60% of white respondents believe that ICE has too much power in politics.”
It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work.
Now to get these revisions done.
Stop trying to make Rahm Emanuel happen. It’s not going to happen.
As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day.
#WeFeedYou
My friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?
If you’ve seen the news, want to act but don’t know where to start:
Literally actually text 5 people who you think are concerned about this and just start chatting. Small stuff: ask if they know who *is* doing anything; ask if they can donate to below links …and go from there!
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The bravery of Minnesotans should inspire us all.
In October, the GenForward Survey and the Joyce Foundation asked 5,390 18-42-year-olds about whether they trusted ICE. Across racial and ethnic groups, young adults overwhelmingly reported that they did not. A majority of young men and young Independents shared this sentiment.
An account of what it's like to be a parent in Minneapolis right now also explains why it's not crazy fringe behaviour to monitor ICE for the school. The schools are closing and the university going online because of how students and their families are being targeted.
Survey researchers, have you thought about the political consequences of miscategorizing respondents' identities?
Raymundo Lopez (ABD, raymundolopez.com/index.html) has written a wonderful summary of my APSR on PS Now (@apsa.bsky.social).
Read it here! politicalsciencenow.com/the-politics...
"The effects of social capital depended on the political context: in federal states with more stable governments, higher association density was not correlated with faster Nazi Party entry."
The number of young people who who have experienced *multiple* mass shootings in their lifetimes is absolutely jarring. Data from the GenForward Survey suggests that concern about mass shootings is particularly pronounced among GenZ and Millennial Americans, relative to other generation groups.
1/7. In the few years that my university tracked COVID-19 cases, we saw some of the biggest infection spikes after Thanksgiving break (see this article from 2021 for example). Seeing that data in those years made me think about the tradeoffs associated with having...
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My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
Pupdate!
The 47th Ward shows up.
The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
The gift I am giving myself today is a refusal to be baited into reading any of the many opinion pieces trivializing the results of NYC’s mayoral race
Focusing on the concerns of working people is a winning strategy across contexts, and it’s time we embrace authentic regional variation in tactics
What we know, 10:20pm
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
Mamdani has performed particularly well among young voters 18-30. This has not been surprising to us at the GenForward Survey. For years, our data has shown that young adults across racial, partisan, and regional divides are open and enthusiastic about a leftist, economic populism.
The media is doling out a lot of caveats about NYC being a unique context while discussing what Mamdani’s campaign might signal for the future of the Democratic Party.
While this may be true, we also shouldn’t write off the significance of a message that can drive urban turnout to historic levels.
