Grant Mitchell

it ought to be interesting to see how the midterms shake out. lots of candidates out there. make sure you read up on them between now and november or else you’ll be looking pretty silly in the voting booth

This house makes me deeply sad that I will probably never own a house

The cover of the book Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food

What fictional CANDY/CANDY BAR--from a show, movie, comic, video game, book, etc, would you most like to try?

I'm gonna get the ball rolling by saying...pretty much everything featured in this literary classic would be Hoovered into my gaping maw like a whale-shark with krill

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Time was, American leaders defined themselves so strongly as honorable that they refused to contemplate starting a war out of the blue, because that would be too much like Pearl Harbor

The outlier on how these folks are treated isn't the USA; it's the GOP.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

First paper accepted of 2026! Hopefully not the last!

Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether Purdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislators

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression

Or being an people-pleasing amalgamation of what everyone has said before it

We should not be surprised that the man who called political science "gobbledygook" has not considered one of it most basic findings before making his decisions

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

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3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

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please repost!

I meant that half rhetorically, but I am also genuinely curious how he confronts the mountain of evidence that obliterate his point of view

I would like to see how he deals with the hundreds of thousands of slaves who fled or tried to the North and Canada or the several slave rebellions (Nat Turners for example) or the fear the South had of Haiti bc of its successful Haitian revolt and so on

Support for democracy is at its lowest when trapped in construction near Wilshire and Westwood

Would take this over the 405 tbh

This has been the best NBA all-star game in years

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

A hydrogen bomb versus a coughing baby

I fear they do not understand what heterodox means, which is pretty damning since "heterodox infrastructure" is the second-highest weighted category

We may be overestimating the probability that those folks even see this

Cade Cunningham and the East-leading Pistons win in a nail-biter in Denver!

Tobias Harris: 22 PTS (10-15 FGM), 8 REB
Jamal Murray: 24 PTS, 10 AST
Jonas Valančiūnas: 16 PTS (6-10 FGM), 16 REB

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

The argument that law enforcement can shoot anyone with a gun who is protesting them is about as anti First and Second Amendment as it gets.

A reminder that Noem shot a puppy

Seen on a bridge in Salt Lake City just now: “ICE IS KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS”

Seen on a bridge in Salt Lake City just now: “ICE IS KILLING AMERICANS”

The Bill of Rights, a series of amendments famous for expanding the power of the federal government to meddle in citizens' lives

By obtaining the physical Nobel Peace Prize, Donald J. Trump is its rightful winner.

by Vladimir Putin, Super Bowl XXXIX champion

A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.

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