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eric gonzalez juenke
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Personal account. I study and teach racial and ethnic politics for work. Re-posting election twitter stuff. https://goodauthority.org/people/eric-gonzalez-juenke/
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Political science instructors living through the Hedberg joke, “I used to teach American government. I still do. But I used to too.”
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Political scientist Dan Gillion analyzed presidential speech and found that Obama talked about race and racial issues less than any other modern president
February 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Talking about the ethnic roots of America's founding culture and not mentioning African Americans, who have been in the country longer than almost any other group, really gives the game away.
Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much
February 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Have you wondered why exactly it is that single-family zoning leads to racial segregation? I wrote this little article to figure it out. I use an agent based model to show it is a combination of race-based wealth inequality, homophily, & clustering of housing types in zoning maps.
#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -

When restrictive economic zoning leads to racial segregation - https://cup.org/4ti5BDM

"results indicate that land use regulations contribute to the maintenance of racial segregation across neighborhoods"

- @trounstine.bsky.social

#FirstView
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners?

➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro.bsky.social finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
February 6, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Trump, new USPS postmark rules, and the Supreme Court are all threatening to jeopardize the counting of mail ballots that arrive after Election Day in 2026.

But how many ballots are we talking about? @bycarterwalker.bsky.social ran the numbers: www.votebeat.org/2026/02/11/h...
February 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Why do younger people report the highest levels of consumer confidence?
February 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Is America an oligarchy?

Recommend @leedrutman.bsky.social piece in Vox: www.vox.com/politics/410...

(With a shoutout to Plutopopulism cup.org/4cfm0Az 🙏🏽)
Democrats keep saying America is an “oligarchy.” Is that true?
A political scientist explains “oligarchy” and argues that America has earned that label.
www.vox.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Coming this May. A documentary about WEB Du Bois - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMs...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Don't look but after Solar boom, Batteries Hockey Stick of Hope is here.

Grid scale batteries are being installed at factories, farms, ports...

Rystad says: "Battery storage is no longer just enabling renewables — it is actively replacing gas generation."
www.rystadenergy.com/insights/ene...
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
If they bring back outlaw country I’ll get my cowboy hat out of the closet. www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Charley Crockett sparks heated fan backlash with Trump 'grifter' comments
The Texas-born musician also called for the deportation of Texas-based billionaire Elon Musk and Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Please share: 2 weeks remain to submit a proposal for $3k for writing a paper using recent Pew-Templeton global datasets. We will support 19 projects. Submit by Monday, March 2.
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
February 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Here’s an interesting AI development.
February 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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“hugging” is incredibly dark. someone needs to figure out what’s going on in new mexico. whatever it is, it isn’t good
PornHub’s new VDay map is bleak. Age verification laws have done so much damage
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Political science instructors living through the Hedberg joke, “I used to teach American government. I still do. But I used to too.”
February 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious "Nones"
free for all to read: https://sociologicalscience.com/download/volume-13/february/SocSci_v13_89to108.pdf
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Hegseth is the most unknown of these folks, 1/3 dk who he is, and still the most disliked cabinet member. That’s impressive.
February 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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some bangers in here
I’ve gotta start building up my stock of nonsensical metaphors for life now that my Appalachian grandparents are all gone.

“Don’t go running back into a burning house just because it’s cold outside.”

“worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it won’t get you anywhere.”
February 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Boundaries of American Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us”
This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...
www.annualreviews.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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@adamramey.bsky.social warns Big Five–politics findings may be distorted by who completes surveys. New data show Agreeable & Neurotic respondents finish at different rates, shifting estimated trait–behavior links—watch for selection bias.

Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 14, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald
How we got here
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-year...
Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein coverage
The Miami Herald's original series, videos, timeline and more
jkbjournalist.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
There's more. Osgood's brother is the singer Elvis Perkins, who he wrote a beautiful album about their mother, Berry Berrenson, who died on 9/11. Their father is Anthony Perkins from Psycho. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_h9...
February 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Quantus Insights (B/C rating from N.S.) drive.google.com/file/d/1oJf0...
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM