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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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Starting to wonder what the real upper limit on this baby is.
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Texas Senate news
- Sen. Heinrich endorses Talarico, first Senate D endorser: “He’s running a really smart campaign"

- D senator: “There are a lot of us who are rooting for" Talarico

- Sen. Van Hollen criticizes “circular firing squad aspect" of campaign

www.semafor.com/article/02/1...
Democrats agonize over their Texas Senate primary
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., told Semafor he’s backing James Talarico over Jasmine Crockett. But it’s not clear how many others will choose a side.
www.semafor.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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An important book. Solid review.

How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...
How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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so the jobs report flopsweat coming from the WH is at minimum because the annual baseline adjustment is going be brutal.

I would additionally guess that one or both are true:

1) January report very very bad
2) neg baseline adjustment bigger than net job growth for 2025 (almost certain)
February 10, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

We're hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics!

Come join a great department: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312...

I'm on the committee, so send any questions my way.
#polisky #academicjobs
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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About 10 years ago, I set out to better understand the drivers of radicalization and deradicalization into white supremacy. Work from our endeavors is starting to come out, and I am no longer concerned about sharing it.

I want to share the findings from one of these studies, published last March. 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
One of the things Vegan producers have nailed (besides breakfast sausages), is oddly the meat stick. Probably because meat sticks are mostly heavily flavored goop anyway. These taste like middle school. www.theherbivorousbutcher.com/products/a-l...
A la Carte Beef Stick Bundle
High-protein vegan Beef Sticks with 23g of plant-based protein per stick. A flavorful, grab-and-go snack perfect for quick energy anytime.
www.theherbivorousbutcher.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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new pre-print just dropped!

the nationalization of politics at the local level -- specifically within school districts -- affects turnover of school board members and superintendents.

osf.io/preprints/so...
February 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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By age 2, toddlers understand ingroup loyalty

They realize that people have social identities and expert their social identity to take precedence in intergroup contexts even when it conflicts with their personal preferences
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Probably an inflated number anyway (ahem, "suspected") but this is precisely the result guaranteed by Stephen Miller's quotas. Finding gang members / terrorists is hard, and there aren't many.

But grabbing green card holders & asylum seekers at court hearings & schools is super easy.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Check out our new paper on the demographic foundations of trust in science in @poqjournal.bsky.social

The tldr is that w/ all of the radical shifts in trust in the US over the last 50+ years, the demographic predictors of trust in science have been rock steady(!)

academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Mass deportation destroys the economy, as the new jobs report will show.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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The morning so far
February 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Every academic in their 40s goes through this career/life stage where they decide that the journals are broken and stupid. It's mostly because they are bored of working on R+Rs given that the marginal benefit for their own career of another publication is close to zero.
"Academic publishing as it currently exists is dead."

This is probably overstated, but if you're an early-career academic, it's worth taking seriously that tenured Stanford professors who've been working with AI more than most are saying things like this out loud now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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"Academic publishing as it currently exists is dead."

This is probably overstated, but if you're an early-career academic, it's worth taking seriously that tenured Stanford professors who've been working with AI more than most are saying things like this out loud now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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Sorry: Using the 25th amendment to remove Trump (or any president who doesn't want to be removed) just won't work; it's not designed for it, and will just end in chaos. Impeachment/removal remains the way to dump a president. All about the 25th goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/no-dont-in...
No, Not the 25th Amendment.
It wouldn't work. The Constitutional remedy that works is impeachment and removal.
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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DCCC adds 5 more seats to target
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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The latest from YouGov (n ~ 7k) gives me some methodological concerns. They allowed people to rate their pun making as "outstanding" but, statistically, most are sitting indoors at the time

today.yougov.com/topics/socie...
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
What if Kafka and Sisyphus had a baby.
What happened to Rasmussen? 👀
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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I'm happy to have my work featured in the Denver Axios newsletter this morning: www.axios.com/local/denver...

Check out the original post here: www.co-political-landscape.org/the-invisibl...
Weiser's fundraising most aligns with Polis' donors in governor race
Endorsements and fundraising are key indicators of a candidate's strength in the early days of a campaign.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Cool stuff from StateNavigate. Interactive election margins for the proposed VA map, down to the precinct level. projects.statenavigate.com/25-26/states...
VA Proposed US House Districts
Learn about Virginia's proposed US House districts, including detailed maps, demographic data, and election results. Explore the new district boundaries and their impact on Virginia's political landsc...
projects.statenavigate.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Meet the window heat pump: A compact unit that's relatively cheap and takes half an hour to install.

While they're not widely available yet, they could prove to be an important climate solution in the future.
@wbur.org #energysky #decarbonization
www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...
Boston is piloting a new type of heat pump that's as easy to install as a window AC
The Boston Housing Authority is piloting a new type of window-mounted heat pump that's relatively inexpensive and easy to install.
www.wbur.org
February 10, 2026 at 11:21 AM
25 years ago I lived in Denton and it was where all the weirdos from North Texas went to school. This is what we did before the internet. dentonrc.com/entertainmen...
From absurd garage sale to local legend, Denton marks 25 years of the PriceMaster
In 2001, a bizarre yard sale on Normal Street celebrated the absurdities of capitalism, where the going rate for a broken chain saw was “Nine. Thousand. Dollars.” On Feb. 7
dentonrc.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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I wrote about mine back in the good old days of academic Twitter. The art is by Howard Brodie, combat and courtroom artist who sketched this view of the gallery during Senate debate/filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...
February 10, 2026 at 12:59 AM