Nick Davis
@ntd.bsky.social
political scientist at football-u @ http://nicholastdavis.com, outdoorsperson, gardener of two small humans, PI @ http://demos-lab.net, stuff older than 60 days self-destructs.
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Nick Davis
@ntd.bsky.social
· Mar 17
curious to see whether SCOTUS permits Trump's abuse of constitution across lots of issues but rn it looks like trump take legitimacy. @matthewhitt.bsky.social and i are finally...finally forthcoming in AJPS talking at length abt a new era of judicial public opinion.
preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
with all the other amendments getting curtailed I wonder if Jim Amendments will have the last laugh…
January 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM
with all the other amendments getting curtailed I wonder if Jim Amendments will have the last laugh…
In lighter news we put this puzzle together yesterday and it was a good time. Desserts with butts. Weird but fun.
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
In lighter news we put this puzzle together yesterday and it was a good time. Desserts with butts. Weird but fun.
one of the few things ive done academically that i think "actually" matters involves this graph. people who are bad neighbors -- who reject immigrants, people of a different race or religion as neighbors -- want strong (anti-democratic) leaders and army rule.
people who are good neighbors do not.
people who are good neighbors do not.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM
one of the few things ive done academically that i think "actually" matters involves this graph. people who are bad neighbors -- who reject immigrants, people of a different race or religion as neighbors -- want strong (anti-democratic) leaders and army rule.
people who are good neighbors do not.
people who are good neighbors do not.
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One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it.
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM
One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it.
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
This one is too much. Logging off for the evening. Those words will haunt.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This one is too much. Logging off for the evening. Those words will haunt.
Mothers and children.
the Hague for our enemies.
the Hague for our enemies.
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Mothers and children.
the Hague for our enemies.
the Hague for our enemies.
Man this is good.
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Man this is good.
Alex Pretti will not be forgotten.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Alex Pretti will not be forgotten.
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Yep. And now, well after Reconstruction’s defeat (let’s say that instead of “failure”) the central state has developed a robust repressive capacity. This time it’s deploying it not to defend multiracial democracy but to defend a very different vision.
There is a straight line from the failure of Reconstruction to "We don't need to count everyone's vote in the 2000 election" to "People from places like Madison & Milwaukee aren't real Wisconsinites & shouldn't have their votes count" to "ICE can murder people in cold blood in our cities."
January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Yep. And now, well after Reconstruction’s defeat (let’s say that instead of “failure”) the central state has developed a robust repressive capacity. This time it’s deploying it not to defend multiracial democracy but to defend a very different vision.
Any news organization that airs DHS / ICE officials yammering about how Alex was a clear and present danger to these jackboot Nazis is a fuckin enemy of democracy.
Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Any news organization that airs DHS / ICE officials yammering about how Alex was a clear and present danger to these jackboot Nazis is a fuckin enemy of democracy.
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"It feels like we're performing CPR on a corpse: the US Constitution."
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
The whole interview is worth it
January 24, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"It feels like we're performing CPR on a corpse: the US Constitution."
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
I have now read enough about Alex to be certain that he was filled with a love for the least of these that burned far brighter than the majority of parishioners who will trundle into the church pews tomorrow morning and sing some pablum about love and justice.
Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I have now read enough about Alex to be certain that he was filled with a love for the least of these that burned far brighter than the majority of parishioners who will trundle into the church pews tomorrow morning and sing some pablum about love and justice.
the last week has seemed like a year. i dont know how the forebears did it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 PM
the last week has seemed like a year. i dont know how the forebears did it.
Walz just doesn’t have the juice. With everything on the line and his legacy to play for he shit the bed.
January 24, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Walz just doesn’t have the juice. With everything on the line and his legacy to play for he shit the bed.
What an incredible image.
This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line.
If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
January 24, 2026 at 9:27 PM
What an incredible image.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
“Donald please stop”
can be replaced by:
“Donald get your fucking goons off my streets I am calling up the National Guard to protect my citizens”
And not doing so is a choice
can be replaced by:
“Donald get your fucking goons off my streets I am calling up the National Guard to protect my citizens”
And not doing so is a choice
January 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM
“Donald please stop”
can be replaced by:
“Donald get your fucking goons off my streets I am calling up the National Guard to protect my citizens”
And not doing so is a choice
can be replaced by:
“Donald get your fucking goons off my streets I am calling up the National Guard to protect my citizens”
And not doing so is a choice
apparently, for all intents and purposes, a state's national guard does not, in point of fact, exist to protect its citizens from the tyranny of the federal government.
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
apparently, for all intents and purposes, a state's national guard does not, in point of fact, exist to protect its citizens from the tyranny of the federal government.
The United States in a nutshell
State troopers in riot gear are protecting ICE agents who have long guns. People yelling at the state troopers, “turn around and arrest them! They just killed a Minnesotan!”
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
The United States in a nutshell
pretty clear that the constitution is an abject failure. happy 250th birthday or whatever, america.
January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
pretty clear that the constitution is an abject failure. happy 250th birthday or whatever, america.
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2028 platform “the Hague for my enemies“ and not joking.
We’re gonna need to set aside an entire year to Nuremberg all these people
Breaking MS NOW:
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
January 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM
2028 platform “the Hague for my enemies“ and not joking.
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I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.
once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
January 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.
the people yearn for a different statement of righteous anger
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
the people yearn for a different statement of righteous anger
so were less than a month into 2026 and the christo-fascist regime has now:
1. summarily executed two (2) american citizens in broad daylight on film
2. kidnapped babies to use as bait
3. beaten minors senselessly
4. {host of other impeachable things}
pretty fuckin terrible.
1. summarily executed two (2) american citizens in broad daylight on film
2. kidnapped babies to use as bait
3. beaten minors senselessly
4. {host of other impeachable things}
pretty fuckin terrible.
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 PM
so were less than a month into 2026 and the christo-fascist regime has now:
1. summarily executed two (2) american citizens in broad daylight on film
2. kidnapped babies to use as bait
3. beaten minors senselessly
4. {host of other impeachable things}
pretty fuckin terrible.
1. summarily executed two (2) american citizens in broad daylight on film
2. kidnapped babies to use as bait
3. beaten minors senselessly
4. {host of other impeachable things}
pretty fuckin terrible.