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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

Man ❤️

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

Man…man.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 15d

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

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Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h

Dennis M. Hogan
@dennismhogan
X.com
Disagree. Platner and Zohran are not simply unheard of generational political talents who happened to emerge at the same time. Our country is full of people like them: smart, decent, normal, likable. Most of politics is structured around keeping them out.
Peter Twinklage & @PeterTwinklage
X.com
he's one of the best communicators l've seen in years. I'm genuinely gobsmacked.
Graham Platner for Senate &
@grahamf….3h
People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.
The answer is empathy and compassion.
SFi|Aaron
Her
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Octo
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Dece

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

Not so silent I guess

a black and white drawing of a person playing drums

Alt: a black and white drawing of a person playing drums

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

New law just passed in California seems to ban algorithmic price discrimination

AB325, for instance, would prohibit the use or distribution of a pricing algorithm that (1) incorporates or was trained with
"nonpublic competitor data," defined broadly to include data of a competitor in the same or a related market; or (2) is used to set prices and other commercial terms where the algorithm is being used by another business in the same or a related market.
In addition to its broad definition of data, AB325's definition of "pricing algorithm" is similarly sweeping-encompassing "any computational process, including a computational process derived from machine learning or other artificial intelligence techniques, that processes data to recommend or set a price or commercial term." As written, the bill would not only prohibit software used to set prices, but also technology used to measure and predict output and capacity needs.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <spa...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

The creation of separate rw media on cable and the internet has over time led to rw dominance within legacy media firms. Extremely effective strategy

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 1d

It really doesn't make much sense to talk about right-wing media as distinct from legacy or mainstream media at this point.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 20h

For lots more context beyond Elliott's essay, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social & I have a forthcoming article in POQ on best practices for measuring & interpreting violent political attitudes, w/ tons of new evidence.

Pre-print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9blbj...

Appendix: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kc1i5...

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20h

Very nice piece from my colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social in today's Times on the illegality of Trump's troop deployments to American cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao great game indeed

JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 1d

AMERICA

WELCOME TO JAGUARS FOOTBALL

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 5d

"Glory" is easily the best civil war movie to come out of hollywood, about the Mass 54th. and this painting of their charge at ft wagner by Keith Rocco is s tier imho

painting depicts soldiers in blue uniforms charging up a sand bank

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 2d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

There are reasons for what’s going on with this administration and the military

The Unequal Effects of Unequal Contact:
Power, Race, and Social Cohesion in the U.S. Military
Salma Mousa*
Eddie Yangt
May 21, 2025
Abstract
The contact hypothesis posits that cooperative, equal contact reduces prejudice.
Yet in practice, contact is often unequal — both within the contact setting itself, or because of inherent power imbalances between minority and majority groups. Leveraging rich data from surveys, censuses, and testimonials among servicemembers in WWII and the Vietnam War, we develop and test a theory of unequal contact. For minori-ties, we find that equal contact improves intergroup attitudes, while unequal contact between soldiers and lieutenants sparks backlash effects. For majorities, we find mixed effects: White soldiers respond to equal contact with more support for military integration but less support for Black rights, suggesting that equality may trigger feelings of threat. We add qualitative nuance to these results by digitizing thousands of veteran testimonies from both wars, revealing drastic asymmetric in how White vs. non-White veterans describe their experiences with race within and outside the military. Our results underscore the importance of internal and external power status in determining the effects of contact.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

sorry that wasn't humanities enough. how bout: "Protestors Hot, Agents Not: The Ironic Projection of a Masculine-Feminine Hyperpolitics of Personal Appearance Under Competitive Authoritarianism"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

"Protestors Hot, Agents Not: Personal Appearance Under Competitive Authoritarianism"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Much of contemporary authoritarian culture involves a will to power via a politics of masculine and feminine personal appearance (RFK, Hegseth, mar-a-lago face, etc)--yet when apparent in physically embodied space, such a politics produces an irony captured in 4k. In this essay I will

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

This Dylan Riley thesis about civil society applied to 2025 is very interesting

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society is. Regarding the former misconception, it must be emphasized that despite The Origins of Totalitarianism's many interesting insights - above all concerning imperialism - its central argument is largely wrong. In the two countries that produced indisputably fascist regimes in the interwar period, Italy and Germany, civil society was highly developed prior to the authoritarian takeover. In both, cooperatives, churches, trade unions, political parties and mutual aid societies had experienced massive growth from 1870 onward. The idea that pre-fascist Germany and Italy were atomized mass societies is misleading. And what did the fascists do with this organizational infrastructure once in power? They occupied it and bent it to the regime's purposes. This contains an important lesson about what civil society is (and what it is not). Civil society, as Gramsci understood, and as today's liberals do not, is a terrain of struggle. It is not, and cannot be, an agent.

This is highly relevant to the current moment in the US. For it is not the case that MAGA wishes to destroy the realm of associations and interest groups - it seeks to colonize it. It does not discourage civic engagement; it seeks to promote its own forms of it. Thus, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, J. D.
Vance exhorted listeners of Kirk's podcast to
'get involved, get involved, get involved', explaining that civil society 'is not just something that flows from the government, it flows from each and every one of us'. Ryan Walters, the former superintendent of Oklahoma's public schools, announced the ambition to launch a Turning Point USA chapter in every high school and college in the state. This is a struggle for hegemony fought on the terrain of civil society, not a struggle for or against a (mythical) realm of pre-political consensus and practical problem solving - what Gramsci would have called a war of position.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

DO POLITICAL PROTESTS MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT*
ANDREAS MADESTAM
DANIEL SHOAG
STAN VEUGER
DAVID YANAGIZAWA-DROTT
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the move-ment, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also af-fected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences. JEL Code: D72.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

It really would’ve killed the spirit of this message if Cal had won the game

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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