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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 2d

Not to pile on, but www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 9d

“It’s not just these two reporters’ fates that are at stake here—and that’s important enough—but also the fundamental, constitutional right of a free press.”

Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 9d

Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week.

Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”

On trial for journalism in Kentucky.

Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23d

WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Authoritarianism often enters through crime policy & policing bc public so often demands more & tougher policing. Yanilda González shows this in Authoritarian Police in Democracy. A while back I was in conversation w/ her & other policing scholars for @annualreviews.bsky.social. Highly recommend.

Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States | Annual Reviews

Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American democracy with fellow political scientists Cathy J. Cohen (Universit...

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

The takeaway:

👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Aug 31

“A racial reckoning?” New study by @amengel.bsky.social & Cindy Kam:

“Challenging the conventional wisdom, our analyses demonstrate that racial attitudes changed following George Floyd’s murder, but in ways dependent upon attitude measure and population subgroup.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A racial reckoning? racial attitudes in the wake of the
murder of George Floyd
Andrew M. Engelhardt and Cindy D. Kam

Abstract
Did George Floyd’s murder and its ensuing protests produce a racial reckoning? Conventional social-science accounts, emphasizing the stability of racial attitudes, dismiss this possibility. In contrast, we theorize
how these events may have altered Americans’ racial attitudes, in broadly progressive or in potentially countervailing ways across partisan and racial subgroups. An original content analysis of partisan media
demonstrates how the information environment framed Black Americans before and after the summer of 2020. Then we examine temporal trends using three different attitude measures: most important problem judgments, explicit favorability towards Whites versus Blacks, and implicit associations. Challenging
the conventional wisdom, our analyses demonstrate that racial attitudes changed following George Floyd’s
murder, but in ways dependent upon attitude measure and population subgroup.

Figure 1 shows four scatterplots with Lowess smoothing lines comparing Fox (gray squares, gray line) and MSNBC (black circles, black line) coverage of Black Americans in 2020, with a vertical red line marking George Floyd’s murder on May 25.

Top left (Daily Counts of Activism Frames): Both networks show a sharp spike in activism-related mentions immediately after Floyd’s murder, then declining through the year, with similar levels across Fox and MSNBC.

Top right (Daily Proportion of Mentions containing Activism Frames): The share of mentions with activism frames rises briefly after Floyd’s murder for both networks but quickly declines, with no clear partisan difference.

Bottom left (Daily Counts of Backlash Frames): Fox shows a much larger spike in backlash-related mentions (e.g., “violence,” “mob”) after May, while MSNBC increases more modestly.

Bottom right (Daily Proportion of Mentions containing Backlash Frames): From June to October, nearly half of Fox’s mentions of Black Americans include backlash frames, roughly twice the rate of MSNBC, which remains lower throughout.

Overall, the figure shows that while both networks used more activism frames immediately after Floyd’s murder, Fox emphasized backlash frames much more heavily than MSNBC in the following months.

Figure 2 shows six scatterplots with Lowess smoothing lines tracking mentions of racism or race relations as the most important problem in Gallup polls (2017–2021). Each dot is a monthly estimate, with a vertical red line marking George Floyd’s murder in May 2020.

Top row:
Full Sample: Mentions are low (under 5%) before 2020, then spike sharply in June 2020 (~16%) before falling but remaining above pre-2020 levels.

Among Whites: Similar pattern as the full sample, with a ~10-point jump in June 2020, followed by a decline but remaining elevated relative to earlier years.

Among Blacks: Higher baseline concern compared to Whites; mentions spike by ~21 points after Floyd’s murder and remain elevated through 2021.

Bottom row:
Among White Republicans: Very low pre-2020 mentions, a modest rise (~6 points) in June 2020, then rapid decline toward baseline.

Among White Independents: Clear but moderate spike in June 2020, with some persistence above baseline.

Among White Democrats: Low pre-2020 mentions, sharp June 2020 spike (~14 points), then decline but sustained higher levels through 2021.

Overall, the figure shows a sharp discontinuity after Floyd’s murder across all groups, with the most sustained increases among Black respondents and White Democrats, and weaker persistence among White Republicans.

Figure 4 presents six scatterplots of predicted weekly average IAT D-scores for 2019 (gray squares, gray line) and 2020 (black circles, black line), with a vertical red line marking George Floyd’s murder on May 25. Higher D-scores indicate stronger implicit anti-Black bias.

Top row:

Full Sample: Bias was declining before Floyd’s murder and drops further afterward in 2020, diverging from 2019.

Among Whites: A clear decline in D-scores appears after Floyd’s murder, with lower bias sustained through 2020.

Among Blacks: No sharp discontinuity; scores remain stable across 2019 and 2020.

Bottom row:

Among White Conservatives: Noticeable decline in anti-Black bias after May 2020, sustained through the year.

Among White Neutrals: A clear drop in bias after Floyd’s murder, somewhat larger than among liberals.

Among White Liberals: Small decline in bias after May 2020, though less pronounced than among conservatives or neutrals.

Overall, the figure shows that implicit anti-Black bias decreased among White respondents across ideological groups after Floyd’s murder, with larger reductions among conservatives and neutrals than liberals. Black respondents show little change, consistent with already low baseline bias.

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

www.nytimes.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jul 29

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jun 17

Lots of folks asking about the #s at the nationwide June 14 No Kings actions. My team won't have our own estimate for a few weeks; we validate every record to the fullest extent possible. Our current data are updated through the end of May; see the piece below for our report on trends prior to 6/14.

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jun 13

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yesterday, @robbwiller.bsky.social and I published an opinion essay making the case for the power of nonviolent protest. I’m proud of our work but also think we could have done more to “steel man” case *against* nonviolence. Here’s essay. Some counterarguments in 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Opinion | This Is What Makes Protests Successful

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devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excellent op-ed on nonviolent protest from @robbwiller.bsky.social and @owasow.bsky.social on the importance of nonviolence here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o.... Some additional points worth noting:

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LaGina Gause @laginagause.bsky.social · Jun 18

Nice thread here! It’s incredibly important for thinking about violence and protest tactics. What counts as violence depends on who is protesting and who is observing those protests. So, one-size-fits-all judgments about whether specific tactics “work” would definitely benefit from more skepticism.

devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · Jun 18

7. Bottom line: tactics matter but so do our own biases when observing and reacting to resistance. Worth approaching coverage with skepticism and holding media accountable.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids

What's actually happening during the ICE sweeps and protests across Los Angeles.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · May 20

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 19

Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history.

350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · May 19

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to reinstate Sec. Kristi Noem's order ending Temporary Protected Status for many Venezuelans, but notes the decision does not address challenges to actions "purport[ing] to invalidate" related legal status, work authorization documents, etc., previously granted under TPS.

ORDER IN PENDING CASE
24A1059 NOEM, SEC., DHS, ET AL. V. NAT. TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by
her referred to the Court is granted. The March 31, 2025 order
entered by the United States District Court for the Northern
District of California, case No. 3:25-cv-1766, is stayed pending
the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a
writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should
certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically.
In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon
the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
This order is without prejudice to any challenge to
Secretary Noem's February 3, 2025 vacatur notice insofar as it
purports to invalidate EADs, Forms I-797, Notices of Action, and
Forms I-94 issued with October 2, 2026 expiration dates. See
8 U. S. C. §1254a(d)(3).
Justice Jackson would deny the application.

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · May 19

Meet 2025 RBSI Scholar, Xavier Humphrey, Tufts University

Xavier Humphrey, Tufts University Xavier Humphrey is a rising senior at Tufts University, where he majors in political science and applied mathematics, with a focus on economic theory. Throughout his life, two driving forces have remained…

Meet 2025 RBSI Scholar, Xavier Humphrey, Tufts University

Xavier Humphrey, Tufts University Xavier Humphrey is a rising senior at Tufts University, where he majors in political science and applied mathematics, with a focus on economic theory. Throughout his life, two driving forces have remained constant: a deep curiosity and a commitment to understanding all positions. This manifests in his academic approach, as he strives to embrace diverse viewpoints—believing that omitting even one perspective could mean overlooking a critical factor.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · May 16

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE

In response to mass deportation threats and mixed messages from county leaders on federal cooperation, San Diego organizers are taking action to inform residents of ICE activity.

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · May 15

Only one month left to submit your 2025 APSA Fund for #Latino Scholarship applications! The supports teaching, research and publishing activities of contingent, junior-level, tenure track, and other #polisci faculty whose main area of academic focus is Latina/o politics. buff.ly/2yyA9LT

Apply for the 2025 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship | Deadline: June 29, 2025

The Fund for Latino Scholarship encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty).

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · May 10

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

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