An astute and important piece by @alonpinkas.bsky.social

The political psych conference is getting a refresh this year! Please consider presenting your work. Junior faculty -- this is an EXCELLENT opportunity to build your professional network. Abstracts are due this Friday.

I mean it's embarrassing because they all end up being my own submissions.

Sometimes I hack your Manuscript Central account and just write bogus reviews for fun.

"Thanks for the opportunity to review this steaming pile of nonsense entitled ..."

Ah, yes - I had forgotten about them.

But can your car beat the world record while looking like it desperately needs to find a bathroom?

I am incredibly proud that my doctoral student, William Favell, defended his excellent dissertation, demonstrating that development aid is indeed effective. Now he's off to a post-doc at Ohio State.

Aren't the Amish famously non-technology users?

The Film That Explains Contemporary America “The Sorrow and the Pity” has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.

"Restoring democracy required opponents of fascism—nationalists, republicans, and Communists—to work together despite serious misgivings about one another’s views. Purity tests had to wait until the war was over."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I think a big part of this is going to be the development of a positive, forward looking platform that centers on key issues. We don't need to insult people to propose a governing platform; if anything, insults and derision dilute the power of any future program.

CHALLENGERS IN A PANDEMIC: COVID-19 STATES OF EXCEPTION, OPPOSITION PARTIES, AND OUTCOMES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Abstract. In early 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments imposed states of emergency rule to streamline budgeting, impose mitigation

Excited to announce my latest publication: "Challengers in a Pandemic: COVID-19 States of Exception, Opposition Parties, and Outcomes in Southern Africa."

It's available now!

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An EV Outback would be nice

Precisely - there are key strategic reasons to not be outwardly cruel.

From a virtue cultivation perspective, there are also pretty sizable normative reasons to not indulge our darkest spirits. We have spent a decade aghast at the cruelty of MAGA. Perhaps we should try something different.

Next up, from AH: “I created an R package in CRAN to allow Positron to interact with my Raspberry Pi to operate a WiFi-enabled can opener to automate my dinner preparation. Check out GitHub/aheiss/canopeneR for the full geom_canplot function.

This approach to politics - derisive, condescending, mean-spirited - is precisely the opposite of what we need. If we want to build a coalition to bring back a decent politics and impress upon people the value of democratic norms, we ourselves need to be decent and uphold norms of civility.

We all recall Przeworski’s maxim that democracies are where you just kinda relax and let the other party win by not contesting elections. Classic CP, folks

The Case for Impeaching Trump Even if He's Not Convicted: A Conversation with Bill Kristol Watch now | With the internal guardrails collapsing as Trump becomes more dangerously erratic, it is vital to activate this key constitutional check

A good talk, I thought, with @andycraig.bsky.social.

The case for impeachment.

www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-case-f...

I don’t know who this person is. Maybe she’s terrible. 🤷🏻 but after a decade+ of cruel, mean-spirited politics, perhaps we should endeavor for something less nasty?

I suspect many pa. Jews have been treated the way she describes and I think the obsession with rabbinic J. has thinned our ranks.

This seems like a rather cruel response to someone expressing vulnerability.

Hell yeah. Go Spokane!

Just to push back here - this rhetoric assumes that antisemitism is somehow a logical or coherent response to the actions of Israel. It is not. Many Jews, myself included, abhorred the 9/11-era Islamophobia that was revealed in response to the actions of Muslim-majority states and terror groups.

Note the coffee stains and crayon/marker stains from my sons.

@jeffcannata.bsky.social I’m holding the flame. Best GM ever, man.

I see that you're not skilled in the art of ten dimensional chess, Seth.

The brave Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956 were brutally crushed by the Soviet Union. But their Revolution was the "first tear in the Iron Curtain."

May the people of Hungary succeed today, 70 years later, in defeating those seeking to impose a new iron curtain on the free world.

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@jeffcannata.bsky.social I didn’t realize you were on here! (I’m the guy that sent you that mini at the end of season 1). Just restarted S1 and it’s bringing back all the warm feels.

And that was just the faculty meetings!

bah-dum-pssshhh

I'll be here all week, folks.

This is a really well done piece. Thought provoking.

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