What No. 5 pick Gabriela Jaquez brings to Chicago Sky | The IX Basketball The Chicago Sky selected UCLA's Gabriela Jaquez with the No. 5 overall pick and took Latasha Lattimore and Tonie Morgan in later rounds.

Sky draft pick analysis just for you. yes you!
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The critical thing about Supreme Court term limits is not the "limit" part, it's the "term" part.

Defined term lengths -- whether multiple terms are allowed or not -- are the feature of the reform that would enable judicial appointments to be responsive to political change.

Screenshot of first page of article titled "Responsibility Attribution for Supreme Court Decision-Making: Politicization, Partisanship, and Dobbs" Abstract: "The U.S. Supreme Court’s ambiguous institutional position—insulated from external pressures yet retaining important linkages with elected officials—complicates how the public assigns responsibility for its decisions. Using a survey experiment that shows respondents information about Dobbs, we explore how messages that politicize or depoliticize the Court affect responsibility attribution for Court decisions. We find that politicizing the Court increases responsibility attribution towards President Trump, and that this effect is conditioned by party cues. We explore downstream effects on evaluations of political actors, but do not find conclusive evidence. We argue that these findings have important implications for democratic accountability."

New from me, @wsnead.bsky.social, & @rbayes.bsky.social!

We look at who the public holds responsible for Supreme Court decisions, test frames that can change this responsibility attribution, and discuss implications for democratic accountability.

Full article, no paywall: doi.org/10.1017/jlc....

The most ironic possible year for WB to tie a record for wins by a single studio

Eight Oscar wins for Warner Bros. so far with several virtually guaranteed to come, continuing the best critical and financial year for a studio in decades. The only reason it's getting sold is the mountain of debt after 3 failed mergers, a problem it's solving with another debt-fueled merger.

I believe this is the fourth year in a row I've lost to Matt in the Oscars prediction pool. My sisyphean struggle continues. 🫡

Meet Ronald, a dedicated Rapid Transit Operator who’s been moving Chicago for 30 years! For Ronald, it’s all about connecting with riders, and serving the community with professionalism and heart.
Thank you, Ronald, for the incredible work you do in making every ride safe, reliable, and welcoming!

The Major Questions Doctrine: Judicial Power and the Prevalence of Policy Drift in the United States A major challenge of governance in the United States is policy drift, the phenomenon wherein a policy’s outcomes are transformed due to a failure to update its rules or structures to meet changing cir...

Link to the article: doi.org/10.1515/for-...

If you don't have access via the link and want a copy of the paper, DM me!

Even as they split on the tariffs case, SCOTUS conservatives in both camps tried to apply the major questions doctrine—underscoring that their shared project of concentrating policymaking authority in the Court continues.

More on how the MQD imperils policymaking from me and @wsnead.bsky.social 👇

An article abstract arguing that the emergence of the major questions doctrine will exacerbate the problem of policy drift -- the phenomena where policies change over time as they fail to adapt to changing socioeconomic conditions.

The SCOTUS majority that struck Trump's #tariffs argued extensively about whether to use the major questions doctrine (MQD) to do so. Why would the use of this doctrine matter? In a recent article, @kumar.fyi and I discuss the emergence of the MQD and its high stakes for policymaking.

There is still time to yeet your Academia dot edu profile into the sun.

This is so incredibly clear and insightful. I found it very useful in thinking through the problems facing rental housing in Chicago, even though we're not dealing the specific question of rent regulation at the moment.

I almost cried during the Bad Bunny show when I saw the workers repairing the electrical system. I spent years working on Puerto Rico's crisis, and this was the one thing I couldn't resolve before moving to the academy. Thanks to the @lpeblog.bsky.social and @lpeproject.bsky.social for sharing this.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

I also use TurboScan and love it! Handles different types of documents very well, and great options for uploading to cloud drives as you go. Very handy with a tall phone tripod.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem.

Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

Apologies! Correct title is A Consumer's Republic. Links for library catalogs and purchase:

search.worldcat.org/title/54471431

bookshop.org/p/books/a-co...

Whoops! Serves me right for posting from memory 😅

Lizabeth Cohen's book The Consumer Republic is a great treatment of this development. She argues that postwar economic policy and suburbanization led to personal consumption becoming central to social identity and status. Been thinking about that book a lot lately.

Exonerations Grind to a Halt Under Chicago’s New Prosecutor - Bolts Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has weakened her office’s already broken system for freeing the innocent, even as allegations of coercion mount against a former Chicago detective.

If you want to see how much a single local official can change things, look no further than Chicago,

where the new prosecutor this year has ground exonerations to a halt by hindering the work of the commission that reviews wrongful convictions boltsmag.org/chicago-cook...

Mississippi Masala—an impeccable, beautiful film, start to finish

Hello, would you like to read about capital subsidy and social housing daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/deep-v-shall...

From Portland to Chicago to Philadelphia, transit agencies across the U.S. are facing existential peril. If you’re not already engaged in the fight to secure stable, robust, long-term funding for transit in your community then now’s the time to roll up your sleeves.

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The Six Elections to Watch This July - Bolts We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: There are many fewer contests on the ballot in July... Read More

More details on tonight's elections in San Diego (and also St. Louis!)—and what we know of the results—in the article below.

And also follow @boltsmag.org to make sure to stay on top of local elections happening in all corners!

Rear, if I am remembering correctly

I do not, but I remember it was on Pleasant St, near the corner of Home Ave

A friend of mine used to live in an Oak Park courtyard building with an active inner space. They had some porch furniture and a shared grill + fridge setup. It was an awesome hangout space; wish more courtyard buildings did this.