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BJPolS abstract discussing political news consumption. It highlights the dependency of outlets on audience preferences, with coverage focusing on partisan conflict and specialized jargon.

From February 2026 -

The Unequal Challenge of Learning from Under-Informative News - https://cup.org/461vHAT

"findings shed light on the importance of considering heterogeneous preferences along ethnicities within the same racial ‘in-group’"

- @atrexler.com

#OpenAccess

She’s amazing! 100% agree

New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨

In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social and I present results from a collaborative field experiment with the Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR rules in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections. A🧵:

Innovations in Human Rights
Edited by @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social and Francesca Parente

Contributors incude: @genbates.bsky.social @ajullmann.bsky.social @andrew.heiss.phd @aperezli.bsky.social @rjschoner.bsky.social

Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

Concentration camps.

Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague.

This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Publicly announcing the intention to do war crimes should immediately end American presidencies

Jfc yes, Mark!

Grateful for the support from RSF and @j-palna.bsky.social and excited to work on this project with @genevavalerie.bsky.social!

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Recontextualizing #Whiteness: Understanding White Identity in the Era of #Black #Lives #Matter

By @genevavalerie.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Civilians across the region facing bombs and destruction and death because some men free of the consequences decided to open hell.

Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Fact-check: In Trump’s Case for an Attack on Iran, False or Unproven Claims Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up.

Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran are either false or unproven. Here's a fact-check. nyti.ms/46tj8P5

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9

As an editor, I really appreciate it when people declining to review suggest potential reviewers. We (editors) don't know everybody and this is super helpful.

the complete lack of backbone from numerous - though not all - academic institutions has been one of the biggest disappointments of the Trump 2 era.

Trump’s Year of Anarchy The unconstrained presidency and the end of American primacy.

“Trump’s use of the military and federal security forces to consolidate his domestic authority will, in the long run, undermine American power,” argue @dandrezner.bsky.social and @profsaunders.bsky.social.

Seems like a both/and situation to me, Mark 😂

🧵 New paper out in AJPS! "Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state"

With @lbp2106.bsky.social, @wilsonprichard.bsky.social, @cdsamii.bsky.social, and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra.

doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."

World Court to hear Myanmar genocide case in January The International Court of Justice will hear a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its minority Muslim group, the Rohingya, on January 12-29, the United Nations' top court sa...

The #ICJ will hear the case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya from January 12-29, the first time the ICJ considers a genocide in a decade & one that will set precedents for South Africa’s case against Israel over the war in Gaza: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Don’t do the crimes and you never have to worry about it! I’m not worried about the ICC because I’m not going around committing crimes against humanity. Seems easy to me 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

Me, to the people who say the ICC isn’t a threat because everything is about power: ok then why do all these powerful people act like they’re scared of the ICC?!?!

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Americans oppose the change to 'Department of War' and it's not especially close. @robertralston.bsky.social and I found that relatively few think the change will make America safer, focus the department's mission, or make it more lethal.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

American Higher Education Barometer Measuring American Attitudes Towards Higher Education

Those of you at universities might share our recent report on public opinion with their leadership.

There are takeaways that are highly relevant to their choices in the current moment. In particular, there is broad, bipartisan, but latent, support for higher education.

edbarometer.org