MORGAN STANLEY: “.. The rise in gasoline prices, when viewed against data on tax refunds, keeps us comfortable with our prior downward revisions to our outlook for US GDP growth.”

Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026. Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!

Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper.

More soon!

A semi-hard dick out with khaki pants pulled down

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

They bombed an *ambulance worker's funeral*

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

full of 💩, I got in a huge argument with a friend of a friend when I was in Seattle for 2022 NYE after he walked into a place we were at about how this was exactly what he was doing *Chadwick Bozeman looking back at Michael B Jordan after he called the awards being rigged.gif*

Dave Chappelle is somehow shocked to be the GOP's anti-trans idol The "team TERF" comedian claims Republicans "weaponized...what I was doing."

Dave Chappelle is happy to make tens of millions of dollars on anti-trans comedy routines—”I’m team TERF,” he said in a 2021 special—but now apparently draws the line at Republicans turning those jokes into policy.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Beshear: He said, “I thought that I was being depicted as a doctor.” If I was ever in an operating room and somebody walked in in Jesus robes with orbs in his hand, I would have thought that it did not go well for me that day.

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

(Thom Tillis is currently a US Senator)

“We should really get together soon!”

Pick a state, pick a city, look at how much their police get in revenue and then tell me how the police are oh so despised.

Actually passing taxes, which can account for wealth, and allocating funds to make sure public systems have revenue, is a much better method to make equitable policy.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

The NYTimes editorial board—"elite" by any definition—writes this drivel about "elite cultural progressivism" after a hand-picked Trump supporter flown in from Arkansas for a photo-op was asked by Trump about trans athletes and said "I really don’t have an opinion on that."

We have to close the strait in order to open it?

This is made clear by the phrase spoken by the villain, “the sun will never set on the Wakandan empire.” The white CIA operative who helps Black Panther is in fact betraying the Agency by keeping Wakanda’s secret, not operating on the agency’s behalf.

Kamala Harris: The man said—he said he got rid of their nuclear arsenal, obliterated it, he said.

You know how he likes to use those kinds of words—“obliterated it,” which is not an ambiguous term. That means you took it out. Well, evidently, he did not do that.

my favorite(?) recurring trope is when someone describes the logical, problem-solving, non-ideological party they wish existed and it’s just the ineffectual version of democrats that we already have

Dee Reynolds from It's Always Sunny singing the end of the Nightman Cometh. She sings "just to be clear i did not write that song and have never had sex with a child"

why did Melania say this at her press conference?

A church sign that reads: First Baptist Church of Austin ville PRAY FOR A GOOD HARVEST BUT CONTINUE TO HOE

Now let the church say

And again…..yall want us to be cool with ai usage??

(Specifically GenAi and useless shit via LLMs for you snarky mfs)

To all who celebrate

photo of the dish towel used as a white flag at Appomattox

On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.

what a glorious time capsule of this broken moment we are in

Trump is like a parent who spank their kids but now that the kid is too big for it to work, he doesn't know what to do. The world is going to go no contact with the US and he gon call them all ungrateful while he dies alone and isolated, having never known accountability.