William Myers

@themyersproject.bsky.social

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Political Scientist talking judicial politics, political behavior, and federalism. IRB Chair. Book Review Co-Editor at Publius. Otherwise football, Legos, and board games. Show me pictures of food.

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William Myers @themyersproject.bsky.social · 13d

This thread is a wild ride. Give me a book length treatment!

Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 13d

I've got a weird interest in this after experiencing rent in multiple cities and countries. I was there when Berlin implemented rent control, and it was strict even by German standards. I'm trying to picture why this would have made all the YIMBYs.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 13d

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13d

Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:

I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:

William Myers @themyersproject.bsky.social · 14d

Punitive federalism.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14d

This is, quite unambiguously, an extortion racket.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14d

This is, quite unambiguously, an extortion racket.

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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 21d

Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides?

Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts:
Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h...
Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...

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Graeme Blair @graemeblair.com · 24d

New data release from the Deportation Data Project:

Every ICE arrest, detainer request, and book-in to detention nationwide between September 1, 2023 and October 15, 2025.

deportationdata.org/news/2025-12...

Deportation Data Project

deportationdata.org

Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 25d

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25d

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25d

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25d

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter.
First, the college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student. College leaders contacted her on the day her letter was received and have maintained regular communication throughout the process. As previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted. The process resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignments.
Second, the student reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate university office. OU has a clear process for reviewing such claims and it has been activated.
The graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization of this process. To ensure fairness in the process, a full-time professor is serving as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester.
OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs.
The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 28d

FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.

I run the political science DDRIG.

Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 29d

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 29d

Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

www.livescience.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Nov 25

When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair...
www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...

BRIAN HAGEDORN, J. (concurring). The Wisconsin Supreme
Court is composed of seven justices who are supposed to be members
of the same team. Unlike trial courts, when we act, we do so
collectively. To accomplish this, over the last 175 years, this
court has established various practices and traditions, both
formal and informal. These practices ensure all voices are heard,
create clear lines of decision-making authority, and establish
consistent and neutral processes to govern our case-deciding and
administrative work. Some of these are reflected in formally
adopted Supreme Court Rules, and some in our Internal Operating
Procedures. But the true currency of a court like ours is trust.
When trust is broken like it has been here, every aspect of our
work suffers.
¶2 This all began in the summer of 2023 when four justices
wished to make significant changes to how this court functions.
Fair enough. These modifications could have been pursued through
a process built on collegiality and mutual respect. Instead, my
colleagues pursued a more destructive path.
¶3 The morning our then-newest justice was sworn into
office——August 1, 2023——my four colleagues at that time set off to
reshape our court and the operation of the court system. They had
apparently engaged in significant discussions in the months prior
and decided to force through these changes during our summer
recess, and to do so via email with or without the input of their
other colleagues. They issued a press release triumphantly
announcing that these changes were all about transparency,
accountability, and inclusivity. This was true in the same way

Pearl Harbor was a strike for peace in the Pacific. I will not
rehash every detail (Justice Ziegler's excellent writing recounts
much of the history), but the reader deserves a taste.
¶4 The first shot sounded when my four colleagues fired the
Director of State Courts, who functions as the CEO of
administrative matters for the entire judicial branch. Without
following any established process, one of my colleagues sent an
email proposing that we fire our Director and install a new, preselected interim Director in his place. This happened through
email, over the course of two business days, while the Director
was out of town on state business, during our summer recess. He
never received a performance review indicating concerns; he was
simply told his employment was over. This came just months after
some of these same colleagues emphasized the importance of having
all justices participate in hiring key staff.
¶5 Later that same week, my colleagues proposed dramatic
changes via email affecting both our case-deciding and
administrative responsibilities. The email invited justices to
attend a new, unscheduled meeting of the court later that week to
discuss the proposals. One justice said she could not be there;
another objected to the meeting as outside our court calendar.
The meeting would go forward no matter what, we were told. I
implored my colleagues to reconsider, to treat their fellow
colleagues with the respect they would want if circumstances were
reversed. They refused. The meeting went on as expected, and
with only four members present, they voted to fundamentally remake
our court.

¶7 Among their changes, my colleagues radically altered the
role of the chief justice. They created a new, three-person
administrative committee (on which the chief justice would
ostensibly sit) to take over nearly all of the chief justice's
most important administrative duties. And they did so in the face
of serious objections that these changes violated the Wisconsin
Constitution, which says the chief justice "shall be the
administrative head of the judicial system." Wis. Const. art.
VII, § 4. One justice who in the past championed the
constitutional role of the chief justice suddenly changed course.
Again, these actions stripping the chief justice of powers she had
exercised for as long as anyone could remember were proposed via
email, and were voted on a few days later during an unscheduled
meeting of just four justices during our summer recess. Not
exactly transparent, accountable, and inclusive.
¶8 Another significant series of amendments to our internal
rules involved modifying the way we consider certain kinds of
cases, essentially making it much easier for this court to expedite
cases coming to us outside the normal appeals process. Why the
change? As everyone understood, my colleagues had the not-sosecret goal of swiftly hearing particular politically charged
cases. This was all by design.
¶9 And how did this experiment go? Not well.
Administratively, it was not clear who was in charge. We
experienced significant breakdowns in communication amidst a lack
of clarity about who was doing what. Our staff was often caught
in the middle of a court that did not have established lines of

communication and authority. And when the Director of State Courts
was unceremoniously fired for what many perceived as political
reasons, it sent a shockwave through the system. Furthermore, my
colleagues' changes were not one and done. Throughout the past
two years, they continued to modify the court's procedures in a
similar ad-hoc fashion, often after realizing problems with their
earlier ill-considered changes. This only added to the confusion.
¶10 Finally, at one of the court's internal conferences this
past June, my colleagues shifted course. One of the four announced
she was "withdrawing" her prior votes from the past two years
(which, by the way, is not a thing) with the idea that every
disputed change was now, all of a sudden, reversed. What changed?
Again, it was no mystery. My colleagues wanted to take power away
from then-Chief Justice Annette Ziegler. Such a move ensured that
my colleagues would run the court through the administrative
committee. Following the April 2025 election, they concluded they
would have the votes to elect a chief justice of their choosing
and have a block of votes to support her, so they no longer needed
to seize those powers. This is not a cynical take. It is exactly
what happened.
¶11 What's past is past, however. I have no desire to hold
this against my colleagues, and I am grateful they have changed
course. In fact, I was happy to work collaboratively on many
operational changes reflected in this order, most of which I

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · Nov 25

This piece is really good- on why rural hospitals close, why there are a lot more closures coming, and what happens next (accelerating economic and population decline)

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Nov 25

When the hospital leaves town www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/wh...

When the hospital leaves town

There are two kinds of Americans: those who live 12 minutes from an emergency department and those who live 72. | In large swaths of rural America, the basic expectation that an ambulance will reach a...

www.fiercehealthcare.com

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · Nov 24

“Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death.” www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/orig...

Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death

A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention, Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decla...

www.dorfonlaw.org

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · Nov 22

This spring, Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing.

Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms

The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

boltsmag.org

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · Nov 20

After the Jan 6 attack, when the Trump brand became toxic, Saudi Arabia became one of the most important sources of new deals for the Trump Organization.

My latest for @theguardian.com on how Trump and MBS bailed each other out | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · Nov 18

A new article with @mjnelson.bsky.social in PRQ, using a conjoint, CPS ASES and medical residency application data, finds that abortion bans make states less desirable places to live for young women, college graduates and doctors.

This law is more extreme.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · Nov 18

Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim

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William Myers @themyersproject.bsky.social · Nov 18

Is this art?

andy™ @andylevy.net · Nov 18

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

Part 1: How I Found Out

Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...

www.telos.news

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andy™ @andylevy.net · Nov 18

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

Part 1: How I Found Out

www.telos.news

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Nov 17

What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?

I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.

My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:

Unterstützung von Donald Trump: Die Irrtümer über Donald Trumps Rückhalt

Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.

www.zeit.de

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · Nov 16

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · Nov 14

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"

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Matthew M. Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social · Nov 13

Ever wonder about what’s it like to grow up in rural America? So did we! @shelleydclark.bsky.social and I tackle two basic—but essential—questions in our new Journal of Marriage and Family article, just out today. Who do rural kids live with today? How likely are rural kids to grow up in poverty?

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Nov 13

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Epstein Document Search

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Nov 11

What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.

The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself

When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.

open.substack.com

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Darin Self @darinself.com · Nov 11

Here is a new article just published co-authored w/@grantmitchell.bsky.social & @sharilfranke.bsky.social

We developed new measures of party institutionalization & party strength that cover both democracies & autocracies around the world since 1970. #polisky

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