Dave
@daveamp.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Minnesotan/Iowan. My posts really don't reflect the opinions of my employer.
How I’m walking out of 2025
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
How I’m walking out of 2025
Perfect 90s debut album.
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Perfect 90s debut album.
I was certain it was FIRE before I clicked the link
Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
December 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I was certain it was FIRE before I clicked the link
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Hüsker Dü - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Hüsker Dü -- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
YouTube video by oppositecar
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December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hüsker Dü - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
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Hello, I wrote a big ass thing about property taxes. It contains personal details and so it's juicy.
leaflet.pub/0588a2f0-b7a...
leaflet.pub/0588a2f0-b7a...
Tom's 2025 Taxes Round Up
Last year I wrote a big piece about property taxes and how they’re calculated and how they interact and compare with things like income tax, property values, my personal budget, and the city budget. A...
leaflet.pub
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hello, I wrote a big ass thing about property taxes. It contains personal details and so it's juicy.
leaflet.pub/0588a2f0-b7a...
leaflet.pub/0588a2f0-b7a...
Oh sweet Jesus.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh sweet Jesus.
Me to the dog: get off the couch
The dog:
The dog:
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Me to the dog: get off the couch
The dog:
The dog:
This is a top three series in the history of TV
‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ is scheduled to leave Netflix on February 21, 2026.
(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
December 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is a top three series in the history of TV
I had a former colleague make up focus groups in local newspaper editorials. He has a laughingstock. Anyone who does this should be too.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I had a former colleague make up focus groups in local newspaper editorials. He has a laughingstock. Anyone who does this should be too.
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redacted Epstein files
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
redacted Epstein files
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This is a Speedball Mike Bailey appreciation post. They're too pure and too adorable for this world. I adore them so much and they deserve the world <3
December 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is a Speedball Mike Bailey appreciation post. They're too pure and too adorable for this world. I adore them so much and they deserve the world <3
Great event for @robsandia.bsky.social here in Ames. I’m excited for his campaign
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Great event for @robsandia.bsky.social here in Ames. I’m excited for his campaign
$100 says there are texts where Brooks asks Epstein’s advice for how sleep with his RA.
Everyone who is having a pleasant holiday season because they aren't in the Epstein files, step forward.
Not so fast, David Brooks.
Not so fast, David Brooks.
See the newly released photos here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
$100 says there are texts where Brooks asks Epstein’s advice for how sleep with his RA.
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Congrats to Meg Lugar Nikolai and Shelley Buck on primary victories tonight. Strong wins are testament to the hard work you and your teams are doing.
Thank you to every candidate in the field.
Excited to hit the doors with you both before the January general and to serve our neighbors together.💙
Thank you to every candidate in the field.
Excited to hit the doors with you both before the January general and to serve our neighbors together.💙
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Congrats to Meg Lugar Nikolai and Shelley Buck on primary victories tonight. Strong wins are testament to the hard work you and your teams are doing.
Thank you to every candidate in the field.
Excited to hit the doors with you both before the January general and to serve our neighbors together.💙
Thank you to every candidate in the field.
Excited to hit the doors with you both before the January general and to serve our neighbors together.💙
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Larry Jacobs remains a profoundly unserious political thinker, his column exhorts the new Her Admin to put apartments into the Landmark Towers. It’s a great idea! So great that it happened in June of this year in the Carter Admin.
www.twincities.com/2025/12/15/l...
www.twincities.com/2025/12/15/l...
Larry Jacobs: For Kaohly Her’s first 100 days as St. Paul mayor, action and clear ambition
The mayor-elect enters office at a time of crisis in Minnesota’s Capitol City. Only a bold and ambitious launch by Mayor Her on her first days in office can create the momentum to revitalize St. Pa…
www.twincities.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Larry Jacobs remains a profoundly unserious political thinker, his column exhorts the new Her Admin to put apartments into the Landmark Towers. It’s a great idea! So great that it happened in June of this year in the Carter Admin.
www.twincities.com/2025/12/15/l...
www.twincities.com/2025/12/15/l...
The idea that universities should use the expertise of their faculty is both obvious and revolutionary
+1 but also use in-house expertise as much as possible!
Smart folks exist in the university and as much as capacity allowed this can be done internally!
(I’ve long been a proponent of building internal capacity)
Smart folks exist in the university and as much as capacity allowed this can be done internally!
(I’ve long been a proponent of building internal capacity)
Faculty organizations at every campus should hire forensic accountants to a) investigate university finances and b) provide intensive trainings for the token faculty who get placed on budget and finance committees
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The idea that universities should use the expertise of their faculty is both obvious and revolutionary
My dumb dog is now afraid of her dog dish that she’s used her whole life and refuses to eat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My dumb dog is now afraid of her dog dish that she’s used her whole life and refuses to eat.
And faculty
Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students
Nothing will make you an education AI skeptic faster than grading some college take home assignments. Admins who haven’t been in a classroom in years push it as a learning tool. Students are laughing at them as they use it as a cheating tool. It’s all instructors are texting about with each other.
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
And faculty
“It’s imperative that industry set our curriculum and that faculty be forced to do random updates every year.” Any university that interviews Purdue’s provost to be president should be ashamed of itself.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“It’s imperative that industry set our curriculum and that faculty be forced to do random updates every year.” Any university that interviews Purdue’s provost to be president should be ashamed of itself.
I will not stand for this The Time erasure.
December 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I will not stand for this The Time erasure.
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On this day 40 years ago, on the penultimate night of the Reconstruction Tour at the Park Centre in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Minutemen joined R.E.M. for a performance of ‘See No Evil’. It was the last appearance by D. Boon before he was killed in a motor vehicle accident, aged 27.
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
On this day 40 years ago, on the penultimate night of the Reconstruction Tour at the Park Centre in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Minutemen joined R.E.M. for a performance of ‘See No Evil’. It was the last appearance by D. Boon before he was killed in a motor vehicle accident, aged 27.
Why had Thundarr not had a reboot?
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Why had Thundarr not had a reboot?
This guy is amazing. His only experience for getting this gig is whining in a legislative hearing. If it isn’t a political enterprise I don’t know what it is because it certainly isn’t an academic enterprise.
www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
UI Center for Intellectual Freedom Director: 'It's not a political enterprise'
Leadership of the Legislature's new Center for Intellectual Freedom based at the University of Iowa on Friday dismissed recent polling showing the vast majority of students across Iowa's public univer...
www.thegazette.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This guy is amazing. His only experience for getting this gig is whining in a legislative hearing. If it isn’t a political enterprise I don’t know what it is because it certainly isn’t an academic enterprise.
www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
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Gonna do a thread here in praise of @megl.bsky.social, with a focus on a reasonable question to ask about a race like 64A:
In a district that blue, does it really matter which Dem we elect? They're going to vote for the same things, right?
Even if that's true, I think Meg is the right pick.
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In a district that blue, does it really matter which Dem we elect? They're going to vote for the same things, right?
Even if that's true, I think Meg is the right pick.
1/
Saint Paul: This past weekend we held our DFL convention for the 64A race where public school parent & powerhouse labor lawyer Meg Luger-Nikolai earned endorsement after five rounds of ballots.
Here’s her speech that shows exactly why she’d be effective on day one. Vote megfor64A.com on Dec.16th
Here’s her speech that shows exactly why she’d be effective on day one. Vote megfor64A.com on Dec.16th
December 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Gonna do a thread here in praise of @megl.bsky.social, with a focus on a reasonable question to ask about a race like 64A:
In a district that blue, does it really matter which Dem we elect? They're going to vote for the same things, right?
Even if that's true, I think Meg is the right pick.
1/
In a district that blue, does it really matter which Dem we elect? They're going to vote for the same things, right?
Even if that's true, I think Meg is the right pick.
1/