Not my goat 😭😭😭

Seems inevitable that the republicans were going to win the contest of which party is more willing to inflict harm on voters. Dems used the shutdown to draw attention to this fact. Not entirely sure why this is such a bad outcome.

The CJCS who was purged in the first month is out on podcasts now talking about his vision for a defense industrial enterprise and refusing to discuss the purge. Coming to think our military leadership might not be prepared for the current moment.

warontherocks.com/2025/11/a-co...

I’m very tired of admin officials resigning quietly. If you’re not going to be a vocal critic of the admin then resigning is not just ineffective, it’s actively helping them. They get to replace you with a loyalist and avoid any political cost. You’re just relieving yourself of a moral burden.

I’m losing my fucking mind here

The disincentive against politicizing the DOJ was always political, not legal. Trump v US had all sorts of terrible ramifications but this isn’t one of them

Breaking: Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will resign after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course.

I've posted my PhD level Quant I slides, in case they're useful for anyone else:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ysvgl...

The material follows texts by Aronow & Miller, Hansen, and @mattblackwell.bsky.social, covering basic probability through OLS, with a brief intro to causal inference

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New working paper!

with @calvin-thrall.bsky.social and David Lindsey, we collect the largest existing dataset on diplomatic personnel, and use it to analyze gender disparities in U.S. Foreign Service assignments

draft here: mattmalis.github.io/files/pdf/LM...

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bluesky is a funny name for the most depressing fucking place on the internet

so proud to live in a country where no one serves more than two months in prison for an op-ed 🥲

It’s hilarious and sort of endearing watching this grown man, whose full time job is just thinking and talking ideas, come to a profound realization about rights and civil liberties that most of us arrived at sometime in high school

Glad to see that the what Gorka said in the clip is not quite as bad as @meidastouch.com describes. Exaggerating the danger people face for just speaking out about these issues is good social media fodder but it is counterproductive to mounting an effective opposition.

Has anyone collected and published data from the president’s daily diaries? Seems like something a lot of Americanists would be interested in but I can’t find anything on it…
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If “doesn’t” means “doesn’t and never will again”, then sure, I guess, but it seems like any meaningful concept of a “norm” has to entail expectations that survive despite short-term deviations

Polisky: I’m thinking about using one week (total 3hr class time) at the end of my undergrad econometrics class as an intro to ML/AI, with the intended takeaway being “ML/AI is accessible and not scary given what you learned this semester”.

What specific methods/applications would you include?

Q for American Politics polisky

Where can I find a dataset with US state-level presidential votes, along with gdp, population, and other basic indicators, that students can click and download as a single csv file for a class exercise?(Suggestions of your own replication material more than welcome!)