Rob Mickey
@robmickey.bsky.social
Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington.
reut.rs
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?
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Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics
| Sociologica
sociologica.unibo.it
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
He's got a lot of nerve referring to opt-outs as "lesser men," especially given the actual lessers who've been in charge of the sport, the athletic department, and the university.
"There's a really good chance that we're going to have many more opt-outs" for the Citrus Bowl, Poggi told The Stampede podcast this week.
Michigan’s Biff Poggi fears up to 25 players might not return from Christmas break
"There's a really good chance that we're going to have many more opt-outs" for the Citrus Bowl, Poggi told The Stampede podcast this week.
www.mlive.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
He's got a lot of nerve referring to opt-outs as "lesser men," especially given the actual lessers who've been in charge of the sport, the athletic department, and the university.
They shot up policies?
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
They shot up policies?
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Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
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Heritage Foundation implosion has been a wakeup call for some conservatives about dangerous trends on Trump-era right. I hope they will see that nationalism is inherently prone to bigotry, and reject it in favor of universal principles of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Lessons of the Heritage Foundation's Implosion
The decline of this major conservative institution has been a wakeup call for conservative intellectuals. But will they draw the right lessons from it?
reason.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Heritage Foundation implosion has been a wakeup call for some conservatives about dangerous trends on Trump-era right. I hope they will see that nationalism is inherently prone to bigotry, and reject it in favor of universal principles of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Not only is this Supreme Court order making it harder for President Trump to send national guard into American cities welcome, Justice Kavanaugh seems to want to pull back from his earlier concurrence where he suggested race and ethnicity could be the basis for immigration checks. Now he says this:
![arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about
whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in
making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional
rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth
Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on
reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must
be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force.
Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or
arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S.
806, 813 (1996) (“[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of
the law based on considerations such as race”). This application does not
require us to delve into the parties’ underlying dispute and to determine
whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in
Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hxppoqwtnzyltkyht2msjf/bafkreih2dv4vccdoi47jcram3ogof73be2eh76ewgneporxuke3bfmxxau@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Not only is this Supreme Court order making it harder for President Trump to send national guard into American cities welcome, Justice Kavanaugh seems to want to pull back from his earlier concurrence where he suggested race and ethnicity could be the basis for immigration checks. Now he says this:
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Kristi Noem: "It's amazing what President Trump has done. 2.5 million people have left our country because of his leadership."
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Kristi Noem: "It's amazing what President Trump has done. 2.5 million people have left our country because of his leadership."
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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This is why the Ellisons paid $150 million to acquire a mediocre Substack blog www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...
Bari Weiss misplaces story that would be unfavorable to the Trump administration - Lawyers, Guns & Money
60 minutes was heavily promoting an important story about conditions inside CECOT, and that kind of thing is not going to fly at the Bari Weiss Broadcasting Network: All of these links went to promoti...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is why the Ellisons paid $150 million to acquire a mediocre Substack blog www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...
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Anthropic’s Claude AI model ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation and bought a live fish. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4pMPX13
December 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Anthropic’s Claude AI model ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation and bought a live fish. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4pMPX13
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I thought even the most reactionary politicians wanted to take the country back to the 1850s. Apparently that’s not far enough—now they’re dusting off letters of marque last used in the War of 1812.
Apparently this is not the onion: www.lee.senate.gov/2025/12/patr...
December 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
Happy 11th birthday to this photo....
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Happy 11th birthday to this photo....
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Congratulations to CBS News on finding its NEXT STAR!
Breaking news: Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik said she ended her campaign for New York governor, a move that comes weeks after she officially jumped into the race. The conservative congresswoman also said she will not run for reelection to the U.S. House.
Elise Stefanik ends bid for N.Y. governor and won’t run again for House
Stefanik’s move came after Trump ally Bruce Blakeman decided to enter the Republican primary for New York governor.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Congratulations to CBS News on finding its NEXT STAR!
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Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line
apply.interfolio.com/179415
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People feeling hopeless about AI/LLMs spoiling all online polling and survey research should take a look at what @yamilrvelez.bsky.social is doing with “Pulse” — a tool to detect proof of life that’s compatible with Quatrics
As @seanjwestwood.bsky.social's terrifying new PNAS article demonstrates, LLMs can now pass almost every attention check, mirror personas, stay consistent across pages, and systematically bias responses in the aggregate.
So here’s a different angle: verify physical presence, not text.
So here’s a different angle: verify physical presence, not text.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
People feeling hopeless about AI/LLMs spoiling all online polling and survey research should take a look at what @yamilrvelez.bsky.social is doing with “Pulse” — a tool to detect proof of life that’s compatible with Quatrics
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My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
The King's Slaves
A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America
press.princeton.edu
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
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My understanding, per Bari Weiss, is that she is personally responsible for political violence that occurs on campus or against professors because she has been critical of campuses donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My understanding, per Bari Weiss, is that she is personally responsible for political violence that occurs on campus or against professors because she has been critical of campuses donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
Restoration is doable. Leningrad is gone and St. Petersburg isn't yet Putingrad!
(1) This is gross. (2) Interesting that Trump's name comes first. (3) This is the way dictators behave. (4) Can the original name be restored in the After Times -- the way "Trujillo City" went back to being "Santo Domingo"? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Kennedy Center renamed the 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is now called the the "Trump-Kennedy Center," according to the White House.
www.usatoday.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Restoration is doable. Leningrad is gone and St. Petersburg isn't yet Putingrad!
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My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns
Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...
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The reason for the season
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The reason for the season
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Trump’s meandering primetime address raises new questions about Joe Biden’s press conferences.
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Trump’s meandering primetime address raises new questions about Joe Biden’s press conferences.
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Today is my birthday and look what came in the mail... my first-ever copies of my new book!
Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Theda Skocpol @jacobhacker.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Robin Einhorn for their kind words!
Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Theda Skocpol @jacobhacker.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Robin Einhorn for their kind words!
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today is my birthday and look what came in the mail... my first-ever copies of my new book!
Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Theda Skocpol @jacobhacker.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Robin Einhorn for their kind words!
Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Theda Skocpol @jacobhacker.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Robin Einhorn for their kind words!
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Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’