christian caballero
@christiancaballero.bsky.social
polisci phd candidate @uc berkeley studying (counter)culture, civil society, and democracy in America | https://christian-caballero.github.io
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Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.
Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears From Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
The infamous “nonprofit killer” provision quietly disappeared from Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" as it winds its way through Congress.
theintercept.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.
bumping a wonderful resource by some of social science's most thoughtful scholars of social movements
Informing Activists
Mobilizing Ideas is excited to announce the publication of a special series this month called “Informing Activists.” Coordinated by Jennifer Earl and Thomas Elliott (both at the University of Arizo…
mobilizingideas.wordpress.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
bumping a wonderful resource by some of social science's most thoughtful scholars of social movements
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American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
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Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
www.wired.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
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1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
March 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
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New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social!
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
March 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social!
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
immpolicytracking.org
January 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/