I just taught about Eureka in Immigration Politics class last week. The city kept exclusion language in the city charter until 1959. Shameful.
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I just taught about Eureka in Immigration Politics class last week. The city kept exclusion language in the city charter until 1959. Shameful.
(I never doubted my excellent coauthors. I doubted the world).
I honestly wasn’t sure this day would ever come but @mirya.bsky.social, @prof-b-t.bsky.social and I have a full draft of our state and local politics textbook!
That our local DA pursued these charges is absurd. www.keranews.org/criminal-jus...
Can we get rid of the "Insert Figure 3 here" thing in papers? Just insert it so I don't have to scroll while reviewing the article!
I had to change insurance plans due to employer change so even tho it is still CVS Caremark, now I have to go through prior authorizations again, and the appeals process again and each round can take up to 30 days. So that means I'll run out of medicine. And I hate healthcare in America.
How many cheesy things can I work into a pop out box in the state/local politics textbook on Loving county, TX, the country’s least populated county with lots of political feuds? So far I’ve got “no love lost” and “big drama.”
The election has had dirty tactics (stolen campaign signs!), scandal (outrage over a local vet claiming to sponsor the race), and even death (RIP Pirate, whose family set up the online ballot but their buddy died unexpectedly mid-race). What a race.
Voting in the Somerville bike path mayor race closes today - and I am eagerly awaiting the results. www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...
Sigh.
I have! That helps def in winter. I find that just hot water helps, although my colleagues think I'm a little nuts for just having hot water.
using federal agents to arrest grandmothers and children while deploying elite military units ... to slaughter regular folks gathering shellfish huh
Always money in the sheriff banana stand.
I will be fine - but it really reinforces what I already thought: higher education absolutely should pay adjuncts and faculty with those regularly high teaching loads more than they typically do.
I mentioned this before - but I am doing four classes for first time (a new to me research tutorial class for senior theses plus three of my regular classes) and I am finding that my voice is also going out too, which is a new thing.
On my days where I teach three (different) 80 minute classes, I usually am a zombie when I get home and go to bed by like 8pm.
Not to mention this sheriff just south of me.
It is a curse to be someone who studies sheriffs and has this guy as the local sheriff.
I was teaching federalism today in Intro, and discussing the "states' rights" movement of recent years and yeah, exactly this. But in some ways it frees up other convos, like getting them to explain why Republican governors are working with Trump to send the National Guard to invade other states...
I just look at these folks and think how many of them could just be rich as hell, traveling the world, living the good life of laziness and whatever the hell they want - and instead they only want to become lunatics of power. Wouldn't be me.
Miles is going to do amazing! Good job team!
The Supreme Court runs on public legitimacy and generally we think about that in terms of the general public - but (increasingly?) it seems that the legitimacy of SCOTUS in the eyes of the lower courts is under threat as well.
Me, when I get out of teaching for four hours and log onto the internet and read the news...
(My parents have a baby grand piano so she’s got an acoustic one at the grandparents to practice at).
Mostly just looking for second hand. I’m just trying to find one that is reasonable price for someone who may quit in a year.
I’m just trying to find one that is reasonable price for someone who may quit in a year. Mostly stalking Facebook marketplace.
I fear you are right but I appreciate the offer! I’m just trying to find one that is reasonable price for someone who may quit in a year.
My daughter is taking piano this year so I need to buy a piano (really, a weighted, full size keyboard) and so I went on reddit - and oh boy, this might overwhelm even my ability to over-research things.
This is cool!
Too common of a theme.
I was trying not to get called into HR for what I actually want to say.
Leave trans people alone, you weirdos.
I’ve been using a migraine app tracker because I love data but wow, this dataset sucks. Too large of a N.
Sheriffs are going to love this, unfortunately.
Trying to find a current event for my Intro to American Politics class for me to do as a demo presentation to students (they will lead current event discussions for rest of semester) that won't somehow explode in the news cycle between now and tomorrow or cause the class to explode.
Excited to see my article "Governing the Gilded Age City: Local Institution Building in the United States" w Lakshmi Iyer & Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social published at JPHE! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
“You need to calm down. You are being too loud.”
And now Texans are invading another state. Make it make sense.
I taught eugenics today in Immigration Politics, and the idea that someone is born to be a criminal... I am not having that debate.
Same Trump, same reckless spreading of conspiracy theories and vindictive policymaking against people and places that don't perfectly conform to his fantasy worldview.
I got through 1924, which honestly not bad considering.
I fear I'm going to be having the same stupid debates until I retire.
I TRULY do not care what the founders did or did not want for today - and I'm saying that as someone who loves studying history. They enslaved people, and they are dead, which pretty much forfeits their rights on moral or practical grounds to dominate the discussion of American politics today.
I sure was ambitious when I said I could do the first half of the 20th century in one day on the Immigration Politics syllabus.
Happy corncob man day!
Remember when he did a show and tell with groceries?
It is remarkable how many students seem to have traveled to UNC for the game against TCU tonight. I wonder how many will go to Ireland next year. “Sorry, Dr. F, I’m in Ireland so I won’t be attending class this week or next.”
I didn't need this mental image.
"At the state level, most elections are partisan, while at the local level, many are nonpartisan. However, in Somerville, Massachusetts, a race for the title of bike path mayor is uniquely pawtisan." I can hear the students' groans already.
I am figuring out a way to incorporate this into the first chapter of the State/Local politics textbook. www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...
There is entirely too much Giuliani news in this cycle.
On Labor Day, Rachel?
The S. in David S. Pumpkins stands for "September is the start of Spooky Season" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00...
I wish the dates worked! Come to Texas.
Spending Labor Day doing one of my favorite things: planning a vacation (family trip to Boston).
A student told me that they were discussing our class at the poker table last night and had an interesting (seemed good) conversation about immigration politics with the guys. I spread the wealth of information!
We know more about Rudy’s health than we do the President and what we know about Rudy is f’n weird.
Yeah, I was thinking about @simko.bsky.social and others work. Another opportunity in which academics could have sold out to make $$$.
Yeah. I also expect that as a business this will oversell its capacity to get expensive contracts from local govs.
I don’t know exactly why, but I don’t like it. Basically kind of my general philosophy on AI.
100%.
"The border no longer divides only countries. It snakes between white and brown, between families and neighbors, between citizens and the rights they once thought were inviolate." Via @jeanguerre.bsky.social
In our research, we found startup packages in political science ranged from zero to more than a hundred thousand dollars. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
I’m honestly jealous of whoever gets this position because not only is Mirya great (obv), but also you’d have Dean Jim, who seems to be like a magical unicorn of a good administrator.
Maybe telling your constituents to get over it, because everybody dies is not the best reelection strategy.
Me in class today, discussing birthright citizenship: “I’m not a constitutional law scholar but I can read.”
Feels like 107 outside. I am somewhere between 😡 and 🫠.
Remember the good ol' days (when America was great) and the local sheriff deputized our students who carried guns on campus in order to arrest other students and faculty for not wearing Western gear and lock them up in a caged jail borrowed from the Zoo... for some hokey fun.
Stop me if you've heard this one before, another sheriff arrested for allegedly doing bad things: www.fox4news.com/news/johnson...
And yet, I still don’t trust Democrats to ever dismantle ICE if given the opportunity.
I've been teaching Jane Jacobs for over a decade now and have students look at her home on 555 Hudson on google street view, and it has been amusing to watch her old street change. For example, on the corner it was a dry cleaners and nail salon, turned into a pure barre studio, then empty.
I got an ice cap for my head for migraines, and it is a literal brain freeze.
You’d get shot in Texas. I never honk anymore.
When a reporter tells you that they are reading your book 😍
Picture brings tears to my eyes, as a fellow mom.
E-Verify has been a mess since it was created (the late 1990's), and there's a reason that they don't care to fix it. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u...
Oh I hope he can get back (and get his life back, most importantly) at these jerks this way.
I’m not sure how to believe in a all powerful God that lets children be murdered while they are praying to him.
Bluesky: well, actually it was not technically a ham sandwich but a sub.
I am here to report that tying a sweatshirt around your waist is all the rage among elementary school kids, and it is taking me back.
I looked at my bank account and turns out I don’t have an extra 18,000 sitting around. Boo.
Famously, a historian said, “the history of America is the history of the immigrant,” but the future of America may be too.
Preaching to the choir here. 😀
"as far as extant research can identify, a TT position at a PhD-granting institution remains the goal for the majority or at least the plurality of those entering academia..." I wonder if this will change/is changing with the current attacks on research funding.
Federalism really dropped the ball when it came to sheriffs.
He is the Sheriff President.
Haha. I love it.
My urban politics class all universally agreed today that if Biden had done this, Republicans would have lost their goddamn minds.
I think it honestly looks better than current ones.
Can I start a gofundme…
I posted the pic for you 😀
Although a quick google says it is a Panthère, but I didn't think diamonds went up on the bands like that - and wow, I do not have time to be pondering this.
Thanks Steve, heckofa job.
It is a Cartier (but I don't think the Panthère, but my dad is the watch guy, not me), either way - it is worth $$$$.
Taylor Swift's ring is nice and all, and congrats on the engagement, but damn, I want her watch.
Just asking some questions in Intro to American Politics today.
We are doing founding thru civil war in Immigration Politics today, covering Alien Enemies - can’t say I love bad laws from the 1790’s still being relevant today.
I’m getting a lot of responses from people who say we need the names of everyone at DHS to hold them accountable on the other side of this. And I mostly agree. But I’m also not getting my hopes up that accountability is inevitable. Everyone involved in this (from 2019) is still walking around free:
