One of the most striking patterns from todayâs historic vote:
The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerlandâs population at 10M.
The contact hypothesis holds up well!
Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social
Rahel Freiburghaus
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
"The administrators gave us a big pot of money to hire someone else to ask ChatGPT why your work sucks."
BREAKING:
New from Haberman and Swan:
Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right â suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.
Early-career scientists surveyed early 2025:
âBarely half of respondents now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22pp from how they felt 6 months earlier. The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21pp. Even satisfaction w having pursued a PhD in science declined by 16ppâ
I can relate to the electric excitement in the streets of New York because Iâm watching the game with my parents and when my dad saw Patrick Ewing in the post-game celebration montage, he asked, âIs that Spike Lee?â
Too many theorists of deliberative democracy ignore this point at their peril
An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.
I absolutely love this piece by @profbrooks.bsky.social for reminding us that birthright citizenship is essential but insufficient.
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