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@BrenBartholomew To preserve parking lots?

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@signor_molevol Just respond with FERPA. Parents have no right to know your private info about a student’s performance.

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@cafedujord It isn't obvious? He wants to be president.

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@stan_okl The fact that the party has become a rump faction of Central Valley farm owners and elderly Fox viewers means that they absurdly focus on issues like federal water rights that no one on the Coast cares about.

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@matt_blackwell This seems high, but I administer the Pew typology class to my Intro AP lecture every year, and about 20 percent of the class—in CA—are now silent conservatives who are pro-choice and pro-weed but otherwise take conservative positions.

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@alz_zyd_ Morse code at 5 wpm

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@tage_rai @JonHaidt I’m glad we’re having a discussion about social contagion. And I’d love to see you engage with the evidence vs appeals to popularity and “danger”

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@maya_sen Never try introducing academic administrators to the Reality Principle

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Can anyone in YIMBY-land point me to examples of city/county board members in California openly announcing their intention to produce non-compliant housing elements? I remember seeing examples in my Tweetstream but lost them. @hanlonbt @stan_okl @CSElmendorf

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@Hamalisk @eigenrobot Is this a Hawthorne effect? Namely you are just getting people to check on their babies a lot more and the position has nothing to do with it?

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@evolve_ca I thought your group was focused on repealing Prop 13?

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@OurVoicesCA Looks awesome.

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@stan_okl Reading Stephen Kotkin's biography of Stalin, and let me tell you, the seminary/academic miscreant is not a new type.

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@IDoTheThinking This is a group that is almost exclusively from the most leftist parts of the faculty and their claim to represent the "community" of faculty is tenuous at best.

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@GaribaldoValdez Only if universities stop bean counting

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@emmma_camp_ Maybe this lack of adult responsibilities is exactly why you can't test a future spouse so well in college?

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@DavidZipper Dubious causal inference. You mean able-bodied people who leave the house every day are less likely to die?

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@mateosfo They have to adhere to the Reality Principle, and for that reason pandering politicians will not let them do their jobs.

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@michaeldomps @FabricioNakata @td_dion They report how much they buy in different markets. In their filings they come out and say that they invest in markets where supply is being limited by policy! They’re responding to the market distortion, not creating it.

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Is there anyone out there who'd have an academic use for the list of all donors to the Prop 13 campaign in 1978? I made photocopies in the state archives 14 years ago on a lark and never got around to using them.

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@BradWilcoxIFS How much of this is sour grapes?

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Only old white homeowners in CA should be allowed to be "scarcity profiteers," apparently.

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TODAY I introduced AB 2584 to ban corporations from buying up single-family homes and converting them to rentals. Housing Scarcity Profiteers are taking up the limited stock of single-family homes and turning them into investment vehicles #caleg

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@YIMBYLAND Great to be able to find lots of public restrooms, and ones that haven't been defaced or rendered inoperable by junkies and vandals.

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@notstevenwhite Political scientists who see their job as to produce data and arguments to advance Democratic/progressive policy objectives—versus a truth-seeking enterprise— disproportionately moved to that platform.

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@CSElmendorf Fascinating to watch the split in the elites. The suburban petit rentier class if fine with financialization in the form debt-financed housing; unhappy when larger-scale companies move in through equity markets.

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@lakelife8888 @matt_blackwell Law and order, pro market, low taxes

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The impotent response to the trashing and occupation of classroom buildings during finals has undermined my little remaining faith in @ucsantabarbara as a place to do academic work. Campus leadership has utterly failed to protect the academic side of the institution. If the

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@brianduffytweet @wanyeburkett Much more than "just telling history" is happening in things like the CA Ethnic Studies curriculum, and I encourage you to read their draft proposal if that's what you think it is.

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Had a great trip to the Bay Area and used @SFBART to get around. Some of the stations needed maintenance but it was clean and I felt safe while riding.

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@ShaneDPhillips I just asked @CSElmendorf and @stan_okl this question so I'd love to know how this works in practice. (I'd bet the people who write and pass these laws don't know either.)

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@aarmlovi Buying this place would be the equivalent of exile in Siberia.

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You hear the same argument within the political science discipline: "Methodologists don't know anything about real politics."

wanye

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Humanities majors can’t do math, so they invest a lot of their personality into the mythology that people who can do math don’t know anything about the humanities

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Excessive reliance on nonprofits as a jobs program to absorb elite overproduction and build institutional power *is* what many progressives think of as “the progressive project.”

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The silliness of La Sombrita prompted me to write a giant rant about how excessive reliance on nonprofits is hurting the progressive project.

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@JakeAnbinder Lots of examples like this in urban politics. For example, there's a similar story around the counterfactual Georgetown subway station.

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Alternative view: It’s a preference cascade. Democrats have been talking amongst themselves for the better part of his term about Biden’s crooked family and Biden’s obvious mental and physical infirmities. The NYT and mainstream liberal media kept it under wraps until forced

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Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in

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@cafedujord Wholesale decrim hasn't worked out so well for QoL in Portland. On the other two, did he provide a veto statement?

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@stan_okl Sounds like something a fleet of helicopters would be useful for deterring/investigating

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@GaryWinslett Basement freezer

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but, no, the President is not a "team" and it is amazing to me to see political scientists find every way possible to endorse putting an obviously senile guy in the White House for another four years as we stumble towards WW3.

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Nod to our paper @cselmendorf @stan_okl in this pice on public support for price controls:

Uh Oh, There’s High Public Support for Price Controls

We must hope the public’s flirtation with price controls (unlike the recent inflation) is transitory.

www.cato.org

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@IDoTheThinking I apply the pregnant wife or mom with infant test. Our public spaces should be safe for these people. Doing an unknown amount of potentially fatal drug 5 feet away just isnt acceptable and is something other than “victimless.”

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Democrats heading for a bloodbath up and down the ticket.

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INSIDE THE ROOM -- The House Democratic Caucus meeting about President Joe Biden's political standing is starting to empty out. One House Democrat supportive of Biden told me it "felt like a funeral." There is definitely no consensus on Biden. Lots of talk about how difficult

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@Babbling_Beaver @PsychRabble Without knowing the prompt there is no reason I should consider this special or a reason for concern.

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@k8_mcc How would you explain social contagion, then?

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@GaribaldoValdez I don’t know how anyone can look at APSA or the APSR under the current regime and believe that hasn’t already happened. Much of the discipline operates as a think tank for the Left and the Perestroikans won.

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@JakeAnbinder I had another, non-academic urbanist tell me that "everyone knows" and admits in interviews that the reason Georgetown Metro wasn't built was because the neighbors blocked it. Zachary Schrag says it was overdetermined by engineering considerations.

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@StreetFightSF What "neoliberal deregulation" being proposed by the YIMBY movement would specifically make housing more dangerous? Development stagnation that keeps people in "non-gentrified" unreinforced masonry seems like a bigger risk to safety.

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Maybe the UC will reconsider in light of overwhelming evidence……

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College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores. This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality. Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California.

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@marcelemoran Thankfully not

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@AaronGuhreen I'm sure all the faculty members who sat on the committee to critique, delay and kill this project will be rushing to support expedited housing.

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Returning to WI from CA I am shocked by the number of WI license plates that are defaced or concealed. It’s disturbing to see brazen and open lawbreaking. @GovEvers @wistatepatrol

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@drvolts You’re talking about her

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Wondering if anyone has written about the requirement of $1 million liability insurance coverage to do literally any group event in a public park. Why do these policies exist, when did they start, and what are they doing to civil society formation?

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Sounds like the Santa Barbara housing opponents who pretend they love the dying mall with vacant store fronts

Jenny Build Housing Silva

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Lori- love the mall. Recognizes that people complain it’s dead, but like the openness. Feels dystopian to build all this housing. I think she’s crying.

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@AaronGuhreen @toniatkins What a coincidence that controversial legislation is so often killed in this back-alley manner in the state legislature. It's almost like this is what the majority of legislators want....

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@stan_okl @jenny_schuetz Whomst

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Parallels to the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction, which doesn’t help more people buy homes, it just helps already rich people buy bigger homes.

(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS

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Yes, your tax dollars are subsidizing rich people to buy $80,000 electric cars.

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@BrandonWarmke Wouldn't it be great if we could just do away with all political tests and just evaluate people on the basis of their teaching and research?

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@matt_motta Doesn't sound like a great situation, but people lose sight of the fact that peer reviews are advisory. Editors don't "overrule" reviewers because reviewers don't really get a vote. I've had this cut both ways, and now understand that only the preferences of the editors matter.

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@jeremycarl4 "Gosh, I just moved here to my rustic McMansion on Puma Lane in rural Montana, why the f*** are there pumas here?"

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@mnolangray I’ve struggled with whether this is actually a secular change, or just a product of me entering my 40s and realizing that the world has always been this way

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Well, at least they aren't supply skeptics @CSElmendorf @stan_okl

Armand Domalewski

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Huntington Beach is suing California by arguing that by requiring it to build more affordable housing , it will reduce rents, which is unfair competition against other states and a violation of the interstate commerce clause

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@matt_motta I'll also say that journals have the unfortunate practice of soliciting private notes to editors that authors don't get to see. Some people who probably think they're being "nice" use these notes to give their unvarnished/mean opinion of a paper. We should ban that practice.

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Doing some preliminary research into text analysis methods for our department's evaluation of writing as a student learning objective. Just found that 2/3 of variance in Grammarly's writing-quality score can be explained by frequency of words from the Academic Word List.

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@Andrew___Baker It's great when someone asks you to present a project from your back catalog and the slides that you haven't looked at in 3 years suddenly can't compile.

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@hanlonbt @christianbrits @mnolangray Peter Boghossian calls this idea laundering--taking some conjured idea that was written in the 1970s of 1990s as an evidence-free thought piece, then citing it as "peer-reviewed evidence" in all subsequent work. It's a serious problem on the Academic Left.

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@mnolangray Mushroom umami seasoning. Just a handful of olives.

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@criticalurban @pbilk Are you including time spent cruising for parking?

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Great example of the agent controlling the principal.

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Why in the hell has a state agency @TheCACoast hired lobbyists to influence legislature and PR pros to fight them?! they have it backwards - it’s the LEGISLATURE that sets policy. Their job to implement. Not other way around. Bureaucracy out of control

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@cafedujord Is it weird bullshit though? Government-built housing is extremely expensive.

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@mateosfo When Bernie Sanders and Greg Abbott and Elizabeth Warren are pandering in the same direction it isn’t a good sign!

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@RyanDEnos Calls for vigilance are not the same as doom-driven forecasts offered with the imprimatur of "science." Scholars offering non-stop bearish predictions on the American democracy's future should have skin in the game: put down $ on specific outcomes consistent with their theories.

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@SashoTodorov1 The Kotkin bio describes this so well

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You'd come across as a much nicer person if you just focused on reporting energy policy.

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@vkoganpolisci @MichaelTHartney Marxists also like using their speaker fees to maintain a condo in the Four Seasons.

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@akoustov Yes, because they're always right and have never made an unreasonable demand.

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@johnjhorton @BenSManning It would have to be great at making up stories explaining why the exclusion restriction is satisfied.

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@ArmandDoma Really one of my all time pet peeves in modern action movies. San Andreas was the worst offender.

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@economeager Now you know how political scientists feel about economists

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@AaronGuhreen Yup, the whole process sure looks like a charade, doesn't it?

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@JohnHolbein1 Seems like we'd want to know whether this is a product of different disciplinary behavior on the part of instructors in response to having more girls in the room.

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@lakelife8888 @matt_blackwell Okay “lakelife8888”

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@JakeAnbinder They're actually not that great to live in. Modern buyers like large open kitchens and nice bathrooms, neither of which interested FLW.

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There is already significant affirmative action favoring MEN in admissions at elite liberal arts institutions. Much more would be necessary to produce anything close to ideological balance.

TracingWoodgrains

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the level of affirmative action required to get equal representation of left and right among students would be extraordinary there's some bias in admissions, but by and large this is an accurate reflection of the worldview distribution among young, educated professionals

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@mateosfo There’s a bipartisan movement to eliminate risk discrimination.

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Democrats have forgotten the power of the secondary boycott. Donors should refuse to donate to Biden-Harris until he resigns the Presidency, and they should refuse to fund any PAC or candidate that doesn't rescind its endorsement and credibly demand Biden's resignation.

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I think it's honestly clear what the donors need to do here.

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@Aella_Girl @wanyeburkett Recliners are a huge problem when you're 6'5"

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@mattyglesias People who critique Broken Windows need to read the original Wilson and Kelling article. The concept goes beyond crime stats and violations. You can't run a commonwealth and tolerate mild criminality/disorderly conduct. Respectable people won't take it and will bail.

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@Brian_Riedl I loved those anonymous help wanted ads for legislative assistants/correspondents that almost always had 2 or 3 listings for a member who was clearly Sheila Jackson-Lee.

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@arthur_spirling @mia_i_costa Don't forget Rossi, who was running these in sociology in like the 1970s?

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@EfrenPoliPsy We've had a great experience as well! Particularly for tenured scholars, publishing on this platform is a great way to lead by example and improve the discipline's publishing process. (Finishing our "R&R" now.) @CSElmendorf @stan_okl

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@namalhotra Where the ignored set usually includes all of political science.

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@schmangee $50 seems like an eminently reasonable amount for that level of violation

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@JakeAnbinder Oh, just try talking to your local traffic “engineer” about it and see how you feel then😡

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@ryanburge The mainline Protestant churches in Ca are slowly being converted to “community church” and then sold and turned into apts and hotels.

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@DCInbox Is that a selection problem?

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@laiabalcells On the current state of antisemitism: @eitanhersh and @lauraroyden

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@eitanhersh They hire children as editors.

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@CSElmendorf @Yimby_Law @housingdefense Even more interesting to me are the buildings that are being encouraged/welcomed in fear of the status quo set by Builder’s Remedy

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