Lecturer Political Science @GSUPoliSci. Political behavior, race, democracy, and more. Love reading, music, and the comedic rule of three.🇧🇧🇺🇸🌎
Atlanta, GA
Joined July 2018
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Very happy to see that our paper "Citizen preferences for their legislative body: evidence from the United States" (with Aaron Hitefield and Karlee Kimbrell) appears today in online first view at the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
doi.org/10.1080/17457289.202…
In this study, we use a conjoint experiment to evaluate preferences for the US legislature with some interesting implications for policy and representation, especially considering the Midterm 2026 results. Check it out! 👌
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Talarico and Hinojosa were laser-focused on anti-oligarch, anti-corruption populism, and they won America’s biggest red state after Corporate Dems had lost the state to Republicans for generations.
Nobody should ever again listen to Corporate Dems’ “electability” arguments.
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The South is not a "lost cause". It's underorganized, underfunded, and relentlessly suppressed & gerrymandered. And despite it all, Black Southern voters have shown up anyway to be the conscience of this country throughout our history. I hope people realize that.
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It’s past midnight so back to my regular scheduled programming!
Identity reductionism isn’t gonna get us anywhere. These people still need to be held accountable as our leaders, regardless of if they were the first Black, first Latina, first woman first anything!
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If you know me, I’ve probably ranted to you about how close Mississippi is to electing a Democrat statewide. And you probably thought I was delusional. LOL.
For over a decade, I have been studying the South and observing these shifts. My research also reflects this. So, I’m not surprised to see Scott Colom performing well.
The South got something to say...
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A statement from DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie Rollins: “Michigan Democrats are proud to stand behind Abdul El-Sayed as our nominee for U.S. Senate and in two days we will elect him to serve us in Washington.
We are dismayed that Haley Stevens has revealed herself to be a sellout who used Black Michiganders for a political stunt.”
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With great joy, I congratulate my dear brother President Lula @LulaOficial on his historic fourth presidential election victory and the renewed trust of the Brazilian people.
We share a simple but profound conviction. Politics must improve people’s lives, uphold their dignity and bring hope to those too often left behind. That commitment to social justice remains at the heart of our work.
I look forward to strengthening the friendship between Barbados and Brazil as we continue building a fairer, more inclusive and peaceful world.
May God continue to guide and strengthen you, dear brother. There is much work ahead, and much good still to be done!
Excited that our paper "From reinvasion shock to realignment? How context and pragmatism shape far-right voting on Russia" with Jakub Wondreys is now OnlineFirst at Political Studies.
doi.org/10.1177/003232172614…
Our theorizing and results demonstrate how electoral viability and strategic calculations constrain far-right manoeuvrers and position-taking in much the same manner as other types of political parties
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they cannot trick me… i know carter bryant is a 6yo who made a wish to get BIGged like tom hanks in the movie
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I wrote a story about this! Many of ATL’s historically redlined neighborhoods are hotter and more likely to flood bc of a decimated tree canopy.
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Colman Domingo spoke to Men's Health about his experience coming out as gay to his family in the 1990s. The first person he told was his older brother:
"I told him that I was gay. He looked at me and was just like, 'What?' He just couldn’t believe it. Eventually, he said, 'I don’t care, man. I love you anyway.' And he just hugged me. Then he said, 'Have you told anyone else?' I said, no. He said, 'Alright, this stays between you and me.”’
Her sister found out two days later:
"She was pissed off. I said, 'Look, yes, it was really hard for me to tell him.' She said, 'No, no, no. Why didn’t you tell me first?' She was pissed off because she didn’t get the information first.’
Some time later, he told his mother—who accepted it calmly. Twenty minutes later, the phone rings and she says:
“I talked to your stepfather.” She puts him on and he says, in his blue-collar masculine way, “You’re a good boy and there’s nothing you can tell me that would make me stop loving you.”’
🔗menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a7…
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5 men used all their body weight to restraint one black man. As he was faced down, one continuously pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.
Happened in Dublin, Ireland. They’re under every post laughing and calling it the Irish George Floyd. Rest in Peace Yves Sakila.
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The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.
