Jake Grumbach

Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

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policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)

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so much for the tolerant left

“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

I made this meme and got dared to post it on bluesky In 2020 party elites sacrificed individual ambitions to coordinate to stop a nomination they thought was bad for the party. This time they refuse—because they don’t care as much about preventing a Trump presidency. Sorry to break it to you.

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@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social gets at this dynamic in a recent paper: “the median dollar in the U.S. campaign finance system comes from a 66-year-old … [and] analyses suggest that individuals are more likely to donate and donate more to candidates closer to their age.” www.dropbox.com/s/tui5dkbnnf...

I have a lotta Lamont Dozier in my #SongOfTheDay playlist but this one is probably my alltime fav

Finally had a chill weekend, so I made a playlist of most of the singles written or co-written by Lamont Dozier, in order. From embryonic Motown stuff to Vanilla Fudge to disco to Phil Collins to the incredibly Not Bad theme song to "Leonard Part 6." open.spotify.com/playlist/4Pe...

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I'm apparently late to the DC crime facts blog but this is an absolutely remarkable chart

the far right now has to choose between the taylor swift globalist vax team and san francisco

Important new paper on the effect of Citizens United on democratic institutions in the US. tl;dr Citizens United meaningfully contributed to voter suppression & gerrymandering. design: diff-in-diff & synthetic control gated: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Bonica and my paper "Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States" got some coverage today as the NYT Chart of the Week Our full paper is here: www.google.com/url?q=https%... www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01...

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As @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social keeps saying, it is not great that one of the most powerful institutions in the U.S. refuses to abide democratic control.

To give you an idea of how this issue has evolved: Back in 2011, under Bloomberg’s administration, sixteen cops were *arrested and charged* for the very similar practice of ticket fixing, prompting NYPD officers to protest in the streets. www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/n...

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This feels like the equivalent of a @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social bat signal.

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My letter to the NYT editor. I sent it yesterday; we will see if they run it. I'll put links in this thread.

You made my dawg sad. He was rooting for the underdawgs

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ICYMI: @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and coauthors have a neat new paper looking at the relationship between local level union density and the availability of ballot drop boxes (important measure of local democracy) in the 2022 election. More unions, more ballot access! www.epi.org/publication/...

Labor unions and the defense of American democracy: The fight over ballot drop boxes during the 2022...www.epi.org This report analyzes the relationship between local labor union density and access to ballot drop boxes during the 2022 midterm elections. Areas with greater labor union density had considerably more ...

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Happy birthday to my bday buds @salilb.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social !

a classic rude meme

"What do you want me to say about slavery?" should be the end of Nikki Haley's political career.

Here's my new EPI report with Adam Dean & Jamie McCallum tl;dr using new data on 2022 ballot drop box locations, we find a strong relationship between county union density & ballot drop box density Full report here: www.epi.org/publication/...

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Lmao we need these for all long movies. We’re forced to pick some random spot 2/3 into Interstellar???

My advice: run to the restroom when she lands in Houston and visits her old home. My opinion: the film should’ve had an intermission, the concert did!

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Great @kenwhite.bsky.social piece explaining why the university presidents were actually right, and how Dems are helping Elise Stefanik get away with some really ugly demagoguery: popehat.substack.com/p/stop-deman...

Stop Demanding Dumb Answers To Hard Questionspopehat.substack.com Demanding Short, Dumb Answers About Hate Speech Makes You A Useful Idiot For Bigots.

Various self-appointed Popes of the Jews telling us we're supposed to be afraid. And if we're not afraid, we're tokens at best, self-hating at worst. Incredibly dark place we're in.

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“it’s too late, as I’ve already depicted you as the crying soyjack and myself as the chad”

"You can't transpose 21st century US racial understanding onto everything! You should instead transpose 20th century German racial understanding onto everything."

where my multiethnic social democracy heads at

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Hey polisky, we want to see you at our brief 30 min intro to JAWS session today! Please share widely so we can reach people we don’t always reach. Not sure what JAWS is about? Not sure whether it’s something you should be a part of? Today’s the day we’ll make the pitch to you ✨

See you TODAY from 3-3:30 pm et / 12-12:30 pm pt!! Would love to see you there! Register: tinyurl.com/jaws-info polisky @apsarep.bsky.social @apsa-lgbtq.bsky.social @sexualityandpol.bsky.social @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @mpsa.bsky.social @mpsalatino.bsky.social

It's been a surreal experience watching people cynically exploit one of your identities in a misguided and counterproductive attempt to protect the other identity. Solidarity to Drake, Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Bonet, Rashida Jones, Maya Rudolph, and the rest of us in these strange times!

Somewhat impressed with the Free Speech Warriors like arguing that the university presidents were articulating good standards, but that they should apply those standards consistently. Wholly unimpressed by the "Free Speech Warriors" arguing for safetyism and a privileged position for an ideology.

love too wake up to nonjewish legislators passing a resolution calling us a bunch of self-hating jews

a new House resolution 894 has a clause that "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism." It's hard to overstate how extremely antisemitic it is. Imagine any other identity, saying "if you don't support [random country I racistly associate with your identity], you are racist."

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Breaking news: The U.S. just set a grim record for mass shootings and deaths in a single year. Fatal shootings this weekend in Texas and Washington pushed the nation to 38 mass killings with a gun this year — the highest of any year since at least 2006.

Double mass shootings over weekend set grim U.S. recordwww.washingtonpost.com In 2023, the country has experienced 38 mass shootings in which four or more people were killed, the most of any year since at least 2006.

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A play in three acts...

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Excited to see this online! We use data from a mock jury experiment to show that many people who deliberate with POCs change their minds to be closer to POCs' preferences, but this change rarely translates to *verdicts* closer to POCs' preferences. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...