Jeffrey Swindle

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

New working paper w/ @hannafolsz.bsky.social In 2025, Trump targeted US law firms for their political opposition Some firms resisted by suing Trump. Others folded by agreeing to support the administration w/ pro bono work Resisting firms took a short term financial hit but improved reputations

A smart intervention in the demography/sociology literature on the potential influences of the internet and mobile phones: online.ucpress.edu/socdev/artic... Cool study, Jess Kim and @sushiaarushi.bsky.social!

I want to incorporate more art & music into teaching. These pieces from @madelinedonahue.bsky.social are first on my list: Our Car is a Treasure Chest of Food and Toys Floatie Red Studio

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Research! My article in @prpr-journal.bsky.social is the first systematic validation of CBP apprehensions as a proxy for undocumented migration in nearly 30 years, with evidence from Guatemala at both national and subnational levels. Spoiler: they still work. 🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We created a fake 'good news' version of the New York Times homepage. All factually correct. A different way of seeing the news. informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnew...

A very, very helpful thread on fertility declines versus fertility delays.

We have a great Zoom talk planned for next week! Please join! mercy.edu/news-events/... @austinkocher.com

Not real but also perfection

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

Southcom’s illegal boat strikes began on September 2 and have killed 164 people. We now have data through March about cocaine seized at US borders. Cocaine seized during 7 months before the strikes: 38,059 pounds Seized during 7 months since the strikes: 44,186 pounds Supplies steady. No impact.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

I just updated my LGBTI National Policy Dataset through 2025. I’ve also added more policies and sub-national coverage. Here are some interesting trends: osf.io/wta9p/overvi...

"The Illegality is Not a Bug, It's a Feature." Here's the video version (con títulos en español) of last week's podcast episode on illegal lethal boat strikes, featuring WOLA's drug policy program director, John Walsh.

A challenging but ultimately very rewarding essay. Amia Srinivasan on developing a political imagination creative enough to resist oppression and patient enough to explore the psychological development of the oppressed and the oppressors. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible. Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.

BREAKING NEWS: Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law & society, wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize — the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u

I was lucky to overlap with Brian at the University of Michigan through a mutual friend when he was a law student. It was clear then he was really devoted to making the country a better place for all. He needs our support! I am not surprised in the least to see him leading the way in Chicago.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South Full details here: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u... @asanews.bsky.social

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

Scholars of political and cultural diffusion take note...this preprint and thread are important. Congrats to the authors on their massive amounts of data & analyses!

Who's cited most across borders? 🇺🇸 The U.S. leads gov-to-gov refs by a wide margin. 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺 follow. Also, 30 countries—mostly Least Developed—were never cited. 📚 Same for academic refs: 17 of top 20 gov-cited countries also top in academia. 🤯 43% of scholarly works include a U.S.-based author.

We feed you. They hunt us.

📊 Over 9,000+ studies rely on DHS data. 🗺️ The figure below shows decades of global data use. That’s what’s at risk if we don’t act.

With graduation this week, there are hundreds of Harvard students in their graduation regalia with their proud parents from all around the world. Taking photos on the library steps, getting a special dessert in town... I love seeing those parents every year, but especially this year. It's beautiful.

The Bukele govt sent the US a list of MS-13 leaders in US custody whom they want sent back, because they know about a gang deal with Bukele that Bukele wants to keep secret. Trump already sent one back. Here are the names, all based on Jose Olivares' reporting for @dropsitenews.com:

Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez (Vampiro de Monserrat Criminales). Another member of MS-13's ruling Ranfla Nacional, leader of the gang's Mexico Program and one of those named by DOJ, along with Cruger, of leading negotiations with the Bukele government.

Inequality and starvation is a choice. The $16 billion to hire new ICE & CBP agents... could instead be... $16 billion to meet what the World Food Programme needs to "assist 123 million of the hungriest people in 2025." www.wfp.org/news/wfp-req...

How to use google search without AI results. I have used this "hack" for the past 5 months. No regrets.

A really great, short interview with Jocelyn Viterna that gets right to the core of Bukele's political rise and popularity in El Salvador. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The bottom 60% of U.S. households earn $38K/year on average. To afford a "minimal standard of living," they'd need $67K. "Americans are working harder than ever, but the benefits of that hard work are not being distributed in a way that supports upward mobility.”

Very proud of my awesome niece! She wrote this important op-ed about a new concealed carry bill in Arizona. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

American leaders: please lend your voice to condemn the unjust pursuit & arrests of brave journalists in El Salvador. @vanhollen.senate.gov @repyassansari.bsky.social @repdexteror.bsky.social @frost.house.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov

You need to know about this. @hrw.org @hrc.org

Nooooo this is crossing a terrible threshold :( I pray these brave journalists are safe.