Tabitha Bonilla

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social - Examining Religious and Racial Identity for Black Christians and Muslims in the United States - https://cup.org/4cBPYQ6 - @tabithabonilla.bsky.social & Eden Melles #FirstView

It is always nice to wake up to a FirstView from JREP, but never more so than when you are working with a brilliant student, especially Eden Melles. This article examines how religious identity (Muslim and Christian) shapes Black American political attitudes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”

I am thrilled to see my paper with the brilliant @tabithabonilla.bsky.social in print. We find that racial justice frames mobilize Democratic constituencies to support Democratic candidates at the ballot box. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As we conclude, these data provide "evidence that at least in 2020, BLM served as a potent message for mobilizing Black communities while not demobilizing white communities."

Always happy to work with @alvintilleryjr.bsky.social...and especially on a continuation of our 2020 APSR. Here, we focus on what effect messages around BLM had in the 2020 Georgia runoffs--did these messages demobilize White, moderate and liberal voters while mobilizing Black voters?

Some researchers, like myself, care about knowledge production and finding the "right" answer. Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.

Congressional statutes don’t matter, judicial orders don’t matter. The only branch is the executive. This is the reality we need to teach in Intro to American Politics these days

What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

When we use the concepts of "political violence" or "support for political violence," I've noticed that some are referring only to nonstate actors. Others also include state-directed political violence (e.g., using ICE on political enemies). Huge differences in the implications

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

⁉️In survey experiments, should you ask covariates before the treatment? ➡️ @asdurso.bsky.social @tabithabonilla.bsky.social G.Bogdanowicz study the effects of placing sensitive items in different parts of the survey and offer guidance on optimal ordering www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

There are thousands of residents who are supposed to start in less than a month in hospitals across the US who cannot enter the country. There is going to be a major staffing crisis across the country but especially in rural and urban hospitals than rely on international medical graduates. #MedSky

FIGHTING BACK WORKS

We're now accepting submissions for a mini conference at Boulder (co-organized w/ PRIEC). We'll have both traditional presentations and a poster session. We esp. welcome submissions from those on the market who may not be able to attend APSA in-person. forms.gle/QAn1rW8NxscX...

Thanks to Mary for leading the charge. And tagging @quinnmulroy.bsky.social

Shared a bit about our grant termination and the consequences of other canceled grants at UW-Madison. pbswisconsin.org/news-item/mi...

Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵

As I posted earlier, arresting judges is usually an authoritarian endgame move. The arrest of Judge Dugan here in the US is happening while courts are still pushing back, which is deeply concerning. I dig into the data & implications in my latest.

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

Say. This.