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BREAKING - 36,558 total votes were cast in UC Academic Workers’ Strike Authorization Votes, with 98% voting Yes to authorize a multi-unit strike if necessary. These are far and away the largest and most decisive strike authorization votes ever taken by Academic Workers in the US.

[screaming] FIFTY THOUSAND ACADEMIC WORKERS are going on STRIKE. It’s such a big deal omg QUICK! Go to FairUCNow.org to find a way to support them #FairUCNow

~4,000 workers rallying at UC Berkeley

Day 5 at Berkeley #FairUCNow @uaw2865

A letter of support signed by UCB Pol Sci faculties, urging the University of California to bargain in good faith with @uaw2865 Student Researchers United-UAW and UAW Local 5810. fairucnow.org/wp-content/Dep…

A thread 🧵 on all the ways that University of California is relying on faculty to break the #FairUCNow strike by @uaw2865/ Student Researchers United-UAW. Faculty: do not fall prey to these tactics! Refuse to do struck work, and consider not submitting course grades for classes with striking TAs and graders.

New paper: "Critical Race Theory and Asymmetric Mobilization" (w/ Scott Blatte, Tuna, Carolina Lezama, Brian Schaffner, @aadhyashiv, David Wingens) is in Political Behavior! Lots in the paper, but wanted to make some key points in this 🧵! rdcu.be/dklxh

When do interest groups — like organized labor — use the housing entitlement process to secure benefits? Now published in JPIPE, A. Magazinnik, Anna Weissman & I find a relationship with big implications for the housing supply & attempts to reform local permitting. 1/10

Democrats of all backgrounds now approve more highly of Congressmembers from historically marginalized groups; Republicans’ approval is unrelated to Member identity. Democrats also give women and minority representatives leeway to diverge ideologically journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

New at PNASNews with David Broockman, christian caballero & Matty Easton: "Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public." As we head into the last week of the campaign, a good reminder that political practitioners have poor intuitions as to what persuades

What separates a YIMBY from a NIMBY? David Broockman tells Jerusalem that it has less to do with property values and more to do with how you feel about cities to begin with. theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

Great podcast of a fascinating paper, and includes discussion of work by Alexander Sahn and Anna Weissman.

Excited to share my article, "Lethal Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State," in Perspectives on Politics! Lisa L Miller and I explore how fragmentation and racial orders have undermined U.S. capacity to reduce violence, with devastating impacts for Black Americans.

"Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization" by Anna Weissman. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…