Gas is too cheap. I blame Biden.

Don’t be fooled. DeSantis is scrambling. His plan to limit teaching the truth about race in American history hit a road block in federal court today.

2. This new collection contains video interviews of 100+ people in Angola prison in Louisiana. Devastatingly potent. It's also one of the only in my list to focus specifically on long-term incarceration, some having spent decades (for selling heroine). visitingroomproject.org

Scrambling to finish your syllabus?

Your readings on American democracy and racial inequality disconnected from the people?

I'm here for you.

My go-to list of primary sources & databases, some searchable with vast holdings, many underused. All inspired.

Do you have new colleagues starting in your department, uh, now?

Welcome them with information! Here's the TOC for a guide I cobbled together for all the pieces of info I wish I had known when I started.

Good big-picture analysis from Perry Bacon.

'Opinion | Voters are a problem. But GOP leaders are steering the radicalism.' washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Good to support the pros -- 2022 US Champ Hailey King & 5x World Champ Juliana Korver.

🚨Results are in for the Strengthening Democracy Challenge. Winners will be announced this week!🚨

ITT we announce the 25 submissions we selected to test. We think these submissions are awesome & hope you do too.

But first, how we got here…👇🧵

2021 was bad but 2022 is worse, with a 250% increase in educational gag orders where state actors censor what can be said in the classroom or read in the library. Florida and Ron DeSantis are the worst culprits.

Cutting off their noses to spite their faces?

But I suppose they might see it as purging those who aren't sufficiently fanatical -- and therefore suspect. They make themselves even more of a minority as they seek to impose their will on everyone else.

Great article from Paul Djupe et al. supporting the 'political backlash' theory that rising disaffiliation is a response to the Christian Right. 'Nones' rise faster in GOP states, especially if there are active Christian Right groups or gay marriage bans.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…