Big Data Kane
@cmwitko.bsky.social
Political Science and Public Policy
E pluribus unum🇺🇸
Most recent coauthored book:
https://www.russellsage.org/publications/hijacking-agenda
E pluribus unum🇺🇸
Most recent coauthored book:
https://www.russellsage.org/publications/hijacking-agenda
Someone unplug and plug back in the analytics
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Someone unplug and plug back in the analytics
NFL coaches are so bad right now. In the 4th quarter you always want to make the decision that keeps it a one score game.
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
NFL coaches are so bad right now. In the 4th quarter you always want to make the decision that keeps it a one score game.
I quit Twitter a while back because every second account was doing race science and I didn’t want to stick around for the phrenology. Can’t even imagine what it is like now.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I quit Twitter a while back because every second account was doing race science and I didn’t want to stick around for the phrenology. Can’t even imagine what it is like now.
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
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Available in #OpenAccess: "Abortion Bans and Interstate Migration," by Michael J. Nelson and Christopher Witko
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November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Available in #OpenAccess: "Abortion Bans and Interstate Migration," by Michael J. Nelson and Christopher Witko
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FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
In poli sci area specific knowledge will decline considerably, with very negative consequences for national security.
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In poli sci area specific knowledge will decline considerably, with very negative consequences for national security.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Doesn’t sound like he’s enjoying himself! He should probably resign because he is without a doubt one of the least effective speakers ever.
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Doesn’t sound like he’s enjoying himself! He should probably resign because he is without a doubt one of the least effective speakers ever.
I don’t know who wouldn’t want a nice long bike path that lets them bike downtown near their house. People are very strange.
The city has envisioned developing a continuous Sacramento River Parkway since 1975.
Sacramento residents sue to stop river trail project in Pocket and Greenhaven
The city has envisioned developing a continuous Sacramento River Parkway since 1975.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I don’t know who wouldn’t want a nice long bike path that lets them bike downtown near their house. People are very strange.
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
5. The desire for many people to ever consider working for the federal government
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
5. The desire for many people to ever consider working for the federal government
Congress should pass a law saying public officials have to travel coach when on taxpayers dime, just like most other public employees do.
Paying for Kash Patel’s trysts and Noem’s publicity stunts is out of control.
Paying for Kash Patel’s trysts and Noem’s publicity stunts is out of control.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Congress should pass a law saying public officials have to travel coach when on taxpayers dime, just like most other public employees do.
Paying for Kash Patel’s trysts and Noem’s publicity stunts is out of control.
Paying for Kash Patel’s trysts and Noem’s publicity stunts is out of control.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
This is not my idea but I can’t recall where I saw it. The decimation of small home builders post-crisis is underappreciated. If you are a big national builder you can get revenue anywhere and you will go where there are fewer regulations and costs. So it’s NIMBYISM/regulation*industry structure.
Ezra Klein's housing chart doesn't tell the story he thinks it tells deanbaker22.substack.com/p/ezra-klein... Bubbles have consequences
Ezra Klein Needs to Look More Closely at His Housing Chart
Bubbles have consequences
deanbaker22.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is not my idea but I can’t recall where I saw it. The decimation of small home builders post-crisis is underappreciated. If you are a big national builder you can get revenue anywhere and you will go where there are fewer regulations and costs. So it’s NIMBYISM/regulation*industry structure.
Letting billionaires destroy the best system of higher education ever built so they can get richer and because they don’t feel like their billions allow them enough influence is one of the biggest self owns in human history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Letting billionaires destroy the best system of higher education ever built so they can get richer and because they don’t feel like their billions allow them enough influence is one of the biggest self owns in human history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
The refusal to kick field goals in obvious field goal situations is bizarre (Dallas and Giant edition this week)
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The refusal to kick field goals in obvious field goal situations is bizarre (Dallas and Giant edition this week)
The funniest thing is all the pro-MAGA bots impersonating Americans from foreign countries are verified.
I've been using "Burkina Faso" sarcastically for years, as the least probable location... and he is literally from there.
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The funniest thing is all the pro-MAGA bots impersonating Americans from foreign countries are verified.
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"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"
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It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
This type of active trading by members of Congress must be banned. It’s obvious they are using insider information and it undermines confidence in government (even further).
They cut our healthcare to pay for tax breaks for the richest 1%.
But first, they quietly dumped their healthcare stock.
Our lives are being toyed with for a money-making scheme.
That's why billionaires and Wall Street are richer than ever while the rest of us struggle.
But first, they quietly dumped their healthcare stock.
Our lives are being toyed with for a money-making scheme.
That's why billionaires and Wall Street are richer than ever while the rest of us struggle.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This type of active trading by members of Congress must be banned. It’s obvious they are using insider information and it undermines confidence in government (even further).
So interesting. Explains a lot. Seems like a bit of a problem that our government is a geriatric ward.
NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)
Legislators talk less about the future as they age | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
doi.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
So interesting. Explains a lot. Seems like a bit of a problem that our government is a geriatric ward.
Since your flight is going to be delayed (I spent 8 hours in the airport today), I recommend you dress comfortably.
Trump's Transportation Secretary posts new video on his plans to improve air travel:
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Since your flight is going to be delayed (I spent 8 hours in the airport today), I recommend you dress comfortably.