Assoc. Prof, @UCIrivine Political Science | @UMich PhD | He Him | My book, The Anger Gap: https://t.co/x0Cd1vxiAi?amp=1 | @davinphoenix.bsky.social
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6 Jun 2020
What can we glean from this moment about the tenuous place of Black anger in the public imagination? Will the Black electorate be defined by anger or exhaustion come November? Drawing on The Anger Gap, my OpEd in NYT:
nytimes.com/2020/06/06/opini…
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Watching How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days to remember the last time I saw the Knicks win a chip
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Showing up at the first faculty meeting of the fall with a Jalen Brunson face tattoo
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Jun 14
Everyone’s better than Jalen Brunson until….
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MY FIRST CORE KNICKS MEMORY IS THE CHARLES SMITH GAME. NEAR MISSES. HEARTBREAKS. LOLKNICKS ERA. I HELD ONTO TO MY FANDOM OF THIS TEAM THEOUGH THE MUD BECAUSE THE BONDS WITH FAMILY THAT ARE NO LONGER WITH ME WERE FORGED THRU ROOTING FOR THIS TEAM. THIS MEANS SOMETHING TO ME.
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20 Oct 2025
I'm rooting for the Mariners but this gave me goosebumps. MLB postseason>>>>>>>
20 Oct 2025
"I was born ready. I was born ready. And I want it all for this city."
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11 Jun 2025
Not saying the CR movement failed. I'm saying it's inaccurate to attribute its success to how participants presented themselves. The movement succeeded despite its poor real-time perception by most everyday people & elites alike. Respectability wasn't the key to its success.
11 Jun 2025
I know that King was assassinated. That doesn’t mean that the Civil Rights Movement failed. They passed laws that restored the right to vote for millions of African Americans who had been denied it for literally centuries. It was an objective success and there is now a great giant granite statue to MLK Jr in the middle of DC where he is venerated as one of the greatest American heroes.
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10 Jun 2025
Funny how the Civil Rights movement’s presentation of itself didn’t stop King from being assassinated or being targeted by a years-long FBI campaign, or prevent the majority of Americans from viewing the movement as being more hurtful than helpful to its cause.
9 Jun 2025
You actually have to care about how you present your movement to the public guys.
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10 Jun 2025
It’s almost as if—and hear me out on this--what they wore didn’t actually matter. Just like every historical & contemporary resistance against state oppression & violence, they’d be discredited and demonized by people desperately clinging to a vile status quo regardless.
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4 Jun 2025
Thibs deserves a ton of praise. But the claim that he maximized this roster is such a terrible take that I came back to this hell site just to say please, stick to politics.
Thibs maximized that roster — looking forward to next years regression so we can have the long overdue convo that Becky Hammon was right abt Brunson
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21 Mar 2025
That's a lot of words just to say "we caved and we're cooked"
21 Mar 2025
Columbia President, as school meets Trump demands to violate academic freedom:
"…we are guided by our values, putting academic freedom, free expression, open inquiry, and respect for all at the fore of every decision we make."
"Standing together for Columbia,
Katrina Armstrong"
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11 Mar 2025
Mahmoud Khalil stirring up too much empathy & activism they about to send him to the negative zone with Luigi
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30 Nov 2024
BUT NOT TODAY
30 Nov 2024
I gotta quit sports
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17 Oct 2024
Sabrina Ionescu campaign for mayor of NY off to a great start
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4 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024
Yes they can control the weather.
It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
Community note
While small scale “cloud seeding” to create localized rain is possible, hurricanes and other large storms cannot be produced with modern technology.
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
npr.org/2024/10/03/nx-…
usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
dri.edu/cloud-seeding-…
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