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catiebailard.bsky.social
Political scientist, associate prof. of political communication in SMPA @ GW, IDDP research cluster lead, SF sports fan. Research interests mostly focus on the intersection of ICT and (threats to) democracy.
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The fires may have uniquely prepared LA for this moment. Coming together to help each other, a strengthened sense of community, building connections that expand & strengthen networks. None of this bolds well for Miller/Trump in trying to make LA a test-case for their attempted fascist takeover.

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(I would appreciate it if you shared this because it feels weird to write something like this and then have no one read it)

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

LA’s very sad attempt to get in on the action?

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Missed call from the CDC, voicemail said they were conducting a nat’l poll about childhood immunization and asked if we have any children in the house between 6mo and 17yr. Couldn’t have imagined even a few months ago that a simple message from the CDC would feel so menacing.

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I see a merch opportunity here, "I told you so" or "We saw this coming" T-shirts and mugs, with proceeds going to opposition organizers.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of good stuff here, especially the point that although we need a popular front, people who were sneeringly wrong about the threat should not lead it. Trumpism was fascist from the start, and those who stated this plainly were often derided. www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

submitted 62 days ago • 18 comments

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." -Frederick Douglass, 1857

submitted 71 days ago • 19 comments

There is no excuse to still be on that platform at this point. None.

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When trying to make sense of Trump, I keep coming back to this 🔥🔥🔥 historical take on Napoleon’s guiding motivation: “European statesmen of all kinds believed—wanted and needed to believe—that Napoleon, though an extraordinarily powerful and effective leader, was nonetheless a normal statesman…

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Another visceral reminder that I am living in DC through yet another Trump administration--the return of the involuntary cringe whenever I hear a helicopter or military jet flying closely over the neighborhood.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

@repstansbury.bsky.social deserves a damn medal for calling this out. It’s bizarre, it’s stupid, and no one voted for this garbage. Every #Democrat should be raising hell — silence isn’t neutral, it’s complicity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGZ5... #resist #fucktrump #bluewave #stansbury

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

submitted 97 days ago • 714 comments

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

submitted 98 days ago • 254 comments

The diametrical opposite of what imposter syndrome looks like.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant. This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech. @nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 246 comments

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

submitted 102 days ago • 259 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 105 days ago • 178 comments

Not at all surprising when you consider the multiple studies showing, of the Big-5 personality traits, neuroticism most strongly correlated with being liberal/Democratic. (Actually helps explain a lot of why the Dems are where they are today.)

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Big deal—after correcting, it turns out that moderate candidates do not perform better than extreme candidates in general elections. Kudos to Andy, Dan, and Adam for updating a key question in political science

submitted 110 days ago • 40 comments

Interesting discussion w/my pub opinion class led to a useful reframing: It’s less that America’s been in a “culture war” & more that we’ve been living through decades of the weaponization of pub opinion by elites to serve moneyed interests. The kids deserve so much better than what we’re leaving.

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🔥🔥🔥 “Try rejecting modern medicine in the Horn of Africa. Or dabbling with lunatic ideas in the Soviet Union… The point is almost never appreciated by the fanatics but they owe their health and freedom to the sanity of the society they affect to despise.”

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I am genuinely beginning to believe this is my manifesto. This maybe the most important thing I’ve ever written. in-the-pines.ghost.io/cold-dark-co...

submitted 122 days ago • 25 comments

A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire." America is under attack right now.

submitted 121 days ago • 336 comments

I’ve been trying not to be alarmist in talking to my students, but still accurately convey what historical/comp. studies suggest might be one end result of our current trajectory. What tips would you give to DC college students, living in the heart of the city, to prepare to keep themselves safe?

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