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PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill, studying online extremism, radicalization, and conspiracy beliefs, aka the US government. Software developer turned computational social scientist.
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the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

My first small radicalization story was that I was NOT taught the Civil Rights Movement in HS -- history stopped at WWII idk why -- and 1st year took a college history class on post-WWII America in which I was simply overcome with sorrow/anger I had not been told these things.

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

Prior to the election, Stephen Miller floated the idea of sending National Guard units from red states to blue states to enforce laws. So get ready for that.

Nothing gets past this guy.

Thread with videos and reports of what’s happening in LA.

I remember reading about despicable behavior by universities during the Free Speech Movement and thinking "thank God that's over with."

In Japan, they've been airing a show for over 30 years that features kids younger than this walking to the store on their own.

The obvious question for anyone interviewing Musk is "why were you ok with Trump creating a recession and his alleged sex crimes until he canceled the EV mandate?"

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

My favorite state actor from my early days of troll hunting is the one "lived in London" and always posted breakfast pics at 11pm GMT.

Not great that they've been down several hours and this is the first peep on social media. The archive is important enough that if they don't have the resources to manage outages, we need to get them more resources.

oh no

The press has become so desensitized that accusing the president of sex crimes against children is “trading barbs.”

Anyone in the Chapel Hill area hiring a summer temp, please let me know?

You can be sure Musk’s spent the past several years poring over Trump’s Twitter data. If he has any alts, he’ll know about them. If he’s DM’ed anyone interesting, they’ve been read. Trump’s undoubtedly used those DM’s for classified and incriminating conversations.

What a day! We've entered a bizarre new chapter in politics & power, where billionaires, turned digital oligarchs, now trade threats on social media platforms they own. It’s not backroom deals anymore, it’s power games played out in the public feed for the masses. #OligarchWars #BillionaireBeef

once again I must tap my own sign

Christ what happened now?

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.

Math has a liberal bias, part 10,000.

I got an email from conservative institute of lower education, Hillsdale College. The good news: the left and the right agree there's a Constitutional crisis. The bad news: the right believes the crisis is that the judicial branch is acting as a check against the executive branch.

Republicans are doing victory laps over how efficient they’ve made the government.

Did a Stanley Tucci write this?

the vast, vast majority of readers never make it past the headline of those that do, the vast vast majority don't make it past the first few paragraphs

Let’s not jump to conclusions, maybe Hegseth just hates Harvey Milk for reminding him of the existence of a non-alcoholic beverage

The three stages of Bluesky: "Cool! DM's have a translate feature!" "Ugh, nobody will discover it because it's buried in a popup menu they have no reason to click on." "It's a link to Google Translate."

"And we hope to hit a three-pointer."

Gotta wear camo to blend in with the lavatory.

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

And The Guardian identified the podcast as such over seven months ago.

Yep. Not his first QAnon, even. This is from 2022:

It starts out sounding like it might be an apology before taking a sharp turn into James Bond villain territory.

These are bad people.

“The colors man, the colors…”