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Hurts to watch this fundamental principle rediscovered as families suffer needlessly, but: If you want X to poll better, go find some stories about people who X & share them using personal narratives. X=marriage equality, equal pay, integrated housing, immigration...Voters feel first, then think.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a one-act play in 1911 where the protagonist catches a corrupt milk company delivering healthy milk to rich areas and adulterated milk to poor neighborhoods.

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Part of a much broader pattern of (super)majorities of the public holding policy positions, on ~every issue, that are closer to, say, Bernie Sanders than, say, Nikki Haley. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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What easily gets lost here is that there’s an enormous economic cost to the US of attacking immigrants so openly and horrifically. It’s just going to take longer to manifest than, say, the idiotic tariff regime.

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Bad public performance on an issue that you and your party really care about and that you own will turn the public against you. That’s what’s happening here on immigration.

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Just to add: this is all illegal. MCC was created by Congress. Presidents don't have the power to eliminate agencies

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Available for preorder! My forthcoming book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser. Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and their Routine Political Lives. from @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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As usual, real clarity from @ryanenos.bsky.social, this time on CNN.

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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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A must read from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

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"we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses." Statement by 200 college presidents www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, and a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

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Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

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Come listen to me discuss my experience being a postdoc and what I wish I would have known before flying without a net!

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JFC. So far, Trump has caused markets to lose about 14%. Here's how the same period to date looks under other recent presidential terms

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Hi friends, it's that time of the semester. My public opinion class has put together an original survey, and we'd be grateful if you'd take it! It should only take about 4-5 minutes to complete. virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Excited to co-lead the @apsa.bsky.social Dissertation Workshop on Comparative & Multi-Method Political Economy for the 2nd year in a row alongside the fantastic Elle Pfeffer! If you (or your students) want friendly, in-depth feedback, sign up here: politicalsciencenow.com/2025-dissert...

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BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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silencedsciencestories.com

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Unprecedented constitutional violations & crimes happening completely out in the open, &, unlike actual serious democracies governed by actual laws, we just shrug & normalize it on the front pages 🤷‍♂️

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What a cool idea. We can also do this for scientists all the time!

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Let's again stipulate that the government is not a business & the whole idea it should run like one is a dumb category error. But if anyone was actually serious about running the government like a business & eliminating waste, the model would be Costco & not a single person/firm from Silicon Valley.

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The people with the nuclear codes

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Philanthropic organizations after universities? Again if you have paid attention to Russia and Hungary a decade ago, you should expect this to happen soon.

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Btw I’m pretty sure the three DoD staffers who got fired earlier this week were the sources for this story. One wonders what other tea might be spilled in the coming week.

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group chat 2: this time, it's personal

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What began as a Conservative landslide is now a toss-up. Trump’s tariffs triggered a nationalist backlash, Trudeau resigned, and Mark Carney emerged as the Liberals’ best shot. Read @bittner.bsky.social & @jsmatthews99.bsky.social's pre-election report: goodauthority.org/news/canada-... #Canada

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Van Hollen is, curiously, one of very few electeds acting the way the founders envisioned—using the opportunity of one of the branches overreaching to further his own career. It’s a good thing, but passing strange we don’t see more of it.

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The US Administration’s illegal efforts to obliterate all social science that considers any aspect of race is anti-Constitutional. We need research like this to understand our country. The execrable war on science must end now.

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Again, cancelling NSF & other federal competitive grants in higher education is massive contract breaking which undermines the most basic tenets of the rule of law & property rights in a democratic society.

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I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

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There was a joke on Night Court where someone asked the bailiff Bull if he knew what due process was and he said it was “how they make Velveeta” and honestly I’m delighted to see Rogan score better on that one

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Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

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A lot of people have been making the point that the GOP is governing like they’ll never face voters in elections again. I don’t think this is right. If they weren’t worried about elections, they wouldn’t be spending effort on the SAVE Act. I think what we’re seeing is a total party breakdown 1/x

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