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Andrew Scott Waugh

@aswaugh.bsky.social
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Political Science PhD (UCSD ‘13), Data Science Bureaucrat (Oregon DHS), Union Member (SEIU), Mediocre Golfer (16 Handicap), Dad (‘25) I never made the pivot to video.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 6h
Shameless plug: In our Cambridge Element, we argue that Trump consistently tries to distract from bad news with outrageous new stories, and that he usually succeeds at dominating attention. But this strategy often fails to generate positive coverage or popularity. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
American Presidential Campaigns in the Attention Economy
Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - American Presidential Campaigns in the Attention Economy
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 5h
absolute barbarism
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h
a trivial but public and humiliating thing that you make a lot of powerful people do to show strength. everyone knows what it is, but also no one is going to pick a huge battle over the integrity of the term "artificial intelligence", so they acquiesce and become a little bit more pot committed
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 7h
It’s almost like they’ve created a nationalist socialism… we have a word for that.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 9h
Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 9h
WTB a functioning 8th Amendment.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
This has to be an 8th Amendment violation. Don't forget that everyone in the US, even visitors, are protected by the Constitution.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is an entire White House Gift Office whose job it is to acknowledge and catalog gifts to the President and transfer them to the National Archives, as they belong to the American people and not the President.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Both metaphors work most of the time anyway.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.
nytimes.com
An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The one part of campaign finance law that apparently still functions.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think it’s time to start pre-emptively proposing taxes on companies based on their IPO projections. If SpaceX projects it will be as valuable as the whole U.S. economy, then it can pay for Medicare. Get that in writing now
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The genocidal logic of dehumanizing language really should get more attention.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey, at least she’s punching up!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026
Honestly the amount these guys just straight up say "war is peace" and "ignorance is strength" is like "I know writers who use subtext" level
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ah shit I like that album.
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Jared Leto Atreides @genericuser1234567.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Isn't the McRib released about every year during the fall? I too vote based on which president promises the sun will rise and fall every day, like a good Bronze Age peasant does
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Sentimentalist @sentimentalist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The idea of executive immunity in a Constitution based upon the idea of the rule of law is so obviously a contradiction in terms that only a rank ideologue could even imagine it.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And we should. All of these men should be expropriated from their companies.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Your right to preach ends at the front of my pew, or something.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Big O if true.
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Like national race forecasters, analysts of state legislative races are relatively timid in seeing opportunities for wave election pickups. But if the generic ballot shifts 12 points, with both differential partisan turnout & a large swing, it suggests many unexpected pickups
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The US is a signatory to the Convention Against Torture. It was signed by Reagan and ratified and enacted into the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act, which prohibits refoulement, meaning this is illegal under US law.
latimes.com
U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
bbc.com
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Canonical example of NYT delighting in trolling its readers. See also: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-... and the all-time winner presswatchers.org/2022/12/just...
presswatchers.org
New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want | Press Watch
They want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He really is a vile man.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beyond the disgustingness of this attack, its as clear an indication as any that they are headed for a nationwide wipe out in 4 weeks. In no world where they are sweating South Carolina is this going to be a good or even mediocre midterm for Republicans
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're almost numb at this point, but Trump attacks democracy and its institutions daily and we shouldn't let it slide for a second
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Jeff Herr @thejeffreport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got a targeted ad recently from Adobe which advertised the ability of their "AI" to follow the prompt "replace all 60 with 70 in this slide deck." And I was like, MFer, I've been using "find and replace" for decades ar this point. Why is a standard feature "AI" now?
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They are set on driving all primary care physicians out of the state, apparently.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We gotta get over this frame that there is only one thing the Dems can do. They need ethics reform and impeachments. And investigations. And ultimately trials, prison sentences, and constitutional amendments. Don’t trust anyone who says there’s only one thing to do. Elect people who want to work.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They should impeach him every day they have the House majority until they run out of ideas.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if I had "Orinoco Flow" money I too would disappear to a castle and you'd never see me on the internet again
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I gave up on them when they moved to the exurbs. White flight-ass baseball team.
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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seems like an ad that says “paid for by the US government” should be an impeachable offense
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He thinks he’s in Robocop 2.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mr. Lahey from Trailer Park Boys is the only other contender.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
look who's with Trump on his trip to Ohio! #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
pic of Ms Harp beaming as she walks across the tarmac to board AF1
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The rejection is a ruse, is it not? They want mostly the same shit, only to be in charge.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yep. Evil is the negative space left when you’re out of doubts to benefit.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dude, same.
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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can confirm this was huge in my social justice oriented Catholic upbringing.
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