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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 3h

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did anyone else have like a c. 1999 Honda Civic (mine was manual transmission) — all gas-engine, etc. — that got >40mpg…?

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

IN NEW ISSUE: Polarized attitudes and anti-democratic orientation in the US - Ariel Malka, Christopher M Federico, Thomas H Costello & Adam R Panish examine paradoxical partisan asymmetries in current democratic attitudes. Read more: buff.ly/dVEZQr8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky

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Influential perspectives on polarization in the United States imply that partisans will be more willing to degrade democracy when they are ideologically aligned with their own party and negatively oriented toward the opposing party. But psychological accounts of political ideology suggest that conservatives will be especially anti-democratic regardless of partisanship. Integrating insights from these areas, we argue that there are reasons to expect paradoxical partisan asymmetries in the ideological correlates of democratic attitudes. Across numerous surveys we find that cultural conservatism and out-party favorability are reliably associated with anti-democratic orientation among Democrats (but not Republicans), while left-leaning economic attitudes are reliably associated with anti-democratic orientation among Republicans (but not Democrats). These findings provide context for understanding how polarization might impact American democracy. They also suggest that increased centrality of sociocultural conflict and Republican cultivation of a right-wing populist reputation might sort anti-democratic Americans into the Republican Party.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...

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Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, opens criminal probe | CNN

The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the 202...

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Stephan Dörner @doener.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Aus der Perspektive der 2010er unvorstellbar: die russische und die US-Regierung unterstützen beide dieselbe rechtsradikele Partei in Deutschland mit Millionnen. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte... www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

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USA: MAGA-Offensive in Europa – wer nach Trumps Millionen greift

Die US-Regierung will europäische Organisationen mit fast fünf Millionen Dollar fördern. Nach Handelsblatt-Informationen bewirbt sich eine deutsche Influencerin mit AfD-Nähe um die Gelder.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

writing an expose of how the real life Garfield was a friendly cat who ate modestly and had no strong feelings about Mondays before Jim Davis turned him into a caricature for the masses.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Very excited for this book!!

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/07/2026

The appeal requests are pouring in after FIFA lifted the red card ban on Team USA’s star player, Folarin Balogun. trib.al/xBPAwVu

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Trump Breaks the World Cup by Setting Off Wild Chain Reaction

The appeal requests are pouring in after FIFA lifted the red card ban on Team USA’s star player, Folarin Balogun.

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm at home in Brooklyn with my two very young kids and ConEd has reduced our power because of the heat wave. Our lights don't work and AC is minimal. Also, there's a celebrity wedding in midtown right now and I'm unaware of any reports that they're going without.

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Louise Davidson-Schmich @louiseds.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy to present my new book with @drmalligaoch.bsky.social and Farida Jalalzai at the @ecprgender.bsky.social conference in Newcastle, UK. Thanks to @cvxydias.bsky.social , @petrahrens.bsky.social, and Henriette Müller for discussing on our book launch panel!

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Using original survey data from the Bundestag & German state assemblies, @sfranceschet.bsky.social and I find that institutional efforts to address the challenges of working as an elected representative while caregiving would likely be successful. Legislatures should try it! @bundestag.de #gendersky

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'd forgotten half of these.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

today’s a pretty momentous day for women and/in space, so I hope you will re-enjoy this song with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnQ...

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NASA Really Thought Sally Ride Needed 100 Tampons and Makeup in Space - Marcia Belsky

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Bucknell U's political science department is searching for two VAPs for next year ('26-'27) in IR & CP, respectively. Deadline is quite soon: 30 March. Please feel free to DM me with questions! bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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a white cat wearing glasses and a pink bell around its neck

Alt: a white cat wearing glasses and a pink bell around its neck

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So many old men like Sessions sending young men and women to die.

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 17/03/2026

"Autocratization is now truly global. (...) In 2025, Western Europe and North America registers the most notable decline on both country- and population-weighted averages. This is primarily due to the recent developments in the US." V-Dem released its latest report. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

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Bafflegabs @bafflegabs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yeah, well maybe you wouldn’t look like busted car upholstery if you threw a little bit of fuckin’ broccoli in the mix, chief.

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I visited the Anne Frank house/museum when I was in the third grade. My parents bought me a copy of her diary at the museum gift shop -- I consumed it before we had returned home -- I lived in her head while I read, and, simultaneously, I trusted that it was not the world I lived in. Grief.

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Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. [Survey of] Japanese Literature in Translation 2. Justice, Love, and the Ethics of Care 3. Chemical Structure 4. The German Middle Ages 5. Intensive Russian

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 29/01/2026

Das passiert, wenn eine Partei glaubt, dass sie ihre wahre Gesinnung nicht mehr verstecken muss, weil sie trotz Verfassungsfeindlichkeit einfach nicht verboten wird: Ein AfD-Rat in Sulz soll erklärt haben, sich dafür einzusetzen, dass nicht mehr an Nicht-Christen & Nicht-Deutsche vermietet werde.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 08/01/2026

Earlier today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents killed a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Colorado, in a horrific & unnecessary shooting.

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This would be my mother’s mother, Vera 💕

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Christina Xydias @cvxydias.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

”Read it,” she snaps (hear à la Sister Michael’s, “Shift it”) 😤

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Steph Machado @stephmachado.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Providence Police just released this video of the person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University today. Call police at 401-652-5767 if you recognize him. Live updates here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/13/m...

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Titanic @titanic-magazin.de · 09/12/2025

Der endgültige Geschenk-Guide für Diktatoren

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

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