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Michael Grass @mgrass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Coming up on October 7, I'm excited to co-present @cip.uw.edu research and insights with @danielletomson.bsky.social at Digital Day, a professional development conference for Seattle-area government communicators. www.pnwdigitalday.org

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Digital Day – Engage, Inform, and Innovate

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

With Trump’s speech tonight about alleged foreign interference in the 2020 (!!) election, the @cip.uw.edu and @katestarbird.bsky.social can already predict tropes he may repeat. So much so we made a bingo card. Watch and play tonight! bingo.cip.uw.edu

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"Rigged Election" Bingo

Spot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common storylines behind election rumors — can you get BINGO?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My team is working on a communication design project. We're looking to connect to someone with news, sportscasting, and/or comedy skills to help us with content production within a social media-first strategy, either as a one-time gig w/ a longer role. All pointers/recommendations welcome!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

What an incredible summary of our recent report on our election rumor research at UW CIP! Thank you! Cc: @katestarbird.bsky.social

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Emmett O'Connell @emmettoconnell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Last week I wrote about how these rumor disasters happen and a little comms advice on how to prep and respond. But the @cip.uw.edu recently wrote a approach that could be expanded to inoculate communities by covering in real time how rumors spread. 🧵 /1

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Since 2020, our team has iterated on a model for “rapid research” to help surface, analyze, & resolve rumors about election administration. This work demonstrates an innovative role for researchers to support public sensemaking during rapidly unfolding events. uw.pressbooks.pub/rapidresearc...

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Being Sensemakers: A Framework for University-Based Rapid Research of Elections, Crisis Events, and Beyond – Simple Book Publishing

A framework for university-based rapid research of elections, crisis events, and beyond

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Michael Grass @mgrass.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm proud to be a co-author on this new @cip.uw.edu report with my colleagues @danielletomson.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social @mertcanbayar.bsky.social and @emmaspiro.bsky.social. Check out Kate's 🧵 ...

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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 14/10/2025

Check out this recent @seattletimes.com op-ed by @cip.uw.edu research manager @danielletomson.bsky.social ⤵️⤵️⤵️

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In today’s @seattletimes.com, I share my concept of the Authenticity Gap, when our stories and experiences don’t align. Now more than ever, we need a new generation of sensemakers willing to explain things as they are, while roadmapping where we would like to go. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-t...

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In today's world, we need real stories, not just facts | Op-Ed

Human beings want their explanations of the world to feel real. Yet that desire for authenticity, for something that feels true, can be easily exploited.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

@schumer.senate.gov would be better off spending time at the Kabbalah center right now than doing a focus group

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The thing about living in Western PA is that you think when you go elsewhere in the world, people just know what “nebby” or “yinz” means

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So many small fandoms that went MAGA eventually added up. Yet these individual constituencies don’t necessarily aligned. Im not sure incoherent groups make up a coherent ideology but let’s see..

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Everybody just wants to cosplay worker.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If politics is downstream from culture, what is culture downstream from?

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today I’m missing Todd Gitlin.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Also terminated is a project led by economist and political scientist Christopher Blattman at the University of Chicago that aims to better understand how drug cartels in Colombia are organized and operate and how they recruit new members." www.science.org/content/arti...

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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

country went to hell when auto shops put these in in place of a glass carafe that had been on the burner continuously since the Truman administration

A keurig coffeemaker and a giant Costco container of coffee mate on a faux-granite counter, an abomination in the sight of God

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Dear friend and ER doctor (for veterans and during COVID in NYC) is a bit too busy saving lives than to give responses beyond this one that won’t be read and are asked for in bad faith.

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doctorgidge.bsky.social @doctorgidge.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I was told by a few to post this on here. So Hello BlueSky! While working at the VA I’ve gotten to know, treat and help our veterans. So when I received the DOGE email, it struck a cord. But I’m a model federal employee, and to avoid a no reply = resignation. I responded. How’d I do? #doge

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I wrote about the Free Press's shameful decision to publish Hanania's apologia for Nazi salutes www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

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Enough!

This Bullshit Has to End

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/02/2025

David Icke, notorious English peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about lizard people, is calling out Elon Musk on Twitter and it is fascinating to watch:

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The vast majority of these people have families and kids to support, but you don't give a fuck you arrogant spoilt elitist child. You are a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant working with a
13-year-old narcissistic tyrant and yet people who call themselves adult hang on your every syllable no matter what you say.
The world needs to grow up - starting with you Musk.
PS: Apologies to 13-year-olds. x.com/elonmusk/statu...
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Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
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No, I am not advocating for government. I am advocating against tyranny as l have decade after decade. I am advocating for people to be seen for what they contribute and not to be judged as a single group for the corruption of the few. Black and white is how we got here and that's how you are being manipulated to finish the job.
How many federal workers are we talking about who will produce lists that have to be processed? Will they ever be processed? Of course not - that's not the idea. Firing as many as possible to deregulate the oligarchs and open the way for Al dystopia is the WHY this is happening.
My God - the naivety.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

These are the same attention dynamics that feed the spread of rumors and partisan outrage, have been effectively exploited by right wing populists around the world, and are reconfiguring global politics. But sure, Facebook, go for it!

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A powerful talk (that should be published in a book essay someday,) going over the different “phases” of rumor and disinformation research of the past decade, with a powerful call to action. @katestarbird.bsky.social is a legend who I am honored to work with www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...

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A Spotlight on Rumors

YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Lots of folks are disappointed with the “Left” for being in such disarray. Yet in these moments, I’m also wondering, what about those Constitutional Conservative Textualists? Where are they? Can’t we also want them to step up more? (Danielle Sassoon aside)

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This is why the paper form for the news still wins for me.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15/02/2025

There are so many of @aresluna.org pieces I’ve loved over the years, but this tribute to Gorton has to be one of my most favorite. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

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The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is a critical point. The Trumpists (and other successful movements at the moment) understand the “social construction of reality” as a strategy, not just a descriptive theory.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The “Weaponization of Government” committee continues its bizarro claims that university speech is “censorship”, and brags about its role in shutting down that speech, while using two conspiracy theorist / Substack salesmen as their star witnesses.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Time to drink the Right’s Milkshake by reclaiming transgressive politics. By me on my Substack. “The Milkshake Doctrine.” open.substack.com/pub/failuret...

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The Milkshake Doctrine

When resistance can mean co-opting the energy of the moment: disruption.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files. Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...

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The Censorship-Industrial Complex

YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I now have a new dream. A sit down with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social to discuss his father’s work in Gramsci and his reflections on how the American Right has engaged these ideas so heavily.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Masnick explains how Musk is doing a Twitter Files on the whole U.S. government: "The danger isn’t just bad policy — it’s the replacement of accountable governance with conspiracy-driven chaos that threatens everything from disaster response to diplomatic relations." www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/t...

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The Twitter Files Playbook Comes For The US Government

Remember the Twitter Files? That carefully orchestrated “exposé” where incredibly gullible hand-picked journalists were given selective access to internal documents to manufacture misle…

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

With all the crypto events in DC for inauguration, this next four years seems like “The Age of Speculation.” Attention? That was the buzzword in 2016, 2020. Now people just wanna get rich and you don’t need attention to make millions on Trump coin.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

An earthquake alert in CDMX. Three posts in English and Spanish on Bluesky but a lot more activity on Threads and X. Interesting to see where folks flock to still for emergency posting. Alerta del Sismo en CDMX pero no hay mucho aquí en Bluesky…

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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...

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A Bay Area fire tracking app is saving lives — and correcting Elon Musk

Watch Duty has overtaken ChatGPT to become the top free app in Apple’s App Store.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Coping with the news that Dana White (president of the UFC) has been appointed to Meta's board? Perhaps it's useful to see how the dynamics of social media and improvisational entertainment (pro wrestling, improv) are already intertwined with today's politics: theconversation.com/how-right-wi...

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How right-wing media is like improv theater

Improv theater is known for improvisation, audience participation and riffing on memes and stories circulating on social and traditional media – all hallmarks of right-wing media.

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Hannah Groch-Begley @grouchybagels.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This piece made me furious. Nurses are asked to *bid* on shifts, offering to work lower and lower wages, and then the app can fail and not pay them at all. We don't have a nursing shortage, we have a shortage of good jobs sane humans are willing to work. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute

Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov...

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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 18/12/2024

Skepticism on the left about the 2024 U.S. election results “was everywhere” on social media, “but it didn’t go viral,” @cip.uw.edu research manager @danielletomson.bsky.social told @nytimes.com in an interview. “There was no coherent narrative.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/t...

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Why Democrats’ Version of ‘Stop the Steal’ Isn’t Taking Off

A movement by some Democratic voters to investigate the results of the 2024 presidential election mirrors a push by Republicans in 2020. But it’s struggling.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The Millennial urge to capitalize on micro-skeet fame. Yet post pandemic, I’m so comfy not regularly using social media….

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My colleague @danielletomson.bsky.social and I published an article in The Conversation expanding upon the metaphor that the dynamics of right-wing/conservative media look a lot like improv theater: theconversation.com/how-right-wi...

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How right-wing media is like improv theater

Improv theater is known for improvisation, audience participation and riffing on memes and stories circulating on social and traditional media – all hallmarks of right-wing media.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

“Let’s see if all these journalists change Bluesky” ~Logs in after minimal skeeting for months~ “Still talking about Alf I see.” Noice.

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