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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 14h

At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns, a CNN investigation has found. youtube.com/watch?v=qJcw...

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Kushner’s company has big stake in firm with ties to Israeli military

YouTube video by CNN

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15h

The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 14h

An incremental solution that's vulnerable to SCOTUS ruling it unconstitutional. There is no reform without first unpacking.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits)

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 14h

Polarization is a problem to the extent that negative partisanship drives some people who would not otherwise support fascists to support fascists. Other than that, yeah. Not the problem.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 15h

Polarization, still not the problem

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 15h

The transition I'm calling for would, if it works, also splinter the Democratic party. But in a two-party system, where both parties are aggregated multiparty coalitions, you would expect some "reaching across the aisle." Are we talking about a handful of "center-right" Ds or something else?

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18h

The Senate is also a problem. But a PR House is probably the best we can do without an amendment, so it's a first step.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 18h

I repeat: Our president is asking MechaHitler for foreign policy advice. I don't even know how to process this.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18h

Is multiparty democracy is a panacea? No. Can it be designed in ways that make it worse than two-party democracy? Yes. Is our current system preventing a fascist government from destroying the country? No. That's all you need to know.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18h

You can't have democracy in a two-party system in which one party is captured by white-nationalist authoritarians.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18h

U.S. politics are better with MAGA getting a 32% vote share in a PR House than a MAGA-controlled Republican party getting 46–54% vote share in an FPTP system.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 19h

imagine if elbridge colby was still around to see this

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 18h

I mean it really is remarkable that he actually pointed a gun at the economy and fired. Most presidents don’t actually try to implement policies that will make stuff more expensive, but he did!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

Unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes. Again, it all should have ended in 2017, when he began openly monetizing the presidency at his hotel two blocks from the White House. We are not a serious country.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 21h

“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 21h

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you upset by the DA in the Cornell rape case saying that fact that Jane Doe voluntarily drank alcohol means that no crime was committed? He could have investigated further, but the bad news is that this is how New York State law handles alcohol and consent. Voluntary first sip? No crime.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hegseth is a great example of a common type of officer who's ended up in charge of something, doesn't have a clue how to do the job, and just falls back on PT, grooming, slogans, and searching for scapegoats. If you put him in charge of a Cinnabon he would do the exact same things.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe so, but he’s undefeated against unarmed fishermen.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 30/09/2026

POLITICAL SCIENCE JOB AD: Tenure-track position in International Relations at the University of Waterloo. We're *very happy* to announce this. Applications due Nov. 1st; job start date July 2027. Details here (pdf): uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The cancer spreads

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 30/09/2026

studied "anti-imperialism in Irish literature" well then.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyway: these thoughts about Eric Schmitt and the European far right brought to you from Schiphol airport whence I am about to fly to Budapest, where the mood is very different this year, for this event. events.ceu.edu/2026-10-01/b...

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Budapest Forum 2026: New Dynamics of Democratic Change

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Live video of the White House policy planning staff

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always the case that irregular migrants adapt to enforcement. That’s how we got “small boats” in the first place. Hard borders kill, but governments won’t take responsibility

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More attempts at longer migrant small boat crossings in Channel

The government says it is bearing down on dangerous small boat crossings.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My Critical Geopolitics seminar tonight is revisiting this 2020 book by @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social & @dhnexon.net. Both its theory & its Trump analysis still resonate. But we're much further along the unravelling road they describe. I understand there's a second edition in the works.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 28/09/2026

The revision memo is always half the battle. Here it might be 75%.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 28/09/2026

I assume that, instead of providing guidance, the editors just were like "here, have fun."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...

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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies

This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 28/09/2026

Maybe, just maybe, the advantage lies in pro-authoritarian "editorial policy" at the major social-media networks... Regardless, "open media" can't explain it because countries like 🇷🇺 developed their current repertoire to deal with their lack of control over domestic digital telecoms.

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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Loved nerding out on trust in government with my former @ourpublicservice.bsky.social colleague Lindsay Laferriere. Plus, several reviews of DOGE, VA capacity, EV trucks, the Trimphant Arch, and of course AI safety in the latest Sirens. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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EVs, DOGE recap, Trust in Government

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · September 25 · 55m

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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Never. I’d leave the period off first.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I have a problem in that this is the best overview of the contemporary state dept culture but jt might have too many f bombs to assign as a reading

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is doing its own thing, now it's time to play our game - it's time to play our game!

Administrations of both parties have used public service announcements to explain policy and make the case for the nation’s direction:
The G.W. Bush Administration ran a national television campaign explaining the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act to seniors. It also bought Super Bowl airtime for anti-drug and anti-terrorism public service announcements.
The Obama Administration used national advertising to promote Obamacare subsidies and open enrollment, and a digital campaign to sell its Waters of the United States rule.
The Biden Administration poured hundreds of millions of dollars into “We Can Do This” — television, digital, radio, and print spots — to drive a nationwide public health message.
It’s not just modern Administrations. President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information used posters, films, and speakers to rally the country. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Office of War Information produced films, radio, and posters to promote the war effort.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 28/09/2026

From which of the nine hells did this cursed explainer emerge?

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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, immune from any legal limit is what “presidential immunity” means…

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s always been my view that she should run for Senate. She can handily win and keep this seat. And she’d be the right hand a democratic president needed and a legendary lioness of the senate besides. She’s shown real talent as a legislator & the caucus respects her.

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