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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

UK Poli Sci Ph.D. Tasnia Symoom publishes more work from her dissertation, which looked at attitudes toward violence against women in Bangladesh. #PoliticalScience #WomenAlsoKnowStuff journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Come work with us! Two #PoliticalScience jobs in the #ComparativePolitics subfield, one in comparative behavior (ideally democratic attitudes/participation) & one ideally in Emerging Democratic Institutions. Please circulate widely! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...

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Assistant or Associate Professor in Political Science

The Department of Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Prof...

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Mario Anderson @marioandersontv.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

#NEW | Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was shot Wednesday while attending an event at Utah Valley University.

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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot at Utah college event

Kirk is the co-founded of the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

An essay on trends in higher education by Jeffery Tyler Syck. My main takeaway: Universities have been moving in the wrong direction if they want to cultivate students capable of surviving in an economy ruled by artificial intelligence.

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The problem of mass produced education • Kentucky Lantern

Biggest issues beleaguering higher education are systemic rather than ephemeral demographic disruptions or ideological capture.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"If we can generate valid arguments, beautiful art and compelling novels at the level of human experts—possibly better!—by entering a simple prompt into a text box, is there any point in continuing to do these things ourselves?" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

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A Matter of Words | The Point Magazine

Over the course of the past two years, university committees focused on the impact of artificial intelligence have assembled across the country.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

One person's waste is another person's policy priority.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Out: Nationalization of politics In: Internationalization of politics

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Did Trump swing Black voters his way in 2024? In the electorate as a whole, maybe not - but my analysis of Louisiana voting patterns using ecological inference does support the idea Trump saw gains in heavily Black areas. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Less White than Ever? Using Ecological Inference to Probe the Trump Coalition’s Diversity in Louisiana

Pre-election polls in 2024 showed former President Donald Trump performing relatively well with African-American voters, especially males. Now that Trump has beaten Vice President Harris to retake the...

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“Feeding yourself is a basic human right,” said Jim DeSana, a Republican state representative in Michigan who has a farm and recently introduced legislation to allow more people to raise backyard chickens. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/eg...

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Everyone Wants to Raise Chickens, but Egg-Layers Can Be Bad Neighbors

Cities are asking hard questions about a fad that can bring messes, rats and unexpected costs; ‘We put the kibosh on it.’

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Republicans broadly sympathize with the Israelis (75%) over the Palestinians (10%), while Democrats sympathize with the Palestinians over the Israelis by a nearly 3-to-1 ratio (59% vs. 21%)." news.gallup.com/poll/657404/...

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Less Than Half in U.S. Now Sympathetic Toward Israelis

More Americans express sympathy for the Israelis (46%) than the Palestinians (33%) in the Middle East situation, but the margin has shrunk to a new low.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Political Science major Olivia Walton has won a nationally competitive award to study at Oxford, where she will take courses intended to advance her other major (English). Congrats, Olivia! uknow.uky.edu/student-news...

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Bardstown junior to study at Oxford on English-Speaking Union Scholarship

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals..." Someone please tell me that this is obviously unconstitutional? The idea of citizens being shipped outside U.S. jurisdiction for detainment feels like dystopian sci fi. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/a...

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El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal | CNN

El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – ...

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I've been teaching in PS101 that the presidential honeymoon is dwindling away, but Dems better hope these numbers are caused by the newness of the Trump Administration (or by polling error). Meanwhile, wow, independents hate Nancy Pelosi. news.gallup.com/poll/656111/...

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Few Major U.S. Political Figures Rated Positively on Balance

Marco Rubio, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Hakeem Jeffries are among a few of the key U.S. political figures Americans rate more positively than negatively.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One reason we understimate the importance of elections is that when the public mood shifts, policy often will shift with it even before an election can reset the political leadership.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If they archived the data from my now-broken phone and they're willing to give it back, then they're welcome to keep spying on me.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

If you live in Jessamine County, KY, or nearby ... we're having an interdisciplinary discussion about the Electoral College: the history, the empirical record in the recent past, the future.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"Many Senate Democrats think that voters’ sour views about Biden’s record was driven by their anger over rising costs ... But there’s a growing feeling among Democratic lawmakers that the Biden administration completely mismanaged the huge surge of migrants..." thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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Democratic senators say they bungled border security in 2024

Democratic senators are privately acknowledging that their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-ele…

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"Today, Americans 55 and over control nearly 70% of U.S. household wealth..." I wonder how many former students remember the line I used to employ in my PS 101 Domestic Policy lecture: "Your grandparents are stealing from you." It was tongue in cheek, & yet... www.wsj.com/us-news/baby...

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‘We’re Not Dead Yet.’ Baby Boomers’ Good Times Drive the Economy.

Sky-diving, concerts, classic cars. An influx of older Americans bolsters the nation’s fastest-growing city. ‘We have more fun than our daughter.’

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"17 percent of Americans say it’s very or somewhat likely that they will argue over politics at Thanksgiving (only 6 percent say it is very likely), compared to 11 percent last year..." Democrats (23%) are more likely to say this than Republicans (18%). tinyurl.com/59d7nfce

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Political arguments at Thanksgiving are much less common than you think

If you’re tempted to bring your ideology to the table along with the stuffing, maybe just don’t.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've decided to make my X/Twitter background black & my Bluesky background white, because what I might be witnessing here is the next step in divergence between the eloi and the morlocks.

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D. Stephen Voss @dstephenvoss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

From Kentucky Edition, @ReneeKET talks with Univ. of Kentucky political scientist @DStephenVoss about the process for vetting and confirming the individuals selected for key positions in President-Elect Trump's new administration. ow.ly/nfhu50Uefhh

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November 22, 2024 | Kentucky Edition

State House Democrats vote for a new leadership team. Secretary of State Michael Adams pushes for mandatory civics classes in Kentucky public schools. A Thanksgiving byproduct that would normally go d...

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