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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The day after the California AG gave the merger the go-ahead. California got rolled. And trolled. What an embarrassment.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 12/06/2026

The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond

Lee Raymond, 311 ppm – 421 ppm
The former ExxonMobil CEO left his legacy both on the Earth and in the sky.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Congress could turn the Supreme Court building into a Museum of Democracy

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/05/2026

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted. For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing. Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production.

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A data point to remember re: “popularism” is that the popular position on what is happening in Iran and happened in Venezuela is “no war, this is insane, full stop” and the moderate elected officials we are supposed to like are saying contorted, legalistic, unpopular word salad instead of that.

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Greg Martin @gjmartin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“My meetings with notorious rapist and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were solely in service of my fraudulent research agenda” might be the weakest defense any of these people have come up with yet

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Part of me thinks “yeah, primary every last one of these fuckers!!!” And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2025

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

google paid a twenty million dollar bribe to the fucking president to tear down the white house

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 20/10/2025

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” -Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

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Greg Martin @gjmartin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings in Sonora, CA (pop. 5000).

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social! “When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

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From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

or we could just move to proportional representation, make one statewide multimember district for Utah, and stop all this goddamn endless litigation.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 04/10/2025

At the time, scholars of this topic noted that, in Trump's first term, the independence of institutional media orgs from him went with a surge in trust in the media from Democrats. Major media org's cooption and capitulation in Trump's second term has gone with a drop in Democrats' media trust.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2025

They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism. Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness. I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

This is a crime. The Supreme Court has foolishly decided that Trump can commit crimes with impunity, but that is NOT true of anyone who works for him. Stephen Miller, Hegseth, Noem and anyone else who declares war on the US and our Constitution must not be let off the hook. Two years in prison

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

Top 10 American Fears of 2024 (Chapman Survey)
Horizontal bar chart ranking the top fears of Americans (percentage “afraid” or “very afraid”):
1. Corrupt government officials (65.2%, top fear for years).
2. Loved ones becoming seriously ill (58.4%).
3. Cyberterrorism (58.3%).
4. Loved ones dying (57.8%).
5. Russia using nuclear weapons (55.8%).
6. Not having enough money for the future (55.7%).
7. U.S. becoming involved in another world war (55.0%).
8. North Korea using nuclear weapons (55.0%).
9. Terrorist attack (52.7%).
10. Biological warfare (52.5%).
Red bars display percentages; small arrows indicate change from 2023 rankings.

Top Public Worries in the U.S. (Yale & GMU poll, May 2025)
Stacked bar chart of worries among U.S. adults. Categories ranked by share “very worried”:
• Government corruption (54% very worried, top issue).
• Other leading concerns: cost of living (48%), the economy (47%), state of democracy (44%), disruption of federal services (44%), cultural/social divisions (36%), treatment of immigrants (35%), global warming (29%), crime (26%).
• Lower worries include job security (17%), health (16%), and being targeted because of identity/beliefs (15%).
Green shades show “very/somewhat worried,” yellow/orange shades show “not very/not at all worried.

Perceptions of Federal Government Problems (AP-NORC poll)
Bar chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who consider various issues in the federal government to be a major problem, minor problem, or not a problem.
• Corruption: Overall 70% major, 22% minor, 7% not a problem. Higher among Republicans (78%) than Democrats (63%).
• Inefficiency: 65% major overall, with Republicans (81%) much higher than Democrats (55%).
• Red tape (bureaucracy): 59% major overall, with Republicans (73%) higher than Democrats (47%).
• Civil servants unwilling to implement president’s agenda: More partisan split—Republicans 56% major problem, Democrats 20% major problem; overall 34% major, 36% minor, 28% not a problem.
Title: “Majority of the public believe corruption, inefficiency, and red tape are major problems in the federal government.

Word Cloud of How People Describe American Government (Berkeley Democracy Policy Lab)
Large central word: “Corrupt.” Other prominent words: Broken, Chaotic, Dysfunctional, Shit, Clueless, Divided, Inefficient, Crooked, Hijacked, Justice, Woke, Bloated, Untrustworthy, Hopeless, Frustrated, Disastrous, Messy, Sneaky, Turmoil, Delusional. Smaller scattered words include both negative and neutral terms such as Crap, Important, Poder, Resilient, Unfocused, Needs Help. Visual emphasizes “Corrupt” as the dominant public perception.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The political implications of this cannot be overstated. One of the most important media platforms, now under direct control of the current government and its allies.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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mellissameisels.bsky.social @mellissameisels.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Delighted to discover that "Candidate Positions, Responsiveness, and Returns to Extremism" is now available online from JOP 🧵 @thejop.bsky.social Gated: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Ungated: mellissameisels.com/files/MM_PCP...

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Greg Martin @gjmartin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Brandice Canes-Wrone, Markos Kounalakis and I are co-hosting a conference next spring on “American Political Institutions in a Changing Media Environment” at the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions at Stanford. Submit papers / abstracts here by Nov 1st: forms.gle/iC2RXAsBhwa9...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Peter Temin, economic historian at MIT, has passed away. He worked both on problems of understanding the past (e.g. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?") and how how the past shapes the present (e.g. "The Vanishing Middle Class.") Terrific scholar and mentor, generous critic.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

for what it’s worth - the public’s descent into insanity, i believe, is because the stagnate legislature has prevented the democratic mechanism’s primary function, which is trial and error, from informing the voters of the consequences of their choices. the solution is still democracy

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 25/06/2025

My NYC election hot take (from 4 hours away) is that the rent is too damn high, owning a house is too hard, and that is a winning issue in any election in the USA right now where young people exist. The establishment commentariat, all property owners, is materially divided from the electorate.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

they’re saying kill the boer. they’re saying it, lots of people actually. my people say Mr Trump we can’t possibly kill the boer. but i say hang on. hang on. [turns to the side, performative shrug] I can kill the boer, right? [pause for applause] but we’re gonna do it and it’ll be bigger than ever

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is the dinner bell being rung for political consultants. All across the country, they have started salivating without knowing why. The more sensitive among them have suddenly felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if billions of dollars have suddenly cried out "some take me."

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Greg Martin @gjmartin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Econ’s disciplinary imperialism coming back to bite it in the ass. Imagine seeing an offhand one liner in a chemistry paper saying “I use the method of Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995) to measure price elasticities for my sample of 1000 chemical compounds” with no further explanation

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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