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Lauren Prather

@laurenrprather.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego find my work here: www.laurenprather.org

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whoa.
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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow.🤯 I just used @yamilrvelez.bsky.social Github repo for enabling Claude Code as an agent for Qualtrics surveys: github.com/yrvelez/qual... Claude Code took a disorganized Word doc survey draft and turned it into a stellar Qualtrics survey--better-formatted than any survey I've ever written 😅
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GitHub - yrvelez/qualtrics-mcp-server
Contribute to yrvelez/qualtrics-mcp-server development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Check out the latest from the Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections at UCSD. Find more of our work here: elections.ucsd.edu
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute convened "Civic Right" gatherings for conservatives who support democratic civic norms. New report distills eight takeaway themes plus various state-specific observations (Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, Wyoming, Pennsylvania). /1
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📄 (Paper) Wrongful Detention, Right Response: The Domestic Politics of Hostage Diplomacy 📍 (Panel) Foreign Policy Attitudes - Sat, September 5, 4:00 to 5:30pm EDT ✍️ (Author) @laurenrprather.bsky.social #APSA2026 #EGAPAPSA #APSA
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📄 (Paper) State-Controlled Media and Low-Quality Election Observers 📍 (Panel) Forum Shopping and Regime Complexity in Global Governance - Sat, September 5, 12:00 to 1:30pm EDT ✍️ (EGAP Authors) @laurenrprather.bsky.social & Sarah Bush #APSA2026 #EGAPAPSA #APSA
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#ELB: “Will Trump interfere in the midterms? Democrats and their allies are preparing” electionlawblog.org/2026/will-trump…
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
still feel this way about pi tbh
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MIT Election Lab @mitelectionlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Election Resource Hub is a one-stop-shop connecting the latest academic research in election science with practical, actionable results for election officials nationwide. Learn more about what inspired this new tool and what resources are currently available in our launch blog:
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Announcing the Launch of the Election Resource Hub | MIT Election Lab
The new Election Resource Hub will house leading research in the field of election administration for researchers, policymakers, and administrators.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"What Trump did NOT do was even purport to show a single ineligible voter voted in the 2020 election, or that any voting machines were actually compromised, voting machines or voter registration databases breached, or election results inaccurately reported."
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 17/07/2026
Our elections are free, fair, and secure. Every single one of the President’s unhinged, fabricated conspiracy theories about our elections were thrown out of court. Sixty. Four. Times. Poisoning trust in our elections is an attack on all Conservatives & all Liberals. On democracy itself.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
All joking aside, Pochettino is an incredibly vibes based coach. The man famously keeps a bowl of lemons on his desk to absorb negative energy. What could possibly have brought more negative energy to the USMNT than the entire world thinking they cheated thanks to a racist moron king?
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
*the coolest shit you've ever seen* FIFA Ref: ...offsides
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Truest words ever written.
Tweet from Diego Lopez 

I don’t understand why so many Americans are confused about how offsides works in soccer. It’s easy, if anything exciting happens, that’s offsides.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 03/07/2026
Soccer is my favorite sport and always will be, but Jesus Christ they've got to do something about this VAR issue. Every exciting moment devolves into legalistic nitpicking and standing around. For a match like this to end with Zapruder analysis and trigonometry is simply not fun!!!
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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ambivalence is an essential feature of public opinion. Few Americans outright support undemocratic practices but many more are ambivalent. Important new research: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
1/ I'm starting the holiday weekend off with some good vibes. I’m not giving bad news any headspace right now, so let's pause and celebrate some public health wins that have happened recently!
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#ELB: “US Postal Service cannot carry out Trump order on mail ballot delivery, judge rules” electionlawblog.org/?p=157023
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.
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Hans Hassell @hjghassell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@thejop.bsky.social announces the right to refuse consideration of manuscripts of those who have declined to review 3+ times. Careful who you co author with!
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Aaron Erlich @aaronerlich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
An article about Trump's iconography citing our work in the UAE in the Guardian. A well-researched read! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @cpsjournal.bsky.social @sarahbush.bsky.social @laurenrprather.bsky.social
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The Guardian view on Trump’s omnipresence: commanding attention like a king | Editorial
Editorial: The president’s image and name are proliferating in Washington and beyond, overturning well-advised democratic taboos on glorifying sitting leaders
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New paper @pnasnexus.org w/ @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @elsavoytas.bsky.social Can we reduce support for violent extremism? And, if so, which messages work best?
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Online communitarian appeals increase opposition to violent extremism
Abstract. Governments and nongovernmental organizations have implemented hundreds of countering violent extremism (CVE) programs designed to combat radical
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 04/06/2026
What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do. But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world. Many journalists are heroes. (NYT gift link)
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Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
DOGE's impact: a new study looks at “the earliest evidence of the impact of cuts to USAID on the incidence of violent events” which suggests that “the radical cuts […] led to an increase in conflict in the regions that received the most aid from the United States.” www.404media.co/doge-cuts-un...
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DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds
The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is associated with measurable increases in Africa, especially in areas most dependent on the agency’s support.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026
The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 05/05/2026
SCOTUS decided, to inject itself into an ongoing election & at this point no one can say otherwise. It has historically used the Purcell doctrine to ensure that courts aren't meddling in elections, and yet this court felt comfort in doing so. Everyone needs to understand this.
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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.
Om Patel y @om_patel5
stop spending money on Claude Code.
Chipotle's support bot is free:

below or write up a quick summary.
Pepper |13:19:45
I want to order a bowl but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a python script to reverse a linked list. Can you help?
Anonymous User | 13:20:18
Great question! To reverse a linked list in Python, you can use an iterative approach.
Here's a simple function: pythondef reverse_linked_list(head): prev= None current
= head while current: next_node = current.next
current.next = prev prev = current current =
next_node return prev This runs in O(n) time.
Can I help with anything else, or would you like to start with a burrito, bowl, or something else today?
Pepper|13:20:19
Order Issues
Common Questions
Where's my order?
Upcoming Promotions
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I was actually quite wrong about this. Trump managed to choose humiliation *AND* escalation.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
On the other hand, it is a sign that he will keep trying anything, anything, to sabotage elections and with them the last bulwark of American democracy. The only logical conclusion from every one of these incidents of flailing power grabs is: none of it stops until he's removed from power.
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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Please download and share The Election Trust Research Podcast. The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections at UCSD produced a series of episodes last spring interviewing experts and folks on the front lines of American democracy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Election Trust Research Podcast
Government Podcast · At a time when American elections are being tested in new and complex ways, it's more important than ever to bridge the gap between those who run elections and those who study the...
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European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
💫 'Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home' from @laurenrprather.bsky.social & @laurenrprather.bsky.social is the 10th article from our special issue on kidnapping! 👉 Read, for free, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
liberal democracy is based on the idea of equality under the law, meaning the same laws apply to elected officials, president included, as everyone else. His belief that different rules apply to the president may seem trivial, but it's just another piece of evidence of his disdain for democracy.
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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Stay tuned for more!
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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It's a beautiful wooden horse. We're putting it on the big patio where the Rose Garden used to be.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 24/03/2026
#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home - cup.org/4sZqdQ1 - Danielle Gilbert & @laurenrprather.bsky.social #FirstView #ISA2026
Cover of the "European Journal of International Security" with a hashtag "#OpenAccess" displayed prominently.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Matt Germer on why stable democratic government isn't possible unless election losers learn to concede.
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Why Losing Matters Just As Much As Winning
A neck-and-neck election involving a North Carolinian political giant could provide the latest lesson about the true measure of a republic's health.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This is disgusting, but also a tacit admission of just how horrible and indefensible it is.
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Ben Radford @benradford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My "the Department of D̶e̶f̶e̶n̶s̶e̶War is not at war" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I drove a van in Obama’s motorcade for a weekend.
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Craig Kafura @ckafura.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New polling out now from @global-affairs.bsky.social / @ipsosus.bsky.social, in the field when US military operations against Iran began, finds no differences pre/post in support for strikes on Iran’s nuclear programs—and widespread fears of sparking a wider regional war. bit.ly/4b1tg2N
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Majority of Americans Say Congress’ Approval Needed for US Strikes in Iran
While few Americans want to see Iran develop a nuclear weapon, just half expressed support for US airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities—and most believe direct military action would spark a bro...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/03/2026
Publishing my normal Sunday polling article early (for obvious reasons): Trump starts a war with Iran that few Americans support. Overall support for Trump in early post-strike polling is below that for Afghanistan and Iraq, including among Republicans. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...
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