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Leo Simonetta

@leosimonetta.bsky.social
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Former academic (VCU, GSU & UNH) and researcher in higher education positioning & marketing. Now Emeritus. Not that kind of Psychologist. Survey geek. AAPORista.(He/His)

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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?
The real count is much higher than the public knew.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The real problem is that everyone who's rich enough can be as antisocial as they want. A few of them are pedophiles because there are pedophiles in every socioeconomic stratum. Most people in that tax bracket would rather bankrupt widows and orphans.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2025
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"It's mine baby mine with President Trump" Not sure what that means but it sounds childish enough.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults
We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
GOT EM!
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🧵 NEW: A spokesperson from SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management) messaged me today about the organization's decision to platform anti-DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) activist and Heritage Foundation fellow Robby Starbuck at its October event in Kentucky. #SHRM #SHRMBlueprint
SHRM statement on Robby Starbuck
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
One thing I cannot emphasize enough in these benighted times is that NO ONE who is not a US Citizen should be crossing the US Border in either direction unless they have no other choice. It's immensely unsafe.
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Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
No, Virginia: There are no megalogons lurking in the ocean @whysharksmatter.bsky.social on some of the weirdest misinformation to surface from #sharkweek 🦈 Many thanks to David Shiffman for allowing @skaana.bsky.social to share a bit of podcast video for the first time riverside.fm/shared/expor...
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Shark Week's Megalodon Hoax - Riverside - HD Podcast & Video Software
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Gift article - The Boy Who Cried Hoax www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...
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Opinion | The Boy Who Cried Hoax
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
How could the device which replicates all our statistical biases possibly be biased?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Trump wants to go back to a racist name and logo but folks have other ideas.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Anything, ANYTHING to distract from Epstein.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Oh so the president could release secret files if he wanted to, you say?
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If you pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit with Trump, and don’t have to admit fault, just to get his FCC to approve your sale… … congratulations, you paid a bribe, not a settlement.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
What does a bubble look like before it pops? - Promises exceed delivery - Value premised on buzz words in name (think .com) - Market value of company driven solely by expected future value rather than present value to customers
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
(Gift article) How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article)
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award. (Of course it did) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.yahoo.com/news/tell-co...
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How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false
Conspiracy theories abound. What should you believe − and how can you tell?
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Under RFK Jr., COVID shots will only be available to people 65+, high-risk groups
FDA will require big, pricy trials for approvals for healthy kids and adults…
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.brookings.edu/articles/per...
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Persistent gaps in academic preparation generate college enrollment disparities
Students with strong grades and test scores who pursue a rigorous course of study tend to be more likely to attend and complete college.
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Underserved Students Face Highest Admissions Anxiety
Students from underprivileged backgrounds report more stress around the college search and admissions process than their higher-income peers, according to a new report from higher ed consulting firm A...
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Van Hollen argues Trump has the ability to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia
In a letter to the White House, the senator detailed conversation with the Salvadoran vice president.
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
abcnews.go.com/Politics/ame...
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Most Americans oppose Trump 3rd term, taking control of Greenland and Canada: POLL
The poll finds that Americans widely oppose the U.S. trying to take control of Canada and Greenland, sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons and a third Trump term.
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years: POLL
Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Keystone cops
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
US federal agency texts Barnard College employees to ask if they’re Jewish
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Two hours from now…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025
a "reporter" asks Trump if a condition of the Washington Commanders moving back to DC might be forcing them to change the name back to Redskins. Trump expresses support for "Indian" names.
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HuskerKia @huskerkia.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wow...just wow!!!
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
JUST IN: Former DC teacher Tom Birner sues lobbyist/pranksters/election fraudsters Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl for $5M over targeting in to-catch-a-predator-style sting. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This should be one of the biggest corruption scandals in our lifetimes. If Biden or Obama ever did this, they'd be calling for their arrest, and their immediate impeachment and removal. Trump should be impeached and removed.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/04/2025
If someone else had said this, it would be the stupidest thing I'd ever seen. But since it's Miller, it is simply the most egregiously dishonest thing.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Really not good www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
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Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
With the Trump administration having terminated multiple contracts providing lawyers to unaccompanied migrant children, we're back to the bad old days of toddlers representing themselves against deportation.
In shelters across New York, migrant children sit in front of computer and TV screens, appearing virtually in real court proceedings. They swivel in chairs, walk in circles and play with their hair — while immigration judges address them on the screens in front of them. “The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/04/2025
Just-out YouGov polling shows Trump's approval on the economy continuing to plunge — and his handling of immigration turning negative very sharply. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.
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Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NEW: Remember when the GOP, the right & originalists/literalists blasted Obama as an "emperor" for using exec. orders to implement policy? Trump has gone much further & is abusing laws to impose tariffs & mass-deport. So where are these conservatives now? link.motherjones.com/public/39495...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Someone should ask Homan if it would be ok to send him to a gulag if a completely different white guy he has nothing to do with commits murder bsky.app/profile/atru...
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Marriott’s CEO publicly vows to continue valuing DEI, receives 40,000+ emails thanking him. “The winds blow, but there are some fundamental truths…we welcome all to our hotels and we create opportunities for all…that’s who we are as a company.” Bravo #Voices4Victory www.aol.com/marriott-ceo...
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Marriott’s CEO spoke out about DEI. The next day, he had 40,000 emails from his associates
After Trump’s executive order banning DEI, Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano stood by the hotelier’s values.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"
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Leo Simonetta @leosimonetta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pretty weak sauce arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Trump approval rating dips; many wary of his wielding of power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump's public approval rating edged down to its lowest level since his return to the White House, as Americans showed signs of wariness over his efforts to broaden his power, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday found.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.
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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I love this! 👇🏻
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