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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 18/10/2025

No Kings rallygoers in Nashville are lining streets and chanting: the crowd is a mix of ages and genders.

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Joe DeLong @joedelong.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/10/2025

Looks like people showed up in DC

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/10/2025

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/10/2025

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This really is a GREAT sign!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/10/2025

The antifa terrorist marxists are out

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

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Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power

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Knowable Magazine @knowablemag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

More: @mitchwaldrop.bsky.social's 2020 report ♻️ Recycling meets reality knowmag.org/Recycling_bsky ♻️ Solving the growing plastics waste puzzle knowmag.org/plastic_bsky ♻️ Design for recycling knowmag.org/Design_bsky ♻️ One bin future knowmag.org/OneBin_bsky

Row of three blue overflowing recycling cans

Photo shows a mix of plastic trash types.

Photo shows multiple types of over-the-counter drugs packaged in packs made of plastic, foil and other material.

Photo shows a bale of plastic polyethylene bottles crunched into a bale and awaiting recycling.

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Platforms can design better algorithms. Our new guide serves as a resource for understanding how. bit.ly/3QzxVzq The guide provides detailed explanations of how algorithms work. So much so, that it has been cited in an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit led by @epic.org! bit.ly/3DyBe6S

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In his email announcing he was leaving NBC, @chucktodd said something VERY important about the biggest issue facing media -- and how to fix it. I wrote about it this morning. Read: chriscillizza.substack.com/p/chuck-todd...

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Buttigieg had been laying low since Trump's inauguration, but his response to Trump's comments and attacks on him specifically after the crash -- "despicable" -- is further than any other Democratic leader has gone since Jan. 20

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Stephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On IG, I posted about communicating with people who doubt science. I got some comments saying, "It's a waste of breath" and "There's no getting through to them." And, more disturbingly, "I don't engage with Nazis." These generalizations are wrong, counterproductive, and harmful. (1/6)

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals. — Robert A. Caro

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Mitch Waldrop @mitchwaldrop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yesterday's dusting of snow here in DC: a reminder that, in spite of everything, there is still beauty in the world...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 04/01/2025

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/01/2025

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A decade or so before “concerns” w/ transwomen in women’s sports became central in the right wing myth of “protecting” women’s sports, the same folks pushing this myth denigrated women’s sports by saying muscular/athletic women were too “masculine” and “feminine” women were not athletic enough.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It may seem strange to folks outside of academia, but there has been a line of prominent research within it arguing that misinformation isn't a problem. This paper pushes back, noting how those arguments often rely on poor definitions & operationalizations of what misinformation is & how it works.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Really interesting piece on how we have been arguing about "wokeness" in different forms for more than six decades. laurenmgoldstein.substack.com/p/weve-been-...

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We've Been Blaming "Wokeness" For Six Decades

Some context for this conversation, and a vision for how polling can be part of the solution going forward.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/12/2024

i'm totally hyundai-pilled. we drive a 2023 ioniq 5 and it's one of the best cars i've ever owned

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Hyundai Is Becoming the New Tesla

Even in a Trump presidency, America’s EV future may not run through Elon Musk.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Really good @lauren-goldstein.bsky.social piece explaining that "social" issues (immigration) are connected to economic ones in many voters' minds. Trump's immigration rhetoric, she argues, was an economic message as much as a racial/cultural one. laurenmgoldstein.substack.com/p/when-it-co...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

In 2014, my team was studying rumors of crisis events. Analyzing tweets shared after the downing of MH17 (by Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine) made our heads spin. There were so many counter narratives to the truth, eg claims that someone else did it or that the plane was full of dummies, etc.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

100% accurate.

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

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Daniel Yudkin @dyudkin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the the Beacon Project at More in Common. The Beacon Project will be using insights from social science to help build a new moral framework that can speak to modern challenges.

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Daniel Yudkin @dyudkin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

“If elections are a battle of perceptions, our data suggest this was a battle Democrats lost.” My colleague Stephen Hawkins and I have an article out today in The Atlantic showing how Americans mistakenly think Democrats prioritize Progressive causes over economic ones. t.co/1O4CmhFjy2

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

Title: "Participatory Disinformation
The “Big Lie” during the 2020 Election and
the January 6, 2021 Attack on the U.S. Capitol"

This is a visual graphic explaining the dynamics between “political elites” and “audiences” in this phenomenon. Political elites are at the top of the graph, audiences at the bottom, with several arcing arrows from elites to audiences on the right, and from audiences to elites on the left, in a kind of clockwise motion, showing a cyclical process. The arcing arrows have labels, explained below.

Political elites repeatedly spread the message of a rigged election, which set an expectation of voter fraud among their audiences. This became a “frame” through which events around the election were interpreted.

Online “crowds” generated false/misleading stories of voter fraud, reinforcing the frame. Sometimes these stories were produced intentionally (with knowledge that they were false). But often they were generated sincerely, through misinterpretation.

Activists and social media influencers helped amplify these stories, passing the content up to the political elites.

Political elites echoed the false/misleading stories back to their audiences, reinforcing the frame, building a sense of collective grievance.

As audiences echoed and reiterated this growing sense of grievance, violent language and calls to action increased.

Political elites then began to mobilize and organize the audiences… into a series of rallies and protests.

And one of these led to the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Earlier today the NY Times made a reference to a 4-page memo written by Seth London to build "a party within the [Democratic] party," a new moderate faction to spread influence. I have the memo. It's a blueprint for a new Democratic Leadership Council. Explicitly so:

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/11/2024

I have been listening to & reading a lot of post-election commentary from the big names in center-left punditry, and they way they avoid even referencing the information environment strikes me as borderline performance art.

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