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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Carlson is an evil and malignant man who is ignorant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partiti...

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Partitions of Poland - Wikipedia

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Midwest 4-ever

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I put off watching Tucker Carlson’s interview with Jacob Rees Mogg but I did want to see if it’s been taken out of context. It has not. Carlson absolutely argued that Britain would be better off to have not fought in WWII, that Germany was justified in invading Poland, and more than in that vein.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I invite this idiot to visit the Battle of Britain Bunker. The UK won the Blitz because of science, math, and logistics—not pull ups.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house."

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two points here. 1. Automation can be great, but this administration is making it harder for states to use automation to expand coverage. 2. Automation to detect fraud has a really bad track record in practice. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/robodebt-w...

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Robodebt: When automation fails

Lessons from Australia's use of algorithms to detect welfare fraud become more relevant in the age of AI

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To me, this feels like an extension of DOGE. Big claims about fraud, using data-matching to drop people from coverage. Without actual data, or investigation, it is impossible to refute the claims, but such transparency is unlikely to be forthcoming.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NY Times pointing out that Patel’s purge of agents focusing on public corruption hampered the investigation of Collins www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

Kash Patel, the E.B.I. director, also fired many agents in a public corruption unit at the Washington field office that had handled the Kao inquiry who had gone on to work for the special counsel Jack Smith, including one of the agents who had investigated Mr. Kao.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A politicized DOJ means not just can the President protect himself, he can also protect loyalists...as long as they stay loyal. A president who can quash an FBI investigation into a member of Congress is in a strong position to direct that person on how to vote. bsky.app/profile/prop...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026

Breaking news: President Trump said he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House for reporting what he called “fake news,” breaking with long-running protocol for relations between the executive office and the press.

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Trump says he’s banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House

The president has a history of feuding with news organizations and has at times tried to ban them and their journalists.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you'd never know it from the NYT article @gelliottmorris.com is commenting on here, but there is a very well-known 60+ year old literature in political science documenting the exact point the op-ed presents as a novel insight, which begins with Converse (1964):

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The nature of belief systems in mass publics (1964)

Published in Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society (Vol. 18, No. 1-3, 2006)

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/09/2026

get in, kids, we’re doing a PROHIBITION

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't think the news has made it here: bluesky political scientist Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social 's _Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History_ (Princeton) was recognized with the Richard Neustadt award for best book published on the presidency!

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

OK, class, can anyone tell me the problem with this research design? Short answer quiz, five words. Congratulations, you know more than the United States' newspaper of record.

"I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common."

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@seanmtheriault.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce we have signed a contract with Oxford University Press for our forthcoming book, The Election Deniers in Congress: The Causes and Consequences of Voting to Overturn a Presidential Election". We hope it will come out in the fall of 2027!

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A great way to honor Dolly Parton’s memory is to get your COVID vaccine.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Polisci peeps: Anyone want to do a SPSA panel on Congress post-Jan 6/During the Trump Era? Sean Theriault and I are trying to put together such a panel! Let me know--deadline for submission is Sept 1! #polisky

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Worse, it shows fundamental ignorance of how political socialization occurs. Most students have pretty fixed political beliefs once they hit high school, let alone college.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

seriously though, Canada should target swing senate states with the retaliatory tariffs. Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas, Michigan, Kansas, Alaska, and Nebraska all need to understand the economic pain that our senile piece of shit president has unleashed

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Galileo loses his NSF grant because of DEI heliocentric theory.

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You know this country was founded by smugglers avoiding tariffs right?

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Folks, stop whining about Wisconsin polling being off. The gold standard, Marquette Law, had Hong’s support dead on in this July 29 release. If you look at it closely, what’s obvious now is that this was her ceiling, and what was obvious even then— most of the electorate was figuring out what to do.

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Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One way to interpret the results as they come in here in Wisconsin is that the Marquette Law School poll hit Hong’s support and the undecideds moved in a wave to Crowley. Not sure if that’s what happened, but it is consistent with the data so far. Older folks were more likely to be undecided.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This would be a clear, unambiguous, unequivocal, explicit, no-doubt-about-it, you-don't-have-to-be-an-expert violation of the domestic emoluments clause of the Constitution (ArtII.S1.C7.1).

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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There’s an easy compromise for the next CBA: No salary cap, but the Dodgers are banned from all transactions until 2033.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is a gross violation of the social compact and a road toward dissolution of the union. It also very well could be an unconstitutional equal protection violation.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Enough with these bullshit comparisons. Does Olive Garden stop nearly 70 million women from eating pasta because their last name does not match their birth certificate? No. But the SAVE Act will make it harder for those women to vote. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Married women who took their partners’ names — around 69 million of them — will be especially impacted by a citizenship requirement. Their current names don’t match the names on their birth certificate–and only about half of women have a valid passport. In practice, it will be far more complicated for these women to ‘prove’ their citizenship. The surest option–a passport or a paper trail reconciling their married name with the name on their birth certificate–requires significant investments of time and money.

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Jan Adriaenssens @verbeeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

German broadcast. Nailed it

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Congress can end this. Congress can save the USA. I wish it would.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Voter files - routinely bought by political parties, campaigns, and political scientists who have research budgets I envy.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Fed Mandates electionlawblog.org?p=157434

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Trump's Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show That Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He ...

Donald Trump gave a national address where he made some recycled claims (“burn bags,” anyone?) about supposed voting machine vulnerabilities, about thousands of supposed noncitizens registered to vote...

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Steven S Smith @profstevensmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Headline: Trump Claims CIA & FBI Covered Up China Election Inference During His Administration.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump claimed tonight that an FBI leader set up a shadow government to cover up Chinese penetration into US election systems. According to a post from Jeff Clark (who you might remember from his 2020 election denial work), this apparently is the “declassified text message” proving the claim:

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Lia Merivaki_Ph.D. @liamerivaki.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How insulting to the whole election community who works so hard for Americans to exercise their right to vote freely and securely.

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This has all the hits: 1. Trump decrying the corruption of the political system that he has been a part of for a decade now, 2. blaming China, 3. talking about a "big reveal" in the ongoing merger between presidential politics and reality TV

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/07/2026

fwiw here is a link to download the north carolina voter file. congratulations you have now apparently done election espionage! www.ncsbe.gov/results-data...

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Voter Registration Data | NCSBE

Access various types of North Carolina voter registration data.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The proper response is resilience not panic

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