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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 2h

Peat has its place. As long as it isn’t Laphroaig

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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...

en.wikipedia.org

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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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I share your concern about violence as we did not punish the perpetrators last time (including the one in the White House who has some mysterious immunity that SC divined from….their butts)

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will say Trump himself does odd things when he’s on the ballot, so I am more bullish on a GOP wipe out with the data we have coming in

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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...

donmoynihan.substack.com

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.

washingtonpost.com

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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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I will buy Canadian whiskeys just to give this MF the finger

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It is one of the best works I’ve read in the field.

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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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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Look at Montana. In 2012, Dems held two Senate seats there, and nearly all elected state government positions. Today, the Dems hold zero. Trump-ism, as practiced by others, has indeed been a winning strategy.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aye. Scotland makes money by sending its oil elsewhere too

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just got a flyer in the mail telling me Tom cares about the economy and cost of living. I am sure this anti-socialism bill will take care of both.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Time for us to inundate Google with emails and corrections

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

It is also the case that professors put in so much unpaid time. Exhibit A: I spent most of my summer prepping a brand new course. I do it both to deliver the best course I can and ti make my semester less stressful. It also means I leave earlier in the day during the semester….

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For sure. Thankfully, I never left the blue book behind

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I guess the thing I find most discouraging is I did not sign up to be a high school teacher. Because that’s what this is increasingly looking like: writing and assignments in class etc.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think the LMS is being sold as a one stop shop these days.

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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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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Send an email back and say “Same”

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

Well—the presidential term limit is great!

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

Yes. I do support, however, a mandatory retirement age for elected officials.

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David C.W. Parker @phddcwp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It would be very helpful if you made one…and shared….

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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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