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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld

@zacharyst.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Public Policy studying protests and social movements using data science and network analysis. Enjoyer of books, coffee, aimless walking, exercise, and travel. Dad.

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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am teaching my intro to R programming course for the first time in 3 years. How do I make students learn programming instead of just submitting my questions to AI? Does the trick of putting instructions in white font still work?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
So at least one of the officiating refs has bet on the Spurs right? Or has Adam Silver decreed that the Spurs have to win?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Expensive homes are a feature, not a bug, of LA housing policies. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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'Kafkaesque': One man's struggle to build a hillside home in L.A.
Andri Luescher just wants to build a 1,400-square-foot home for his family in Mount Washington. But four years and $73,000 in permit costs later, he still hasn't broken ground.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Dean of UCLA's Ed School oversees UCLA daycares. A teacher there was convicted for sexual assault. An employee says 3 others also committed abuse. The Dean's potential reappointment does not take into account their stewardship over the daycares. It should. dailybruin.com/2026/05/05/p...
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Parents want say in dean's review after teacher's sexual abuse case - Daily Bruin
This post was updated May 6 at 1:04 a.m. The dean of UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies oversaw the university’s Early Care and Education program through five years that included fundi...
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I would love to be on campus 5 days/week, but 4 decades of NIMBYs and an administration that does not provide faculty housing means I live too far away to commute daily. Wen I am on campus, though, it is surprising how few doors are open. www.chronicle.com/article/when...
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Opinion | When Faculty Stop Showing Up
Faculty disengagement is reshaping campus life, one closed door at a time.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Obviously, if we don't help the students who need help, then they don't need help. QED. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Is Remedial Education Actually a Good Thing?
California ended such courses at community colleges. Students were left behind.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Basically a rant about Harden: zacharyst.com/2026/02/05/2...
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2026 NBA Trade Deadline Hot Takes
It’s the second most exciting time of the NBA season, the trade deadline. While I hate how much time podcasts spend discussing hypothetical trades – just analyze basketball – I al…
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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‘There are rivers of blood’: The true horror of Iran’s protest massacres
Doctors tell of overflowing morgues and mass gunshot wounds as regime’s crackdown intensifies
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
zacharyst.com/2025/12/28/s... "No wine buyer wants to taste any flavor not from the grape. Yet somehow the same desecration is performed to world-class coffee, and we are supposed to accept it. I do not."
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Stop Co-fermenting Coffee
In the last year, my street finally had a third wave coffee shop open. They serve very high quality roasts. I love having them down the street. One day, I was short on beans, so I dropped in. The o…
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNty...
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Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)
YouTube video by Tube Cody
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The earliest known documentation of industrial production is for beer 😆 www.schoyencollection.com/24-smaller-c...
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MS 1717 - The Schoyen Collection
MS in archaic Sumerian on clay, Uruk, Sumer, 31st c. BC, 1 tablet, 6,8x7,2x1,9 cm, 1 compartment of text in an expert pictographic script Uruk III.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
My school is hiring a new Dean. Share the news and apply if you are a good fit: evcp.ucla.edu/executive-se...
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Job Announcement: Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites inquiries, nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (UCLA Luskin). One of UCLA’s 12…
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Does anyone have access to this article and can get it for me? medium.com/@kmaurinjone...
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Accelerating Home Building Code Research with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
By Kai Maurin-Jones
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Los Angeles' ED 1 has led to more approved middle-class housing than the 10 years before it combined. A majority of Angelenos in a super majority of Council districts support it. Not shown due to space: neighborhoods that opposed it are those least impacted. www.briefingbook.info/p/los-angele...
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Los Angeles Shows That the Private Sector Can Develop Affordable Housing
Survey data from Los Angeles also show that a majority of residents support new building in their neighborhoods
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Many thanks to my much more popular buddy for sharing this work. Whoulda thunk that a city of renters paying too much for rundown effluence from the 1920-70s would want more housing?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Really happy to see this paper in print. It address an important topic in a way that one could not do with experiments, surveys, or case studies. Even better, the coauthor is a recently graduate undergraduate.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In a new report just published with the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Studies, I show that 65% of Angelenos support apartment construction on single-family home streets, and a majority of respondents do in every single council district save one. Report: www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...
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A Large Majority of Angelenos Want More Apartments — Even on Single-Family Streets
This brief aims to shed light on the preferences of L.A. residents regarding building affordable multifamily housing. Mayor Bass has constantly scaled down ED1 due to 'pushback' but has yet to take a ...
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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We're hiring! The @au-spa.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor specializing in political violence and terrorism. Deadline: September 22nd. Feel free to reach out if you have questions! See below for the job ad and application. american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
Job Description:

The Department of Justice, Law & Criminology in the School of Public Affairs at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position beginning in Academic Year 2026-2027. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor. For this position, the department is seeking a scholar with substantive expertise in political violence and terrorism. The search is open regarding specialty, but the Department is especially interested in a scholar whose research and teaching interests include terrorism, political violence, radicalization, extremism, or cybersecurity.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Excited and honored to be part of the great team receiving recognition for this paper.
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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS! Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Good for them: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: ‘He can do anything to anyone’
Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Very cool: blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-te...
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Japan’s Yoroi Reactor Ushers In a New Era of Micro-Nuclear Power
<p>Key Takeaways: Japan has quietly taken a radical step in nuclear energy innovation with the deployment of the Yoroi Reactor — a compact, self-contained nuclear power unit designed to operate autono...
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Curious about how Twitter's popularity has changed over time and across countries? Wish you had your own data with which to study Twitter? Then download my new paper, "THIS Was Twitter: Introducing the Twitter History and Image Sharing v1.0 Datasets" and its data: journalqd.org/article/view....
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THIS Was Twitter: Introducing the Twitter History and Image Sharing v1.0 Datasets | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
May 13th 8 p.m. PST, come to an online info session to learn more. Registration here: ucla.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: UCLA Data Analytics for Public Affairs Information Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: UCLA Data Analytics for Public Affairs Information Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In grad. school we are often shown a figure that represents research. The center is a big circle, it is surrounded by smaller and smaller rings, and thenin the top right is a small bump representing your research. I don't know what to google to find it. Any help?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
UCLA Luskin and UCLA Extension are happy to announce the Data Analytics in Public Affairs certificate! If you want to learn about data and policy, the ethics of large datasets for policy design and evaluation, visualization, or improve your programming, this certificate is for you.
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Data Analytics in Public Affairs | UCLA Extension
Learn how to analyze, visualize and communicate data insights to internal and external stakeholders to assist in public policy decision-making.
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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We have great articles by @gregoryeady.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, @devincaughey.bsky.social, @stefan-scholz.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social, @small-schulz.bsky.social, @pedro-rodriguez.bsky.social, @carlislerainey.bsky.social, and more!
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On a $10k grant w/ a community partner, I have to pay $750 for them to purchase UCLA insurance for 1 meeting held on campus. Almost 10% of my grant for 4 people to sit in a conference room. What a joke.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In defense of government services: zacharyst.com/2025/03/05/i...
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In Defense of Government Services
Since, approximately, the Articles of Confederation, Americans love to bemoan government services, especially federal ones. They are slow, inefficient, bloated, blahblahblah. Well, I have had plent…
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A bit late to this but worth knowing about: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The @insna.bsky.social working group's Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials are now published in #NetworkScience. You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Anyone know of any event datasets about Cambodia in the '90s? Bonus points if those include the '80s and '00s as well.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Rejected from NSF MMM with good/fair, good, very good, good, very good/good, excellent, excellent, and fair ratings. How do I interpret that?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
There are only people. lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
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Century-Scale Storage
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Do I know anyone in Seattle with toddler snow pants and gloves to lend? 2.5 year old.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The celebrities my wife and I saw in 2024: zacharyst.com/2024/12/30/w.... Highlights: Nathan Fielder and Seth Rogen.
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Who I Saw, 2024 Edition
Max Burkholder is best known, at least in our household, as Max Braverman on Parenthood, the autistic child. We saw him as we were walking on the sidewalk into the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s on…
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Looking for good books to read and bad ones to avoid? Then check out my reviews of the 18 I read in 2024 for ideas. If any sound appealing, please buy via the affiliate links ;). zacharyst.com/2024/12/30/w...
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What I Read, 2024 Edition
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 by Jonathan Healey. I excitedly bought this 433 page history book upon reading reviews because it sounded like a fun read and co…
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I just submitted to a polisci journal that requested replication material _at initial submission_. NO NO NO NO NO! The emotional abuse of peer review is the worst part about this job and I refuse to go along with this new development. I asked the editors nicely for an exception.
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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Protest in Damascus today calling for a democratic, secular and civil state
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I guess it makes sense that Republicans' favorite foreigner is an Afrikaner.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Super cool!
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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
📢 We’re hiring! PhD and Postdoc Positions Available! Come join the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich and be part of our Transparency in Content Moderation project, with Molly Roberts & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: Feb 1. portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...
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TUM - PhD and Postdoc positions (m/f/d) at the Chair of Digital Governance, Department of Governance, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
Profs. Margaret E. Roberts and Yannis Theocharis are inviting applications for one PhD position (3 years) and one Postdoctoral Researcher position (3 years) in the context of the project Transparency ...
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nice to see the final final version out. Always great to work on a great team. Don't forget to check out the free demo and API!
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Stefan Scholz @stefan-scholz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
New paper forthcoming in PA, w/ @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on images are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786
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Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-level Classification for Complex Scenes
Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual f...
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
Has anyone tabulated which protest waves are studied the most? For example how many papers there are about 1989-1991, the US Civil Rights, Arab Spring, etc. Bonus points for a distinction between qualitative and quantitative.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
The original Institute of Advanced Studies is at Princeton. There are now IAS all over the world, I know of at least Aarhus, Paris, and Vienna. The Princeton IAS' website does not mention them. Are they related?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Me to ChatGPT: What is the code to give other users read-only access? ChatGPT: use -rx Me: Doesn't that mean read and execute? ChatGPT: Oh yes, you are right. ChatGPT is great if you know what you are doing but dangerous if you don't.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Things are bad, real bad in the CAR. undark.org/2024/01/24/c...
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How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen
In the Central African Republic, researchers found an astronomical death rate. Could a major emergency be invisible?
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
Oh god just shut up with this junk. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/u...
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The Early Race for 2028
Keep an eye on Haley and DeSantis.
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Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld @zacharyst.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
51% (Iowa) and 54.5% (NH) of the vote are not large victories. Don Don runs as an incumbent and has the best endorsements, so his results should be stronger. If an incumbent won by that little, media would flip a s**t. The race is far from over, and he looks weak. Wrong?
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