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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the dude literally employed Nazis. It wasn't an accusation. It was a factual statement

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

formerly blind men are seeing too well.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now, if we're talking about being tracked down by federal marshals while hiding in the bushes outside a Denny's...

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This dude doesn't have seppuku in him.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fact that the Democrats have some many candidates that are clergy (from various faiths) is testament to how the completely amoral politics of Trumpism has spurred the religious left into greater engagement. Values are good! We should have them. Persecuting corruption requires moral authority

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

that's tough given the steaks are so high.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Has a corner every thrown in the towel in a debate to save their guy?

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Google the list of countries where the death penalty is legal and ask yourself if that's a list of countries you'd want to be on.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democracy is good for business because political liberty goes hand and hand with economic liberty. Authoritarianism, no matter how business friendly it tries to market itself as, always has a pay to play dynamic. Authoritarians hate free markets because they reward ability rather than loyalty

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

just putting on my best Performance Sweatpants to go defend some rapists.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

important point--this will signal the end. He can't run again, he's got an opposition congress, and everybody is starting to look to 2028. Moreover, Dem hopefuls will be running on "accountability" and plenty of people in that circle have legal exposure. Certainly seems like a powder keg.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mayor McCheese, who wielded significant influence in the first Trump Administration, has been frozen out of the second.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

a true Emperor has no clothes moment.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think the there's a real chance Rs lose big, Trump tries to do something crazy, and everyone just kind of ignores him and moves along.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"ESPN is a blight on American culture" is currently -1400 on DraftKings, click here to play.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is exactly the point for the Project 2025 acolytes pushing it through, not an unfortunate side effect.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a broader point, the Administration is war with data collection. The goal is simple: you can't prove racial discrimination in court if the government doesn't collect data by race. You can't show climate change if the government dismantles climate monitoring. This is Authoritarianism 101.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Important thing wrt political science and the NSF, it isn't just about 'woke' in the usual race/gender theory sense. Republicans have been angered by hardnosed quant findings that have been inconvenient to the GOP on things like gerrymandering, campaign finance, voter ID, political violence, etc

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of the function of a modern state is the data collection itself. If the government doesn't track the statistics, it hamstrings everything else downstream that depends on that data (like court decisions). This is an attempt for the government to create plausible deniability through lack of data

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps a consortium of groups such as APSA, Russell Sage, IHS, etc. It's a pickle. I know the ANES still had to raise ~4 million to conduct the 28 survey even with NSF support.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So how do we save these two sources? In extremis, how can it be done?

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah, that was a tough sentence to type out.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like so much else, what was satire decades ago has somehow become reality.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

25 years ago there was a show called Crank Yankers on Comedy Central that had muppets act out prank calls. One of the prank calls was by a guy running for "district selectmen" speaking to a prospective constituent who had problems with her son and he promised, if elected, he'd send in the SWAT team.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

an absolute "target destroyed" comment if i've ever heard one.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is both right and important, imo.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

By the time the current Era finally limps to its sordid but inevitable conclusion the appetite for change in the other direction is going to be immense.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

at least her reasoning wasn't racist <puts finger to earpiece> I'm getting an update.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a person who got a D+ in my high school health class 25 years ago, i feel well qualified to weigh in on this pressing public health matter.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the underreported stories from 2024 was Trump's grassroots fundraising was non-existent and a handful of billionaire donors bankrolled most of his campaign. Trump won, so this got buried, but he underperformed the fundamentals by a lot. Seems like a big deal.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This criticism is even more true of mainstream outlets than Fox, who will actually let him talk at length.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last season of Stranger Things was unwatchable.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh damn bro that’s fascinating, now to take a big sip of coffee and look up when and where the word “gymnasium” entered the language.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Post 2030, the path to the presidency runs through the Sunbelt and the perpetual swing states of TX, GA, and AZ

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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was thinking today it's striking how much of our discourse now is just people lying in public.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

at some point the grift becomes so shameless that you almost have to tip your hat. Nobody has less respect for Fox News viewers than this guy.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So much energy, time, and resources spent trying to triangulate the "right" position when "doing the right thing" is both the moral and vote maximizing position.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a matter of fact, if you look at who defaults on student loans, a shockingly high percentage of them are from predatory, for-profit cosmetology and barber schools.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is so true. The answer to bigotry posing as morality is to say that bigotry is immoral. The answer to corruption is prison, not impunity.

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