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I regret to inform my blusky brothers and sisters that Kevin @reuning.bsky.social is snitchin on your poll skeeting. Do we have our ideological re-education camps up and running yet? You had one job Darth @darthbluesky.bsky.social kevinreuning.com/blog/polling...

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📢New paper in @thejop.bsky.social on the reciprocal nature of citizens’ support for democratic transgressions. Together with Hannah Werner & @annakern.bsky.social , we show that when confronted with violations by political opponents, citizens’ support for transgressions by their own side doubles!

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

running for office when you’re actually trying to win is awful. but if you play your career right you can be one of a dozen or so folks who get to run for president without trying to win. and that’s basically a crowdfunded road trip where you’re constantly the center of attention

Trump has been a real monkeys paw curling type event for everyone who has ever said that Americans have low levels of political knowledge. We don’t even bother asking people if they can name who runs the Office of Management and Budget or what that office does, but I’m sure both are at record highs!

who wants to tell him about the system of government that was hailed as the holy grail for the previous couple thousand years before democracy

Lauren Ratliff Santoro and I are running the PolNet Online Colloquium this year Submissions are due October 17. Working papers and dissertation chapters are great. Fall sessions are November 10 and December 8, 10:30–11:30 ET. Submit here: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Congratulations to @jongreen.bsky.social, @sdmccabe.com, @shugars.bsky.social, Hanyu Chwe, Luke Horgan, Shuyang Cao, and David Lazer, winners of the Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award for "Curation Bubbles," published in the APSR. buff.ly/580BrtS

I'm sure there will be plenty of discourse about this funny little episode but in all seriousness there's a Take out there for a responsible centrist worried about ~civility~ to write on how bad it is for a senator to *double down* on this very specific, very wrong detail in their conspiracy theory

seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

given the player and their history this makes it sound less like that’s all the information they have and more like they don’t believe him

seems intuitive to me that a committee ranking top 100 anything based on purely subjective tastes in multiple dimensions could produce a ranking weirder and less defensible than any individual would produce on their own

both parties think this (that they are incompetent and divided while the other side is disciplined and united), but also, a starting point for good messaging is not constantly going on tv to talk about how bad your message is

so how did the more vigilant patrons of the masks-required lesbian bar feel about…drinking

every passage I’ve seen from this article is like finding a soldier who’s been hiding on an island for five years and doesn’t know that Woke War 1 is over and they lost

it happened to me (toddler started picking the music in the car)

jev: very useful!

Donald Trump’s effects on public opinion are wild. Last week he negatively polarized our country against free money. This is at least the *second* time he’s generated a rally around the flag effect in Canada this term

I have great news about how candidates with heterodox stances are perceived by voters in the context of one-dimensional party competition

yeah that's the problem www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...

This is a cheap post but only getting 17% of the country to support you sending them five thousand dollars is a sign that you haven’t just lost your fastball, you’ve lost the entire strike zone

Netflix: For the seventeenth time, we have recreated Squid Games from the hit Netflix show "Don't Create Squid Games"

NDSU’s punter might hold the record for kinds of cultural experience in a six year span

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We cross-referenced the psychometric personality data of ~ 1 million people with their zodiac astrological signs: 1) There is a small but statistically significant effect of zodiac sign on personality controlling for demographic and attitudinal variables