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Says the man who just gave $40 billion to Argentina
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If you're tweeting about sandwiches right now, you might have time to attend this great virtual event next Thursday afternoon!
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Why is there any doubt about this
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Gaurav Sabnis
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If you think free buses that cost 0.6% of the city budget, rent freeze on city subsidized homes after a corrupt Adams hike, free childcare for employed people, and 5 city run grocery stores in grocery deserts is communism, you're in for a real surprise when you encounter actual communism.
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Asher Elbein
about 15 hours ago
Look, I'm a natural history guy so I don't want to get out over my skis here, but given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and stuff like this, I have to ask: is Social Psychology... real
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Katie Bergh
1 day ago
New data: CBPP analyzed USDAās contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting familiesā SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDAās own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.
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Jon Seidel
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Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed. Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody ⦠and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?" Hewson: "Yes."
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."
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Kabir K.
1 day ago
NJ's bluest counties saw biggest turnout increases, propelling landslide Three densest counties saw largest jumps from '21: Hudson (Jersey City), Essex (Newark), Union >30% increase in total vote >30-pt Democratic margin High-profile local races helped, e.g., Jersey City mayoral w/ former gov 1/2
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PA-NJ AAPOR
22 days ago
Rare traits like support for violence, conspiracy beliefs, and unsafe health behaviors are really hard to measure! On Thursday November 13, learn from experts about the problem and solutions. Free for students and AAPOR members, $5 for others. Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t...
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Torr š§µ
7 days ago
"Oil companies have polluted groundwater and the environment by injecting oil field waste deep into the earth at pressures high enough to violate Oklahoma law."
www.propublica.org/article/okla...
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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahomaās drin...
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution
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Torr š§µ
2 days ago
āFlorida lets big companies pollute with impunity. Waterways suffer. Florida is supposed to police water pollution from major industries but the stateās regulatory framework amounts to an honor system where state leaders have repeatedly chosen business over the environmentā
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Wasting Away: Florida lets big companies pollute with impunity. Waterways suffer | TampaBay.com
For decades, Florida has failed to cut contamination ā at the benefit of businesses that cause it.
https://project.tampabay.com/investigations/wasting-away/2025/10/30/florida-lawmakers-protect-polluters-industry-water-contamination/
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Chris Hayes
3 days ago
Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
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J.M. Berger
3 days ago
It's journalistic malpractice not to immediately follow these statements with questions like "Are you saying you didn't sign it?" and "Was it signed by autopen?" And "Is someone else making decisions for you?"
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
3 days ago
Details here on how exit polling/poll of election voters! For the in-the-weeds details on methodology, see:
ssrs.com/wp-content/u...
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David Gilbert
4 days ago
Last week I wrote about the racist narratives being pushed about SNAP benefits, including unhinged AI videos on TikTok Fox News however ran a story claiming those videos were real until they realised their mistake and changed the story without admitting their mistake.
www.wired.com/story/disinf...
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Aaron Rupar
4 days ago
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Jonathan Ladd
8 days ago
The bottom line: Across all levels of elections, the average polling error in 2024 was 3.3 percentage points, down from 5.3 in 2020 and 5.2 in 2016. National presidential polls missed by 2.6 points on average, and state-level presidential polls by 3.0 on average.
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Don Moynihan
6 days ago
Getting citizenship is hard. It's getting harder for normal people. It is getting easier for the super wealthy.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Rebecca Sear
6 days ago
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. āWe have horrible life expectancyāand itās getting worse and worseā"
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Greg Sargent
6 days ago
Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting. Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:
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KNinja
7 days ago
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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ProPublica
7 days ago
āThereās this machinismo aspect that they donāt want to accept that we have breasts, but we do,ā said Kirby Lewis, who served in the Navy and was diagnosed with breast cancer a dozen years ago. He called the decision āvery upsetting.ā
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Citing Trump Order on āBiological Truth,ā VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1761916508&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Brendan Nyhan
7 days ago
An authoritarian... stifles dissent/speech persecutes opponents bypasses legislature uses military domestically defies courts declares false emergencies vilifies groups controls info/media controls universities creates cult of personality uses power for profit manipulates law to stay in power
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Opinion | In Trumpās America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opinion/trump-autocracy-democracy-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.IHsa.pBda0N1EGFU3&smid=url-share
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Secretary of Defense Rock
7 days ago
Ah
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Scott Levy
8 days ago
$550 billion in Japanese funding. Directed by the President. Outside Congressās control. My new
@justsecurity.org
piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congressās power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
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Trumpās Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause
The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards, creating a system answerable only to the White House.
https://www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump-japan-deal-appropriations-clause/
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Congressman Don Beyer
7 days ago
"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
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Don Moynihan
7 days ago
To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds. They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use. No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.
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The Media and Democracy Project
8 days ago
A š§µ See our grades & analysis of 60+ front pages for
#NoKings
coverage. Influential news outlets like NYT/ WSJ continue trivialize coverage of the pro-democracy movement & demonstrations like
#NoKings
. Editors of local outlets did better. + A few surprises see:
open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...
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Ian Anson
8 days ago
I suspect I will be citing this great new
@mattgraham.bsky.social
piece often!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Expressive Responding and the Economy: The Case of Trumpās Return to Office | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
Expressive Responding and the Economy: The Case of Trumpās Return to Office
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/expressive-responding-and-the-economy-the-case-of-trumps-return-to-office/5FD24CDF40DD61E950FE271540454CBF
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Kevin Collins
8 days ago
The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended
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Drew Harwell
8 days ago
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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ProPublica
9 days ago
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the stateās water supply.
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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahomaās drinking water.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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The Intellectualist
9 days ago
šØWeeks after UF unveiled a āuniversalā mRNA cancer vaccine that eliminated tumors in some mouse models and entered early trials, HHS Sec. RFK Jr., in the Trump administration, cut $500M from respiratory mRNA projects, alarming experts.
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Brendan Nyhan
9 days ago
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
9 days ago
The Trump administration has a rainy day fund that will keep SNAP from expiring in November. Trump is refusing to use it. Funding SNAP isn't a choice he can make. It's a legal obligation. USDA must release the funds and stop punishing the American people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
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Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/trump-food-stamps-snap-lawsuit.html
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soodoku
9 days ago
Fascinating graph from
@mattgraham.bsky.social
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JEDCA
10 days ago
Very interesting!
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Brendan Nyhan
10 days ago
The subtlety of belief in misinfo/partisan differences in beliefs: -Fraud misperceptions
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
and partisan differences in econ. expectations (below) seem genuine/sincere -Other misperceptions more unstable
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Not all beliefs are the same!
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
10 days ago
Really interesting work (and thoughts on experimental design)!
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The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths š
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Omer Yair
10 days ago
Really cool and important work!
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Barrista
10 days ago
This contradicts a long running belief I held that people were fudging their responses to tell pollsters how much they loved politicians. I was wrong! I completely acknowledge that. It seems more that voters are just genuinely deluded by the sense that things must be going better if their guy is in
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After a huge post-election flip in economic perceptions, I thought Democrats and Republicans might be lying to pollsters to send a partisan message ā but I was wrong! New in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (open access):
doi.org/10.1017/XPS....
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Hypervisible
12 days ago
āItās not a partnershipā¦If you switch out the product, we would never say, āXerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.āā
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Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technology/cal-state-ai-amazon-openai.html
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Carl Quintanilla
13 days ago
ā.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet ā freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.ā
@politico.com
#SNAP
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Chris Murphy
12 days ago
They donāt even pretend to care. This is the only story. You canāt open the government if the House refuses to show up.
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Rachel Maddow
12 days ago
"The presidentās statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouriās electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."
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Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without
āPresident Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,ā one governor said, āand our communities are the ones who will pay the price.ā
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-approves-disaster-declarations-red-states-blue-states-go-rcna239604
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Angelo Carusone
13 days ago
CBSā evening news program failed to cover Trump's pardon of Binance founder last night ā while its counterparts all did.
www.mediamatters.org/cbs-evening-...
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This is a misinterpretation. In addition to having the LOWEST disapproval, Mamdani's high % DK indicates people don't really know what they think of himāeven those who answered the Q. See my 2021 POQ, esp. Figure 4 which is about candidate approval specifically.
academic.oup.com/poq/article-...
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