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Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University jgreen4919.github.io
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 5 hours ago
"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-groupâs moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyoneâs behavior." latest for
@bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
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Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/empire-of-vice/
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Kevin Collins
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I need everyone in the political communications world who found the moral foundations reframing approach promising (which includes me) to read this paper It doesn't replicate in new research. It just doesn't work.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Poverty of Moral Foundation Messaging
Prominent scholars have argued that reframing political positions and issues in terms of moral foundations that appeal to conservatives or liberals can attract more individual-level support for tho...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2026.2612739#d1e219
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everyone [wishes they were] twelve
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about 23 hours ago
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none of these words are in the Bible
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Michael Heseltine
1 day ago
đšNEW PAPER Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications Is congressional comms really nationalized? Analyzing 9M+ social media posts from Members of Congress, I show that local messaging is still common & strategic. New ML + domain sharing data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications
In the face of the purported nationalization of political discourse in the United States, to what extent do congressional representatives still engage locally through their public communications? B...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2025.2607424
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that viral Reddit post about the evil unnamed delivery appâs worker exploitation schemes was made up (likely model-generated), and the evidence the âwhistleblowerâ provided to the reporter trying to confirm it was also made up (almost definitely model-generated)
www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A âwhistleblowerâ tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
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Andrei Cimpian
2 days ago
đ§”New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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OSF
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gf38p_v1
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)
3 days ago
Thinking about how the Taliban hates running Afghanistan because they have to actually show up to work every day instead of shooting guns with their friends.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders
3 days ago
đ§”Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/
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âTrump is anti-warâ was always shorthand for âTrump is a break from the foreign policy establishment/consensus, which is badâ and thereâs no contradiction there if Trump does acts of war that seem different from what a more establishment-y president would do
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there is of course a lot of competition but if things go really south during Trump II the fact that he keeps bragging about nailing these basic cognitive function tests is going to be one of those small details that everyone knows about him 500 years from now
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6 days ago
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Chris Cooper
6 days ago
Fascinating paper by Hood, McKee & Pittman demonstrating that election deniers were less likely to vote in the 2021 Georgia Senate runoff election. If fewer GA Republicans believed the big lie, both GA Senate seats might still be in Republican control.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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weâve spent ten years researching the direction of the causal arrow between misinformation and political attitudes and he justâŠtweeted it out
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Kelsey Atherton
9 days ago
This was a pretty good one
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I think ~everyone understands that Marjorie Taylor Greene's movement along the "Donald Trump: Good or Bad?" dimension of politics doesn't necessarily imply movement along other dimensions of politics, and also understands that different people put different amounts of weight on that dimension.
9 days ago
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Dave Weigel
11 days ago
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
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Sickos Committee
12 days ago
HEY VIRGINIA NICE POOCH PUNT
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that may be the best pooch punt we will see in our lifetimes
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David Burbach đșđžđč
12 days ago
the President owning an online betting market where you can bet on what the President will do seems both deeply unethical, and stupid for bettors Casino: "Hey you can bet on when the buffet is out of prime rib! 10pm" Chef: <checks bets> joe, pull the prime rib at 9pm "dang, lost again"
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Phil Rocco
13 days ago
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
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Anna Bower
18 days ago
Per NY Timesâs Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsiâs email to her â60 Minutesâ colleagues in full:
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Rodger Sherman
20 days ago
I havenât seen Alabama come out flat like this since THE LAST GAME THEY PLAYED WHICH FOR SOME REASON THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF COMMITTEE PRETENDED DID NOT HAPPEN
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Leor Galil
20 days ago
A writer publishing under the byline âEarnest Grahamâ fabricated a restaurant to ask food influencers about how much they charge for posts they purport to be honest reviews. Twenty-four influencers took the bait.
thehunger.substack.com/p/eat-pay-love
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Eat, Pay, Love!
A story of how food influencers are committing legal fraud
https://thehunger.substack.com/p/eat-pay-love
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we are watching a Christmas movie with the *audacity* to have a full 90 minute runtime. everyone knows this is an 80 minute genre.
21 days ago
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this paper has a very thorough discussion of (and contributes to) the mixed empirical evidence concerning the causal effect of child gender on political attitudes/identities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Iâm Doing This for My Daughter: An Examination of the Daughter Effect in the 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections
Does having a daughter alter candidate evaluations and political attitudes? Some research provides evidence of a daughter effect, whereas others report null effects. In a pre-registered plan, we hy...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1554477X.2024.2385219
21 days ago
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Thomas J Wood
21 days ago
With thanks to
amengel.bsky.social
, the decline is far more modest when I take proper account for the administrative codes in the feeling thermometers
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not exactly a criticism but it's interesting, to me, that instead of the party issuing a 2024 autopsy a la the 2012 RNC one the Democrats have gotten a collection of 2024 autopsies from a couple of different, um, groups.
2 months ago
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in addition to the antisemitic TD celebration, âNFL refs make bad calls on purpose to impress their group chatsâ is up there for dumbest conspiracy theories I have ever heard
22 days ago
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Brendan Nyhan
22 days ago
Musgrave: "We are about to speedrun the rediscovery of why states stopped acting like this"
musgrave.substack.com/p/literal-co...
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Melina Much
22 days ago
Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new
@csmapnyu.org
piece for
@goodauth.bsky.social
shows heâs just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside todayâs surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. đïž
goodauthority.org/news/podcast...
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Jared Holt
22 days ago
A holiday classic
defector.com/the-2025-hat...
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The 2025 Haterâs Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because itâs such madness out there. Piper...
https://defector.com/the-2025-haters-guide-to-the-williams-sonoma-catalog?giftLink=76b7f08874a0f26ea88dc5bff638e484&utm_campaign=defector&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
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I know it doesn't feel like it from our POV but academia/science is not where Qualtrics makes its money.
23 days ago
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Kate Watson
23 days ago
For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solvâŠ
https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
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âHow do you make long distance work?â is a wild question to ask someone when the answer is âabusing government resources.â It was a kind of big story a couple of weeks ago!
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23 days ago
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any movie that you watch *because it is Christmas* is a Christmas movie
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26 days ago
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âRegardless of her chances, [Republicans are] probably correct in that sheâll be useful for their own fundraising as well. Thatâs the attention economy when it comes to politics: it rewards the fight, not the outcome.â
newsletter.tysonbrody.com/p/jasmine-cr...
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Jasmine Crockett's Blue Chip Strategy
What her FEC filings tell us about fundraising today
https://newsletter.tysonbrody.com/p/jasmine-crocketts-blue-chip-strategy?r=9v6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
26 days ago
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George Pearkes
28 days ago
Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you. Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
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one of the easiest things to look up when ~doing your own research~ into our health system is that we have literally never in the course of human history been better at keeping infants alive and healthy
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29 days ago
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Zander Furnas
about 1 month ago
hey if you study Congress and you could use estimates of status quo AND proposal location for over a thousand bills including many which never made it to the floor, we've got 'em!
www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
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David Lazer
about 1 month ago
Paper out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com
: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02358-4
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in current discourse parlance, Perriello was (and I expect still is) an *extremely* Above Replacement candidate
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about 1 month ago
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Death By Lightning is great for a lot of reasons but one of them is that they basically told Bradley Whitford that even though he was officially cast as a senator he could just do Josh Lyman for a bit again.
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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Tarantino's issue with Paul Dano's performance in There Will Be Blood seems to be that Dano...nailed the character he was supposed to be portraying?
about 1 month ago
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"it's a republic, not a democracy" right up until people expect you to actually care about how the scheme of representation will actually work. then it's "anything that doesn't cost you a presidential election goes"
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about 1 month ago
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Network Science Institute
about 1 month ago
New research from the
#NetSI
team + colleagues shows: groups with historically lower trustâwomen, Black people, rural and lower-income residentsâtrust scientists more when they share their identity. Greater representation across communities can boost trust in science.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
https://tinyurl.com/4tm8769p
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when final grades are posted >>>
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about 1 month ago
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Eliot Higgins
about 1 month ago
The real task isnât âteaching people to spot misinformation.â Itâs rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
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