A real tragedy that it has come to that. US could not ask for a better ally and neighbor than Canada. To throw it all away because a fading, deranged emperor-wannabe is grasping for relevance makes it even sadder. The ultimate sadness is how quiet American elites and American public are about this

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. You’re at war when you’re attacked, and we got attacked,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa. @financialtimes.com #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 www.ft.com/content/e3b5...

I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.

With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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New article published at the International Journal of Political Science with @ericmerkley.bsky.social and @stecula.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Here's a figure from a survey question I ran with @stecula.bsky.social and Alex Rivard last year. We asked people how home prices in their metro area compared to the national average and then binned those respondents into actual housing price quintiles.

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Kind of a funny bit in r/Sacramento where a post praises the NYC rent freeze only for someone to point out the rent peaked in 2022 and has dropped every year since. The status quo in Sacramento is literally better than a rent freeze! Rents down almost double digits in real terms!

Getting to work with Danna, Mike, and Dhavan was so fun and the research, imho, is pretty good too. Check it out. Hopefully first of a few from this team!

Mike Wagner@prowag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨New research! Joe Rogan’s audience is not exactly what conventional wisdom says it is. 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to report our study of Rogan’s audience is published! 2 datasets. 2 different years w range of socio-demog, political, trust-oriented, & epistemic predictors. (Also: Working w @stecula.bsky.social @prowag.bsky.social & @dvshah.bsky.social was stupid fun) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Joe Rogan Experience: Epistemic Style Over Ideological Extremity in the Manosphere

Despite increasing prominence in the contemporary media ecosystem, podcasts have attracted limited scholarly attention. This study examines audience characteristics of the most popular podcast in t...

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new WP (w/ @stecula.bsky.social): we infer show-level metadata for a large sample of popular politics and politics-adjacent podcasts, then merge it with survey data to characterize political information exposure for their audiences link: osf.io/ycujf/files/...

COYG

new WP (w/ @ntd.bsky.social): we use the case of Christian nationalism to make a broader point about "niche ideologies" in mass opinion research, and why you shouldn't scale them the same way you'd scale more general attitudes Link: osf.io/wbdut/files/...

Turning kids orange will obviously cure the children of autism, but the elites don't want you to know this

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

RFK Jr. clears path for minors’ use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists www.latimes.com/science/stor...

The best predictor of scientific impact isn't gender, seniority, methodology, or geography, it is the informal network of colleagues and mentors who provide guidance and feedback. We are often ignore the most important source of success--our social support network. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Negativity and Misinformation

There are large and growing bodies of research highlighting inaccuracies in news coverage. In this paper, we suggest that negativity biases account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccur...

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At The Pulaski Institution, we want to defend and promote liberal democracy by focusing on heartland areas. But for us, heartland isn’t a narrow or geographically limited thing. It’s not rural vs. urb...

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straight up Gestapo shit

This incident alone would have triggered hearings and probably a senior-level resignation in another administration.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Our BPP paper on government shutdowns, need for chaos, and prospect theory (w/ Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, Matt Hitt, and me). Here's the abstract and link for "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 9mo ago

2026 is the year we level up The Pulaski Institution in our mission to promote democracy in the heartlands. I’m so proud of what we’ve done so far on an almost non-existent budget, and I know we have a unique vision that is more relevant than ever. Won’t you join us? www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

2026 is the year we level up The Pulaski Institution in our mission to promote democracy in the heartlands. I’m so proud of what we’ve done so far on an almost non-existent budget, and I know we have a unique vision that is more relevant than ever. Won’t you join us? www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

On Jan. 5, Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jim O’Neill signed a memorandum that reduced the number of diseases targeted in the childhood vaccine schedule for all children to 11, just one more than Denmark's schedule.

There was simply no way to predict that the guy who renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War will start a war

The dream of back to back FIFA Peace Prizes is fading away

Unfortunately, now is the time to circle back

Pure, unmitigated hate.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 10mo ago

President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants on Tuesday during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the U.S. as he sought to refocus public attention on his anti-immigration rhetoric.

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration

Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.

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Oh please just fuck off

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