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Ioannis Ziogas

@ziogas.bsky.social

Politics and Data Science. Assistant Teaching Professor @Georgetown.

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Ioannis Ziogas@ziogas.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Join me next week as I talk to flat earthers about their feelings and the tinfoilers about lizard people living under DC"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Still amazing that the official government policy is universities can't do DEI except for hiring professors whose politics better align with the regime in power.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s latest effort to overhaul higher education. The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Absolutely galling that RFK Jr.'s attack line here is that there is not empirical evidence to support public health claims he disagrees with when a) the vast majority of public health scientists disagree w him and b) he fired scientists for that very reason. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...

On Monday, RFK Jr. told the CDC Director, Susan Monarez, in place for just over a month, to accept two conditions if she wanted to keep her job. First, he wanted her public support for his policies to limit access to vaccines. Monarez is an infectious disease scientist who has served in government for a long time. In effect, RFK Jr. was asking that she lend her personal credibility as a scientist, and the credibility of CDC, to his anti-vax policies. She demurred, saying she needed to talk to senior staff at CDC. Second, Kennedy ordered her to fire those staff. Since they are career civil servants, it would be illegal to fire them without cause, although this has become the norm now in the Trump administration. For example, career officials at FBI were fired for refusing to fire their fellow civil servants without cause. Monarez refused both requests.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

"You were scaring people. That was the job of CNN" -- RFK Jr attacks Dana Bash over her claim that the covid vaccine worked. Bash ends up telling him to stop and tries to pivot to measles.

Ioannis Ziogas@ziogas.bsky.social · 3d ago

Well, I am a scientist and I have read much of the literature. In short: multiple distinct causal hypotheses have been actively tested, using different populations, countries, study designs, vaccine formulations and exposure measures, and a link between vaccines and autism is consistently absent.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Dana, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist BASH: Well you're not either! RFK Jr: I know you're flustered now

Ioannis Ziogas@ziogas.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tony Fauci happens to be my colleague at McCourt. Met him during a dean's dinner in 2023 and we connected talking about our daughters. You cannot find a more kindhearted guy. What the GOP has done to him makes my face red with rage.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Some data points on the right-wing obsession with Fauci. He was: *mentioned 687 on Fox News and 740 times on Newsmax in a four day period. *compared to Hitler and Epstein, and declared a mass murderer by multiple prominent right wing media stars who called for his imprisonment.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d ago

Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

Ioannis Ziogas@ziogas.bsky.social · 5d ago

Step 1: pay more because tariffs increase prices. Step 2: pay more to subsidize farmers who are affected by tariffs. Step 3: have farmers vote for MAGA again. Step 4: ...profit??

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "America's farmers have had some tough breaks. A bumper crop in Brazil made it so prices went down globally, disruptions in the gold made fertilizer prices go up. And it's really really important we help farmers." (Trump's tariffs are the biggest culprit but he can't acknowledge that ... )

Ioannis Ziogas@ziogas.bsky.social · last wk.

What a profoundly stupid thing to say. 13 billion doses administered worldwide. Extremely well-documented safety profile. Yet the MAGA base is more likely to side with the virus than the vaccine, because science is "communism."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s the paper I wanted to call “Freedom Costs a Buck Oh Five” (I’ve shared it before but now you’re getting _lore_): how much will Americans (say they will) pay at the pump to accomplish foreign policy goals? academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Pay Any Price? Measuring Americans’ Willingness-to-Pay for Sanctions on Russia and China

Abstract. Economic sanctions appear to be an inexpensive means for wealthy countries to punish or coerce targets. Not all sanctions are, or will be, cheap,

academic.oup.com

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2w ago

As unpopular as the Iran war is, the coverage still doesn't do justice to the fact that they just could have not done any of this. There was literally no reason beyond general bloodthirstiness and incompetence.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse