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Dan Silverman

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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST) Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · Nov 22

🚨Publication day — my first book is out! “Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better” is a deep dive into factual misinformation in modern war and conflict, and why people do and don’t believe it. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

cambridge.org/9781009523585

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h

You assholes.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 16h

Kinda amazing that all the scores are exactly double, too

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 16h

New achievement unlocked!

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 19h

Oops, meant Idaho! Ha

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 22h

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, we just had a massive No Kings protest in June with an estimated 5 million people marching peacefully countrywide?

The only meaningful violence was AGAINST Dems & protesters that weekend by MAGA individuals -- the shooting of Hortman, a few attempted hit-and-runs vs. protests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 23h

I think you might be right, at least without something else. Settled on a picture of me holding the flag while protesting.

And nice read -- just skimmed. Was the "second dimension" of politics ever really second, I guess is the Q I see it asking

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 23h

Seriously. I'm thinking of putting "American Patriot" with a flag on all my social accounts but not sure how that'd play 🤔

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 23h

I know we've done flag posting on here, and obviously everyone rock what y'all want.

I'm going to have my giant, 6-foot-tall, Costco old glory.

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 23h

Pro-democracy forces should American flag the eff out of these protests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

A big early NO on the "compact" effort from MIT.

Seems like it is meeting reactions ranging from rejection to serious hesitancy at most schools

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Why am I pushing a button to start a car? It’s not a video game console

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

I turned off the Eagles game for mental health reasons

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Even Putin’s probably like, “c’mon man, have some class about it”

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

And why the shift, btw? Because the *anti-Israel* wing of MAGA (Tucker, Candace, etc.) has reared its head.

They never cared when it was Fuentes’s Jewish control tropes and MTG’s space lasers and Candace’s Ben should bow to Jesus, but now that it’s a threat to *Israel* suddenly some attention

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing that some of these folks are now admitting antisemitism happens on the right too, finally!

They’ve moved from “it’s all the left, they’re the new Nazis” to horseshoe-theory bothsidesism

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Yes though not at the scale she's talking about...ain't no country taking in 1 let alone 7 million

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

“A minute from victory, they threw it all away” — an astounding sentence to type and publish to the world

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

this man is actually so dumb it's statistically remarkable.

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 2d

worth pointing out: one of the many reasons Bibi didn't give a shit about the hostages is because they were all from Shaar haNegev, a region that, before the attack, was full of peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans and consequently did not vote for him.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2d

Chaim Peri told another Nir Oz hostage, who was released in the first ceasefire, that a general hostage deal would take two years, because "it's Bibi and we're leftists." He was subsequently murdered last year and never saw his prediction come true to within days.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately, we will need to get used to higher rates of terrorist attacks for as long as counterterrorism is deprioritized and under-resourced at the FBI. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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