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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 6d

One of the constants of college football is that James Franklin does not prove his critiques wrong

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6d

Previously winless UCLA upsets Penn State

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Merlisa @merlisa.com · 12d

Trump is trying to make the Michigan attack on the Mormon church an attack against Christianity.

But many of his MAGA Evangelical followers don't consider Mormons Christians.

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 13d

To be sure they were not there, but all their friends were

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 13d

This is my step father's stake building

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13d

BREAKING: Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan and the shooter is down, police say.

Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and shooter is down, police say

Police say multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan and the shooter is down. Local police said in a social media post that the shooting occurred at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 13d

Im sick. This was an attack meant to kill as many members of my community as possible

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

MICHIGAN: “Multiple people shot at a Mormon church 50 miles north of Detroit… church on fire…” apnews.com/article/morm...

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 16d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 19d

Against the Packers no less

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20d

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.

Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 20d

Was it this one? Not by Berman, but sounds kinda like your description

The End of the Backsliding Paradigm | Journal of Democracy

Like the “transition paradigm” before it, the concept of democratic backsliding threatens to flatten our perceptions of complex political realities. Examples from East-Central Europe illustrate the…

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 22d

The history of American political violence is one that will test your resolve to read through atrocity after atrocity in a nation that claims to be a beacon of democracy.

Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 22d

#tdih 1868 Camilla Massacre, Albany, Georgia

After being expelled from elected office, African Americans & a few whites bravely marched to attend a political rally.

Fired upon by whites in town, & pursued as they ran.

Followed by weeks of #votersuppression 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

Sept. 19, 1868: Camilla Massacre

As African Americans marched peacefully in response to their expulsion from elected office, more than a dozen were massacred near Albany, Georgia.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 22d

Someone always beats me to it!

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 23d

📊 Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum?

➡️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki &
@drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 24d

Political parties are when two people watch west wing together

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 25d

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 26d

Goff having 300+ yards and as many incompletions as touchdowns is insane

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27d

trivia time!

Q: how many nfl teams are named after animals?

A: 4 (eagles, bears, jets, marlins, suns)

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 28d

Three plays in and I have no idea what's happening on this UCLA vs New Mexico game

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29d

Ezra Klein, watch this.

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · 29d

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · Sep 7

God is punishing them for their awful uniforms, and will is his rod

Grant Mitchell @grantmitchell.bsky.social · Sep 6

Classic banger

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