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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 9h

didn't realize we were adding Tylenol to the lenny bruce jewish or goyish bit

Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 12h

I would like to hear RFK, Jr. explain why as soon as push actually came to shove on linking vaccines to autism he pivoted to blaming Tylenol for autism.

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 15h

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 16h

fair, fair

Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 16h

this was basically taking that idea and putting it on 2016 data as best I could www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Floating policy voters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Much of the political science literature is skeptical that issue content matters for presidential voting behavior, with partisanship, social identity,…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d

I try to avoid this genre of post but man how would we all feel if Joe Biden accidentally posted what was meant to be a DM.

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d

kit match

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d

not the way I did it here unfortunately, but in principle should be doable

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d

paper's here (Weiss's show is in Table B.10): osf.io/gbkn5

it's mostly based on network position (as a guest, Weiss is in the conservative high-level block; her show in the 'pop intellectual' high level block but a more conservative lower-level block). shows also get scaled w/ pairwise comparisons

OSF

osf.io

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d

not that anyone on this website needs convincing, but, to the extent I've been able to put numbers on stuff like this using podcast data, yes bari weiss is a conservative

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 1d

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d

IR, comparative, theory

Evangeline Warren @evangelinewarren.com · 3d

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

the coach of the KC Chiefs, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. From left to right they are wearing (1) a very normal grey suit with red tie, (2) a newsboy cap in brown with a shirt that looks like a bad motel wallpaper, and (3) a barbie-esque italian table cloth vest

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d

We voted!

Cute picture of my daughter with an I voted sticker

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d

I think this makes sense for both sides! Cleveland wants to to get a rookie or two some reps, making Flacco surplus. Cincinnati knows that Browning can't hack it as a full time starter, and can upgrade for the price of moving back one late round pick.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d

cool paper on how you can use LLMs to evaluate how responsive answers are to questions at scale, using data from Canadian parliament. could easily see applying this to, say, Senate hearings in the US. for, you know, no special reason. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Measuring the Quality of Answers in Political Q&As with Large Language Models | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Measuring the Quality of Answers in Political Q&As with Large Language Models

www.cambridge.org

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d

I for one object to the president deploying federal military forces to cities over the objections of their local leaders. like chicago, or oregon. bsky.app/profile/npr....

NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d

unfortunate and incorrect use of an Oxford comma here

NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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Evangeline Warren @evangelinewarren.com · 3d

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 3d

literally doing the “who?? Jeff Epstein??” bit

Collins: The supreme court rejected the appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her conviction.

Trump: Who are we talking about?

Collins: Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Xu Xu @xuxupolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 3d

Alarming news this morning that Social Security head Frank Bisignano has been named “CEO” of IRS, a move that raises 3 major concerns:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...