Rob Mickey
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Rob Mickey
@robmickey.bsky.social
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Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
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Did I mention I've got most of a book manuscript written on free speech and democratic backsliding? It examines the response to these developments by courts in Europe, the U.S., India, and Brazil. Stay tuned
Hey, Gallup: Plato taught Aristotle, not the other way around!!
Part 2: bsky.app/profile/aedw...

Part 3!

151. Gallup, 1952: "NOW HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS WHICH MIGHT BE USED IN A RADIO OR TELEVISION QUIZ PROGRAM. MOST OF THEM ARE FAIRLY HARD. LET'S SEE HOW MANY OF THEM YOU CAN ANSWER. WILL YOU TELL ME WHO PLATO WAS?"
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Latest updates on “Reconnecting Communities” news, arrayed along two axes: one comparing progress towards reconnection vs. the opposite; and another transformative change (for better or worse) vs. incremental. More info and links: www.segregationbydesign.com/reconnection...
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I haven't seen anyone else say this but if IFK doesn't slide the Blue Jays win in the ninth
Stop sliding into home on force plays.
This slaps
For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series

2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves

2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros

2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers

2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
If ANY of that stuff on his wikipedia page is true, I really need to read up a lot more on this whole "working-class" thing:

--two professional parents
--a grandparent was a "modernist architect" (I would love to pretend to be a modernist architect)
--graduated from Hotchkiss
Turns out to be used by the Nazis lmao that’s a hell of a phrase
He is comparing Byrd, an actual klan member who had a redemption arc, to a guy who has always been a lefty and drunkenly got a skull and bones tat that turned out to have been used by Nazis. It is insane to compare those two things. What arc is he referring to? This is insane.
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What an MVP this guy was.
Yamamoto threw 130 pitches over two days.

His line in the Series: 17.2 IP, 10 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 15 K
Well, that sucked, but I have to say my faith in humanity -- if Bluesky were humanity -- has been partly restored. Nice to see all you nerds watching baseball!
Vlad leads off but Isiah K-F ran for Bo Bichette....yikes.
This is quality.
If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE
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There's fortitude.... then there's mossing your teammate at the track in the bottom of the 9th of game 7 in the World Series after coming in the game 9 pitches ago
Great point, Albertson!!
We do have an extra hour to work with
If the Red Sox were in this, my kids would be deliberating over whether I should be defibrillated (worried that the son would be a "no").
Huge congrats to my amazing colleague Nick Valentino (@nickvalentino.bsky.social) and the ANES team! They are doing great things in less-than-great circumstances.
ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
Yep. Even in NHL. AI says: "percentage of games with a fight was much lower in the postseason (0.13) compared to the regular season (0.54) and preseason (1.14)."
baseball nerds--has this ever happened in a WS game?
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
The last, say, 12 months have been so exhausting in part because of the constant shocks to the system. Today's is the biggest.
TIL, thanks to the great @megsokay.bsky.social, that Aimee Mann wrote "Save Me" about her romantic relationship with Dave Foley?!?!?!?

www.thecurrent.org/feature/2012...
Bozells gonna Bozell.
That’s Brent Bozell III, founder of the Media Research Center, nephew of William F Buckley and one of many Council For National Policy members who worked to oppose anti-apartheid efforts in the 1980s. Also, his son was one of the first rioters inside the Capitol on Jan 6. Got four years for it.
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
Cruz is definitely running. Good way to separate himself from Brownshirt-curious JD.
Cruz, McConnell slam Heritage president's defense of Tucker Carlson (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

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"go to TikTok. See for yourself."