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Teacher, Professor, lover of art history, historian, and poet. I believe in constitutional republics and the power of democracy. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” From Vonnegut’s third novel ‘Mother Night’

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Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Florida spends less on public education today than they did before the Great Recession, when adjusted for inflation.

Average teacher pay has decreased in Florida by 11% in the last 10 years when adjusted for inflation.

Tell me again how Florida's government has done right on public education...

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Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 12d

...certain parts of social media? It seems for some that outrage is very selective.

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 12d

Over the weekend, in a span of 24 hours, there were 6 mass shootings across the states of North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, and Michigan.

Just curious, with the deaths of so many from gun violence in such a short period of time, where was the outrage from...

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sasha @krassotkin.bsky.social · 18d

Jimmy Kimmel said, "Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway."

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Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 18d

Statement from Tylenol:

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Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 19d

When one faction complains of malfeasance from the faction in “power” and then employs that same malfeasance to the extreme when they are in power they lose all credibility and prove their outrage was never about principles — it was only about power.

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 19d

I'm a high school history teacher and college adjunct professor and this entire thread is what I love so much about my field! Y'all rock!

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 19d

...dropped cautioned against making policy changes based on their study until a lot more studies could be done to see if they're actually right or not.

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 19d

One falsehood after another in this announcement. And please don't take my word for it. Look up each individual claim made for yourself. Heck, even the researchers involved in the one study he name-... www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up

President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. Ther...

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Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 20d

Free speech wins
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ABC ends Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and his show will return Tuesday

ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after suspending it due to his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...when they occur.

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...compared to right-wing extremists, according to PIRUS and related datasets.

Islamist extremism shows similar levels of violence as right-wing extremists in some examples, but its number of incidents in the U.S. tends to be lower; globally, Islamist extremist acts tend to be more deadly...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...Right-wing extremism remains the ideology most associated with violence in the U.S. in recent years — in terms of frequency of plots, number of attacks, and lethality/homicides.

Left-wing extremism is significantly less likely, statistically, to produce violent extremist acts...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...most of these studies, both in number of incidents and in severity, when compared with right-wing or Islamist extremist acts. But some recent public discourse suggests perceptions of increase; hard data is still less strong.

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Bottom Line (Post-2018)

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...always sharp.

** Islamist extremism in the U.S. sample**: Although it shows up in data, its frequency is relatively lower compared to right-wing extremism in recent years, especially in terms of plots and attacks within the U.S.

Left-wing extremism remains a small share in...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...acts may go under-reported or misattributed.

Definition issues: What counts as “violent extremist act” vs “plot” vs “attack” can vary. Also, distinguishing between extremists vs criminal/non-ideologically motivated violence is not...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...recent decades.

Far-left extremist homicides are much less frequent, and their incidence has declined relative to far-right over time.

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Limitations & Unresolved Questions

Data lags and reporting bias: Many datasets are slow to update, and some extremist...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...3. Ideologically Motivated Homicides (Far-Left vs Far-Right, 1990-2020)

A study of ideologically motivated homicides (i.e. killings tied to extremist ideology) shows that far-right extremists commit more of these homicides than far-left extremists in...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...committed about two-thirds of attacks/plots in 2019, and up to ~90% in the early part of 2020.

Religious extremism (e.g. Islamist) remains a concern, but in the U.S., right-wing extremist violence has been more frequent in number of plots and incidents...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...accounted for, and the pattern holds after controlling for these.

2. Trends in Terrorism & Violence Incidents since ~2019

Right-wing extremists continue to account for a large share of terrorist plots and attacks in the U.S. For example, a CSIS analysis found that far-right individuals...

Uniped Professor @unipedprofessor.bsky.social · 25d

...acts. In the U.S. sample, no statistically significant difference was found between right-wing and Islamist perpetrators in terms of likelihood to engage in violence.

Some control variables (age, education, prior criminal history, etc.) were...