Darin Self
@darinself.com
Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- working to make democracy work locally:
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Darin Self
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This year I became the chair of the Democratic Party in Utah's second largest county.
I'm working to build a real party from the neighborhood up, but we don't get support from the national party.
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I'm working to build a real party from the neighborhood up, but we don't get support from the national party.
If you want to help, you can donate here:
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Yet another poll that has Trump in the mid-30s approval.
It really does seem like support is falling quickly.
It really does seem like support is falling quickly.
I check in at Fifty Plus One courtesy of @gelliottmorris.com every day. One of the polls added to the average today is a "Wow. Holy shit that's bad" one.
americanresearchgroup.com/economy/
americanresearchgroup.com/economy/
Trump Job Approvals and The National Economy
americanresearchgroup.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Yet another poll that has Trump in the mid-30s approval.
It really does seem like support is falling quickly.
It really does seem like support is falling quickly.
This will significantly hurt all my home states (Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) which rely heavily on tourism to our national parks.
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This will significantly hurt all my home states (Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) which rely heavily on tourism to our national parks.
Turns out violently threatening members of a congress worked.
Completely undemocratic
Completely undemocratic
Indiana Republicans reversed course and said they would vote on the new congressional map that President Trump has sought.
Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
Republican leaders in the legislature backtracked and said they would vote on a new congressional map that President Trump wants, though support remained uncertain.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Turns out violently threatening members of a congress worked.
Completely undemocratic
Completely undemocratic
Does anyone on here have experiencing recruiting progressive sheriffs? This is one element of being a county chair that is a problem I don't know how to solve.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Does anyone on here have experiencing recruiting progressive sheriffs? This is one element of being a county chair that is a problem I don't know how to solve.
Not a bubble
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Not a bubble
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
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OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.
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Will say it again: We the People don’t need (& shouldn’t want) our military to take unilateral action to remove a President. That would be a coup. We need our military to remain professional, disciplined, subservient to civil authority — & quietly stay in the barracks when ordered into the streets.
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Will say it again: We the People don’t need (& shouldn’t want) our military to take unilateral action to remove a President. That would be a coup. We need our military to remain professional, disciplined, subservient to civil authority — & quietly stay in the barracks when ordered into the streets.
Looks like the Utah GOP is potentially going to expand the state supreme court as they also challenge the maps that blew a hole in their gerrymander.
Gov. Cox implies he will be watching the legislature on any bills targeting the judiciary.
The governor says he does support expanding the Utah Supreme Court, and the Utah Court of Appeals. He thinks amount of litigation and ruling timelines are too much. Same for district court (needing resources)
The governor says he does support expanding the Utah Supreme Court, and the Utah Court of Appeals. He thinks amount of litigation and ruling timelines are too much. Same for district court (needing resources)
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Looks like the Utah GOP is potentially going to expand the state supreme court as they also challenge the maps that blew a hole in their gerrymander.
Chelsea have Estêvão, Cole Palmer, and Moi Caicedo?
Oh its gonna be a good few years.
Oh its gonna be a good few years.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Chelsea have Estêvão, Cole Palmer, and Moi Caicedo?
Oh its gonna be a good few years.
Oh its gonna be a good few years.
Just typed poli-psycho instead of poli-psych and apparently the institutionalist in me can't help but take a swipe and political psychology.
two men are sitting next to each other and one of them is talking to the other .
ALT: two men are sitting next to each other and one of them is talking to the other .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just typed poli-psycho instead of poli-psych and apparently the institutionalist in me can't help but take a swipe and political psychology.
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If you are on BBC live, you know what to do
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you are on BBC live, you know what to do
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
(I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)
Send them all to the Hague
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Send them all to the Hague
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oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
All the news is like this or "Large firm to layoff thousands of workers" and the stock market is like "Nvidia confirms contract with Microsoft -- Dow up 1,000 pts".
Consumer confidence falls to lowest in seven months as concerns grow about high prices and a weakening job market https://cnn.it/4ririCu
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
All the news is like this or "Large firm to layoff thousands of workers" and the stock market is like "Nvidia confirms contract with Microsoft -- Dow up 1,000 pts".
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
Its still early in the stage of research, but I am convinced that the death of the institutional church helped undermine pluralistic conservatism
The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Its still early in the stage of research, but I am convinced that the death of the institutional church helped undermine pluralistic conservatism
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Judge Chutkan agrees: there's something very fishy about the way Pam Bondi and her team have managed the Epstein files, and it's time now for the DOJ to come clean by complying with FOIA requests looking into internal communications.
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Judge Chutkan agrees: there's something very fishy about the way Pam Bondi and her team have managed the Epstein files, and it's time now for the DOJ to come clean by complying with FOIA requests looking into internal communications.
The answer to "why don't they just get rid of Johnson" is they can't agree on someone else, so they are using levers to try to undermine him.
Five discharge petitions have succeeded since Johnson became speaker.
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The answer to "why don't they just get rid of Johnson" is they can't agree on someone else, so they are using levers to try to undermine him.
Some consultant ran a focus group and there was "yeah, we'd be ok if Dems swore more"
ergo time to do some fundraising texts with cuss words
ergo time to do some fundraising texts with cuss words
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Some consultant ran a focus group and there was "yeah, we'd be ok if Dems swore more"
ergo time to do some fundraising texts with cuss words
ergo time to do some fundraising texts with cuss words
This rule holds on the internet even for supposedly progressive people. People are willing to say something about Mormonism that they would never say about any other religious minority.
There's no possible good reason but I'm wondering what the bad reason is for so many college kids thinking that basic rules about human interaction just do not apply to Mormons
this does seem to happen an awful lot, doesn't it
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This rule holds on the internet even for supposedly progressive people. People are willing to say something about Mormonism that they would never say about any other religious minority.
Reposted by Darin Self
There's no possible good reason but I'm wondering what the bad reason is for so many college kids thinking that basic rules about human interaction just do not apply to Mormons
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There's no possible good reason but I'm wondering what the bad reason is for so many college kids thinking that basic rules about human interaction just do not apply to Mormons
This is them laying the groundwork for an invasion?
Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is them laying the groundwork for an invasion?
My "I'm not Enron" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My "I'm not Enron" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt