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Will Jennings 🗳️

@drjennings.bsky.social

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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine the MAGA/Fox reaction if Obama had done this.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2h

America: for sale to the highest bidder.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2h

Making America Great Again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4h

He's really telling on himself here...

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 6h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4h

Killing dogs is pretty on brand for the GOP.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4h

This strikes me as wrongheaded. Younger producers should surely be more savvy about the circulation of misinformation online.

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: A false claim about Euan Blair found its way into Have I Got News For You.

It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.

Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.

A very online media class drinking in social media = danger:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

I keep learning of months old horrors and I follow this stuff very closely. I’m sure the level of brutality and misconduct has not fully reached the public. The population cleansing agents are out of control.

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 4h

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 5h

Surely that would have been a fixture/fitting that shouldn't have been removed?!

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 6h

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h

Declare your interest in this article! :)

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 9h

Really interesting- and, I think, welcome- to see MPs sharing this kind of data about casework.

Casework is largely invisible (other than to the constituents it helps!) compared to what MPs do in the Commons chamber but is a huge part of MPs’ workload, and it’s really hard to get robust data on it

Dr Beccy Cooper MP @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social · 10h

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 10h

Europe's new Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising rules kick in today. They set standards for ad labelling, spending disclosure and ad targeting. Unfortunately, thanks to Meta and Google deciding to leave the EU pol ads market, the effect of the regulation is very uncertain.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

James Austin Johnson really does an exquisite Trump impression. The latest SNL cold open is just 🎯

Pete Hegseth Cold Open - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

youtu.be

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

Sounds a perfect fit for the job…

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

I actually think it’s a success of the platform that he’s just irrelevant here.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe UK media could give some attention to this story, given how keen they were to cover Turning Point USA...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17h

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 19h

a lot of these "brave truth tellers" are EXTREMELY obedient followers of their metrics. as soon as they caught a scintilla of evidence that young men were hopping off the trump train, they decided it might be time to change course

that's a good thing

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 19h

I think some people have been in denial about the scale of the opportunity here but these guys have been quietly turning against Trump since like April

open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 20h

It wasn’t immediately clear what the charges are.

MAGA Beauty Queen Prosecutor Indicts Another Trump Enemy

It wasn’t immediately clear what the charges are.

trib.al

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20h

Jim Comey was first, but let's be clear: Donald Trump is coming for the rest of us too. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/we-are-all...

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h

Currently there is a very strong incentive for pollsters to be *interesting* (lots of PR!)

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, but in the current context we know from GE24 that they tended to show high Reform and Green vote share - so are prone to amplify current shifts...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22h

If somebody told you that a worm had eaten part of RFJ Jr's brain, you absolutely would believe them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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