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eric gonzalez juenke
@egojunk.bsky.social
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Personal account. I study and teach racial and ethnic politics for work. Re-posting election twitter stuff. https://goodauthority.org/people/eric-gonzalez-juenke/
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 23h
Political science instructors living through the Hedberg joke, “I used to teach American government. I still do. But I used to too.”
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Don't look but after Solar boom, Batteries Hockey Stick of Hope is here.

Grid scale batteries are being installed at factories, farms, ports...

Rystad says: "Battery storage is no longer just enabling renewables — it is actively replacing gas generation."
www.rystadenergy.com/insights/ene...
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
egojunk.bsky.social
If they bring back outlaw country I’ll get my cowboy hat out of the closet. www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Charley Crockett sparks heated fan backlash with Trump 'grifter' comments
The Texas-born musician also called for the deportation of Texas-based billionaire Elon Musk and Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Please share: 2 weeks remain to submit a proposal for $3k for writing a paper using recent Pew-Templeton global datasets. We will support 19 projects. Submit by Monday, March 2.
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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lake-michigan.live
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
View of Navy Pier in Chicago from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2026-02-15 21:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 55.45 F | 13.03 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: NNW at 5.525 mph | 8.89 kph // Humidity: 55%
February 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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jacksantucci.bsky.social
Here’s an interesting AI development.
February 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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ceej.online
“hugging” is incredibly dark. someone needs to figure out what’s going on in new mexico. whatever it is, it isn’t good
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 2d
PornHub’s new VDay map is bleak. Age verification laws have done so much damage
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February 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
egojunk.bsky.social
Political science instructors living through the Hedberg joke, “I used to teach American government. I still do. But I used to too.”
February 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious "Nones"
free for all to read: https://sociologicalscience.com/download/volume-13/february/SocSci_v13_89to108.pdf
Academic and popular interest in nonreligion has risen in parallel with the growth of religiously unaffiliated populations. In many countries, census and survey questions used to measure religion have been modified to better capture nonreligious identities. Little attention has been given to how these changes in measures affect specific claims about the rise of the “nones.” Although there is no doubt that religiously unaffiliated populations have grown in many countries during the twentyfirst century, the degree of such growth has sometimes been exaggerated due to measurement effects. We review methodological issues that affect the estimates of the size of religiously unaffiliated populations and
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
egojunk.bsky.social
Hegseth is the most unknown of these folks, 1/3 dk who he is, and still the most disliked cabinet member. That’s impressive.
February 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
some bangers in here
haydonmp.bsky.social Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve gotta start building up my stock of nonsensical metaphors for life now that my Appalachian grandparents are all gone.

“Don’t go running back into a burning house just because it’s cold outside.”

“worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it won’t get you anywhere.”
February 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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debbiejsr.bsky.social
I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Boundaries of American Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us”
This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...
www.annualreviews.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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respol.bsky.social
@adamramey.bsky.social warns Big Five–politics findings may be distorted by who completes surveys. New data show Agreeable & Neurotic respondents finish at different rates, shifting estimated trait–behavior links—watch for selection bias.

Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 14, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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jkbjournalist.bsky.social
Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald
How we got here
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-year...
Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein coverage
The Miami Herald's original series, videos, timeline and more
jkbjournalist.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
egojunk.bsky.social
There's more. Osgood's brother is the singer Elvis Perkins, who he wrote a beautiful album about their mother, Berry Berrenson, who died on 9/11. Their father is Anthony Perkins from Psycho. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_h9...
rewatching legally blonde and realizing that’s osgood perkins
February 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
egojunk.bsky.social
Quantus Insights (B/C rating from N.S.) drive.google.com/file/d/1oJf0...
U.S. House (with leans) 🟦 Democrats: 48.4% 🟥 Republicans: 41.9% 🟨 Third party: 3.4% — Senate Control Preference 🟦 Democrats: 50.0% 🟥 Republicans: 42.5% —— Trump's net approval: (-13.2) —— • 2/12-13 | 1,515 LV | MoE: ±2.5% • Party ID with leans: R48.8/D43.4
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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amyfuller.bsky.social
Happy Valentine’s Day all! ❤️ What could be more romantic than listening to me dragging Hernán Cortés for filth on #YDTM? I had a great time with Jen Brister & @gregjenner.bsky.social & even got to call William Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC 😂 What a result!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests in 16th-century Mexico to learn about Cortés and Malintzin.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
egojunk.bsky.social
Have the TikTok kids discovered Elliot Smith yet? I'd like to be here for that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ROQ...
Elliott Smith - Whatever (Folk Song In C) (from New Moon)
YouTube video by Kill Rock Stars
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February 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM
egojunk.bsky.social
Must have missed this. Solid. [explicit language if you've never heard NIN] www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3m...
Nine Inch Nails - Closer But It's Funkytown By Lipps Inc.
YouTube video by William Maranci Mashups
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February 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
Signed away my privacy forever as a 14 year old on Instagram in 2012 yet obsessively shred my physical mail as if it’s 1980 and I’m being monitored by Soviet spies
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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susanrinkunas.com
NEW: For the second time in 2026, Kentucky state police have charged a woman with homicide after a pregnancy loss.

Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co
Second Kentucky Woman in 6 Weeks Charged With Homicide After Pregnancy Loss
Both women were criminalized after they sought medical care, one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion.
www.autonomynews.co
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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reginageorgebush.bsky.social
now that it's been called, the Globe is out with their Mejia postmortem on what this means for New Jersey politics, and I think it's worth your time
14 takeaways from Analilia Mejia’s stunning win - New Jersey Globe
When the New Jersey Globe ran a story in June 2025 about who might replace Mikie Sherrill, then the newly anointed Democratic nominee for governor, in the
newjerseyglobe.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
There will be people who are understandably desperate to hear this, but it's important to be clear-eyed about Rubio himself and what the Trump administration is doing. 🧵
February 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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What to do in 2026: Your statistics diary
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/14/w...
What to do in 2026: Your statistics diary | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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upshot.nytimes.com
Our weekly history quiz:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Feb. 14, 2026
Can you sort 8 historical events?
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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bradheath.bsky.social
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM