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Meredith Conroy
@meredithconroy.bsky.social
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Political Scientist at CSUSB studying gender and media, 538 contributor (RIP), & I lead research @ the Geena Davis Institute. Fan of elections & multiracial pluralistic democracy. Idahoan. Subscribe to Gender Gap: https://meredithconroy.substack.com
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Meredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 22d
Now on my substack, Gender Gap: 5 notable gaps discussed in 2025.

1. leaving the U.S.
2. marriage aspirations
3. social media use
4. loneliness
5. college plans

I picked these bc they signal how men/women structure their social lives and are imagining their futures.

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Line chart showing the share of men/women ages 18-40 who want to leave the US permanently from 2008 to 2025. In 2025, 40% of women, and 19% of men, in this age cohort say they want to leave. Line chart from 1993 to 2023 showing the share of 12th grader boys and girls who want to get married. In 2023, there is a 23 point gap, with girls less likely to want to get married. Bar chart showing share of men/women who interact with their friends on social media, and how often. 30% of men say "never" compared to 18% of women. Horizontal bar chart showing share of teen girls and teen boys who plan to go to college. 60% of girls but 46% of boys say they plan to go to college.
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cwolbrecht.bsky.social
Super, super interesting paper from Rosie Cooperman: "the two most distinct...partisans, D women & R men, are prominently featured in the opposing party’s negative messaging...D women as the focal point of negative messaging...has significant consequences for this group of officeholders."
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
meredithconroy.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this. Will share will my Mormon friends who I know struggle w/Trumpism but see the left as antithetical to religion. I think Talarico threads an interesting needle. Texas will be an interesting test case, if he gets thru the primary

Here’s a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
January 14, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
I asked Sen. Warren about Newsom's claim that he is against a proposed CA billionaires tax largely because of worries the super-wealthy will move elsewhere. She (politely) suggests his stance might be about courting donors. I agree. newrepublic.substack.com/p/elizabeth-...
January 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
this is superb data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
data4democracy.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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smotus.bsky.social
Thanks to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @newrepublic.com for a great conversation today!
Talking democratic erosion with Perry Bacon, Jr.
Discussing ICE, Powell, Venezuela, and Democratic narratives from 2024
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January 12, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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rincewind.run
a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular”

they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue
January 12, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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atherton.bsky.social
11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president
January 12, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit
wedge.live Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 3d
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
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January 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Checked in on X.
January 11, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good:

"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
January 10, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
The fact that JD Vance is the face of the administration’s attempts to smear Renee Good is noteworthy, because they always trot him out to defend whatever they know is indefensible. Both because he’ll say literally anything and because even they hold him in contempt.
January 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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ryanenos.bsky.social
I always thought the term "cosplaying" was overused until ICE/CBP started showing up everywhere. Look at this guy, does he think it's Fallujah? (It's a high school in Minneapolis).
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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niemanlab.org
In the aftermath of Good’s killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, it’s clear some news organizations were better equipped than others to analyze the visual evidence provided from bystander videos. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/when...
When just showing the video isn’t enough: Minneapolis shooting puts news organizations to the test
When everyone has seen the same videos, what service do news sites provide?
www.niemanlab.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
Bannon called his version of this “flooding the zone with shit” and the point is to undermine a shared sense of reality. This is also why fascists love AI, it makes knowing what's real impossible.
billthepony.bsky.social BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 6d
I can never find the interview but in Early stages of trump 1 I heard conversation with a Russian propaganda expert...

And their point was that the Russians don't actually try to persuade anyone... They just offer a buffet of answers so that someone can pick their own "true" answer...
January 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
A Republican elected official proudly declaring he has no problem with agents of the state shooting unarmed citizens in the face if they annoy the regime.

It is impossible to make democracy work with a party that not only tolerates people like this, but elevates them to positions of influence.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Rep. Randy Fine: "If you impede the actions of our law enforcement as they seek to repel foreign invaders from our country, you get what's coming to you. I do not feel bad for the woman that was involved."
January 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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jazzmyth.bsky.social
still seeing a lot of chatter about grok and not a lot on how to deal with being targeted. i wrote this last year and it has details on how to document abuse and who to go to for help removing images. 19thnews.org/2025/05/take...
Here’s how you can use the Take It Down Act
The 19th explains how the new law on nonconsensual intimate imagery will be implemented — and how you can request the takedown of explicit images created or shared without permission.
19thnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
Less than a month to submit your abstract on Abortion Storytelling in State Politics! See more info below ⬇️
politicsgenderj.bsky.social Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Dec 9
✨Call for Submissions✨

A team of scholars is soliciting abstracts on Abortion Storytelling in State Politics. The collection will be featured in a Critical Perspectives proposal for Politics & Gender.

🗓️Deadline: February 1, 2026.

Read the call in the link below:

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CFP reads "Abortion Storytelling in State Politics: Critical Perspectives Proposal"
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
You can draw a draw a straight line from a right wing YouTuber's unverified viral video about Somali American daycares to ICE showing up in Minneapolis to this killing.

This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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drewharwell.com
. @maryannefranks.bsky.social to @tatumhunter.bsky.social: “All law, in order to be effective, has actually got to mean something to the person who is potentially going to violate it, right? They have to be scared that they’re going to be punished in some way" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
X users tell Grok to undress women and girls in photos. It’s saying yes.
The site is filling with AI-generated nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. Owner Elon Musk responded with laughing emojis.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
An ominous but essential read today, five years after January 6: "Democracies are often undone not only by successful coups, but by the normalization of failed ones."
dziblatt.bsky.social Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 8d
Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)

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January 6 in Historical Perspective
January 6, 2026
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January 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
should probably be a bigger deal that the vice president's favorite intellectual is a dull nazi bsky.app/profile/leah...
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8d
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”

A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:

“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin X.com I get a lot of questions about this tweet. Hitler was right that Anglo-American elites in the 1st half of the 20C were irrevocably hostile to German sovereignty, and defeat, diplomatic, political, military or economic, would lead to Weimar at best, Moscow at worst Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin • 5d Germany got Hitler because there were too many subjects about which only Hitler spoke the truth. This made a lot of Germans regard Hit!... 6:30 AM • 1/6/26 • 18K Views Curtis Yarvin @curt.. • 56m Hitler genuinely believed he was fighting a race war against an international Jewish conspiracy. Not a trace of evidence of any insincerity. When he bombed London his plan was to wake up Kipling's Saxons from their Jewish hypnosis. Of course he had never been to London Curtis Yarvin @curt... • 52m The live players whose actions match the models of "realist" statesmen are Hitler's enemies. If FDR or Stalin ever did anything that did not point in the direction of total world domination, I am unaware of it. Sure, their plans did not always work out. The first time Curtis Yarvin @curt... • 48m g When we look at the Jews in FDR's circle, they are perfectly assimilated as WASPs and mostly of German aristocratic descent. The only way to tell is the name and the nose. ••• The Jews around Stalin are 100% Bolshevik and 100% terrified of him. They might as well be Latvians Curtis Yarvin @curt...• 45m While there is never 0 ethnic solidarity, elite Western Jews consider ethnocentrism (for themselves) shameful and barbaric, and/or make elaborate excuses for it / jokes about it. Not that they're not excited about black ethnocentrism or terrified of white ethnocentrism. They are Curtis Yarvin @curti... •21m g ... It's not even untrue that on average, Jews are a little less American than WASPs, and maybe even neurologically divergent from the Albion's Seed populations, not just in IQ but also in personality traits. Genes are real. But my brother in Christ, these are very subtle effects Curtis Yarvin @curti... • 16m It wasn't Jews who first decided that there was some magic way to make all Somalis, Samoans, Sikhs and Senegalese into Americans. Oh no. This is a 19th-century mainline Protestant missionary trope. Core Boston mindset. "Imagine"
January 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
meredithconroy.bsky.social
Is this a Sebastian Maniscalco impersonation?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
checking in on the president:
January 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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awmercer.bsky.social
Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience
Data Archivist
Position Summary Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessib...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM