Ioannis Ziogas
@ziogas.bsky.social
Politics and Data Science. Assistant Teaching Professor @Georgetown.
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Ioannis Ziogas
@ziogas.bsky.social
· Aug 1
I predict economic depression by Jan 2026.
Operational definitions, how do they work?
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Operational definitions, how do they work?
A crash every ~10 years or so, always under GOP presidents.
1973: Nixon
1981-82: Reagan
1990: Bush (Sr.)
2001: Bush (Jr.)
2008: Bush(Jr.)
2020: Trump
1973: Nixon
1981-82: Reagan
1990: Bush (Sr.)
2001: Bush (Jr.)
2008: Bush(Jr.)
2020: Trump
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A crash every ~10 years or so, always under GOP presidents.
1973: Nixon
1981-82: Reagan
1990: Bush (Sr.)
2001: Bush (Jr.)
2008: Bush(Jr.)
2020: Trump
1973: Nixon
1981-82: Reagan
1990: Bush (Sr.)
2001: Bush (Jr.)
2008: Bush(Jr.)
2020: Trump
A member of the conservative intelligentsia, a giant of thought who recently said the earth may be flat, is definitely not going to lie about this or be duped by a hoaxster who told her "zee french" are trying to get her.
A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A member of the conservative intelligentsia, a giant of thought who recently said the earth may be flat, is definitely not going to lie about this or be duped by a hoaxster who told her "zee french" are trying to get her.
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When asked why they make up lies for the right-wing instead of the left, the fake news creators said, "Look man. We tested everything. We write made-up stories for the right and the left. The left is not gullible enough."
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
When asked why they make up lies for the right-wing instead of the left, the fake news creators said, "Look man. We tested everything. We write made-up stories for the right and the left. The left is not gullible enough."
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
These fawning sycophants are really enamored by dictators, aren't they?
Trump’s special envoy Witkoff put his hand over his heart when Putin walked in the room. Like he’s reunited with a loved one. That really tells you all you need to know.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
These fawning sycophants are really enamored by dictators, aren't they?
Much like my crackpot neighbor who challenged the scientific orthodoxy that the earth is round.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Much like my crackpot neighbor who challenged the scientific orthodoxy that the earth is round.
Rewarding an aggressor with territorial gains, while punishing the victim for fighting back, only ensures the aggressor will strike again.
Ukraine (and the EU) should reject this plan and tell Trump and Putin to go pound sand.
Ukraine (and the EU) should reject this plan and tell Trump and Putin to go pound sand.
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Rewarding an aggressor with territorial gains, while punishing the victim for fighting back, only ensures the aggressor will strike again.
Ukraine (and the EU) should reject this plan and tell Trump and Putin to go pound sand.
Ukraine (and the EU) should reject this plan and tell Trump and Putin to go pound sand.
Yup, that is a clear tell.
The Guardian reports that the U.S. plan incl several lines that were certainly drafted in RU before being translated. In EN they sound unnatural and out of place.
Example, 3rd point: “Russia is expected not to invade neighbouring countries, and NATO is expected not to expand further.”
Example, 3rd point: “Russia is expected not to invade neighbouring countries, and NATO is expected not to expand further.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yup, that is a clear tell.
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
It's not sedition to disobey an *unlawful* order.
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's not sedition to disobey an *unlawful* order.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
RFK Jr. is on the case.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RFK Jr. is on the case.
Exactly the definition of a circular investment loop.
Quite interestingly, the small (but honest and full of integrity) team of Gamers Nexus has done a couple of deep dives in this recently that have resulted in them being blacklisted from these companies.
Quite interestingly, the small (but honest and full of integrity) team of Gamers Nexus has done a couple of deep dives in this recently that have resulted in them being blacklisted from these companies.
The biggest business in the world is selling chips to tech companies, using the revenue to invest in tech companies, using that investment to have those tech companies buy chips, which generates revenue and loan collateral to use to invest in tech companies, who buy more of the chips, and so on.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Exactly the definition of a circular investment loop.
Quite interestingly, the small (but honest and full of integrity) team of Gamers Nexus has done a couple of deep dives in this recently that have resulted in them being blacklisted from these companies.
Quite interestingly, the small (but honest and full of integrity) team of Gamers Nexus has done a couple of deep dives in this recently that have resulted in them being blacklisted from these companies.
I wonder how the media would have reacted if Obama or Biden had said the same thing.
I mean, HRC said "deplorables" and the media lost their collective minds.
I mean, HRC said "deplorables" and the media lost their collective minds.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wonder how the media would have reacted if Obama or Biden had said the same thing.
I mean, HRC said "deplorables" and the media lost their collective minds.
I mean, HRC said "deplorables" and the media lost their collective minds.
First time a report was cancelled since BLS started releasing employment data in Oct 1915.
Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
First time a report was cancelled since BLS started releasing employment data in Oct 1915.
I hope all the billionaires and corporations looking at this get chills about what's coming in a year.
Trump may be seemingly all powerful now, but things will change fast -- and we will remember who enabled him.
Trump may be seemingly all powerful now, but things will change fast -- and we will remember who enabled him.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I hope all the billionaires and corporations looking at this get chills about what's coming in a year.
Trump may be seemingly all powerful now, but things will change fast -- and we will remember who enabled him.
Trump may be seemingly all powerful now, but things will change fast -- and we will remember who enabled him.
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This is such a routine story at this stage, including the second act: "my friends turned on me when I betrayed our shared ideals - so much for the tolerant left."
"Random Person Leaves the Left" is never not front page news on The Free Press.
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
This is such a routine story at this stage, including the second act: "my friends turned on me when I betrayed our shared ideals - so much for the tolerant left."
There is a condition in psychology called "preemptive projection."
It is a defense mechanism where a person attributes to others feelings, traits, or behaviors that they themselves possess but find unacceptable.
Trump exhibits all the signs:
It is a defense mechanism where a person attributes to others feelings, traits, or behaviors that they themselves possess but find unacceptable.
Trump exhibits all the signs:
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
There is a condition in psychology called "preemptive projection."
It is a defense mechanism where a person attributes to others feelings, traits, or behaviors that they themselves possess but find unacceptable.
Trump exhibits all the signs:
It is a defense mechanism where a person attributes to others feelings, traits, or behaviors that they themselves possess but find unacceptable.
Trump exhibits all the signs:
We are governed by a club of corrupt sex-trafficking apologists.
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are governed by a club of corrupt sex-trafficking apologists.
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This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
I have been in the US for about 15 years and I still cannot accept that DC and Puerto Rico are not states, but Wyoming is.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I have been in the US for about 15 years and I still cannot accept that DC and Puerto Rico are not states, but Wyoming is.
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Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
Learning loss didn’t come from “lockdowns” or remote instruction.
It COMES FROM (still happening) illness.
Illness caused by COVID.
Illness that makes kids miss school and teachers miss teaching.
SICK DAYS. And the vascular damage that causes incapacity to think & retain.
This is still happening.
A Department of War (Studies) should only exist at King's College.
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A Department of War (Studies) should only exist at King's College.