Colin Woodard

@colinwoodard.bsky.social

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Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org

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Colin Strohn Woodard is an American journalist and writer known for his books American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011), The Republic of Pirates (2007), and The Lobster Coast (2004), a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine. He is known for his writing that examines how the historically distinct regional cultures of America shape its current politics, society and health status. .. more

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 4h

This person is running for governor of a state being terrorized by Trump’s gendarmes, and she can’t break out of the “Vote for Me,
I’m Useless and Nonthreatening”talking points.

Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 4d

Romance alert: Trump's reckless tariffs have Valentine’s Day costs up across the board:

Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5h

I know you’re wrong about most things, but this is one of your wrongest takes yet.

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5h

This is so incredibly wrong in every way it’s hard to even respond to. Leaders lead. Public opinion is plastic on a lot of issues. And if yiu don’t get that, you shouldn’t be writing about politics.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 10h

A critique I hear of me sometimes is that I don’t believe in changing public opinion.

What I would say is that I don’t really think *working politicians* should be focused on changing opinion, that’s the job for everyone else — go out and persuade someone!

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5h

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 8h

"You have to vote for us.”

Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg

Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, James Goodwin , and 1 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, James Goodwin, Colin Woodard

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 10h

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds

How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.

newrepublic.com

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 1d

And Susan Collins confirmed him. (And Kavanaugh, who also told her obvious lies about what he would or wouldn't do.) #MEpolitics

NPR @npr.org · 1d

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

n.pr

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

n.pr

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Ann Bartow, Suzanne Conklin Akbari , and 2 more John R. Hutchinson, Ann Bartow, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Dana Howard, Colin Woodard

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.

“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer, Mark D. White , and 6 more Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer, Mark D. White, American Library Association, Gernot Wagner, David R. Miller, Joanna L. Grossman, Colin Woodard, Fiona Armstrong

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn't moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to Thomas Urquhart for this thoughtful review of Nations Apart in Maine's Portland Press Herald (@pressherald.com). "Urgent, and could hardly be more timely."

www.pressherald.com/2026/02/11/c...

Confronted with national divide, Maine historian looks back in time

Colin Woodard's ‘Nations Apart’ warns about the perils of autocracy.

www.pressherald.com

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, David Lazer, Brendan Nyhan , and 10 more Nina Jankowicz, David Lazer, Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka, Samuel L. Perry, Juan Cole, Sanford F. Schram, Gerald Friedman, Sarah Roberts, Joanna L. Grossman, Aviel Roshwald, Colin Woodard, David Darmofal

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 2d

Sketches from today's hearing:

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/bondis-con...

Bondi's contempt for the Rule of Law

The attorney general testifies before the House Judiciary Committee

anntelnaes.substack.com

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 2d

And when he’s not even running for re-election. Guy has a screw loose.

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d

Jared F-ing Golden, #MainePolitics.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

The 6 Rs who crossed the aisle to block Trump's Canada tariffs:
Thomas Massie
Don Bacon
Brian Fitzpatrick
Jeff Hurd
Kevin Kiley
Dan Newhouse

Jared Golden (D) voted with the Republicans to maintain them.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible that this many Republicans are still backing Trump on this wildly unpopular policy.
They'll now have to do it again after Trump vetoes and an override vote is held.
Just generating mountains of votes for midterm ads.

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d

The collapse in US commitment to the free world, charted.

Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 3d

Quite the chart

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d

I think mine was Where the Red Fern Grows, but it’s fuzzy because I would have been 5 when it came out in 1974.

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, and that terrible Godzilla (1998) at the theater on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands with a bunch of Bikini test survivors in the audience.

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d

Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Car Wash (1976)
The Shining (1980)
Welcome to Sarajevo, premier in open air theater in still-ruined Sarajevo (1997)

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 3d

Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION TO END TRUMP’S CANADA TARIFFS BY 219–211

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich, Howard Williams , and 3 more Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich, Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Kurt Iveson, Colin Woodard

David J Bradley @davidjbradley.bsky.social · 3d

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: The IRS admitted to improperly sharing confidential taxpayer data with ICE.

In 2025, we sued the Trump admin to stop this data sharing — and this admission confirms that the IRS’s decision to bow to ICE was reckless.

Trump's mass deportation agenda puts everyone risk.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Mark Rice, Colin Woodard , and 1 more Linda J. Skitka, Mark Rice, Colin Woodard, Virginia Sapiro

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

Reposted by Kori Schake, Robbert Sanderman, Kevin O’Rourke , and 9 more Kori Schake, Robbert Sanderman, Kevin O’Rourke, Steve Peers, R. Daniel Kelemen, Jacob T. Levy, Jaap H. Abbring, Jason Lyall, Wolfgang Huber, Nicolai von Ondarza, Colin Woodard, Andrew Defty

Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 3d

Quite the chart

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

So Trump has one of the worst ever Gallup approval ratings, and now Gallup is going to stop tracking approval? thehill.com/homenews/med...

thehill.com

Reposted by John Maynard, Paul Nightingale, Colin Woodard

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 3d

Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d

Open sewers. #NaturalWaste

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Steve Peers, Andrew Rudalevige , and 2 more Linda J. Skitka, Steve Peers, Andrew Rudalevige, Manisha Sinha, Colin Woodard

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.

www.404media.co/government-l...

Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On

A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.

www.404media.co

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

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