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David Kimball
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Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10h
Sports stadium deals hand even more taxpayer money to billionaires missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/r...
Sports stadium deals hand even more taxpayer money to billionaires • Missouri Independent
Two recent stadium deals have set separate records for taxpayer giveaways to sports teams. They serve as further evidence that public officials are uninterested in curbing subsidies for billionaire te...
missouriindependent.com

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 1d
when women participate in non-violent protest movements (particularly those who fulfill archetypes of grandmothers or caregivers), those movements are more successful! new research in the APSR from Martin Naunov for example:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, David C. Kimball, Steven S. Taylor , and 2 more

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d
Prof Eliot Jacobson: And it's a wrap. The year 2025 came in at 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the 3rd warmest year on record behind 2023 (1.48°C) and 2024 (1.60°C), and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Christian E. Weller, Robert C. Richards , and 5 more

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 11d
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches

An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 13d
Pour one out. 🪦 m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 15d
Someone at FBI/DOJ was monitoring reporter Julie Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social), who broke the Epstein story, right around the time of his arrest on July 8, 2019: these flights were on July 6 and 8. The public deserves to know when her records were searched for. Before the arrest, or after? 1/

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Jan W. Mueller, Brendan Nyhan , and 18 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15d
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com

Reposted by Bonnie Honig, David C. Kimball

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15d
Newly discovered recordings show how far Donald Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/uicRmnz

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

Reposted by Bruce D. Baker, R. M. Wilson, James Goodwin , and 3 more

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CNN @cnn.com · 19d
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert C. Richards , and 1 more

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 20d
"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Shawn Graham, Alan Richardson , and 10 more

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 24d
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
an image quilt of epstein documents

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 25d
Brooke: "Count me in, actually."

Never forget: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Also, never forget: David Brooks left his wife of 28 years to marry his research assistant (on a book about "character").

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Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Alan Richardson, Michael Zimmer , and 6 more

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 28d
🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, David C. Kimball

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28d
Also from our agenda:

www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...
Billionaire Behind Trump Pressure Campaign on Colleges Owns Predatory University of Phoenix - Republic Report
Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...
www.republicreport.org

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Dec 10
In the last 50 years, return migration was at its peak when there was no militarized border.

(Massey, Pren and Duran 2016)

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
In order to assess the degree to which rising border enforcement accounts for this downward trend, we used a logistic model to regress returning within 12 monthsð1 if yes, 0 otherwiseÞ on the variables in table 1 defined for the year in which the trip was initiated. The results of this operation are presented in columns 3 and 4 in table 3. The coefficient on the instrumental variable for the log of the border budget is negative and significant, con- firming that rising enforcement did indeed cause a drop in the likelihood of return migration back to Mexico. Each point increase in the log of the Border Patrol budget lowered the likelihood of return by 41%.

Reposted by Brian Keegan, David C. Kimball

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Dec 9
The estimated median net worth of who’s running the country:

House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · Dec 9
"Do the rich have too much political power?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

YouGov / Dec 8, 2025

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Dec 9
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the #Administration of #Medicaid & #Elections Shapes #Mass #Voter #Turnout

By Meredith Dost

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · Dec 5
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · Dec 5
The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years.

But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, David C. Kimball, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Dec 5
Trump’s remarks about Somalis being “garbage” reflects the bigoted logic of an administration whose policies are designed to maintain an aristocracy of race and class www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Archon Fung, Richard S.J. Tol, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 22 more

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Dec 3
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

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"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms. 令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

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Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · Dec 2
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Reposted by Stuart Soroka, Scott L. Greer, Efrén O. Pérez , and 4 more

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Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social · Dec 1
Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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David Kimball @kimballdc.bsky.social · Dec 1
I hope they make public the list of districts they are pursuing. A good teaching tool

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Nov 30
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter. First, the college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student. College leaders contacted her on the day her letter was received and have maintained regular communication throughout the process. As previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted. The process resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignments. Second, the student reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate university office. OU has a clear process for reviewing such claims and it has been activated. The graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization of this process. To ensure fairness in the process, a full-time professor is serving as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester. OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs. The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Nov 29
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Michael D. McDonald, David C. Kimball , and 1 more

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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · Nov 28
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

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