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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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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d
Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...
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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 3d
A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com
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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 5d
As NYC’s Democratic establishment attempts to resist the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, we look back at another mayoral candidate who upset the established political machine. link.podtrac.com/829uwl76
Harold
When Zohran Mamdani won the primary race for New York mayor, the Democratic establishment's lukewarm response echoed the treatment of another charismatic, unconventional candidate decades earlier. Thi...
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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Michelle Boorstein @michelleboorstein.bsky.social · 10d
WOW. LDS church member launches GoFundMe for the family of the Michigan Mormon church attacker. So far they've raised $100,000. Comments include: "Praying for your family" "You and your family are loved," "We forgive him"
www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfo...
Help the Sanford Family
My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on September 28. Multiple families were left griev...
www.givesendgo.com
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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 10d
Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’
WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.
www.wbez.org
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12d
The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.

It won 51 seats - an outright majority.

Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.

A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17d
Moreover, @cselmendorf.bsky.social, Clayton Nall and I found that pro-housing policies are some of the **least popular** housing policies when you ask people which policies they prefer (x axis) and which they think would be most effective in bringing down costs (y axis.)
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, David Lazer, Linda J. Skitka , and 17 more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17d
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Reposted by David C. Kimball, Timothy D. McBride

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d
“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.”

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 24d
I guess nothing matters anymore but what the vice president is saying here is demonstrably untrue.
See Kalmoe & Mason (2022) and just about any other academic study on US political violence.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25d
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
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Reposted by Martin Kreidl, David C. Kimball, Timothy D. McBride

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 25d
Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy.

More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪
Figure 1.7 illustrates the extent to which countries that spend more on health have better health outcomes. There is a clear positive association between health spending per capita and life expectancy at birth (Figure 1.7). Among the 38 OECD countries, 18 spend more and have higher life expectancy than the OECD average (top right quadrant). A further 11 countries spend less and have lower life expectancy than the OECD average (bottom left quadrant). Of particular interest are countries that deviate from this basic relationship. Eight countries spend less than the OECD average but achieve higher life expectancy overall (top left quadrant). This may indicate relatively good value for money of health systems, notwithstanding the fact that many other factors also have an impact on health outcomes. These eight countries are Korea, Spain, Italy, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia. The only country in the bottom right quadrant is the United States, with much higher spending than all other OECD countries but lower life expectancy than the OECD average.
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Reposted by Jon Green, Daniel W. Drezner, David C. Kimball

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 25d
Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 26d
Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave

This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 27d
Really striking that the movement that campaigned vigorously against cancel culture as un-American is demanding now that people get fired because they posted "disrespectful things" about Kirk after his assassination.

wapo.st/48fwqAi
Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts
Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.
wapo.st
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29d
Emerald Fennell Assures Fans ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Be Faithful Adaptation Of ‘Twilight’ https://theonion.com/emerald-fennell-assures-fans-wuthering-heights-will-be-faithful-adaptation-of-twilight/
Emerald Fennell Assures Fans ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Be Faithful Adaptation Of ‘Twilight’
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Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, David R. Miller, David C. Kimball

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Sep 9
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
Declaration of Independence
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Reposted by David C. Kimball, Seth Masket

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · Sep 8
David Brooks is desperate for "lefties who are willing to spend money fighting poverty but also willing to promote the traditional values and practices that enable people to rise” and I feel like he should go to any mainline Protestant Church on a Sunday
Opinion | Why I Am Not a Liberal
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, David C. Kimball, Maria Abreu , and 3 more

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Sep 7
AfD loses. Badly, and in the first round. It’s just a mayoral election, but Meißen is the heart of Saxony and as the thread points out, AfD invested a lot in this race.
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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · Sep 7
Es ist offiziell: Markus Renner ist der neue Oberbürgermeister von Meißen. Der Kandidat von CDU, der Unabhängigen Liste Meißen, den Bürgern für Meißen, der SPD und der Linken holt im 1. Wahlgang 58%.
Die blaue Welle bleibt aus. AFD-Kandidat Jurisch bleibt weit unter den BTW-Ergebnissen der AFD.
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David Kimball @kimballdc.bsky.social · Sep 3
“The gerrymandering battle has a historical precedent. It’s a warning we should heed.” electionlawblog.org?p=151883
"The gerrymandering battle has a historical precedent. It’s a warning we should heed." #ELB
Alex Keyssar oped in The Boston Globe: The framers of the Constitution — assembling in 1787, a time when political parties did not exist — chose to leave it to the state Legislatures to decide how to ...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Aug 31
Hard-Nosed Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says
www.nytimes.com
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Aug 29
This is a really excellent, "America, what went wrong" article (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
www.nytimes.com
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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · Aug 28
🎉Now online (open access): "Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems" at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. @alicirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, Gary Cox, @fiva.no. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28
A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
www.foreignaffairs.com
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Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · Aug 27
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires
www.theguardian.com
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Aug 26
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 24
"the Third Way memo reads less like an audit of Democrats’ language and more like a list of terms Republicans tell us Democrats are saying"
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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · Aug 23
Free important article idea: misperceptions about which party says these phrases the most
dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/was-it-som...
Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo
dcinboxinsights.substack.com
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Aug 22
My class on the racial wealth gap is always a good excuse to show more people the Fed Reserve’s quarterly wealth estimate from Distributional Financial Accounts. This graph shows their estimate that white wealth increased by 45 trillion since 2019. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
Chart tracking wealth by race from 2019:Q1 to 2025:Q1
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 20
New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick.

Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...
Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign
Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern
donmoynihan.substack.com
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