Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

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Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.

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Brendan Nyhan is an American political scientist and professor at Dartmouth College. He is also a liberal to moderate political blogger, author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. .. more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Nov 24

My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)

The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."

Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

Where we are as a country

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8h

“Twitter is a defiant producer of illegal porn, the kidnapped president of Venezuela is on trial in New York, and Europe is scrambling to figure out a response to a potential US invasion of Greenland” ok bro, sure, those are things

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8h

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins

Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 9h

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.

mississippitoday.org

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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 9h

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

mississippitoday.org

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

I had no idea the material conditions in Iran had degraded so badly. As the speaker, Prof Fatemeh Shams explains later, these are explosive, borderline revolutionary conditions, much more serious than previous rounds of mass protest

The main thing that is important to keep in mind, and this is a significant change, is that it has become essentially impossible for the majority of the population to make ends meet. I don’t mean just the working classes or the lower classes. Even the majority of the middle class, who were still able to cover the cost of living until last year, are almost completely paralyzed at the moment. The cost of living has significantly increased, and one reason for that is the plummeting value of the country’s currency, which has led to an inability of merchants and traders to import goods from abroad. Then there is the extreme inflation and the lack of basic foods. My mom was just telling me that it has become hard to get cooking oil. The price of chicken has gone way up. Many small businesses have been shut down or are completely unable to operate. The government has been unable to manage the situation, and basically the society cannot survive anymore. This is a riot of a starving population. This is a riot for survival. Society cannot survive without being able to manage the cost of living.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 9h

Cool, cool.

"According to sources, Trump has asked Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and not be supported by Congress."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'

Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11h

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

As always: "The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing 'the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.'"

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Brendan Nyhan, Daniel W. Drezner

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12h

There was amazing restraint and heroism by the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department on Jan. 6, 2021. They were viciously attacked by rightwing extremists and rioters incited by Trump.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12h

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13h

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 20h

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings

A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

www.wsj.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

VPs almost always end up in this situation. What's different is Vance is posting his way through it (Trump may appreciate his attempted lib-owning there more than anything else he does).

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 1d

Shouldn't you be doing government shit?

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Normal stuff in a stable, consolidated democracy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 15h

There are partisan differences in conceptions of good citizenship, with Republicans more likely to view naturalized (and non-Christian) citizens falling short of the ideal.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 16h

This is Minneapolis:

-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

The video also allegedly shows the CBP agent saying “Do something, bitch” before shots were fired. In private Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to other officers: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough communicating that to fellow employees, it speaks to an irredeemable organizational culture.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

We should expect more from government than being "not crazy" and not write columns praising them for meeting this pathetically low bar statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/t...

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

For the gender studies is irrelevant files bsky.app/profile/pgou...

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d

what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn?

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