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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 17h

Alito is like 30% of the reason the standard of care needed to be politicized because he doesn't rule based on medical or social evidence of harm from laws that prevent care.

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

Justice Alito, in full troll mode, said states can't fully rely on medical consensus to determine what's the standard of care because that consensus has sometimes been politicized and "taken over by ideology." He then cites Buck v. Bell the case about eugenic sterilization (though he misquoted it)

Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 20h

...or youth restricted.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 4d

This new Taylor Swift album is for anyone who married the person that carried the costume/prop boxes into the theater for them without being asked.

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 5d

In approving a drug, the FDA is giving its stamp of approval that it is safe and effective.

Yes, this FDA. Said that about mifepristone.

US FDA approves another generic version of abortion pill

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Evita Solution's generic version of the abortion drug, mifepristone, the regulator said.

www.reuters.com

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 6d

Whip is an elected senior leadership position in the House and I'm annoyed they edited to erase her title rather than correcting her ranking.

Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 12d

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: In my investigation for @prismreports.org published today, I report on how rare it is for women to obtain H-2A agricultural visas to work in the U.S. When they do, many report experiencing gender-based violence:

She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse.

A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking

prismreports.org

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 14d

Just another totally normal day in political science. 🫠

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 15d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 15d

And I was unfortunately proven correct on framing:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Update from Maggie Astor

www.nytimes.com

Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 15d

Selectively applying findings in ways that contradict the researcher's conclusions is a form of censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 15d

Acetaminophen is one of the few medically approved pain relievers during pregnancy due to a lot of factors (including how we do clinical trials). Sowing doubt over Tylenol with no alternatives says we are okay with pregnancy being painful b/c we mistook a R-squared value for reality.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 19d

I saw this Playbook take in my inbox and wanted to send Adam your book.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 19d

no absolutely not no www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Weighted vest women are the 2026 swing voters

Meet the new midterm swing voters: They broke for Donald Trump in 2024, they're a toss-up for 2026 — and they're wearing weighted vests all over your neighborhood.

www.politico.com

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 20d

I am a political scientist and my nemesis word is bureaucracy.

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 21d

Hello, I'm a professional author and I can never spell permanently or camouflage on the first try.

Come, make me feel better and share your nemesis words.

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Daniel Ruggles @ruggles.bsky.social · 22d

New piece in The Conversation on Kirk and why his vision for education in America is so important for our understanding of the conservative movement.

theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk talked with young people at universities for a reason – he wanted American education to return to traditional values

Charlie Kirk’s education beliefs have deep roots that predate the MAGA movement and trace back to the 1960s.

theconversation.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 25d

See this great reporting in the Verge for more information and analysis www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme

The suspected shooter left a hodgepodge of extremely online taunts.

www.theverge.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27d

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.

People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 29d

Notoriously anti American Robert Dahl, who <checks notes> fought in the front lines during *D-Day* before becoming a political scientist.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29d

One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:

lol wat

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 29d

I only touched the surface of this while in Congress but there is a huge research opportunity here to show how coordination between grassroots parent groups, providers, and politicians realized a different future for children and families in NM.

KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 29d

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…

www.krqe.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 5

He's exploiting what sociologists call the availability heuristic: the more people hear about something, the more common they assume it to be.

If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/

Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · Sep 5

Kennedy on a media tear to make it seem like he’s got widespread support. The anti-vaxx movement has been very very good at using social media to appear huge, when it has in fact been a small but vocal and well-organized minority with opinions way outside the mainstream. Unclear whether it’ll work.

Post from the bad place — Calley Means on Fox News with Jesse Watters supporting RFK jr

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are living in a D+ undergrad paper on Max Weber.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Sep 3

In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago.

"If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary."

h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social

"If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary."

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