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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18m

Can’t study English these days because of anti-woke.

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 14h

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 38m

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2h

Think an underpriced 2029 scenario is "ungovernable mess".

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22h

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 23h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10h

It's always nice to stand back from a book manuscript... that's a lot of pages (and it ain't all of them!).

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 14h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h

But for who Chris Kamara?

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 13h

What is nick candy talking about? Did he grow up the son of a landowner in feudal times

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 12h

It's not, like, some minor paperwork mistake. If this is correct, ICE rammed a woman's car, threatened her derisively, shot her, and then wrote up a report claiming she drove at them.

Someone prosecute someone for perjury someday please.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 18h

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18h

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers,...

www.theguardian.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14h

Reform pushes for 85% migrant population certainly is a new direction for the party.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 17h

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 18h

In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

This image is from Los Angeles in 1992. What are you doing here?

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 21h

In what’s *not* racist this week: finding the growth of non-white populations ‘concerning’ or ‘disturbing’.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h

My latest on trust for The Big Issue... drawing on various research from our ESRC projects on anti-politics over the last decade.

There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?

As The Celebrity Traitors comes to our screens, academic Will Jennings looks at why we've lost trust in our institutions, and each other.

www.bigissue.com

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University of Southampton News @uosmedia.bsky.social · 20h

"Without trust, things fall apart."

@drjennings.bsky.social has written for @bigissue.com about the global crisis in public trust and how we can get it back.

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?

As The Celebrity Traitors comes to our screens, academic Will Jennings looks at why we've lost trust in our institutions, and each other.

www.bigissue.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h

‘Mounting concerns’ 👀

NPR @npr.org · 20h

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump's perceived enemies.

Bondi set to give testimony to Congress at first hearing since Comey indictment

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump's perceived enemies.

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 21h

Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid...

My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflation

www.ft.com/content/de31...

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 21h

I’m curious what the optimum level of Conservative>Reform defectors is for Reform. Too many familiar faces and big beasts would erode their ‘not-the-Conservatives’ brand.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22h

CNN: Trump says violence on streets of Portland is rising.

Still from the movie Heat; Robert DeNiro and Val Kilmer run in traffic holding high powered rifles.

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 23h

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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