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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

For lots more context beyond Elliott's essay, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social & I have a forthcoming article in POQ on best practices for measuring & interpreting violent political attitudes, w/ tons of new evidence.

Pre-print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9blbj...

Appendix: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kc1i5...

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Ayesha Rascoe @ayesharascoe.bsky.social · 3d

On Oct. 1st NPR and public media lost its federal funding. But, we still here!

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 1d

I read the other day that 25% of Virginia’s power is now going to data centers — amazing stuff

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Hannah Bloch @hannahbloch.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to @npr.org’s Anas Baba on this wonderful, hugely deserved recognition of his “steadfast and factual coverage of the war in Gaza [that] is making a singular contribution to public understanding of the conflict at great personal risk.”

www.academyofdiplomacy.org/news/press-r...

Press Release | The Academy’s 2025 Ross Media Award Winners Announced | American Academy of Diplomacy

In a statement issued on October 6, 2025, the American Academy of Diplomacy announced that the winners of the 2025 Ross Media Award for Reporting and Commentary on the Practice of American Diplomacy a...

https://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/news/press-release-%7C-the-academy’s-2025-ross-media-award-winners-announced

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Michele Kelemen @michelekelemen.bsky.social · 2d

A well deserved honor for our colleague in Gaza.

www.academyofdiplomacy.org/news/press-r...

Press Release | The Academy’s 2025 Ross Media Award Winners Announced | American Academy of Diplomacy

In a statement issued on October 6, 2025, the American Academy of Diplomacy announced that the winners of the 2025 Ross Media Award for Reporting and Commentary on the Practice of American Diplomacy a...

www.academyofdiplomacy.org

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Jeff Brady @jeffbradynews.bsky.social · 1d

It's been four years since I took the gas stove controversy into an environmental epidemiologist's home to measure NO2 pollution from preparing a meal. The @npr.org story still holds up: www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1...

We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate change

Americans love their gas stoves, but they pollute homes and are connected to a supply system that leaks methane. That's part of a battle as more people face a decision about switching to electric.

www.npr.org

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto announces that she’s running for D.C. delegate to Congress, becoming the second member of the D.C. Council looking to replace longtime Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. (At-Large Councilmember Robert White is also running.)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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casey morell @caseym.org · 5d

highlight of the day: overhearing @ericm.cd having to explain what "being 'feral' for something" means to someone else in the newsroom

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 5d

yeah but it is broad enough that you can be horny on main for like, transit

or, say, public radio
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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

[The way I can think to put it: I'm past the point in my life where I can't imagine what he'd say to me. My life is so different now.]

^ that second post should read "can't", obviously.

Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

But I feel my own loss very keenly today — a birthday that I once, even in the years right after his death, had trouble remembering.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

My grief has always felt so selfish to me — so much of how I miss him and miss others is about how my own life would be different.

Imagining the experiences and feeling he has and will continue to miss, it is too vast to inhabit.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

What would it have been like to witness his giant body age, his mind? How would I be different? How would my family?

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

I also think about the ways in which I didn't know him and won't. The way all of our parents are different to us at different times in our lives. All the ways we are different selves, and then all the ways they are, too.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

The world, too, is different. Of course — it was always going to be but even in March of 2016 it was hard to imagine how.

He would, inevitably, individually, have thought differently about it then me, seen it from a different angle, and known enough about both of us to explain it from his vantage.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

I'm married, I feel professionally fulfilled and successful.

In this decade, I've also let important an relationship atrophy because I didn't have the emotional skills to handle it or know how to learn them.

I can't help but feel he could have told me how to rebuild.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

Today, it feels worse than it did a few years ago — which isn't what I would have expected.

The way I can think to put it: I'm past the point in my life where I can imagine what he'd say to me. My life is so different now.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

It's been nearly ten years since my step-dad died. October 2nd was his birthday. He would be 63 today, a fact that I had to look up.

Grief, nine years on, is an interesting thing.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

here is that shirt for everyone who sent me that reel
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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

i can’t share the joke here but it was a perfect five out of seven and i got left on read.

Here’s the LBJ remarks. donate to public media.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

anyway- thinking about that because I just video called my wife who’s 30ft away in the other room to tell her about a joke I told five days ago that I thought should have been better received

lotta miracles went into that

Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

when lbj signed the public broadcasting act he said that in our astounding technological age our problem wasnt making miracles but managing them

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 6d

when lbj signed the public broadcasting act he said that in our astounding technological age our problem wasnt making miracles but managing them

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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