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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 22d

Damn we’re all going to have an epic battle for that package 😂

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 27d

People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation.
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Conspiracy belief and the willful ignorance of information

The idea that conspiracy believers are prone to willful ignorance is widespread, yet many seemingly supporting studies lack designs suited to test thi…

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 28d

Uh oh this is what I get for not reading the news for a bit. If a news happens when you’re not reading the news, does it really happen?

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 7

That’s a really good one!!

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

The takeaway:

👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Taking this as a given and building more robust political movements that can overcome this behavior is now mandatory to get anything done or be part of the conversation. Let’s go!

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 2

It was a good blueprint (apparently!)

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 2

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

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Thinky Parts @thinkyparts.bsky.social · Jul 20

I only have like 2 shirts with writing on them, but I want this.

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 20

Whatever you do, don’t sneeze while you’re holding coffee

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 11

a man on a stage wearing a white shirt that says " it 's a pa "

ALT: a man on a stage wearing a white shirt that says " it 's a pa "

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 11

It’s so good. Still. So good haha

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Am watching Napoleon Dynamite right now. That’s all. Happy Thursday and happy whiskey lemonades

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 10

Never fear, you just blame the bad stuff on the spending part and credit the good stuff to the tax break part!

Politico @politico.com · Jul 9

The GOP blew past debt warnings as they pushed the megabill forward. The markets have noticed.

Wall Street’s debt warnings went unheeded as GOP pushed megabill forward

Treasury bond yields have crept up as market watchers openly wonder if either party is capable of improving the nation's fiscal trajectory.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Jul 4

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 4

Yes. This is in fact what each VP did.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Jul 4

Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July!

249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jun 28

Can’t vote them out without voting machines and nonpartisan tabulators!

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · Jun 27

Joseph Carens, a poli sci prof at Toronto, said that national borders are like feudalism — if you happen to be born into the manor (ie hold a ‘good’ citizenship) the system seems right and proper to you, but there’s nothing you can say to the serf in the field to justify *their* lack of opportunity,

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Jun 23

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him

In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…

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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · Jun 17

Can someone please put Trump in the simulator already? He can have all the ketchup and well done steak and underage blow jobs and big red buttons and phalic missiles he wants in there

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 14

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Jun 4

This is part of why we need contingency plans. “The NIH isn’t going to fund this research for a while so stop doing it” is extremely short-sighted and harmful. We need people to have more vision than that.

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Jun 3

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 2

how it started / how it's going

Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship

Executive order Jan 20, 2025.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Jun 2

The Tr*mp administration’s interference with publishing scientific research/opinions and the appointment of someone with no scientific knowledge or expertise to make public health decisions should remind us all of Lysenko, whose incompetence and pseudoscience led to millions of deaths.

I’m no historian, but this all seems pretty relevant… #greenscreen #science #research #nejm #jama #lancet #nih #nsf #va #veteranshealth

TikTok video by Dr. Arghavan Salles

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