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Nick Davis

@ntd.bsky.social

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political scientist at football-u @ http://nicholastdavis.com, outdoorsperson, gardener of two small humans, PI @ http://demos-lab.net, stuff older than 60 days self-destructs.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · Mar 17

curious to see whether SCOTUS permits Trump's abuse of constitution across lots of issues but rn it looks like trump take legitimacy. @matthewhitt.bsky.social and i are finally...finally forthcoming in AJPS talking at length abt a new era of judicial public opinion.

preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 1d

Federalism

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 2d

we spent a good like 5 or 6 years really obsessed with norms and norm violations when we probably should have devoted resources to understanding the properties and boundaries of support for the rule of law.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected?
Circular graph showing over half answered: much more than I expected, about a quarter: more than I expected, about an eighth: similar threat to what I expected, small sliver: much less threat than I expected.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 2d

the wages of sin : death :: the wages of publication : a mountain of reviews

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 2d

Pairs nicely with: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... Open Acess right now, to boot.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 3d

Fuckin sick and tired of watching jackboot bullies harass and hurt citizens.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 3d

prodege sample of american adults from april 2025.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 3d

the rule of law is not embedded in a sanitary set of procedural values but in the moral forces that give meaning to the substance of law.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 4d

very curious to see how JB Pritzker handles the rapidly accumulating bad press

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 4d

i wonder if the fine ppl at blue flower skunkworks realize that politicians can agenda-set

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 5d

media and politics fodder

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 5d

This may be as close as we’ll ever get to an official confirmation

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

www.theverge.com

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 5d

Whats sincerely wild is that this sum of money will not dent the underlying economics of input costs soaring while commodities are still shit. Bail them out all you want but the industry is in biblical trouble.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Right wingers say farmers will need a $50B bribe after Trump spent $20B to try to keep Javier Melei afloat after he poached US soybean markets.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Hill Republicans have been quietly working on their own proposal to find additional funding for the farm bailouts, according to four other people with direct knowledge of the matter. Some Republicans estimate they will eventually need to provide $35 billion to $50 billion in aid to farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 5d

New office lamp.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 6d

Too much cruel, too much stupid, too much bad.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 6d

shit-post personified

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 6d

Vance: I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries righ now, if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

hugely important distinction. in some ongoing survey work abt CN, we draw distinctions bw descriptive, banal CN (oh, the US is a "christian" nation) and prescriptive CN (lets do theocracy). this default vs. dominant culture dimension is super helpful for thinking thru what pushes people into 2nd bin

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

the first shit post government

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

www.npr.org

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

whats deeply, darkly ironic is that all that cutting edge technology and pretty bright steel proudly displayed at the annual farm progress show will no longer show up on American farms but conglomerates overseas. walking the streets of Decatur IL this year felt like parading abt the twilight zone.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

Shitheel to the bitter end.

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 7d

New: Last night in the Senate, Ted Cruz blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch

The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

techcrunch.com

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

I regret to inform @jongreen.bsky.social and @jlray.bsky.social that I now agree that golf is bad. Alas.

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 8d

“The behavior was pure misogynistic abuse, and it’s a growing movement in American culture right now.” www.glamour.com/story/the-mi...

The Misogynistic Abuse Directed at Rory McIlroy’s Wife at the Ryder Cup Is Deeper Than Golf

It shows a cultural shift, one in which men feel emboldened to attack women in public without shame or consequence.

www.glamour.com

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

Thx will inquire…appreciate that!

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

(not trying to score cheap points, looking to try and respond to a reviewer comment, lol)

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

hey @brendannyhan.bsky.social has bright line watch every explicitly surveyed their expert sample over whether the supreme court is a danger to democracy?

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 7d

thought they handled dealing with kimmel's monologue in a way that helpfully acknowledges a certain tackiness associated with the whole ordeal. made showing the video to a diverse student group much easier.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 8d

in intro am gov i break media and politics week into two parts: (1) economics of news, and (2) media effects. for (1), this CBC video on jimmy kimmel was SO good as an even-handed way of documenting why news concentration / consolidation and politicizing the bureaucracy (FCC) are so dangerous

How the FCC torpedoed Jimmy Kimmel | About That

YouTube video by CBC News

www.youtube.com

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 8d

hahah now this, this is good content.