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Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.
October 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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paigeperriello.bsky.social
“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans.”
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Oct 7
“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
wapo.st
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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quasimodox.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
sygma.bsky.social
Golden Hippopotamus = Nibelsnarf #Nightreign
February 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mgosketches.bsky.social
Happy Valentine's day! What's your favorite Fire Emblem ship? 🤔
February 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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drewharwell.com
The app that Donald Trump and then most of Congress said for years was a covert Chinese cyberweapon is again available for updates and downloads for its 170 million U.S. users in clear violation of the law thanks to Trump. None of this drama has ever made sense www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Google and Apple return TikTok to their mobile app stores
The app reappeared in Apple’s app store, and Google said it would restore TikTok to its own store.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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eiffel.art
Today is the 20th anniversary of Bulbapedia!!! The folks over there commissioned me to show off the cool side of Bulbasaur and I was more than happy to do so!
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
yep. Dems are getting absolutely killed in the Spanish language info environment
Yet all this underscores another problem, and it’s a deeply sobering one. It’s now clear that the Democratic Party’s undeniable deficit in the information wars, in which Republicans benefit from a massive media propaganda network while dominating more apolitical cultural information spaces, extends to Latino voters in a very big way. Casar pointed to the right-wing infiltration of Univision, the premier Latino television network, as a key turning point in these info wars. He also noted he had seen a marked uptick in right-wing propaganda via Spanish-language social media that distorts the Democratic Party’s economic plans and, tellingly, in misinformation that’s designed to turn more established Latinos against recent arrivals, dividing Latinos against one another. “Many of the voters most susceptible to right-wing disinformation are Spanish-speaking-only voters who have all sorts of propaganda dumped on them,” Casar told me. “A ton of it is in Spanish.”
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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suyidavies.com
Amoose-bush (but make it megafauna).
soxic.bsky.social Soxic @soxic.bsky.social · Feb 12
Absolute unit
February 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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mj644.bsky.social
Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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jamellebouie.net
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Feb 5
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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wario64.bsky.social
hoping it doesn't take another 6 years to get Onimusha 3 remaster
February 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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wario64.bsky.social
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Giveaway ends February 9th, 6 PM PT

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February 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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primogenitor34.bsky.social
"Mutantkind Will Prevail!" 🧲

#art #marvel #magneto
Magneto from Marvel Comics as he appears in the Capcom fighting game, Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3. He is raising his right fist into the air, purple energy radiating from it. The light casts a dark shadow over his left eye, completely shading the left side of his face in black except for a glowing blue eye. A speech bubble reads "You are beaten! Magneto is SUPREME!".
February 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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averagelilac.bsky.social Lilac @averagelilac.bsky.social · Jan 23
This video lost Warner millions of dollars
January 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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chrisrouleau.bsky.social Christopher Rouleau @chrisrouleau.bsky.social · Jan 28
‘Amazon Sucks’: Toronto art exhibit protests retail giant’s dominance:

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January 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence. “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked. Shumate said, “it absolutely is.” “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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atrupar.com
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January 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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korybing.bsky.social
Remember that fascists want you to feel hopeless and helpless. We are neither. Continue to be a pain in their fucking ass, even if that just means refusing to go away.
January 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
You’re all about to be gaslit about that Nazi salute and I’m begging you to spend no time on it. You know what you saw.
January 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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franklinleonard.bsky.social
SEEMS NOT GREAT.
bitmapx.com Benji @bitmapx.com · Jan 20
Elon doing the salute
January 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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junlper.beer
he wants to be hitler
January 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
We on the academic side tried to warn you what the coalition of forces backing Trump were. We tried to educate about the true threat musk and the Silicon Valley new right actually posed. Here is musk throwing Nazi salutes during trumps inauguration. This is what they have always been. Nazis in suits
Elon throwing a Roman salute at trumps inauguration.
January 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM