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Adam Berinsky

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Adam J. Berinsky is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the 2004 book Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America and the 2009 book In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq. .. more

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Three of my neighbors were forcibly illegally detained over night by masked ICE agents who refused to show ID, my youngest kid died of measles, and I can’t afford to feed the other two, but at least I sleep easy at night knowing the damn Jew at the bagel shop has to say “Merry Christmas” this year.

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 15d

I talk about worms in fast food hamburgers. Goes back to my elementary school days and keeps coming back.

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FACT CHECK: Is Worm Meat Used in McDonald's Hamburgers?

Does McDonald's use worm meat as filler in their hamburgers?

www.snopes.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19d

The East Wing has learned its lesson.

by Susan Collins

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21d

This Is It

Top Gun Trump thought Kenny Loggins would say "I'm alright" having "Danger Zone" playing in a video where he turns a peaceful protest into Pooh Corner. That's what a fool believes, Donald. Kenny may have a footloose, but he doesn't have a screw loose.

by Maureen Dowd

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 21d

Just taped a great conversation -- it is available at the link below, both next week on October 28th, and as a on-demand recording a few days after if you can't make that time.

Belief, Misinformation, and Democracy url:https://www.92ny.org/event/belief-misinformation-and-democracy

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 25d

My first job as a grad student in the Summer of 1995 was to write abstracts for all the reports. I learned a lot that summer.

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 25d

Yesterday in my grad class I mentioned the ANES Pilot Study reports from 1979-mid 2000s. Great in-depth description of how some classic scales were developed and tested.

electionstudies.org/papers-docum...

Pilot Study Reports - ANES | American National Election Studies

electionstudies.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Oct 12

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Oct 10

Great news. Proud to be part of the MIT community today.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 30

I can’t believe how depressing it is to watch Trump crush norms, and institutions and to wonder if people are noticing.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 25

Anytime I give a talk I always tell my audience “you are weird because you came to hear me talk about politics.” Most of the people, most of the time, don’t pay attention to politics.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Sep 25

I feel like I occasionally need to remind people who post frequently about politics on here that the NYT focus group people probably have more individually idiosyncratic ideologies than you do, but in terms of political attention/engagement, it is very much you and not them who's the weird one.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Sep 25

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 21

Thanks to @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social for bringing up this paper. Politicians gain power by reputation. Sometimes undeserved reputation

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 9

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky &
@gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism

gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Sep 15

Charlie Kirk’s killing has proved that Bari Weiss was right all along.

by Bari Weiss

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · Sep 12

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

Reposted by Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Adam J. Berinsky , and 3 more Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Adam J. Berinsky, Efrén O. Pérez, Claire L. Adida, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm extremely excited to participate in this (virtual) conversation about my book, with fellow Umich polisci alum Yanna Krupnikov!

Belief, Misinformation, and Democracy url:https://www.92ny.org/event/belief-misinformation-and-democracy

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 5

Low hanging fruit

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 4

I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.

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