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Brendan Nyhan
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Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.

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Brendan Nyhan is an American political scientist and professor at Dartmouth College. He is also a liberal to moderate political blogger, author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. .. more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22d
There is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on.

Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as @mashagessen.bsky.social writes, while we still can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 15h
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
Elon Musk Y @elonmusk X.com For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h
the chaos that agents are about to unleash as they are increasingly used by people with diminishing technical competence is going to be incredible. will be car crashes everywhere. this guy is a VC!
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 20h
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15h
This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h
because you can't see what PB was quote tweeting if you quote tweet him! obviously on team PB

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 15h
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 16h
The Champions League final in Germany last year opened with Linkin Park

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 16h
"The closure of the three centers resulted from a thoughtful review of interdisciplinary research centers over the summer and fall as part of Duke’s strategic realignment initiative" 😂
dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Duke shutters 3 research centers, including Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight
The timing comes just one week after Ariely was named hundreds of times in connection with Jeffrey Epstein in released documents. However, Duke said the two are unrelated.
dukechronicle.com

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 16h
Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real
Rohan Nadkarni @RohanNadkarni This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 20h
Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 20h
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h
I take the point but I don't think this line is as clear as you suggest & again your original post suggests it wasn't an experiment. here's a very similar study in a Nature journal using the term RCT in the same way www.nature.com/articles/s44...
& another example www.bmj.com/content/328/...
Effects of training on quality of peer review: randomised controlled trial
Objective To determine the effects of training on the quality of peer review. Design Single blind randomised controlled trial with two intervention groups receiving different types of training plus a...
www.bmj.com

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 22h
On FTN, @beckerdavidj.bsky.social refutes Trump's lies about the 2020 election, point by point.

He adds: "Democrats didn't somehow have the magical ability, while out of the White House, to steal an election in 2020 — and then forget to use that power in 2024 when they had the White House."
Election officials are "very concerned" about Trump voting push, says David Becker
David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research and a CBS News election law contributor, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that election officials are "...
www.cbsnews.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h
Unprecedented corruption

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