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David Kimball
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Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 5d
Senior Orange Order figures have written to Britain’s King Charles to “reflect on his coronation oath” over his praying with Pope Leo last month.
www.thejournal.ie/orange-order...
Orange Order leaders wrote to Britain's King Charles over his meeting with Pope Leo
The Pope’s historic meeting with Charles has come in for criticism from unionist figures in the North and elsewhere over recent weeks.
www.thejournal.ie

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, David C. Kimball

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you for your participation in this experiment by the Harvard Political Science department. The study has now completed successfully, with a positive result in finding the maximum amount of losing that is possible for new york to inflict on Cuomo

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Todd Pugatch, David C. Kimball , and 2 more

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 6d
Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka, John Kane , and 15 more

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Nick Valentino @nickvalentino.bsky.social · 9d
ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, David C. Kimball, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d
We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 11d
It’s a sign of the times that the people who funded the WelcomePAC report that’s telling Democrats they are “out of touch” with ordinary Americans are mostly billionaires, hedge fund managers, VCs, and corporate execs.
A horizontal bar chart titled “WelcomePAC Funding Sources” showing $11.29M in total funding from FEC data. The largest share comes from “Billionaires & Heirs” at $6.01M, represented by a long purple bar. Next is “Hedge Funds/VC/Private Equity” at $2.50M, also in purple. “Corporate Executives” show $0.30M and “Corporate Entity” $0.25M, each with very small purple bars. “Americans Together” is listed at $1.02M with an orange bar, and “Other” is $1.22M with a gray bar. The graphic emphasizes that most funding—over half—comes from billionaires and heirs, with additional significant contributions from finance and private equity. Source: Federal Election Commission.

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, David C. Kimball

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12d
The first big reason why NIH is irreplaceable?

Scale. The NIMH budget alone is $2.4 BILLION. NIH’s budget is around $48 billion. In comparison @hhmi.org is $1B, the fabulous American Cancer Society is around $150M. We are talking about the diff between millions and billions.
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Reposted by Kori Schake, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 16 more

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 14d
Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...
Chart showing Trump's net approval compared with this point in previous presidencies. In 2009, Obama's approval at this point was approximately +7, in 2017 Trump's was -16 and in 2021 Biden's was -7

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings , and 14 more

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Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social · 18d
Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Minutemen Bot @minutemenbot.bsky.social · 19d
Our band is scientist rock

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Michael A. Clemens, Mary Feeney , and 6 more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20d
Another disturbing example of how Trump silences dissent: "the chief content officer for our parent company... stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | I Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship
A veteran journalist says his bosses were afraid of crossing the administration.
www.politico.com

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, David Rothschild, David R. Miller , and 1 more

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20d
The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Mark A. Lemley, Brendan Nyhan , and 11 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20d
The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
graph showing 29 of 38 positions are vacant

Reposted by John Palfrey, Henry Farrell, David C. Kimball

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20d
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 23d
The most important article you will read today. This is simply not the America we love. I say this as a former national security professional who is very much pro law enforcement. The tactics used here are anathema to actual policing, against all TTPs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23d
51% of Americans say Trump is doing too much by executive order.
Chart showing: Roughly half of Americans (51%) say Trump is doing too much by executive order, while 6% say he is doing too little. About a quarter (27%) say Trump is doing about the right amount, while 16% are unsure. This is nearly identical to the public’s views in April. Today, 80% of Democrats say Trump is doing too much by executive order. Much smaller shares say he is doing about the right amount (5%) or too little (4%). More than half of Republicans (54%) say Trump is doing about the right amount by executive order. Roughly two-in-ten say he’s doing too much (23%), while 7% say he’s doing too little.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Lisa W. Fazio, Nancy Kanwisher , and 17 more

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 23d
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Kim L. Scheppele, David C. Kimball , and 2 more

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Oct 11
Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine
Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.
www.harvardmagazine.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, American Library Association, David C. Kimball , and 2 more

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · Oct 10
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Melissa R. Michelson, David C. Kimball , and 4 more

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Oct 9
Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

Reposted by Richard Price, Robert W. Wallace, Juan Cole , and 5 more

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · Oct 7
A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com

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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · Oct 6
As NYC’s Democratic establishment attempts to resist the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, we look back at another mayoral candidate who upset the established political machine. link.podtrac.com/829uwl76
Harold
When Zohran Mamdani won the primary race for New York mayor, the Democratic establishment's lukewarm response echoed the treatment of another charismatic, unconventional candidate decades earlier. Thi...
link.podtrac.com

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · Oct 4
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Michelle Boorstein @michelleboorstein.bsky.social · Oct 1
WOW. LDS church member launches GoFundMe for the family of the Michigan Mormon church attacker. So far they've raised $100,000. Comments include: "Praying for your family" "You and your family are loved," "We forgive him"
www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfo...
Help the Sanford Family
My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on September 28. Multiple families were left griev...
www.givesendgo.com

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · Oct 1
Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’
WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.
www.wbez.org

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Jan W. Mueller, David C. Kimball

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 28
The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.

It won 51 seats - an outright majority.

Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.

A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

Reposted by David C. Kimball

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · Sep 24
Moreover, @cselmendorf.bsky.social, Clayton Nall and I found that pro-housing policies are some of the **least popular** housing policies when you ask people which policies they prefer (x axis) and which they think would be most effective in bringing down costs (y axis.)

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Sep 23
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reposted by David C. Kimball, Timothy D. McBride

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Sep 17
“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.”

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co