Evan W. Sandlin
ewsandlin.bsky.social
Evan W. Sandlin
@ewsandlin.bsky.social
Political Scientist. I study public opinion.
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There's been a lot of research showing increased vaccine hesitancy attitudes among Republicans since COVID-19. My new paper shows that this is reflected in post-COVID Flu vaccine behavior.

academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
The politicization of influenza: partisan changes in flu vaccination before and after COVID-19
AbstractBackground. Democrats are more likely to be vaccinated for COVID-19 than Republicans. It is unknown if political polarization surrounding the COVID
academic.oup.com
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The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.

People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days

Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.

In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.

CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.

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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.

Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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ICE and masked federal agents are continuing their brutal raids across US cities — targeting homes, workplaces, and public spaces with military-style force — and detaining thousands of community members including children.
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Alabama plans to execute Boyd with nitrogen gas tomorrow, an experimental method that involves suffocating prisoners to death. “There’s nothing you can do to prepare for something like that,” Boyd told me. “You can’t prepare a person for drowning.”

For more:
boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...
He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts
No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.
boltsmag.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Proud that I’m so checked out of national electoral politics that I had no idea who the Nazi Oyster farmer was until today.
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Do it.
White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
www.nbcnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters:

• Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

• Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023

• 60% oppose more military aid to Israel

• 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
Support for Israel in U.S. drops sharply, Netanyahu unpopular, new poll shows
Quinnipiac Survey Finds Only 47% of Americans See Backing Israel as a U.S. Interest, Down From 69% in 2023. Half of Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, While Just 31% Approve of Trum...
www.haaretz.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Plenty dullards with guns in this country, so it is unfortunately totally believable that someone sympathetic to immigrants but who is nevertheless, an idiot, shot into a random ICE van. Regardless, worth pointing out that 14 people have died in ICE custody so it is obviously feigned outrage.
September 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There is no domestic terrorist designation. There is no domestic terrorist list. He's just making it up as he goes along.
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Holy shit
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Regime threatens media company saying "censor or we will do y" -> company censors.

Seems pretty clear what happened here!
September 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:
It Is Genocide » Senator Bernie Sanders
Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend...
www.sanders.senate.gov
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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"The masses will remember Robert Redford jumping off that cliff with Paul Newman, but it’s the work in Park City that may have had the greatest effect."

@sonnybunch.bsky.social on the actor, star, and indie entrepreneur: www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-red...
Robert Redford, 1936–2025
Actor, star, indie entrepreneur.
www.thebulwark.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Now as someone who has written a bit on political violence over the past four years I’ve been very interested in learning about the Italian years of lead. Problem is I don’t know Italian and there isn’t a ton of literature in English that I can find. Anyone have a good recs?
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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"What does seem clear is that the American Years of Lead are here." Read @jscros.bsky.social on where we're at. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-americ...
The American Years of Lead are Here
The Charlie Kirk shooting is just another sign of our new era.
www.discourseblog.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
You do not have to like or care for a victim of political violence in order to believe that it is bad. Can someone explain to me what there is to celebrate? This has accomplished nothing and only ill will come in its wake.
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Writing a thing about this but what really jumps out about Kavanugh's appalling opinion is that he pretends to be doing the same "myriad of factors" analysis so he can claim he's not just authorizing pure racial profiling. The problem is the other "factors" are... FACTORS ABOUT LOS ANGELES.
Looks, accent, skull shape; it’s all relative
GEIST: What is 'reasonable suspicion'? Is it an accent, a tattoo, a job?

TOM HOMAN: A lot of those things combined. We don't arrest people just based on their looks, but it's myriad of factors.
September 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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What is happening in Gaza is genocide.

Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity.

They must be held to account.
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM