Meredith Conroy
@meredithconroy.bsky.social
Political Scientist at CSUSB studying gender and media, 538 contributor (RIP), & I lead research @ the Geena Davis Institute. Fan of elections & multiracial pluralistic democracy. Idahoan. Subscribe to Gender Gap: https://meredithconroy.substack.com
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Now on my substack, Gender Gap: 5 notable gaps discussed in 2025.
1. leaving the U.S.
2. marriage aspirations
3. social media use
4. loneliness
5. college plans
I picked these bc they signal how men/women structure their social lives and are imagining their futures.
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1. leaving the U.S.
2. marriage aspirations
3. social media use
4. loneliness
5. college plans
I picked these bc they signal how men/women structure their social lives and are imagining their futures.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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February 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Newsom still drafted early in our 2028 D draft chat, but not first for this reason 😯 open.substack.com/pub/newrepub...
February 14, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Newsom still drafted early in our 2028 D draft chat, but not first for this reason 😯 open.substack.com/pub/newrepub...
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"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...
Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds
How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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Europeans (except Germans) tend to think the continent can ride out Donald Trump, and that once he is no longer president US foreign policy towards Europe will return to how it was before
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February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Europeans (except Germans) tend to think the continent can ride out Donald Trump, and that once he is no longer president US foreign policy towards Europe will return to how it was before
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
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this is an abomination
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
this is an abomination
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
This academic year has been one blow after another. So many data resources I use to teach have just evaporated.
Gallup says it will stop doing presidential approval polls (after 88 years of doing it) because of "an evolution in how Gallup focuses it's public research". This is eliminating a time series that goes back to FDR.
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thehill.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
This academic year has been one blow after another. So many data resources I use to teach have just evaporated.
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Hello! I've been lurking on Bluesky for years but finally decided to make it official. Posts before this one are migrated from my X account, with varying levels of success.
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Hello! I've been lurking on Bluesky for years but finally decided to make it official. Posts before this one are migrated from my X account, with varying levels of success.
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No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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Join us on March 5th in Washington, DC, for the Peopling Politics symposium!
I am so excited to share that registration for the first-ever PEOPLING POLITICS SYMPOSIUM is now open! Please join us on March 5 at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington DC for an amazing lineup of speakers and discussions. RSVP at go.rutgers.edu/peoplingpoli...
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Join us on March 5th in Washington, DC, for the Peopling Politics symposium!
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people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
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Had an interesting conversation with my former colleagues
@meredithconroy.bsky.social and @@baseballot.bsky.social about the early stages of the Dem 2028 presidential nomination contest. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
@meredithconroy.bsky.social and @@baseballot.bsky.social about the early stages of the Dem 2028 presidential nomination contest. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
Transcript: The Democrats Best Positioned To Win the 2028 Nomination
Gavin Newsom has surged in polls of the 2028 Democratic field, while many progressives are hoping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks the nomination.
newrepublic.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Had an interesting conversation with my former colleagues
@meredithconroy.bsky.social and @@baseballot.bsky.social about the early stages of the Dem 2028 presidential nomination contest. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
@meredithconroy.bsky.social and @@baseballot.bsky.social about the early stages of the Dem 2028 presidential nomination contest. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
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The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.
GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”
February 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.
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Trump grasps the political power of football in America—and he now sees that it could be used against him.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The NFL's political power—and how Trump fumbled it
Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. President ...
www.dailykos.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Trump grasps the political power of football in America—and he now sees that it could be used against him.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
The new leaders of the GOP are motivated solely by hate. They cannot stand someone from their own ranks endorsing normal things they've been brainwashed to despise.
This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
February 9, 2026 at 4:34 AM
The new leaders of the GOP are motivated solely by hate. They cannot stand someone from their own ranks endorsing normal things they've been brainwashed to despise.
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This is a banger of a thread of the many things going on in the Bad Bunny halftime show. Definitely going to have to revisit the next time I run #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, and also future work on [rap] music, the PRMM, cognitive elaboration, and political knowledge.
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 4:27 AM
This is a banger of a thread of the many things going on in the Bad Bunny halftime show. Definitely going to have to revisit the next time I run #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, and also future work on [rap] music, the PRMM, cognitive elaboration, and political knowledge.
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RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
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Very good, and properly angry, piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social.
We have a radical president with three more years and a MAGA political movement not going anywhere. CBS has been co-opted by Bari Weiss, and now too, The Washington Post with Jeff Bezos. CNN and the Times have hinted at moving right.
We are in a uniquely dangerous time in the U.S. trib.al/nfGv9NP
We are in a uniquely dangerous time in the U.S. trib.al/nfGv9NP
The Washington Post Is in Free Fall—and There’s One Person to Blame
Today’s layoffs at this once great newspaper were nowhere near inevitable. But Jeff Bezos was never committed to the paper’s best traditions.
trib.al
February 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Very good, and properly angry, piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social.
Want to see me talk with my hands?
I joined @perrybaconjr.bsky.social @baseballot.bsky.social for a very early 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary draft. It’s a big bench, and a lot can happen.
My No. 1 pick drew more skepticism than anticipated😅
open.substack.com/pub/baseball...
I joined @perrybaconjr.bsky.social @baseballot.bsky.social for a very early 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary draft. It’s a big bench, and a lot can happen.
My No. 1 pick drew more skepticism than anticipated😅
open.substack.com/pub/baseball...
February 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Want to see me talk with my hands?
I joined @perrybaconjr.bsky.social @baseballot.bsky.social for a very early 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary draft. It’s a big bench, and a lot can happen.
My No. 1 pick drew more skepticism than anticipated😅
open.substack.com/pub/baseball...
I joined @perrybaconjr.bsky.social @baseballot.bsky.social for a very early 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary draft. It’s a big bench, and a lot can happen.
My No. 1 pick drew more skepticism than anticipated😅
open.substack.com/pub/baseball...
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America: Let’s try and put enough pressure on the government so they maybe stop killing citizens and occupying US cities with our own military
Meanwhile in Scotland:
Meanwhile in Scotland:
Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
America: Let’s try and put enough pressure on the government so they maybe stop killing citizens and occupying US cities with our own military
Meanwhile in Scotland:
Meanwhile in Scotland:
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And here is an anti-ICE protest just outside of BYU
And in perfect BYU fashion theyre singing hymns
And in perfect BYU fashion theyre singing hymns
February 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
And here is an anti-ICE protest just outside of BYU
And in perfect BYU fashion theyre singing hymns
And in perfect BYU fashion theyre singing hymns
Fuckable or irrelevant puts it perfectly.
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
February 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Fuckable or irrelevant puts it perfectly.
Spotted on the 15 freeway 💇♂️
Never have I heard of the California Post 🤷♀️
Never have I heard of the California Post 🤷♀️
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Spotted on the 15 freeway 💇♂️
Never have I heard of the California Post 🤷♀️
Never have I heard of the California Post 🤷♀️