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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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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 1d
🚨New WP🚨
Dialogues with our AI DebunkBot:
✔️Reduced belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories among believers
✔️Effect durable at 1+ month
✔️Improved attitudes towards Jews among initially negative participants

🟰Debunking works for deeply rooted, identity-linked conspiracies
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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 3d
I assumed it was parody, but payed that it wasn't.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 7d
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Omnom Chocolate and Ice Cream Shop
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 10d
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16d
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.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 28d
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 · Oct 23
The East Wing has learned its lesson.

by Susan Collins

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

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Oct 21
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

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Oct 16
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.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Oct 16
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.

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Pilot Study Reports - ANES | American National Election Studies
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Oct 15
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

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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.

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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.
aedwardslevy.bsky.social 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
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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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
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social 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