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Will Jennings📉🗳️
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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 12

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 6h
Modern states just don’t* arbitrarily lock up law abiding citizens.

*shouldn’t!

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 6h
You couldn’t pay me to travel to the US right now. Especially with my posting history!
sirosenbaum.bsky.social sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15h
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21h
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social · 6h
Cabinet secretaries

A 110 year old job. A lot of variation in how past holders have done the job.

A lot of debate about whether the job is even doable now.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/ca...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h
There's a Matthew as well as two Matts, how much diversity do you want?!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 7h
v1.116 is rolling out now!

For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.
A demonstration of where you can find the drafts feature in the top right corner of the post composer on Bluesky.

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 9h
🌟PSA Mackenzie #BookPrize Shortlist 2025-26🌟
Congratulations to Dr Jamie Furlong @jwfurlong.bsky.social & Prof. Will Jennings @drjennings.bsky.social for 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales', published by OUP @academic.oup.com
➡️ buff.ly/X13TKjK
#Books #Politics #PoliticalStudies
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h
I really wish announcements about new schemes from public funders like the ESRC weren't made via paywalled articles...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13h
RIP all those reports from Rust Belt town diners.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Enten: "Trump's base with non-college voters is absolutely collapsing ... he's underwater by 9 points. That's a 23 point switcheroo."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Enten: "Trump's base with non-college voters is absolutely collapsing ... he's underwater by 9 points. That's a 23 point switcheroo."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14h
It sounds frustrating to wait on the moods and attention of a sunsetting angry deranged addled mind. I'm sure we all feel very bad for those poor powerless Republican officials who are certainly all looking for the guy who did this.
The party’s flagship campaign committee and super PACs have no indication of how President Donald Trump will deploy his $300 million-plus war chest because the president has not approved a spending plan. Republican donors are funding expensive Senate primaries in Texas and Georgia because Trump has not cleared the field with his endorsement, or, in the case of Louisiana, endorsed a challenger to the incumbent Republican. People who have spoken with Trump about these obstacles said he at times can sound detached and noncommittal about his plans for spending and endorsements. One person close to the White House said some days the president seems not to care. Having already been impeached twice and indicted four times, Trump is less afraid of being impeached again than he is determined not to let a Democratic-controlled House halt his policy agenda, a White House official said. The official and others spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Erol Akçay , and 2 more

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15h
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21h
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.
He was then flown to the Ice facility in El Paso, Texas. He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions. Fights often break out over food, “even over those little child-sized juice containers”. Toilet areas are “filthy”. He said there is little to do but lie on a bed all day. Most detainees do not speak any English. He said he has been allowed outside for air and exercise fewer than a dozen times in nearly five months. The atmosphere is full of “anxiety and depression”, he said.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 16h
In danger of repeating myself, but the tone mismatch between the way they talk about MMcS and then the facts of Labour polling around 19% average (and Starmer at -50) is very disorienting.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 16h
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16h
I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

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Ipsos in the UK @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 18h
🔴Net likeability ratings for Starmer (-50) equal Corbyn’s previous low, while the party is less liked than any time in Ipsos trends going back to 2007 (-22). But Labour is still more liked than its leader – and more than the other parties.
Chart showing likability of political parties compared with chart showing likeability of political leaders.

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 18h
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 19h
Another thing many underestimate is the sheer rage and the depth of the misinformation they're facing. Much right populism is emotional and psychological, a deep phenomenon which may not be particularly amenable to policy. At its simplest it's a turning outwards of insoluble frustration. (1/3)

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Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 19h
Everyone knows today's young do not get a fair shot

Top five words Britons use to describe the next generation's future 👇

Worried (55%)
Uncertain (52%)
Frustrated (28%)
Conflicted (18%)
Angry (17%)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Dave O’Brien, Margot C. Finn

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 20h
ESRC to pilot two new applicant-led calls.

Existing schemes will remain open, says leader of Economic and Social Research Council Stian Westlake.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
ESRC to pilot two new applicant-led calls - Research Professional News
Existing schemes will remain open, says leader of Economic and Social Research Council
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones
England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones
Data shows deprived communities have more off-licences and takeaways and fewer childcare facilities and gyms England’s poorest communities have 70% more vape shops, off-licences and bookmakers than wealthier ones and far fewer cafes and gyms, a study has found. The Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (Icon), chaired by the Labour peer Hilary Armstrong, said ministers risked overlooking vitally important neighbourhood shopping precincts by focusing on town centres. In deprived areas, local shops have roughly double the number of retailers selling unhealthy food and significantly higher vacancy rates, its research has found. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 1d
Omg. The greatest grifter ever has pivoted from Mars to the moon.
Laughing.
Buy my IPO!

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d
a commercial promoting ai.com and ai.com/elon and it immediately crashing is a pretty good way to describe Elon's entire existence. 10/10 ad

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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 1d
SpaceX to focus on Moon settlements instead of Mars?!? Wow, it is hard to overstate what a change -- what a climb-down -- this is for Musk. It has always been Mars for him. Full stop. Supposedly the goal behind *everything* he does.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
milleryoho.bsky.social Miller @milleryoho.bsky.social · 1d
What a moment.
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.