Chloe Mortenson
@cmortenson.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Northwestern University. Studying comparative political communication, misinformation and democracy. https://cmortenson.com/
https://polcomm.northwestern.edu/
https://polcomm.northwestern.edu/
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Annenberg Professor Diana Mutz finds that we’re having more political conversations now with like-minded people, and that political intolerance has increased as a result:
How Has Talking About Politics Changed in the Last Quarter-Century?
www.asc.upenn.edu
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Annenberg Professor Diana Mutz finds that we’re having more political conversations now with like-minded people, and that political intolerance has increased as a result:
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The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries
The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
www.forbes.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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We're hiring!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219
The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!
Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219
The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!
Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.
Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO30219, WDR-00053939 Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
July 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We're hiring!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219
The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!
Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219
The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!
Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.
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The terrific Abby Qin presenting our work with Wil Dubree about local news coverage, roll-off and competitive down ballot elections. #ica25
June 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The terrific Abby Qin presenting our work with Wil Dubree about local news coverage, roll-off and competitive down ballot elections. #ica25
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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Yay! Go @lyngemoller.bsky.social! 🥳👏
...and @hannescools.bsky.social! Representing the Digital Democracy Centre at #ICA25
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...and @hannescools.bsky.social! Representing the Digital Democracy Centre at #ICA25
😊
June 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yay! Go @lyngemoller.bsky.social! 🥳👏
...and @hannescools.bsky.social! Representing the Digital Democracy Centre at #ICA25
😊
...and @hannescools.bsky.social! Representing the Digital Democracy Centre at #ICA25
😊
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This is great!! @polcomm.bsky.social is launching a database for polcom teaching resources! #ica25
June 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is great!! @polcomm.bsky.social is launching a database for polcom teaching resources! #ica25
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Happy to announce that I am ABD and have passed my prospectus defense! I'm officially on the job market for positions starting fall 2026. I'm seeking opportunities in the U.S and Europe for digital media/technology and strategic communication, so please reach out!
June 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Happy to announce that I am ABD and have passed my prospectus defense! I'm officially on the job market for positions starting fall 2026. I'm seeking opportunities in the U.S and Europe for digital media/technology and strategic communication, so please reach out!
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective By Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University, R. Daniel Kelemen, Georgetown University and Burcu Kolcak, Rutgers University As a wave of backsliding has swept across both…
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective By Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University, R. Daniel Kelemen, Georgetown University and Burcu Kolcak, Rutgers University As a wave of backsliding has swept across both…
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective By Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University, R. Daniel Kelemen, Georgetown University and Burcu Kolcak, Rutgers University As a wave of backsliding has swept across both new and established democracies, scholars have sought to identify formal and informal institutions that can act as guardrails of democracy. But while informal norms, party structures, and formal institutions such as separation of powers have all been singled out as potential bulwarks against democratic backsliding, the literature has had less to say about what role, if any, federalism might play in stopping democracies from sliding into autocracy.
politicalsciencenow.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective By Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University, R. Daniel Kelemen, Georgetown University and Burcu Kolcak, Rutgers University As a wave of backsliding has swept across both…
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective By Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University, R. Daniel Kelemen, Georgetown University and Burcu Kolcak, Rutgers University As a wave of backsliding has swept across both…
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
There is such a unique kind of anxiety that comes from doing your dissertation on 'understanding of democracy', and most of the reading you do is confirming wild democratic backsliding in the United States.
April 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There is such a unique kind of anxiety that comes from doing your dissertation on 'understanding of democracy', and most of the reading you do is confirming wild democratic backsliding in the United States.
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Competitive authoritarianism 🇺🇸
Strongly recommend listening to or reading this @npr.org interview with Steven Levitsky.
Sharp analysis (in part based on the @foreignaffairs.com piece) on why they define the current US situation as ‘competitive authoritarianism’
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Strongly recommend listening to or reading this @npr.org interview with Steven Levitsky.
Sharp analysis (in part based on the @foreignaffairs.com piece) on why they define the current US situation as ‘competitive authoritarianism’
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Competitive authoritarianism 🇺🇸
Strongly recommend listening to or reading this @npr.org interview with Steven Levitsky.
Sharp analysis (in part based on the @foreignaffairs.com piece) on why they define the current US situation as ‘competitive authoritarianism’
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Strongly recommend listening to or reading this @npr.org interview with Steven Levitsky.
Sharp analysis (in part based on the @foreignaffairs.com piece) on why they define the current US situation as ‘competitive authoritarianism’
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
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I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.
Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.
All with an average donation of $21.
THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️
Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.
All with an average donation of $21.
THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️
News: AOC had her strongest ever quarter, raising over $9.5m from 266k individual donors for an average of just $21.
AOC doesn’t take a dollar from lobbyists or corporate PACS. Our top donor professions are teachers and nurses. 64% were first time contributors.
AOC doesn’t take a dollar from lobbyists or corporate PACS. Our top donor professions are teachers and nurses. 64% were first time contributors.
April 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.
Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.
All with an average donation of $21.
THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️
Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.
All with an average donation of $21.
THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Democracy requires a free, sometimes adversarial, often irritating, press. Part of the media's job is making elected officials uncomfortable.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p...
Federal judge says White House’s punishment of Associated Press is unconstitutional | CNN Politics
The White House’s decision to punish the Associated Press by eliminating its access to President Donald Trump’s events, the Oval Office and Air Force One is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Tues...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Democracy requires a free, sometimes adversarial, often irritating, press. Part of the media's job is making elected officials uncomfortable.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p...
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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
April 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
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Again, just as threatening 🇨🇦/🇩🇰 violates our NATO/UN treaty commitments that are also part of US law, the tariff nonsense violates our WTO & PTA treaty commitments that are also part of US law. Rampant lawbreaking & a total Article I constitutional crisis. Media coverage should be leading with this.
Finally, this seems the end of the US in the World Trade Organization
Essentially these tariffs, varying per country, run fully counter to the non-discrimination MFN principle of the WTO
And the GATT/WTO has been the basis for EU-US relations since WWII along with NATO 5/5
Essentially these tariffs, varying per country, run fully counter to the non-discrimination MFN principle of the WTO
And the GATT/WTO has been the basis for EU-US relations since WWII along with NATO 5/5
April 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Again, just as threatening 🇨🇦/🇩🇰 violates our NATO/UN treaty commitments that are also part of US law, the tariff nonsense violates our WTO & PTA treaty commitments that are also part of US law. Rampant lawbreaking & a total Article I constitutional crisis. Media coverage should be leading with this.
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The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.