Dan Silverman
@dmsilverman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
2 others major NYT stories covered Epstein’s 2018 trial(s) which were ultimately settled
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/u...
I only found one passing reference to Trump in either one
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/u...
I only found one passing reference to Trump in either one
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
2 others major NYT stories covered Epstein’s 2018 trial(s) which were ultimately settled
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/u...
I only found one passing reference to Trump in either one
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/u...
I only found one passing reference to Trump in either one
This kind of negatively polarized framing is so annoying
“Trump is bad, therefore we should criticize his entente with jihadi Syria”
Never mind it’s probably a good thing and we shouldn’t mindlessly adopt hawkish foreign policy frames just to spite Trump?
“Trump is bad, therefore we should criticize his entente with jihadi Syria”
Never mind it’s probably a good thing and we shouldn’t mindlessly adopt hawkish foreign policy frames just to spite Trump?
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This kind of negatively polarized framing is so annoying
“Trump is bad, therefore we should criticize his entente with jihadi Syria”
Never mind it’s probably a good thing and we shouldn’t mindlessly adopt hawkish foreign policy frames just to spite Trump?
“Trump is bad, therefore we should criticize his entente with jihadi Syria”
Never mind it’s probably a good thing and we shouldn’t mindlessly adopt hawkish foreign policy frames just to spite Trump?
I was poking around a bit on Google Trends this morning, and apparently one of the more common searches about Jews in the U.S. is "are Jewish people Christian?"
Has increased lately, and seems to be particularly popular in Oklahoma
Has increased lately, and seems to be particularly popular in Oklahoma
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was poking around a bit on Google Trends this morning, and apparently one of the more common searches about Jews in the U.S. is "are Jewish people Christian?"
Has increased lately, and seems to be particularly popular in Oklahoma
Has increased lately, and seems to be particularly popular in Oklahoma
Interesting. Female suicide bombers may not actually be more lethal than their male counterparts (popular belief in terrorism studies)
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Interesting. Female suicide bombers may not actually be more lethal than their male counterparts (popular belief in terrorism studies)
Trump: I lost because of the shutdown!
Moderate Senate Dems: the shutdown has failed
Moderate Senate Dems: the shutdown has failed
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Trump: I lost because of the shutdown!
Moderate Senate Dems: the shutdown has failed
Moderate Senate Dems: the shutdown has failed
I’m not sure some of them weren’t gleeful too, especially in the latter case. But fair point overall, there is a deliberate cruelty here that’s different than some other situations
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’m not sure some of them weren’t gleeful too, especially in the latter case. But fair point overall, there is a deliberate cruelty here that’s different than some other situations
Good round-up at the end too of all his similar moves
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Good round-up at the end too of all his similar moves
Whenever I see one of these stories, I think of North & Weingast 1989 and how I learned in the first year of grad school that we figured out this shit was stupid a half millennium ago
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Whenever I see one of these stories, I think of North & Weingast 1989 and how I learned in the first year of grad school that we figured out this shit was stupid a half millennium ago
Kind of fascinated to see if, in a potentially bad environment for MAGA next year, Independent Brian Bengs can make a run at Senate over Mike Rounds in S Dakota
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Kind of fascinated to see if, in a potentially bad environment for MAGA next year, Independent Brian Bengs can make a run at Senate over Mike Rounds in S Dakota
Fascinatingly, it's less common but there is also a narrative on far-right social media that Zohran is an agent of the "Jewish deep state" and Soros cabals -- even as he's accused of antisemitism.
Analysis of 4chan, Gab, Gettr, Telegram, Truth Social by Open Measures openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
Analysis of 4chan, Gab, Gettr, Telegram, Truth Social by Open Measures openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fascinatingly, it's less common but there is also a narrative on far-right social media that Zohran is an agent of the "Jewish deep state" and Soros cabals -- even as he's accused of antisemitism.
Analysis of 4chan, Gab, Gettr, Telegram, Truth Social by Open Measures openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
Analysis of 4chan, Gab, Gettr, Telegram, Truth Social by Open Measures openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
JD's airtight 3-point program for MAGA:
-juice turnout
-stop fighting about who is and isn't a Nazi
-do something on affordability and inflation (no specifics, but "concepts of a plan")!
-juice turnout
-stop fighting about who is and isn't a Nazi
-do something on affordability and inflation (no specifics, but "concepts of a plan")!
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
JD's airtight 3-point program for MAGA:
-juice turnout
-stop fighting about who is and isn't a Nazi
-do something on affordability and inflation (no specifics, but "concepts of a plan")!
-juice turnout
-stop fighting about who is and isn't a Nazi
-do something on affordability and inflation (no specifics, but "concepts of a plan")!
A long-standing obsession
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A long-standing obsession
And, if we want to draw an even more direct arrow from Cheneyism to Trumpism, let’s not forget how the costs of those wars created fertile ground for the radical right:
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And, if we want to draw an even more direct arrow from Cheneyism to Trumpism, let’s not forget how the costs of those wars created fertile ground for the radical right:
Gee, who could’ve predicted it?
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Gee, who could’ve predicted it?
This isn’t great.
I like Zohran but I don’t know why he’d get in bed with Jeremy Corbyn — a politician with an *actual* taint of facilitating antisemitism — in the race’s home stretch given the attacks he’s faced
Playing right into your opponents‘ hands. And for what, is Corbyn such a draw?
I like Zohran but I don’t know why he’d get in bed with Jeremy Corbyn — a politician with an *actual* taint of facilitating antisemitism — in the race’s home stretch given the attacks he’s faced
Playing right into your opponents‘ hands. And for what, is Corbyn such a draw?
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This isn’t great.
I like Zohran but I don’t know why he’d get in bed with Jeremy Corbyn — a politician with an *actual* taint of facilitating antisemitism — in the race’s home stretch given the attacks he’s faced
Playing right into your opponents‘ hands. And for what, is Corbyn such a draw?
I like Zohran but I don’t know why he’d get in bed with Jeremy Corbyn — a politician with an *actual* taint of facilitating antisemitism — in the race’s home stretch given the attacks he’s faced
Playing right into your opponents‘ hands. And for what, is Corbyn such a draw?
7) Perhaps most scandalously, Trump showers praise on CBS's "great, new leader" Bari Weiss and seems to link her installation to the network's earlier settlement with him.
This was cut from the edited interview.
This was cut from the edited interview.
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
7) Perhaps most scandalously, Trump showers praise on CBS's "great, new leader" Bari Weiss and seems to link her installation to the network's earlier settlement with him.
This was cut from the edited interview.
This was cut from the edited interview.
6) Trump says when an election is rigged you're allowed a do-over
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
6) Trump says when an election is rigged you're allowed a do-over
5) On the potential for Bibi to face domestic accountability over his corruption cases, Trump says "we'll be involved in that to help him out a little bit"
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
5) On the potential for Bibi to face domestic accountability over his corruption cases, Trump says "we'll be involved in that to help him out a little bit"
4) Trump says Bibi Netanyahu has "never been pushed before"
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
4) Trump says Bibi Netanyahu has "never been pushed before"
3) Asked about Zohran, Trump tries to get Norah O'Donnell to agree that he's "better looking" than the NYC mayoral hopeful. To which she responds "Okay."
(Oof, and this seems to have been edited so it didn't land with a thud)
(Oof, and this seems to have been edited so it didn't land with a thud)
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
3) Asked about Zohran, Trump tries to get Norah O'Donnell to agree that he's "better looking" than the NYC mayoral hopeful. To which she responds "Okay."
(Oof, and this seems to have been edited so it didn't land with a thud)
(Oof, and this seems to have been edited so it didn't land with a thud)
2) Trump acknowledges it looks bad -- and says that he'd rather not have Norah O'Donnell ask the question -- about his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
Both lines were cut from the edited version.
Both lines were cut from the edited version.
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
2) Trump acknowledges it looks bad -- and says that he'd rather not have Norah O'Donnell ask the question -- about his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
Both lines were cut from the edited version.
Both lines were cut from the edited version.
Some moments that stood out to me from the full (unedited) 60 minutes Trump transcript: 🧵
1) Asked repeatedly, Trump can't articulate a clear rationale for testing nuclear weapons except that other countries are doing so
A status-based explanation for state behavior if ever there were one
1) Asked repeatedly, Trump can't articulate a clear rationale for testing nuclear weapons except that other countries are doing so
A status-based explanation for state behavior if ever there were one
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Some moments that stood out to me from the full (unedited) 60 minutes Trump transcript: 🧵
1) Asked repeatedly, Trump can't articulate a clear rationale for testing nuclear weapons except that other countries are doing so
A status-based explanation for state behavior if ever there were one
1) Asked repeatedly, Trump can't articulate a clear rationale for testing nuclear weapons except that other countries are doing so
A status-based explanation for state behavior if ever there were one
I’m sorry that’s not human phraseology
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’m sorry that’s not human phraseology
I truly always think of this scene whenever I hear the Islamo-commie stuff
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I truly always think of this scene whenever I hear the Islamo-commie stuff