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The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence
There are widespread fears that conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. In this work, in three large-scale experiments (N = 76,977 part...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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💻 This 3-part webinar series will explore how skills-building and labor mobility initiatives can work together to support refugee #selfreliance while addressing private sector needs and systemic barriers in host and third countries. @refugepoint.bsky.social

🔗 Register for Session 1: buff.ly/MkdMrEn
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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At "The Future Is Ours to Build – a UN 2.0 Conversation," PJMF President @vilasdhar.bsky.social engaged the UN's most forward-thinking leaders around a simple but game-changing premise: we must innovate our systems as fast as we innovate our technology.
September 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“What I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda is that not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but that the death toll is accelerating,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
Opinion | The Aid Cuts Are Trump’s Most Lethal Policy
In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.
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September 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is a remarkable summary by @asharangappa.bsky.social of the anti-democratic and interconnected players behind the dismantling of American democracy and a frightening roadmap of where we already are and are ultimately heading…great essay.

open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
Making Sense of MAGA
An ideological roadmap to help you understand the madness.
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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People fleeing wars and violence across the African continent, including thousands of unaccompanied children, make their way to Tunisia to attempt to cross the sea to Europe.

Visit buff.ly/0He541a to read more about RefugePoint's child protection work in Tunisia.
May 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Trump Versus the Free Press. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
April 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Large crowds in Philadelphia
April 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Large crowds in Philadelphia
April 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice
April 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"In 2024, some significant portion of voters chose Trump not in spite of his explicitly authoritarian program but because of it. Today we have some hard data to support this theory."

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/new-data-r...
New Data: Republican Voters Want Authoritarianism
Inside the World Values Survey.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."

Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A critical point.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Perhaps you would be so kind as to tell us which things will be incorrect before you say them.
February 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Michael Roth is one of the few university president who actually gets the urgency of the moment. slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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For those who continue to deny that Trump and the MAGA GOP's objection to asylum-seekers and refugees isn't racist, check out which group, out of all the conflicts on earth, Trump has made a very special refugee resettlement for.

Yep.

White South Africans. Beyond parody.
BREAKING

President Trump has signed sanctions against South Africa for their recent land seizure bill.

He is ordering all aid to South Africa be halted and he is also ordering federal agencies to prioritize humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for Afrikaner refugees.
February 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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The Trump administration abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support to recent arrivals: cnn.it/42sjEeQ
Advocate groups ordered to stop aiding refugees who have already arrived in US | CNN Politics
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support t...
cnn.it
January 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Reaching for a strudel? Listening for the distant sounds of a yodel? In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, some things Adolf Hitler might be doing other than sieg-heiling:
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January 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Would that every church, synagogue, mosque, temple recite these words this Sunday.
WATCH: Episcopal bishop asks Trump 'to have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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