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Paul Atwell
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Asst Prof of Political Science at Ohio State. Recent post-doc at @ic3jm.bsky.social. I study information processing and politics

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One student's anonymous "sick class so far 👍" makes all the complaints about reading go down so much easier
September 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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That’s our paper! @jfgomes.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing @owasow.bsky.social
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jul 10
“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance This paper investigates the role of mass media in shaping racial tolerance and advancing civil rights in the post-WWII United States. We study the first attempt in the history of mass media to use a radio broadcast targeted at children to promote an inclusive American society. In 1946, amid persistent racial divisions, the popular radio series The Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination, and exposing the KKK's bigotry. Using digitized historical data on U.S. radio stations and state-of-the-art radio propagation models, we compute geographic exposure to the broadcasts. Exploiting exogenous exposure to the broadcasts, we employ a cohort study design to analyze individual-level data from 1964 to 1980–a crucial period for civil rights activism and legislation in the United States. We find lasting impacts on those exposed as children, including increased support for civil rights, improved interraci Figure 1 reveals that the proportion of words related to intolerance increased by 3.2 times in the 12 months following the start of Operation Intolerance, compared to the pre-intervention period. Panel A of Figure 5 plots the average of the index for different cohorts. We first observe that younger cohorts in 1946 are more supportive of civil rights compared to those born before 1946. This is in line with American society becoming more progressive over time. We find a difference of 0.29 standard deviations between the respondents in the age cohort -10 (i.e., those born in the years 1954–1958) and those in the age cohort 50
July 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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bcburden.bsky.social
Funny because conservatives have long resisted government knowing things about people. GWBush famously said he might not even complete the Census. Qualms about big gov quickly fading. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.

Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
danifriedrich.bsky.social Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · Mar 22
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
ansleyerickson.bsky.social Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Mar 22
"acceding to the ... demands is not going to restore the funding." From @danifriedrich.bsky.social in @chronicle.com

www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
March 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
patwell.bsky.social
*support your local far-right or else* — the openness of patronage exchanges would be laughable in any other context
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 14
JD Vance's speech in Munich sounds like it was literally written by the Kremlin
February 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM