Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

The electoral juggernaut Democrats cower in fear of: "nearly a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, twice as large as the percentage of adults who strongly approve of him" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-str...

When does all the winning start?

Interesting new dataset on trans rights with data across 173 countries and 21 years

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

NEW from me on The Epoch Times: A persecuted religious group's PR newsletter is now one of the most influential U.S. conservative media orgs.

How they’ve ridden the moment of political polarization & conspirituality to make millions and go mainstream. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🚨 Don't miss @brendannyhan.bsky.social 's virtual talk this Wednesday! 🚨

Talk title...
⭐️Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube videos⭐️

Learn more and register on the OSoMe site!
osome.iu.edu/events

cc @fil.bsky.social

Excited to share that our (@bcastanho.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social) paper will be out soon in AJPS! We investigate how women MPs adapt to their environment, finding that over time women speak in more masculine ways, particularly women in progressive parties.  s.gwdg.de/ecTNEN

Hey German #rstats & train users:

I discovered yesterday that the new interface on bahn.de uses a pretty open API. So naturally, I wrote a quick R wrapper package.

Introducing {zugr} 🚆 github.com/JBGruber/zugr

With the Twitter API inaccessible, all research built with Twitter data has become inaccessible (you can only share the Tweet IDs). My suggestions: Share your Twitter datasets! It would be a huge lost to let this information disappear.

joenoonan.se/post/share_t...

"Trump’s norm-violating rhetoric...does not alter attitudes toward democracy as a preferred system but does reduce support for inclusiveness and equality among his supporters" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Replicates and extends our study conducted in 2020 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What did we find? In all countries but Spain political communication today is more heavily morally loaded than it was six decades ago. The increase is substantial: On average, the estimated increase amounts to 15 percentage points! 5/11

Incredibly, this official campaign against researchers who are exercising their First Amendment rights is being carried out *in the name of free speech* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Who falls for misinformation around the globe?

Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.