Dr. Colleen Kadleck

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Dr. Colleen Kadleck

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“We find that Trump’s use of violent vocabulary has increased over time…He increasingly exemplifies a negative populism, concentrated on denigrating out-groups.” Cc: all the journalists credulously agreeing with Rs that the “temperature” is too hot. Call is coming from inside the house, ya rubes!
Donald Trump's words www.nber.org/papers/w3266... "Trump’s use of violent vocabulary has increased over time and now surpasses that of all other democratic politicians we studied....He increasingly exemplifies a negative populism, concentrated on denigrating out-groups."
Donald Trump's wordswww.nber.org Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.
Project 2025 raises taxes on a family of four with two parents earning a combined $100,000 by $2,600, in order to fund a tax cut of over three times their combined income for someone earning $5m. x.com/SteveRattner...
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Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event, which starts Tuesday, has been a “major cause” of warehouse worker injuries, finds a year-long Senate investigation into workplace safety at Amazon, released by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Amazon Prime Day causes workplace injuries, Senate probe findswww.washingtonpost.com The Senate HELP Committee probe found that the company’s annual Prime Day sales event, which takes place this week, is “a major cause of injuries” for the workers.
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Academic conference-attendees everywhere find themselves involuntarily wincing in sympathy.
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A good time to read our Nature article - the risk is concentrated exposure to potentially harmful content in the fringes, not by the average person Misunderstanding the Harms of Online Misinformation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
There was a time platforms like Twitter tried to remove obvious conspiracy theories from their trending pages. But this weekend’s events showed how platforms are increasingly content to let us choose our own realities www.platformer.news/monday-newsl...
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GOP is the new working class party!
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time to dust this one off. amen.
Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert
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Work requirements don't work: GA is the only state w a Medicaid work requirement. Just 4,300 people has overcome the administrative burdens involved, compared to 500,000 who would receive coverage if the state simply expanded Medicaid. apnews.com/article/medi...
Can a Medicaid plan that requires work succeed? First year of Georgia experiment is not promisingapnews.com By now, Georgia officials expected their new Medicaid plan to provide health insurance to 25,000 low income residents.
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District Courts and Circuit Courts repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of Special Counsel Mueller’s appointment. Defendants were convicted and served time in prison based on prosecutions he brought. The Supreme Court never said a contrary word.
The latest Aileen Cannon power grab does two things that Trumpland will love: Declare that Jack Smith's appointment was unlawful while suggesting over and over again that Robert Mueller's appointment was unlawful, too. "Private citizen" Mueller, she suggests, was doing lots of unlawful things.
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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.
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Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.
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Social scientists: there's still room for sponsored questions on 2024 GSS Follow-On Survey, a web-based survey of ≈1000 respondents from the 2024 baseline GSS. Can link to baseline items, have a short panel. Follow-On fielded Jan-Feb 2025. For more info: gss.norc.org/Documents/ot... Please RT.
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Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.
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New from my Bright Line Watch colleague Sue Stokes Inequality Spurs Democratic Backsliding www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...
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My sister said the cybertruck looks like a Dustbuster and I’m gunna have to give her that one
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“I have been a totally good boy at my foster home and bathroom and leash trained. I know cues like right, left, stairs/step and outside, and I even ring a bell for bathroom!” Please. Brownie has congenital blindness and is a perfect boy🥹
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This is a very important question!
Polarization likely means polls stay within a modest range. But also cuts the other way. If this degree of negative media coverage, visible faltering, & internal dissent only moves polls 2-3 points, what would be required to move them the ~5 points toward Biden that he now needs?
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Massachusetts’s highest court cited the science of brain development to shield youth up to age 21 from sentences of life without parole. Some reformers want a higher cut-off, saying research shows that the brain continues to develop for years afterwards: boltsmag.org/life-without...
A Wave of States Reduce “Death by Incarceration” for Young Adultsboltsmag.org Massachusetts banned sentences of life without parole for “emerging adults” up to age 21, the latest in a series of states revisiting who counts as young in the eyes of the law.
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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PLEASE READ THIS Please. And pass it along.
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.
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It's hard to communicate how radical this is. For 200 years every politician in America wanted the federal government to pay for things so they could take credit for it. It's a fundamental defining feature of American politics. But now owning the libs is more important. 1/2
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.
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A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.
Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...
MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.
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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects. www.law360.com/securities/a...
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In the hope of rising above our current political panic, I offer thoughts on what the crisis of the Revolution says to us today. As a historian, I know that panicky political decisions do NOT lead to good solutions In that sense, the crisis of 1776 speaks to our own www.youtube.com/watch?v=44I5...
Movie on 7 4 24 at 3 34 PMwww.youtube.com Hi folks!In the hope of rising above the political panic filling the media, on this July Fourth, I've recorded some insights on what the Revolution can say t...
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In a sharp contrast from the punitive measures used today, vagrancy laws at the founding of the country actually mandated support for the homeless community. “The founders would have been appalled by the behavior of Grants Pass,” one expert told Bolts: boltsmag.org/grants-pass-...
“Designed to be Cruel”: How Grants Pass Will Ramp Up the Policing of Homelessnessboltsmag.org The Supreme Court blessed bans on sleeping outdoors. In a <i>Bolts</i> roundtable, three experts explain that this may encourage aggressive policing over long-term housing solutions.