Colin Woodard

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Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org

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If you’ve written a TV show or movie that includes trans or other LGBTQ+ characters, Project 2025 wants to send you to prison for being a “purveyor of pornography.”

also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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Counterpoint: it is though.

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"Eliminate the Head Start program." - Trump campaign's outsourced policy arm #Project2025 Playbook, on page 482 www.project2025.org/playbook/

Playbook | Project 2025www.project2025.org The fourth pillar of Project 2025 is our 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action ...

“Free speech champion” Elon Musk:

"Hopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution," Musk wrote, suggesting he wants it to be illegal for brands to refuse to advertise on X. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetratorsarstechnica.com Congress accused advertisers group of colluding to tank X's revenue.

Greater Rhode Islanders: catch me Jul 17 at Salve Regina U on the crisis in US democracy and (part of) what to do about it. www.providencejournal.com/story/entert...

Book chats by the sea: Find out which bestselling authors are coming to Newport in Julywww.providencejournal.com Curtis Sittenfeld, Dawn Tripp and award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard will give free talks on the oceanfront lawn at Ochre Court.

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I have been mad at the New York Times more and longer than almost anyone but if you’re attacking its best columnist for the sin of publishing his work in the most influential place he can I would urge you to rethink your approach.

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Hey Newport, RI: I'll be speaking about the work Nationhood Lab is doing to help prevent a collapse of our democracy and federation July 17, 6:30p at Salve Regina University. Details here: events.salve.edu/event/summer...

Summer Reads at Salveevents.salve.edu Pell Center and RI Center for the Book present: Summer Reads at Salve Join us for a "Seaside Chat" with Colin Woodard, director of the Pell Center's Nationhood Lab. Woodard will discuss his latest r...

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Deporting all undocumented immigrants is a really unpopular idea in almost every region. Details and much more on immigration here: www.nationhoodlab.org/immigration-...

There's a lot of bad news out there on the climate change front, but Bigelow Lab scientists monitoring deep ocean currents report the Gulf of Maine (and its whales, cod, and kelp) may be getting a bit of a break from warming. tos.org/oceanography...

Early Warning of a Cold Wave in the Gulf of Maine | Oceanographytos.org

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I learned two new terms from this article: "syndemic" and "precision medicine." It's an interesting--and sobering--look at how our unhealthy lifestyles and mistakes that were made in messaging about COVID-19 led to unnecessary hospitalizations and deaths. Can we learn from our mistakes?

In Current Problems in Cardiology we find a statistically significant relationship between poor lifestyle/health & COVID-19 vaccination, infection and mortality rates in the U.S, with clear differences across the #AmericanNations regions. Free link here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jNm9XGgSe...

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David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company, at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare: www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...

A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staffwww.404media.co TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI...

Across the U.S. regional cultures, few people really want to "build the Wall," but some regions are more supportive than others. Why? Answers herein from Nationhood Lab @pellcenter.bsky.social: www.nationhoodlab.org/immigration-...

Immigration and the American Nationswww.nationhoodlab.org The United States is regions apart when it comes to attitudes about immigration, immigrants and immigration policies. The geography of immigration has shifted substantially since 1900, with political ...

Fascism watch:

The Texas parole board has unanimously recommended a pardon for ex-Army sergeant Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder for the 2020 killing of Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster

Texas parole board recommends pardon for Daniel Perry, convicted of killing BLM protesterwww.statesman.com A Texas parole board unanimously recommended a pardon for Daniel Perry, convicted of murder for the death of Garrett Foster during 2020 protests.

Declaration’s ideals are one of the few things that can still bind (most of) us together. Results from our survey this spring: www.nationhoodlab.org/most-america...

Most Americans Define the U.S. by adherence to ideals rather than heritage, ancestry, or traditions, a new Pell Center Nationhood Lab poll findswww.nationhoodlab.org The nationwide survey finds Americans prefer to define their country by its commitment to civic ideals rather than by shared ancestry, history, traditions or culture by wide margins

Immigration attitudes, policies, and mythic ideologies vary by U.S. region. The reasons go back centuries, as we explain in the latest from Nationhood Lab at the @pellcenter.bsky.social www.nationhoodlab.org/immigration-...

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It’s a very Ivy League law prof thought to imagine a world where the president jails one of his political opponents, but also allows a completely impartial and independent judiciary to exist and even undermine him.

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To what degree does each of the American Nations control a given U.S. State? How has that changed over time? We have the answers for you over at the @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab. www.nationhoodlab.org/the-american...

The American Nations and the States: Change over timewww.nationhoodlab.org We previously parsed 2020 census data to reveal present day state-level power dynamics. Now we’ve done the same for 1900 and 1950, revealing remarkable stability in most states, and dramatic shifts in...

Fellow Maine coasters will not be surprised that we have some of the most unpredictable weather.

How accurate is the weather forecast in your city? Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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🚨New expert survey data from Bright Line Watch🚨 93% of experts surveyed before the ruling (starting June 20) say that SCOTUS upholding Trump’s immunity claim threatens democracy 60% say it represents an extraordinary threat 27% say it represents a serious threat (Full report coming next week.)

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A perfect illustration of why I canceled the NYT subscription I had for 24 years but not the Washington Post

A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided