Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

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Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
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Just going out on a limb here and saying that maybe Seth Moulton just isn't important enough to remember www.local12.com/news/nation-...

Dem rep says Biden 'didn't seem to recognize' him at D-Day event, demands race exitwww.local12.com Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., on Friday casted doubts on Biden's ability to beat Trump in November.

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Battlestar Galactica (2004)

Southwest Airlines was spared from today's CrowdStrike catastrophe that grounded or delayed hundreds of flights because they run on Windows 3.1... ...an operating system whose last update was November 8, 1993...

Hogan just did the "they" shot at Trump conspiracy nonsense www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | ‘They’ didn’t shoot Donald Trumpwww.washingtonpost.com Despite the lack of any clear motive, the actions of Thomas Crooks have been attributed to the Democratic Party at large.

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People focusing on the racism part here, which, yes duh, but let's not sleep on the sexism in the last line, about "that laugh"

🧐 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Whatever could he mean by that?

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UPDATE: Zero NYT articles about Trump's speech mention his praise for Victor Orban.

Here is a New York Times journalist recognizing a pretty important thing about this speech, and about Trump in general. Do you think it will be the central theme of the Times' speech coverage? If not, what does that say about the Times?

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Trump: And I told China — Do we love Kevin Sorbo, by the way? He was so fantastic in a little film called…And inflation The Media:

is there a knee-bending emoji?

hope he sees this bro

Mark Zuckerberg calls Donald Trump a 'badass' after the former president threatened him with prisonwww.businessinsider.com Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said seeing Donald Trump with his fist in the air after getting shot was "one of the most badass things I've ever seen."

Prediction markets now showing Harris as having a better chance of beating Trump than Biden (though still fighting uphill) polymarket.com/elections

If Biden said this, people would have lost their minds: -exceptionally rambling and discursive -seems confused about who is governor of Wisconsin -can't remember the term "Star Wars"

WTAF

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Leopards etc etc

Extremist supporters of former president Donald Trump are lashing out online against Usha Vance, the wife of Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), launching anti-immigrant attacks because of her Indian heritage.

MAGA extremists target J.D. Vance’s wife Usha’s Indian heritagewapo.st Usha Vance was thrust into the spotlight when her husband, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), was tapped as Donald Trump’s running mate during the Republican National Convention.

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This. C'mon, folks: He's been running as an authoritarian; is it really that hard to understand what "unity" means for authoritarians? It's *entirely* consistent with how he's always talked, not some kind of new theme he's struggling to stick to.

Coverage of Trump needs to be clear that when he says *unity* he means *everyone needs to unite behind me.*

Unfortunately over-determined to play up "unity" as news in coverage: -early print deadlines -> reliance on speech as written -anything non-vitriolic from Trump is unusual -helps press look more even-handed But still insane. He attempted a coup and inspired a violent insurrection 3.5 years ago!

"undone by himself" - this language is infantilizing. He's a 78-year-old man who has behaved this way since he first entered politics! What if we assume he's doing what he wants to do? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/u...

A NYT Opinion visual chronology of Trump's first term - really captures the ongoing chaos and authoritarian impulses in a way that text doesn't www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Donald Trump’s First Term Is a Warningwww.nytimes.com Your guide to the perils of a second Trump era.

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Always relevant xkcd xkcd.com/2347/

Buried amidst everything, this is very dangerous nymag.com/intelligence...

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this is true and wouldn't have to be as true if we had more robust political parties that functioned as representative institutions.

Wherever you are on Biden v. Harris v. Some Third Thing, it's extremely concerning that this is being litigated between rich donors and clueless pundits on the basis of extremely problematic polling data.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Probably an early deadline but ... come on

This is professional malpractice, @bostonglobe.bsky.social only covering this aspect of the speech.

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Are we going to see three weeks of NYT headlines about the old GOP nominee and his rambling incoherent speeches, or do we not do that?

Anyway my understanding is that Democrats are about to fire their nominee because he's old and gives rambling incoherent speeches

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This whole article and all the sources included exhibit a vast failure of imagination. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/u...

We're at an important moment for reflection on the media practice of turning Trump's rambling soliloquies into semi-coherent narrative accounts. Are reporters going to again fail to convey just how bizarre and discursive this speech is?

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This could be the most important line in Trump's speech, apparently improvised: "And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we’ll never let happen again, the election result. We’re never going to let that happen again. They used COVID to cheat. You’re never going to let it happen again."

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Reporters and pundits know that all these stories he's telling about his presidency are entirely fictional, right? Right?

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Reminder: Political science research shows that conventions play an important role in campaigns. They help people learn about the candidates and remind partisans of their allegiances www.cjr.org/united_state... And then there's ... whatever this is 🤷

Conventions: A great learning opportunity for voterswww.cjr.org Why the debate over a lack of news misses the point