Shana Gadarian

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Professor, Political Science | Syracuse University, Maxwell School | American politics, political psychology | Co-author of Anxious Politics and Pandemic Politics

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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

Look, I know we’ve come to the point where we think politics is entertainment but being president is an actual job and it’s helpful to have some training to do it.

what the fuck is this sorkin-brain shit?

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I am not a political media strategist but nonetheless I feel pretty solid about this

I feel like the trick with Project 2025 is exactly the same as the WGA strike. little snippet screencaps going viral all over normie social media that make some shocking thing you had no idea about instantly digestible to anyone regardless of their information level or background

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Drove into New Hampshire today, and immediately saw a “Democrats Will Protect Your Reproductive Rights” billboard with an American flag and a bald eagle on it, from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). Excellent work. More of that please.

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It only goes to show that if anything is foul enough it should be possible to come together to oppose it. Americans please take note.

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Powerful reminder how much of politics comes down to elites solving (or not solving) the coordination problem. France, Iran, UK (Starmer purging Labour). Very different situation but US Democrats also facing big coordination problem. And we got Trump because 2016 R's did not solve theirs. #polisky

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Big Enjolras energy today

That is a fun fact.

Sliced bread first went on sale 96 years ago today and — here’s the fun bit — was promoted as being the greatest thing since WRAPPED bread.

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Yuge

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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No politicians on the Court anymore and it shows. Last was O'Connor, state legislator. To appoint a governor or senator now, once common, would be nearly unthinkable. So we've got eight circuit judges and one ex-SG who are not just de facto politicians, they're very powerful *amateur* politicians.

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Rebecca Solnit's op-ed is required reading. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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“In 20 years from now when the politics have moved on, today's leaders are gone, and this conflict is relegated to history, this is what will still matter. Amputees, hostages, human victims of the conflict and their families who will suffer for decades.”

"Sometimes it’s difficult even to bring into Gaza wheelchairs, crutches, and hearing aids, because some of them are put on the dual use list. The problem is that we’re not even getting the list, so we don’t even know. "

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I maintain that Trump would never have become a viable candidate in 2015 if the national media hadn't treated him like a viable candidate. We have *so much* research on the ways media narratives make or break candidates.

one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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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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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal

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I swear to fucking God if democracy dies in 2025 it won't be because Biden had one bad debate. It'll be because he had one bad debate and everyone decided the world was ending and they had to light their hair on fire and run around naked in the streets.

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OK: Biden’s not stepping down. Like it or not, good idea or bad idea, not happening. From here on out, you can either complain about it like a loser, or help him defeat fascism. Time to decide.

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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.

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This — Project 2025, the Supreme Court’s legalistic usurpation of power, and Trump’s current rhetoric on the campaign trail — can only be understood as an attack on our Constitutional government itself, less violent means than those used in Jan 6 but no less threatening to our democratic republic

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Things that can all be true: 1) Biden is having clear cognitive difficulties that require a real discussion about his ability to be President 2) Trump is a real risk to American democracy 3) the media is covering a lot of 1 and not enough of 2

Nope

what

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This chart communicates pretty effectively why it's taking a while for the last 18 months of good solid economic conditions to fully take hold in people's minds— because look at the three years of chaos before that. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

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What kind of illiberal lunacy is this? www.theguardian.com/politics/art... Think of who you don't want in power. Now imagine them enforcing this law. A society without misinformation is inherently unfree (and impossible).

Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegalwww.theguardian.com Labour administration says ‘globally pioneering’ legislation will be brought in before next Senedd elections in 2026

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It's really hard to wrap your brain around the idea that the US Supreme Court just unilaterally amended the Constitution to immunize the first president who tried to unlawfully retain office after losing the election. That's what actually happened, not some alarmist fever dream.

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No coincidence that Robinson is using the same "you made us do it" rhetoric as Kevin Roberts--it's a textbook strategy for persuading people to get over their moral scruples and just do it.

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This is very good.

The Supreme Court’s immunity decision sidesteps history. Those who framed the Constitution agreed that unchecked presidential power was a terrible idea. Read the latest from @rudalev.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/immunit...

The Supreme Court’s immunity decision sidesteps historygoodauthority.org Immunity for Donald Trump and future presidents does the Constitution, the country, and even the Supreme Court itself no favors.

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we’re in danger