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Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University. St. Louis Cardinals aficionado.

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Kids: Study political science

25.02.2026 01:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 71 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You'll never believe what event Christmas actually commemorates

18.12.2025 15:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 119 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Today is a good day to remind you that none of the classic vote studies thought very highly of women's political competence.

25.11.2025 15:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 132 ๐Ÿ” 39 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

"It honors our country."

Yeah, the thing that's going to bring America back to its glory days is me showing up for my Frontier Airlines flight in a tux.

24.11.2025 20:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 3447 ๐Ÿ” 371 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 394 ๐Ÿ“Œ 43

wearing slippers and pajamas to the airport is antifa now

24.11.2025 19:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 8046 ๐Ÿ” 852 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 495 ๐Ÿ“Œ 107

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

28.10.2025 05:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 5439 ๐Ÿ” 1071 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41 ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

This is precisely how I feel. Nice to know that when the series ends it wonโ€™t affect my next day one iota.

25.10.2025 00:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There canโ€™t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

27.08.2025 17:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 4505 ๐Ÿ” 1190 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 82 ๐Ÿ“Œ 41
Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliamsย Award Theย Carey McWilliams Awardย is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to societyโ€™s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award honors "a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." This year's winner is Jamelle Bouie. Since joining the New York Times as a columnist in 2019, Jamelle Bouie has consistently worked to redefine what a newspaper opinion column can be.

Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliamsย Award

Theย Carey McWilliams Awardย is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to societyโ€™s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Politicalโ€ฆ

25.08.2025 18:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 4537 ๐Ÿ” 539 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111 ๐Ÿ“Œ 94

@clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes brilliantly about the need to honestly grapple with history. His book was essential for my class in DC last January. It is infuriating that the anger from the administration is with teaching this history and not the fact that unconscionable violence was committed

22.08.2025 17:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cracker Barrel allowed people to buy an audio book and return it at another Cracker Barrel and get everything but $5 back. Great for road trips. I have a fondness for it. So, one on hand, this is the absolute stupidest nonsense. On the other, people lose their jobs and are hurt.

22.08.2025 00:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter โ€œbโ€ appears in โ€œblueberryโ€

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

07.08.2025 22:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 366 ๐Ÿ” 104 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29 ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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When you strip away humanity

26.07.2025 11:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 19227 ๐Ÿ” 8059 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 523 ๐Ÿ“Œ 951
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

24.07.2025 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 19663 ๐Ÿ” 4355 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 666 ๐Ÿ“Œ 605

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying โ€œcomedians can make fun of he President on TV.โ€ A good way to explain fascism is โ€œthe President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.โ€

18.07.2025 01:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 7538 ๐Ÿ” 2241 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33 ๐Ÿ“Œ 52

This was the *short* version of the paragraph too, it easily could have been 2-3x as long. Anyway, for all the handwringing certain Dems do about what might happen if they expand the Supreme Court, this is what is going to happen for the next 40ish years if they don't! bsky.app/profile/prof...

07.07.2025 19:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 325 ๐Ÿ” 102 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Every once in a while I think โ€œwhat if someone made a straight version of Police Academy without the jokesโ€ and honestly thatโ€™s what the Rockies are

01.06.2025 20:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Two density plots comparing age distributions. Top graph shows Republican senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Republican voters (more evenly distributed, median age 57). Bottom graph shows Democratic senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Democratic voters (more evenly distributed, median age 50). Vertical lines mark where half of each population falls. Democratic senators have a much larger age gap from their voters than Republicans do.

Two density plots comparing age distributions. Top graph shows Republican senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Republican voters (more evenly distributed, median age 57). Bottom graph shows Democratic senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Democratic voters (more evenly distributed, median age 50). Vertical lines mark where half of each population falls. Democratic senators have a much larger age gap from their voters than Republicans do.

The Democratic Partyโ€™s age problem isnโ€™t just bad, itโ€™s much worse than Republicansโ€™. Half of registered Democratic voters are under 50, yet half their senators are over 67. Despite claiming to represent the future, party leadership systematically blocks younger voices from gaining power.

21.05.2025 18:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 718 ๐Ÿ” 273 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36 ๐Ÿ“Œ 34

We astoundingly elected the one single person in the entire world who is not interested in reading the intelligence in the Presidentโ€™s Daily Brief.

22.05.2025 01:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 967 ๐Ÿ” 171 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

21.05.2025 20:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 3536 ๐Ÿ” 1238 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 214 ๐Ÿ“Œ 93

Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

18.04.2025 05:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2787 ๐Ÿ” 571 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Person who purposely set off fireworks in their house hailed as local hero for successful use of fire extinguisher

10.04.2025 05:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTONโ€”With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

14.03.2025 02:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 36153 ๐Ÿ” 7285 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 683 ๐Ÿ“Œ 549

No one's doing this better than JB right now.

05.03.2025 05:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1243 ๐Ÿ” 145 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as โ€œstealing from the US Treasury.โ€

02.03.2025 14:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 8564 ๐Ÿ” 3393 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 156 ๐Ÿ“Œ 147

How utterly unserious we must seem to the rest of the world at this moment.

28.02.2025 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seems like this would be a good message to spread far and wide

21.02.2025 01:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump: "There's a map on the back of the Constitution. We're going to be looking at it very closely. We've been talking about it from the day I got in, and we're looking at that very, very strongly."

20.02.2025 16:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 732 ๐Ÿ” 93 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

But didnโ€™t removing workers guarding nukes and woke fix this?!

20.02.2025 15:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

13.02.2025 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 9009 ๐Ÿ” 2049 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 173 ๐Ÿ“Œ 71