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Jon Green
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Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d
my wife just referred to the offensive line as Josh Allen’s “playmates”

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 1d
good thread
johnvoorheis.bsky.social John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 1d
This got lost in a comment, so going to put it back up here, because I think its super interesting. There was this Axios article that got some discourse play last year based on a survey where people were asked how much you have to earn to be financially successful. Gen Z says they need 587k

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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 1d
This got lost in a comment, so going to put it back up here, because I think its super interesting. There was this Axios article that got some discourse play last year based on a survey where people were asked how much you have to earn to be financially successful. Gen Z says they need 587k

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
could go a step further and link this to Trump’s evisceration of traditional means of credibly signaling conservatism via philosophical principles or even semi-coherent issue stances. vice signaling becomes important for holding the coalition together

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d
"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."

latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 4d
I need everyone in the political communications world who found the moral foundations reframing approach promising (which includes me) to read this paper

It doesn't replicate in new research. It just doesn't work.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Poverty of Moral Foundation Messaging
Prominent scholars have argued that reframing political positions and issues in terms of moral foundations that appeal to conservatives or liberals can attract more individual-level support for tho...
www.tandfonline.com

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 5d
everyone [wishes they were] twelve
rolandmcs.bsky.social Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d
Question from the floor at 44:48 about 'when was London's former glory?'

Laila Cunningham's answer: 'When I was growing up.'

Of course it was. Everything was better when I saw the world through a child's eyes.

Classic Faragism to turn that into a policy platform.

www.youtube.com/live/qK8glWf...

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 5d
none of these words are in the Bible

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d
Question from the floor at 44:48 about 'when was London's former glory?'

Laila Cunningham's answer: 'When I was growing up.'

Of course it was. Everything was better when I saw the world through a child's eyes.

Classic Faragism to turn that into a policy platform.

www.youtube.com/live/qK8glWf...

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Michael Heseltine @michaelheseltine.bsky.social · 6d
🚨NEW PAPER
Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications

Is congressional comms really nationalized?
Analyzing 9M+ social media posts from Members of Congress, I show that local messaging is still common & strategic. New ML + domain sharing data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications
In the face of the purported nationalization of political discourse in the United States, to what extent do congressional representatives still engage locally through their public communications? B...
www.tandfonline.com

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 6d
that viral Reddit post about the evil unnamed delivery app’s worker exploitation schemes was made up (likely model-generated), and the evidence the “whistleblower” provided to the reporter trying to confirm it was also made up (almost definitely model-generated) www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
www.platformer.news

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 6d
"what kind of content do my folks want to see more of to like and share?" is such an extremely clear distillation of the supply/demand model of social media

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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 6d
🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why?

To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

1/11
OSF
doi.org

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The Verge @theverge.com · 6d
Razer is making an AI anime waifu hologram for your desk
Razer is making an AI anime waifu hologram for your desk
Another cursed AI gadget, now with RGB.
buff.ly

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 7d
🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/
From State Dept transcript of Rubio appearance on This Week w/ George Stephanopolous: SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, we’re not going to judge moving forward based simply on what’s said in press conferences. We want to see action here at the end of the day. Rhetoric is one thing. You see rhetoric for a lot of different reasons. There’s a lot of different reasons why people go on TV and say certain things in these countries, especially 15 hours or 12 hours after the person who used to be in charge of the regime is now in handcuffs and on his way to New York. So what I will say is, moving forward, it’s very simple. We’re not going to be reactive here to statements at press conferences or what people say in a certain interview or what some media post – some media post somewhere. What we are going to react to is very simple: What do you do? Not what you’re saying in public – what happens? What happens next? Do the drugs stop coming? Are the changes made? Is Iran expelled? Is Hizballah no longer able and Iran no longer able to operate against our interests from Venezuela? Does the migration pattern stop? Do the drug trafficking boats end? Do you deal with the ELN and the FARC, two narcoterrorist organizations who control territory and operate with impunity from the territory of Venezuela against the interests of Colombia and the United States? These are the things we want addressed. If they are addressed, that’s how we’ll judge it. If they’re not addressed, that’s how we’ll judge it. QUESTION: And what happens if they’re not addressed?

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 8d
Dan Bongino has departed FBI, per statement

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 9d
“Trump is anti-war” was always shorthand for “Trump is a break from the foreign policy establishment/consensus, which is bad” and there’s no contradiction there if Trump does acts of war that seem different from what a more establishment-y president would do

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 10d
though like with Caligula's horse, it'll probably morph into something even more absurd

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 10d
there is of course a lot of competition but if things go really south during Trump II the fact that he keeps bragging about nailing these basic cognitive function tests is going to be one of those small details that everyone knows about him 500 years from now

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 10d
Trump “aces” yet another dementia screening test www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/trum...
Trump "aces" yet another dementia screening test - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Source: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in “PERFECT HEALTH,” and that I “ACED” (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the thi...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 10d
Fascinating paper by Hood, McKee & Pittman demonstrating that election deniers were less likely to vote in the 2021 Georgia Senate runoff election.

If fewer GA Republicans believed the big lie, both GA Senate seats might still be in Republican control.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 10d
we’ve spent ten years researching the direction of the causal arrow between misinformation and political attitudes and he just…tweeted it out
karnesmellagio.bsky.social Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 11d
I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol

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Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 11d
I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 13d
This was a pretty good one
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.so...•11m watching a toddler undo childproof locks is a real "velociraptors in Jurrasic Park" moment © 66 Dogpile On The Rabbit @bartleby6316.bsky.social Follow Back By "toddler" you mean Trump, and by "childproof locks" you mean the American constitutional system, right? April 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM '1 Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.s... • now no I mean I am parenting a toddler •••

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 13d
I think ~everyone understands that Marjorie Taylor Greene's movement along the "Donald Trump: Good or Bad?" dimension of politics doesn't necessarily imply movement along other dimensions of politics, and also understands that different people put different amounts of weight on that dimension.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15d
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.

Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 16d
that may be the best pooch punt we will see in our lifetimes

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 16d
HEY VIRGINIA

NICE POOCH PUNT
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ALT: a logo for the sickos committee is displayed on a purple background
media.tenor.com

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 16d
The Trump family is fully embracing prediction markets: Donald Trump Jr. is an adviser of Kalshi, and the president’s TruthSocial is planning to lunch its own prediction market, which would in theory allow high-dollar betting on actions the federal could take.

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 17d
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.