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Amy Fried

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Political scientist, kayaker Emeritus, UMaine Political Sightlines at https://amyfried.substack.com/ Books on how U.S. conservatives weaponized distrust, New England politics, professionalizing polling, and perceptions of public opinion as a resource

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · Nov 12

Blueskyers, I’m a retired political scientist, still actively writing and doing more real politics, whose core research has been on the history and political uses of public opinion. But I've done research other topics, too! My 1st pub was on abortion politics, the latest on ranked choice voting. 1/5

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14m

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 8m

Nope.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 16m

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 27m

Right but you need independents to win in Maine. It’s a purple state.

Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 1h

There's tremendous enthusiasm brewing but, yes, he's really unvetted.

Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote about the primary matchup here, btw:

amyfried.substack.com/p/a-maine-de...

A Maine Democratic Senate Primary Worth Having

A Mills vs. Platner primary will be a proving ground and give voters a real say in their effort to beat Susan Collins.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 1h

His only governing experience is being the head of the planning board of a town of 1,207 people.

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Susie Crimmins @scrimmins.bsky.social · 9h

So if you find yourself having big feelings that you need to express about who should be the candidate to run against Susan Collins in Maine, ask yourself if you know what a dooryard is and if you’ve ever used the word dooryard in a sentence.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 1h

ICE officials need to be face accountability for contempt of court.

Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 1h

I'm an historically oriented political scientist. I'm trained to look at patterns. But sometimes those change and one has to be open to that possibility.

Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 2h

Hakeem Jeffried grew up in Crowne Heights.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2h

The Young Republicans institutionally denounced the Hitler-praising, ferociously antisemitic and virulently racist messages in their leaders’ group chats, calling for resignations.

The VP of the US says it’s “pearl clutching” to care and changes the subject.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 2h

Maine has never elected a progressive statewide. Maybe 2026 will be different. #mepolitics #bluewave

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

Yep another U.S. attorney who Trump HANDPICKED this time around who team trump quickly determined: nope sorry not authoritarian enough, next

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 4h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3h

JetBlue BOS→DCA tonight.

🚽 All 3 toilets broken

🥤 Beverage service canceled because it might make people need to pee

🗽Guy next to me missed the announcement, tried to use lav, but was told if he did, we’d have to divert to NY

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 3h

While I've seen plenty of Maine Dems who are convinced that Platner is the strongest candidate, national political analysts didn't move the race from leans Republican to toss up until Mills announced.

#mepolitics

centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

Senate Rating Change: Maine Moves from Leans Republican to Toss-up - Sabato's Crystal Ball

We are moving the Maine Senate race from Leans Republican to Toss-up, which means we now have four Senate Toss-ups: Republican-held Maine and North Carolina and Democratic-held Georgia and Michigan.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 4h

It seems odd that Platner is complaining about campaigns run by consultants when his campaign is. Also no woman with his profile would ever be taken remotely seriously as a Senate candidate.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

I had to listen to the audio to confirm it, but yes, as troops are being deployed to American cities, as masked goons are disappearing citizens from our streets, as ICE agents are shooting pepper balls at priests ... Mike Johnson thinks nude bicyclists are "the most threatening thing I've seen yet."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 4h

Sure thing! I published this piece about the Dem Maine Senate primary today: amyfried.substack.com/p/a-maine-de...

A Maine Democratic Senate Primary Worth Having

A Mills vs. Platner primary will be a proving ground and give voters a real say in their effort to beat Susan Collins.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 4h

Bruce, the last Senate race was during the pandemic. That's why the Gideon campaign didn't do canvassing. #mepolitics

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
g..
The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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