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Evan W. Sandlin

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Political Scientist. I study public opinion.

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · May 30

There's been a lot of research showing increased vaccine hesitancy attitudes among Republicans since COVID-19. My new paper shows that this is reflected in post-COVID Flu vaccine behavior.

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The politicization of influenza: partisan changes in flu vaccination before and after COVID-19

AbstractBackground. Democrats are more likely to be vaccinated for COVID-19 than Republicans. It is unknown if political polarization surrounding the COVID

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 8d

Do it.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8d

White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 13d

The Poor Things defender has logged on (it’s me). Aftersun and TÁR were also very good though.

Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 16d

Basically Hegseth wants basic training instructors to be this guy, forgetting what happened to this guy about 40 minutes into the movie:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17d

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 17d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 18d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 20d

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters:

• Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

• Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023

• 60% oppose more military aid to Israel

• 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Support for Israel in U.S. drops sharply, Netanyahu unpopular, new poll shows

Quinnipiac Survey Finds Only 47% of Americans See Backing Israel as a U.S. Interest, Down From 69% in 2023. Half of Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, While Just 31% Approve of Trum...

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 22d

Plenty dullards with guns in this country, so it is unfortunately totally believable that someone sympathetic to immigrants but who is nevertheless, an idiot, shot into a random ICE van. Regardless, worth pointing out that 14 people have died in ICE custody so it is obviously feigned outrage.

Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 23d

There is no domestic terrorist designation. There is no domestic terrorist list. He's just making it up as he goes along.

Complete moron (the President) spews garbage.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 24d

Holy shit

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 28d

The Colbert situation was a little more complicated. This one is crystal clear!

Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · 28d

Regime threatens media company saying "censor or we will do y" -> company censors.

Seems pretty clear what happened here!

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29d

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

It Is Genocide » Senator Bernie Sanders

Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 16

"The masses will remember Robert Redford jumping off that cliff with Paul Newman, but it’s the work in Park City that may have had the greatest effect."

@sonnybunch.bsky.social on the actor, star, and indie entrepreneur: www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-red...

Robert Redford, 1936–2025

Actor, star, indie entrepreneur.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 11

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

Chart showing Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The data goes back to 2019 and is divided into three groups of people who were arrested by ICE: Any prior conviction, pending charges, and no criminal record. The chart shows that until 2025, the single largest group was always people with prior criminal convictions. But starting in the Trump admin, the population of people arrested with no criminal record began skyrocketing. It surpassed people with pending criminal charges in June and is now extremely close to those with prior convictions.

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is from the Understanding America Study (different project than the one you link to here) but we found similar results after the Trump assassination attempt but then our highest reading yet in Dec 2024

Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · Sep 10

It went right back up afterwards.

Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · Sep 10

Now as someone who has written a bit on political violence over the past four years I’ve been very interested in learning about the Italian years of lead. Problem is I don’t know Italian and there isn’t a ton of literature in English that I can find. Anyone have a good recs?

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Discourse Blog @discourseblog.com · Sep 10

"What does seem clear is that the American Years of Lead are here." Read @jscros.bsky.social on where we're at. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-americ...

The American Years of Lead are Here

The Charlie Kirk shooting is just another sign of our new era.

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · Sep 10

You do not have to like or care for a victim of political violence in order to believe that it is bad. Can someone explain to me what there is to celebrate? This has accomplished nothing and only ill will come in its wake.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Sep 9

Writing a thing about this but what really jumps out about Kavanugh's appalling opinion is that he pretends to be doing the same "myriad of factors" analysis so he can claim he's not just authorizing pure racial profiling. The problem is the other "factors" are... FACTORS ABOUT LOS ANGELES.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looks, accent, skull shape; it’s all relative

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 9

GEIST: What is 'reasonable suspicion'? Is it an accent, a tattoo, a job?

TOM HOMAN: A lot of those things combined. We don't arrest people just based on their looks, but it's myriad of factors.

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Evan W. Sandlin @ewsandlin.bsky.social · Sep 4

NRG released something recently on how the all the most well known IP among younger viewers is far and away video game related. As much as I would like a resurgence of an American independent movement or something I think we’re likely to get a lot of video game movies over the next decade.