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Ryan Enos

@ryanenos.bsky.social

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Social Scientist, Harvard University https://www.ryandenos.com/ https://ryandenos.substack.com/

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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 11h

Put every college in America on here.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

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Reposted by Laia Balcells

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

My best guess at the reason why is that Trump has transformed the executive branch (and increasingly the military) into a personalistic regime with the sole purpose of serving his authoritarian aims...so they like, brazenly so.

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Reposted by Adrian Daub

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, it's pure extortion, and this "compact" must be resisted. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Reposted by Stephen M. Walt

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie. This "compact" punishes the criticism of conservative ideas and imposes ideological tests on faculty and students. If you can't defend your proposals on an honest basis, then your proposals are bad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d

Good for him.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan , and 4 more Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Ryan Enos, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, David Darmofal

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Christopher Wright, Stacy D. VanDeveer

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer , and 4 more Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer, Ryan Enos, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Michael D. McDonald, Simon Lester

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 3d

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d

Appreciate the support because I feel like we are making the same point over and over again. But, sadly, it seems like it keeps needing to made.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3d

"American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve... Harvard has shown resolve. Now it’s time to lead."

via @ryanenos.bsky.social & @stevelevitsky.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump's Compact

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/9/enos-levitsky-harvard-trump-compact/

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 3d

From @ryanenos.bsky.social & Levitsky: “Predictably, the extortionist has returned for more. The reward for capitulation was more extortion.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d

@ryanenos.bsky.social and Steve Levitsky have been consistent voices against authoritarianism. Their latest: "American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Nelson Flores

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing shows the dangerous tendency to normalize authoritarianism like the New York Times coverage of the extortion of Harvard. One could read this article and think it is about a free agent inking a contract with the Yankees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Harvard Seeks Assurances as Talks Restart in Washington

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt, Scott L. Greer , and 3 more Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt, Scott L. Greer, Efrén O. Pérez, Jacob Montgomery, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d

Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Ryan Enos, Trevon D. Logan , and 1 more Joshua S. Weitz, Ryan Enos, Trevon D. Logan, Michael Jones‐Correa

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d

It's not an exaggeration to say this is the rhetoric of Germany in 1933: secret foreign influences that will be rooted out by the regime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Ryan Enos

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Reposted by Ryan Enos, Dunlap

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d

A free press allows us to dismantle the lies of this regime.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d

If you are accidentally quoting Hitler, then may I humbly suggest that it is time to rethink your ideology...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d

We charge our car overnight at home, almost never on the road. The saved opportunity cost of not having to stop at gas stations is also considerable.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 4d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Reposted by Vincent Pons

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d

Our future depends on who can coordinate best and how Americans answer the two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering the remarkable Marcy Morgan who recognized the remarkable reach of hip hop when few others in the academy did.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Linguistic anthropologist pioneered study of hip-hop as high art— Harvard Gazette

Harvard renames first-of-its-kind archive after its founder Marcyliena Morgan, who died recently at age 75.

news.harvard.edu

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Reposted by David Lazer, Will Jennings, Efrén O. Pérez , and 5 more David Lazer, Will Jennings, Efrén O. Pérez, Calvin K. Lai, Ryan Enos, Andrew L. Whitehead, Leticia Bode, Sebastian Stier

Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 5d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 5d

Even by current standards, this Bondi testimony is shocking. She seems to see herself as the vassal of a king, showing contempt for oversight by the elected representatives of the people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 5d

Here's what I told him:

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