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Will Jennings 🗳️

@drjennings.bsky.social

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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h

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Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 6h

Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 6h

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 7h

on.ft.com/47u0XIT How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

Excellent via @stephenkb.bsky.social

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

[FREE TO READ] The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 8h

‘I was stopped by police while driving my silver Bentley stuffed with cash and I told them I’m a journalist’

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 8h

I am completely dumbfounded by Labour’s reluctance to take on these people and to apply legal restraints to foreign interference in our politics and while I’m at it do something about GBNews! Does anybody have any sensible explanation for this reluctance?

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 8h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 8h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 8h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 8h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social · 16h

Leaving a legacy?
Darr & Harman find that Americans who move away from local newspapers lose faith in elections, but not in democracy itself. Declining local news may erode electoral trust.
#PoliticalBehavior #MediaEffects
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Defending against bioterrorism? Sounds pretty woke to me. I’m glad Trump finally fired those people.

Dozens of fired staff members at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, a federal health agency, included individuals with top-secret clearance who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense issues such as pandemics and weaponized pathogens, said a former Department of Health and Human Services official who has been in contact with those dismissed.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h

Yep!

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h

Emotional maturity is also pretty contentious, though! (I recognise the vibe - but it's just an argument based on appeal to instinct...)

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h

£100 a day? That'll teach 'em!

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h

The arguments based on taxation also are full of holes.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h

I like it simply because it brings home that a lot of the arguments favouring other voting ages are either highly arbitrary or involve highly problematic slippery slopes...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18h

It was backing Robinson (ditching Farage over his exclusion of Robinson) that took Musk to 80% disapproval in Britain - as that was how he secured majority disapproval from Reform, who had been the only group who approved, to go with his toxicity to Conservatives & centre-left voters

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 20h

4chan has ghosted Ofcom, and is ignoring the UK regulators' pleas to comply with the Online Safety Act. Ofcom says it will fine them £100 a day until they answer their email.

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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings

: Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork

www.theregister.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 23h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22h

I might as well post a photo of myself eating a book.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22h

Group interest forms young!

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22h

No!

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23h

I could post a pic from 2008 of me and Matt Goodwin…

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23h

Bad news for those of us who weren’t hot in 2008…

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23h

Just been discussing the voting age with the 7yo. He agrees with David Runciman.

Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six | David Runciman

The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: The generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Just your typical journalist

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

It is 100 years since the birth of Margaret Thatcher. In what ways did 'Thatcherism' change Britain? A while back for an ESRC research project, we collaborated with documentary maker Michelle Coomber on a film about the long-term social and economic impacts of the Thatcher governments.

Generation Right

In what ways did 'Thatcherism' change Britain? What, if any, legacy is there from her period in office for British society today? How ought we to make…

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

More on the legality of Trump paying the troops from another account - now appears maybe it isn't legal? Reporters: Dig into this!

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 1d

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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