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Will Jennings📉🗳️
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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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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 12

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3h
It's a sign of the concerns within the PLP and the level of debate within the party that multiple MP's are now putting out pieces on the wider approach like this.

Suspect that'll grow as we approach May/unless polling changes
'Avoiding the iceberg' - LabourList
Labour’s polling crisis isn’t about Reform voters but losing progressives. To avoid electoral collapse, the party must clarify its values and unite its bloc.
labourlist.org

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 4h
Denmark is underway to move more troops to Greenland in cooperation with undisclosed allies.

Preparatory staff are in place to solve logistics for potential larger Danish forces.

Details are sparse but dr.dk reports that first plane landed 2 days ago.

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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 14h
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”

Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
wapo.st

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h
There has never been anyone worse at social media in the history of social media. Each successive post he makes about every mess he’s gotten himself into makes that mess worse.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14h
I often think of C.S. Lewis' point in That Hideous Strength that the minions of evil all hate each other, and their master hates them too.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h
Tbf a lot of Labour MPs on here get shouted at all day too…

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h
5% of Conservative MPs is not a lot of MPs.
zoecrowther.bsky.social Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 1d
There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs

🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs
🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs
🟢 All the 4 Green MPs

🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs
➡️ No Reform MPs
zoecrowther.bsky.social Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 4d
More MPs are coming off X and I assume that means they will be posting more on here

@politicshome.bsky.social has a handy list of all the MPs on Bluesky

Please point out anyone who is missing!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 18h
Joe Rogan calling ICE the gestapo is probably a sign of what other morons are starting to figure out. It only took a guy shooting a woman in the face on video and calling her a fucking bitch

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18h
Rapture

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h
joe rogan is a very dumb guy, that very dumb guys are realizing that ICE is evil is good.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19h
No change but their battery is going to be dead soon!

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h
One reason I took the photo :)

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah, you voted for it.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h
Fulsome

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h
Excited to find out in half an hour whether my car is still in one piece!
drjennings.bsky.social Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve peaked for today by managing to park next to this monster

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20h
The people seem to be turning against ICE, and that's probably because the president is sending them into every major population center and screwing with people's lives. Politics is often invisible, but this is not!

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21h
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 21h
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 22h
Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h
Rep. Lieu: “Greg Bovino last night made a post that essentially called protesters, ‘cannon fodder.’ He needs to delete that post, or he needs to resign…If Greg Bovino and the administration doesn't turn down the rhetoric, it's going to cause more people to get killed.”

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 23h
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:

46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE

This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d
A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
No it just is a ridiculously large vehicle!

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Public Policy | Southampton (PPS) @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social · 1d
🌟 Exciting news! Professor Will Jennings has been invited by the Labour Growth Group to present his research to Parliament tomorrow, shedding light on how the public views the places they live.

Read the full report here: buff.ly/r4Q0FgA

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Received some very nice/positive reviewer comments on our book on TRUST this week, looking forward to submitting the final version to Cambridge University Press in a few weeks and seeing it out later in the year with luck. Quite timely!

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
In this instance (a) I had no choice of where to park, and (b) they hadn't even bothered to park as straight as possible... whether I regret it I'll be sure to let you know at about 8pm :)