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Grant Mitchell

@grantmitchell.bsky.social

Ph.D student at UCLA studying regime change, parties, and party systems. My goal is to be the number one contributor on the transit app for big blue bus line 8

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One of the constants of college football is that James Franklin does not prove his critiques wrong

04.10.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Previously winless UCLA upsets Penn State

04.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 26

Trump is trying to make the Michigan attack on the Mormon church an attack against Christianity.

But many of his MAGA Evangelical followers don't consider Mormons Christians.

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To be sure they were not there, but all their friends were

28.09.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is my step father's stake building

28.09.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Im sick. This was an attack meant to kill as many members of my community as possible

28.09.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Against the Packers no less

22.09.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A short 🧡 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.

Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

21.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 227    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5
The End of the Backsliding Paradigm | Journal of Democracy Like the β€œtransition paradigm” before it, the concept of democratic backsliding threatens to flatten our perceptions of complex political realities. Examples from East-Central Europe illustrate the…

Was it this one? Not by Berman, but sounds kinda like your description

20.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The history of American political violence is one that will test your resolve to read through atrocity after atrocity in a nation that claims to be a beacon of democracy.

19.09.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone always beats me to it!

19.09.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“Š Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum?

➑️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki &
@drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

18.09.2025 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Political parties are when two people watch west wing together

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Goff having 300+ yards and as many incompletions as touchdowns is insane

14.09.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

trivia time!

Q: how many nfl teams are named after animals?

A: 4 (eagles, bears, jets, marlins, suns)

14.09.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1444    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 12

Three plays in and I have no idea what's happening on this UCLA vs New Mexico game

13.09.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ezra Klein, watch this.

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ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

11.09.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 847    πŸ” 282    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 51

God is punishing them for their awful uniforms, and will is his rod

07.09.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Classic banger

06.09.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was this not a central point of his messaging for like 10 years now?

02.09.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He has been musing about whether he'll go to heaven so he could very well be Faustus

02.09.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His 24 years of witchcraft are up and he's being dragged to hell in 30 minutes

02.09.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because he gets fired or his gf kills him?

02.09.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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