Claire Adida

The former.

you're right, elections can play that coordination role!

It's fascinating because none of this about Trump - the slurs, the bullying, the threats - is new. We are witnessing a tipping point, I think, and I'd love to know what led to the tip.

A nice figure by @gelliottmorris.com summarizing Trump approval by respondent issue priority. Trump is net positive on issues that only 19% of respondents rank as top priority (border, crime, immigration).

Brief 53: Fostering Inclusionary Behavior towards Syrian Refugees through Perspective-Taking – EGAP EGAP researchers: Claire Adida, Melina Platas

This month we are spotlighting EGAPers researching #poverty & #inequality in North America. First up, @claireadida.bsky.social & @melinaplatas.bsky.social w/ Adeline Lo ask whether a perspective-taking exercise leads to more positive attitudes and behavior toward vulnerable groups.

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This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.

But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.

I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.

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I’m actually terrified to do this, but here goes.

One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.

Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
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Here's a useful and important factcheck of the December ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) meeting.

Shame on RFK Jr.

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Brief 44: Examining Ethnicity-Based Voting Under High & Low Information Settings in Benin – EGAP EGAP researchers: Jessica Gottlieb, Claire Adida, Gwyneth McClendon, Eric Kramon

For our final featured policy brief on voting behavior, we're sharing a project by @claireadida.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social, Eric Kramon, and Jessica Gottlieb that studies the effects of increasing voters’ access to information in reducing ethnic voting in Benin.

Put differently: If you look at a group of voters with the same education, their level of racial resentment strongly predicts their vote choice. But in a group of people with the same level of racial resentment, educational attainment does not allow for a strong prediction of their politics.

Among white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their voting decision is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.

In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.

Yes, Trump dominates among the *white* working class (if defined as people without a college degree). But even here, religion played a key role: In 2024, about 86 percent of non-college white evangelicals voted for Trump – vs. only a minority of the non-evangelical white working class.

Trump does not represent the “will of the people” – a stable majority of Americans, including about two thirds of those who call themselves independents, reject core tenets of the Trumpist agenda. It is the Republican Party that is losing touch with the mainstream of American society.

The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Their “economic anxiety” is mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.

BREAKING:

Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.

This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.

Republicans just putting the government in every thing. Is that liberty?

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

From @marcelias.bsky.social on @democracydocket.com :

Epstein was emailing former NYT reporter Landon Thomas Jr. — Dec. 8, 2015 — at the exact same time the newspaper was hyping Hillary Clinton’s emails; these emails were highly damaging to Trump... yet, we never saw them.

Bookmarking for teaching

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Rocket Money no more! @juddlegum.bsky.social ‘s impact as a journalist is unparalleled.

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Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Claire Adida Exploring how empathy and perspective-taking shape migration, inclusion, and public attitudes toward diversity with FSI Senior Fellow Claire Adida

Empathy is a simple but profound mechanism for building social cohesion, says @claireadida.bsky.social of @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social.

Using quantitative and field methods, Adida studies what creates or dissolves cohesion, and how that can be used to inform better policymaking.

Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.

New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...

If you score remap shifts between safe/competitive seats as +/-0.5, here's how the count looks today, to my eye:

CA: Dem +4.5
MO: GOP +1
NC: GOP +0.5
OH: GOP +0.5
TX: GOP +4
UT: Dem +1

That leaves Republicans ahead by half a seat, w/ FL, IN & VA the biggest remaining variables.