Since Trump chickened out of the traditional 60 minute interview I think they should replace him with Mike Pence to talk about all the crooked shit Trump and his family did in office.

So, da#n frustrating...🇬🇪

When I was pregnant, my OB-GYN said the effects of pregnancy and childbirth on a woman’s body is comparable to those one would incur when climbing Mount Everest. Which is to say, FUCK NO we do not want to “go right back to work.” It’s bad enough that we only get 1-2 days in the hospital!

So JD Vance claims that immigrants have caused the housing crisis. So much wrong with this, but one glaring problem is timing. The surge in rents (as measured by the BLS’s new tenant index) preceded the surge in immigration (as estimated by CBO)

I sat for an interview w/ Jordan's "weaponization of government" committee. They argued researchers studying online rumors (and platforms taking action re: harmful falsehoods) were "biased" & "targeting conservatives". Turns out, one side just spreads more BS. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Why conservatives get suspended more than liberals on social media

It doesn’t mean content moderation is biased, study finds

Helene would have been a serious danger regardless, but those who've made it worse – sometimes far worse – than it had to be are all in positions of power, not the folks desperately trying to survive this.

Yes. Perhaps conservatives are more likely to have content taken down… because they are more likely to spread falsehoods. Fascinating new research that shows *even Republican laypeople* rate the content shared by the right as less truthful. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature

We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

It is deeply uncivil to disregard the most basic norm of a self-governing society: that the people, not politicians or the powerful, choose our own leaders.

Vance’s politeness on stage in discussing January 6 is quite dangerous. It can make the big lie that Donald Trump won and that January 6 was just another peaceful protest seem reasonable. It is not.

I’ve seen several posts cheering last night’s VP debate because it was “civil.” As a scholar who has studied political (in)civility for the past 15 years, I need to jump into this conversation. While the debate may have been polite, it was certainly not civil.