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20 days

Updated syllabi for my @dartmouth Political Misinformation and Conspiracy Theory course and my Experiments in Politics course

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

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1 year

An all-time banger

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4 years

Axl Rose owning the Treasury Secretary on Twitter was not on my 2020 bingo card

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6 years

Unbelievably scary. A host on de facto state media is openly calling for the arrest of law enforcement officials who are investigating the president. The rule of law is under threat. Right now.

Fox News

@FoxNews

6 years

. @JudgeJeanine : "There have been times in our history where corruption and lawlessness were so pervasive, that examples had to be made. This is one of those times."

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The President has made 6000+ false claims and journalists are still writing “Trump said X” headlines? Really?

Reuters

@Reuters

5 years

Trump says prosecutors have found no evidence of Russia collusion

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"This is a man who was handed hundreds of millions of dollars, flushed it down the toilet, and was desperate to maintain his image of wealth and success. You couldn’t invent a more inviting target for a foreign intelligence service to manipulate."

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

5 years

Keeping Trump's tax returns secret is a massive national security risk

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

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Consider the counterfactual: How long would this be permitted if the people who did it were not white men?

Ned Oliver

@nedoliver

4 years

Big groups of heavily armed men arriviving in Richmond, many in camo and body armor

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@BrendanNyhan

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The President of the United States literally doesn't understand the Constitution that he swore to preserve, protect, and defend

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

Trump reveals he has absolutely no clue how impeachment works, says, "I can't imagine the courts allowing it." (The courts have nothing to do with impeachment, which is the domain of Congress.)

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If growing up in the Silicon Valley taught me anything, it's that very smart tech people can be incredibly naive about politics and have absurdly simplistic views of how it should or does work

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

I remain staggered that Susan Page asked Pence what he would do if the President refused to leave office, Pence did not directly commit to or endorse the peaceful transfer of power, and her followup question was to ask a kid's question about why people in politics don't get along

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@BrendanNyhan

6 years

Former WH adviser suggesting the president's political opponent should be executed on television. This is deeply dangerous & not normal.

Media Matters

@mmfa

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Sebastian Gorka: Hillary Clinton should be convicted of treason like the Rosenbergs; "Those people got the chair"

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@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Journalists: please write your headlines and tweets like this rather than amplifying evidence-free conspiracy theories

NPR Politics

@nprpolitics

5 years

President Trump has a history of making claims of voter fraud without providing evidence to back up his claims. Now, he's doing it again in the Florida Senate race.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Announcing unspecified allegations against the other party two days before the election *while he’s on the ballot*. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

JUST IN: Kemp’s office opens investigation into Georgia Dems for "possible cyber crimes"

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

A whistleblower who followed the letter of the law may require federal protection because of safety threats inspired by the President of the United States. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

David Begnaud

@DavidBegnaud

5 years

BREAKING: Tonight, “60 Minutes" has obtained a letter that indicates the government whistleblower who set off the impeachment inquiry of President Trump is under federal protection, because he or she fears for their safety, reports @ScottPelley

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Donald Trump will not succeed. Joe Biden will be president on January 20. But the fact that a coup is being considered and the President is not being immediately impeached and removed from office is a sign of profound democratic erosion.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

The president of the United States is laughing with a murderous autocrat about his hatred for the press.

Alec Luhn

@AlecLuhn

7 years

"These are the ones that insulted you?" Putin asked Trump, gesturing at the journalists being ushered out of the room. Chuckles all around

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@BrendanNyhan

3 years

I would read a 10,000 word article just on how this location was selected for Rudy's press conference.

Patton Oswalt

@pattonoswalt

3 years

This is not over. For we shall mount our righteous stand at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Next to Fantasy Island Adult Books. Across the street from the Delaware Valley Cremation Center. Between the fire extinguisher and yellow hose. #MAGA

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@BrendanNyhan

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I don't see an alternative to explusion. Just madness and blood lust.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Orrin Hatch 2018: I don't care if the President's own DOJ has implicated him in felonies. What is a "crime" anyway? Orrin Hatch 1999: "crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office"

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@BrendanNyhan

4 years

Happening right in front of us. This is not a drill.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Trump admits he's sabotaging the Postal Service so universal mail voting will be impossible during an election that will be conducted amid a pandemic this November

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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The president of the United States: -wants to suspend due process rights -calls the press an enemy of the people -calls for rougher treatment by police -collects undisclosed millions in profits -makes false allegations of election fraud -calls for investigations of his opponents

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Every media outlet needs to start planning now to avoid amplifying this. "Trump declares victory" is NOT an acceptable headline or tweet or chyron, nor is "he said," "she said" coverage an appropriate journalistic approach to an attack on legal vote counting in a democracy.

Jonathan Swan

@jonathanvswan

3 years

President Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he's "ahead," according to three sources familiar with his private comments.

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@BrendanNyhan

7 years

What would you think if you saw a leader of another country threatening a media outlet's owner with tax increases after critical coverage?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

The #AmazonWashingtonPost , sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!

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@BrendanNyhan

7 years

The president is threatening the tax status of a company b/c its CEO owns a media org that is critical of him. What country is this again?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

This is very, very, very bad. Vaccines are one of the great public health achievements in human history. They have saved literally millions of lives.

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog

3 years

Florida Republicans now looking at rescinding measles & mumps vaccine requirements, while continuing to spread disinformation that the Covid vaccine isn't "proven to work"

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What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

3 years

The WH is firing top leaders at the Pentagon while the president denies the election results

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@BrendanNyhan

5 years

This is how an authoritarian talks. Happening right in front of us.

Daniel Dale

@ddale8

5 years

Trump to Breitbart on how the left plays tough: "I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad."

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Donald Trump should be removed from office immediately - he is unwilling or unable to fulfill his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. An open letter from 200+ political scientists (and counting):

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Important for everyone to see how many scholars/journalists who study illiberal/authoritarian regimes are deeply alarmed about US right now

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@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

The Saudi nuclear plan top Trump officials promoted despite objections from national security officials would’ve enriched a company that bailed out Jared Kushner’s family. #grifting

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If you're keeping score at home, that's 0.006%.

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: Investigation by @AP finds fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud identified by Arizona’s local election officials out of 3.4 million ballots cast in last year’s presidential election. @APChristie @AP_Christina .

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@BrendanNyhan

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I defer to my colleagues who study civilian/military relations, but I find this worrisome - the military must be loyal to civilian control and the Constitution, not part of a presidential personality cult

Vivian Salama

@vmsalama

5 years

Airmen onboard the USS WASP wearing patches on their jumpsuits that read “Make Aircrew Great Again.” The patches include an image in the center in the likeness of President Trump.

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@BrendanNyhan

7 years

Disturbing this is plausible

Christopher D. Long

@octonion

7 years

Why does Trump think health insurance costs $12/year? Because Gerber advertises life insurance for babies on Fox News for about that price.

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@BrendanNyhan

7 years

Reminder: Collapse of GOP commitment to constitutional and ideological principles is the biggest story in the world

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

The President and his totally insane advisers are discussing seizing voting machines and declaring martial law Doesn't matter that it won't happen. These are grounds for removal from office. Full stop.

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@atrupar

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@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust

David Fahrenthold

@Fahrenthold

5 years

NEW: @realDonaldTrump says he’s likely to hold next year’s G-7 meeting at his own huge, struggling Doral resort.

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3 years

Nothing to worry about, just America's #2 demagogue meeting with the man who destroyed Hungarian democracy through precisely the kind of process of erosion that experts fear could happen here.

Peter Murphy

@MurphyPeterN

3 years

Look who dropped by Viktor Orbán’s today..

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@BrendanNyhan

4 years

We're becoming desensitized to unacceptable burdens on the franchise. People died for this right. Shouldn't take hours to participate in our democracy.

Andy Pierrotti

@AndyPierrotti

4 years

As of 11am, voters waited 5+ hours to cast ballots @ the main Cobb Co. early polling location (736 Whitlock Ave, Marietta). Some seemed unbothered by the line. “It doesn’t matter how long it takes…we’re voting like our life depends on it,“ said a voter. #gavotes @11AliveNews

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@BrendanNyhan

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Deeply scary rhetoric - accusing an ethical and patriotic civil servant of having "betrayed" the govt. If you are not scared, you should be.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

2 years

The White House chief of staff sent a memo to the Vice President's top aide on the process by which they could overturn the result of a free and fair election. It was a coup attempt. Full stop.

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

2 years

"WH COS Meadows emailed VP Pence's top aide a detailed plan for undoing Biden's election victory." It wasn't just Trump and some wacky outside lawyers. The Trump White House tried to overturn the election. The Trump White House tried to engineer a coup.

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@BrendanNyhan

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Inducing all of the 1M+ follower accounts to denounce your product is some god-level marketing genius

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@BrendanNyhan

5 years

When John Yoo says your claims of executive power go too far, you're in the bad place.

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@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Dangerous and scary propaganda. Bizarre we're pretending this is in any way normal - not even news when one party is accused of literally executing full-term babies that have already been delivered.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

Trump whips his fans into a frenzy by falsely accusing Democrats of supporting the execution of babies

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@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Kids: Study political science

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4 years

Co-founder of the Federalist Society says Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

4 years

Steven Calabresi.

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@BrendanNyhan

3 years

What an apocalypse of bad journalism. These miraculous vaccines are ~95% effective. If you vaccinate millions of people with them, a few will still get COVID (typically less severe). This is not news! And where is the headline on all the (far more numerous) prevented cases?

NBC News

@NBCNews

3 years

4 people in Oregon have tested positive for the coronavirus after receiving both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, health officials said.

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@BrendanNyhan

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Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

Mar-a-Lago club members reviewed confidential $10 billion VA contract before its release: report

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@BrendanNyhan

4 years

This is insane. Journalists: Don't do this. Judges: Don't do this. None of us should be neutral on the peaceful transfer of power. That is the core of democracy itself.

CBS News

@CBSNews

4 years

Barrett is asked if she believes a president should unequivocally commit to a peaceful transfer of power "To the extent that this is a political controversy right now, as a judge I want to stay out of it, and I don't want to express a view," she says

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@BrendanNyhan

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An attempt to overturn a free and fair election by a sitting president - an act with no precedent in our history.

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@kyledcheney

3 years

Trump now explicitly asking state legislatures to overturn the election.

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@BrendanNyhan

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Normal stuff, just the President endorsing an insane proposal to conduct another election to replace the one he lost

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@BrendanNyhan

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One of the greatest tweets in history. Absolute all timer.

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@BrendanNyhan

2 years

Kids: Study political science

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@BrendanNyhan

2 years

Media: Include denominators in these headlines! You have to open the article to find out that 40,000 people = 3% of soldiers. People don't know that!

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

2 years

Vaccine holdouts in U.S. military approach 40,000 even as omicron variant fuels call for boosters

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I find it insane we don’t talk about this more. Steve King is a member of the GOP caucus and essentially an open white nationalist. Why aren’t Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump asked about his membership in the party every day?

Brian Beutler

@brianbeutler

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Unusual for a member of the United States Congress to endorse a mayoral candidate in Canada, unless the member of Congress is Steve King, and the mayoral candidate is a neo-Nazi.

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@BrendanNyhan

4 years

The President is openly using his office to try to undermine the businesses who provide unfavorable coverage. A direct attack on a free and independent media. Happening right in front of us.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Concast is known for its terrible service. On top of that they provide FAKE NEWS on MSDNC & @NBCNews . Drop them and go to a good provider!

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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The president is falsely suggesting widespread fraud and suggesting the need for judicial intervention so he can win. Happening right in front of us.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

"We need 9 justices. You need that. With the unsolicited millions of ballots that they're sending ... you're gonna need 9 justices." -- Trump suggests he's counting on SCOTUS to have his back when he makes claims of election fraud following November's election

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If there’s one thing Fox believes in, its that scandals can never be discussed again after elections

Media Matters

@mmfa

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Fox host wonders why news outlets are talking about sexual misconduct allegations against Trump: "We had an election after that. And he won."

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6 years

I have to log off Twitter. Seeing that this is a song the kids sing (to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star") is too much.

Georgy Cohen

@radiofreegeorgy

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This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom.

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@BrendanNyhan

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An armed white supremacist terrorist searched for where @JoeNBC lived after reading a headline in which Scarborough criticized Trump. We should be shocked that we’re not shocked - and appalled at what’s being stirred up in our country.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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He literally induced an arena of mostly white people to jeer Somali refugees in their community and read off the names of Fox hosts so people would cheer for them. It's journalistic malpractice to cover Trump like a normal politician.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

Every American should read @davidfrum (conservative writer/former Bush official) on the authoritarian threat we face

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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The authoritarianism is becoming increasingly open - CPAC Hungary speaker approvingly refers to "rejecting so-called liberal democracy" and says "We demand nothing short of an American Orbanism."

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

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4 years

What is happening to our country when the Surgeon General, a supposed medical expert, is forced to spout Great Leader nonsense like this on television? It's Yangtze River swim-style agitprop

Chairman Mao’s historic swim – glorified in China but ridiculed by the rest of the world

Fifty years ago, Mao Zedong’s ‘world-record-breaking’ swim in the Yangtze River signalled the return of the Great Helmsman. Other state leaders have since tried to use the sport as a demonstration of...

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Here's Surgeon General Jerome Adams telling Jake Tapper that President Trump "sleeps less than I do and he's healthier than what I am." 😳

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What would you say if you saw it in another country?

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Precisely the wrong approach by the NYT - potential rollbacks in US democracy shouldn't be covered with partisan game frames.

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@BrendanNyhan

4 years

A conspiracy theory based on literally no evidence being aired by a US senator on television (classic: "[w]e don't have evidence... but... we need to at least ask the question"). Dangerous and irresponsible.

Acyn

@Acyn

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Tom Cotton reiterates his suggestion that the Coronavirus originated at a super-lab in Wuhan

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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The defeated authoritarian leader who inspired a violent insurrection and denies the legitimacy of his successor says his party will be back in the White House "sooner than you think." What would you say if you saw it in another country?

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

No big deal, just the President retweeting a lunatic call to imprison the officials who confirmed he lost Georgia

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

The peaceful transfer of power is the core of democracy. The losing side stripping powers from the winning side undermines that compact.

Alan Greenblatt

@AlanGreenblatt

5 years

As in North Carolina two years ago, GOP legislators in Wisconsin are looking to strip power from the newly elected Democratic governor before he takes office

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

The President is making baseless accusations of fraud and calling for the vote count to be stopped while his political allies are ahead. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

A+++ politician Twitter dunk

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

As with so much White House misconduct, the attack on mail voting would be a massive scandal if it were a secret that third parties uncovered. The fact that Trump openly confesses his plan like a Scooby Doo villain makes it no less dangerous as a threat to our democracy.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

First Putin, now Alex Jones. What reprehensible figure will Kelly give a platform to next?

Megyn Kelly

@megynkelly

7 years

Next Sunday, I sit down with conservative radio host @RealAlexJones to discuss controversies and conspiracies #SundayNight June 18 on NBC

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

The contrast between the real journalists at Fox and the state media apparatus is getting increasingly extreme

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Corrected headline: NC hospital network achieves 99.5% compliance with vaccine mandate, protecting patients and staff; 0.5% (175 people) fired for refusing to comply

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

What would you say if you saw it in another country? The incumbent president, who previously called for his opponent to be imprisoned, suggesting his predecessor and the candidate challenging him should be jailed

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

"If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would've been in jail a long time ago, & I'm talking with 50-year sentences...people should be going to jail for this stuff...this was all Obama. This was all Biden": Trump suggests Obama & Biden should be in prison

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

Today feels like a turning point - the Western alliance and the global trading system are coming under the same intense strain that Trump has created for our domestic institutions. Will Congressional Rs continue to stand by, paralyzed by fears of their base?

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

The President is reportedly considering asking his AG to *prosecute* a special counsel who is investigating his administration. Would immediately plunge the country into constitutional crisis.

Mark Murray

@mmurraypolitics

6 years

Um....

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

This is real life: "The FBI LIED about the Steele dossier has been scaled back to The FBI did not highlight the truth about the Steele Dossier in the part of the application we bothered to read. So now the main attack on the FBI is about font size."

Nunes: Fine, the FBI Didn’t Lie, But Its Font Was Too Small

The author of the famous memo scales back his accusation.

nymag.com

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

An embattled incumbent representing a declining ethnic majority who lost the popular vote: -calls out the military to quell protests -attacks the legitimacy of elections -seeks to limit access to the franchise You'd know exactly what this was if you saw it in another country.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

Assistant professor of emergency medicine at Columbia

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

Brilliant @AdrianChen on how populist demagogues like Trump and Duterte exploit social media - one of the best things I've read on this

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

Reminder: There are no “red lines” when it comes to the scope of the rule of law. Raid was approved by numerous officials and conducted within the law. Impunity is for despots.

Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

6 years

But both Trump and Cohen believe this is really Mueller and that farming it out to SDNY was a fig leaf. Both sources say that this has crossed the "red line" that Trump laid out for Mueller going outside his purview in intvw w @nytmike @peterbakernyt and me last July

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

TFW when the co-author of How Democracies Die says things are going *worse* than he expected

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Our government cuts up dissidents with bone saws?

Jim Sciutto

@jimsciutto

5 years

On Khashoggi murder, Trump backer and adviser Tom Barrack tells crowd in Gulf: “whatever happened in Saudi Arabia, the atrocities in America are equal, or worse ...”

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

3 years

Not a drill. The President’s campaign is trying to overturn an election they lost based on fictitious claims of widespread fraud. Even if they lose (and they will), this scorched earth strategy will further damage our democracy.

Robert Costa

@costareports

3 years

One thing I keep hearing from Rudy people tonight: they know they can't catch up. What they want -- in MI, PA, NV, other states -- is for the vote to *not* be certified. Their end game: try to force it to the House. Giuliani talking about this privately.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

The President is threatening to close down private sector businesses because he doesn't like what they publish. What would you say if you saw it in another country? These are the words of an authoritarian.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

I teach about misinformation and conspiracy theories and I can't believe this is real life. The president of the United States is touting this person.

Will Sommer

@willsommer

6 years

I just wrote a post about why Roseanne Barr is tweeting about the #QAnon conspiracy theory

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

The conservative movement is demanding increased work requirements for people on welfare just as we learn POTUS watches 4-8 hours of TV per day and doesn’t get to the Oval until 11 AM

Fox News

@FoxNews

6 years

. @dbongino on @foxandfriends : “I just wish we would embrace that more as a country, the idea of opportunity, not the idea of providing people a check as a way out of opportunity.”

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust

David Fahrenthold

@Fahrenthold

5 years

Ivanka Trump, who’s both a WH official & co-owner of Trump Hotel DC, poses w/Kuwaiti Amb’s wife, who’s both a US ally & Trump Hotel customer

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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Senator John Cornyn

@JohnCornyn

3 years

Ex-colleague of Hunter Biden's lawyer gets top DOJ post

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

The President’s involvement in a potentially illegal hush money scheme during the campaign to cover up an affair with a porn star is like the 12th biggest story today. Where we are as a country.

Steve Kopack

@SteveKopack

5 years

Breaking, via @WSJ : Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have gathered evidence of Donald Trump's participation in payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal "that violated campaign-finance laws"

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

5 years

Former Republican member of Congress

Carlos Curbelo

@carloslcurbelo

5 years

This is unacceptable. Republicans must condemn it unequivocally. Time is running out for them to get on the right side of history. Our institutions and being diminished in a very dangerous way.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

I ask again: Has any president ever openly stated they will let a policy fail that would hurt people on this scale? Seems unprecedented

Julie Davis

@juliehdavis

7 years

Trump on his health care overhaul strategy: "We'll let Obamacare fail. We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it."

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

2 years

Remember these pre-Jan. 6 statements every time someone says critics are wrong to warn of the risks of rising authoritarianism

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

6 years

As always, 2018 is not subtle

ABC News

@ABC

6 years

Striking photo captures bolt of lightning behind the U.S. capitol as widespread severe weather moves east.

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

4 years

Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust

CNN

@CNN

4 years

Political committees have spent more than $22 million at Trump properties since the billionaire real-estate developer entered the presidential race in 2015, a tally by the Center for Responsive Politics shows

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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

2 years

Refers to her political opponents as "termites" and describes a duly elected government as the "regime currently controlling America." This is a member of Congress. What would you say if you saw it in another country?