@owasow.bsky.social - Omar Wasow

16 Aug 2026 16:05 +0000

Did Nazi marches persuade or polarize voters? In 1932 Hamburg, full exposure raised Nazi vote share by ~1 pp (18% of citywide gain), but only by widening divides: support rose in Nazi-leaning areas and fell in opposition areas. Spillovers made up ~half the effect. https://academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jeea/jvag039/8733551?redirectedFrom=fulltext

14 Aug 2026 16:58 +0000

“All the items in this room were once out of reach; some not yet invented, others too rare or costly for the vast majority of people. Today, most of us lucky enough to live with them walk past without a second thought.” ordinaryabundance.com https://ordinaryabundance.com

13 Aug 2026 17:40 +0000

Who says Trump’s policies aren’t reducing prices https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/commodities/articles/lettuce-prices-fell-record-16-134500138.html

13 Aug 2026 00:31 +0000

An influential 1995 paper noted “the modal number of citations to articles in political science is zero: 90.1% of our articles are never cited…” In 2011, claim was tested. Turns out “The Modal Number of Citations to Political Science Articles Is Greater than Zero… https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/modal-number-of-citations-to-political-science-articles-is-greater-than-zero-accounting-for-citations-in-articles-and-books/E8C0B58F9C12239B319F921370227CDA

12 Aug 2026 07:25 +0000

I’m a broken record but, whether your preferred candidate won or lost, ludicrous that election is determined by <1% of vote while ~20% went to others. Approval voting (yes to every acceptable candidate) would do a much better job of elevating consensus candidates and conferring legitimacy.

12 Aug 2026 04:30 +0000

Hong speech acknowledges that race remains undecided but sounds like a concession.

12 Aug 2026 02:07 +0000

On primary polling in MI, @gelliottmorris.com noted, “…polls had Sayed up by ~13 points. So this is like a 12-point misfire. But actually, I've looked at all Senate primary polls back to 1998. The average miss is actually 13 points. So, last night was better than average for the polls in a primary.” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-story-behind-trumps-terrible-approval-rating/id73330715?i=1000780967185&r=594.4

11 Aug 2026 20:24 +0000

On his latest episode, @chrislhayes.bsky.social warns of the risk to the US auto industry of sticking with gas as the world shifts to EVs: becoming a “weird kangaroo on an island that doesn't work anywhere else.” There’s a term for this: “Galápagos syndrome.” 1/2 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-this-happening-the-chris-hayes-podcast/id1382983397?i=1000779829078&r=2745

11 Aug 2026 05:45 +0000

This is not a serious person [contains quote post or other embedded content]

11 Aug 2026 01:17 +0000

Trump meets Iran [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Aug 2026 16:31 +0000

To paraphrase Chapelle, Harper’s writing style is basically “Just sprinkle some woke on it…” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Aug 2026 03:40 +0000

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09 Aug 2026 21:30 +0000

“People have turned idol worship of political figures and online personalities into something like a comfort blanket—clinging to them in reverential, memeified, and childlike ways that more resemble how someone might talk about the characters on their favorite TV show.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

09 Aug 2026 05:36 +0000

Calling Card by Adrian Piper, 1986 https://www.nga.gov/artworks/203123-calling-card-i-am-black

08 Aug 2026 22:04 +0000

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