Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social

Asst Prof, UC Berkeley, Political Science. Study protests, stats & race: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/agenda-seeding-how-1960s-black-protests-moved-elites-public-opinion-and-voting/136610C8C040C3D92F041BB2EFC3034C
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Liberal nationalism as a patriotism of possibility (from one night of DNC) bsky.app/profile/owasow.bsky.social/post/3l2bpoaf2tc2n
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Kimchi Space Tacos FTW
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
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call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism
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“In 1965, Viola Liuzzo was shot dead on the highway while driving a fellow activist after the Selma march.

This month, Renee Good was killed in her car after stopping for immigrant neighbors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XVA.2i7y.brT_zP8PKy5C&smid=url-share
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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com
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Detroit will unveil a street sign Saturday honoring Viola Liuzzo, the white Detroit mother of five who was killed by Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama after responding to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to support the Selma voting rights movement in 1965.
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There’s a paper trail and likely more to come: “CNN reviewed screenshots of dozens of messages Swalwell exchanged with the women, many of which are flirtatious in nature. None of the messages reviewed are sexually explicit. The women said Swalwell generally sent more graphic messages via Snapchat…”
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install.exe @lakecounty1975.bsky.social
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I'm ok with stabilizing our democratic system rn.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social
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If you’re speculating about the 2028 Democratic nominee right now, might I suggest you get a hobby. Or look up local volunteer opportunities. Something.
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Party ID “explains far more variation in elite climate beliefs than ideology, trust in science, or broader conspiratorial predispositions.”
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German paper finds broad, emotionally resonant but vague pro-democracy messaging (“empty signifiers”) can mobilize and unify mass public, but tends to stabilize democratic systems rather than transform, because internal disagreements arise among diverse factions. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11615-026-00659-5
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The Malignant Mr. Measles
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Schrödinger’s catastrophe
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Aaron Cowan @aaronbcowan.bsky.social
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Excellent. I literally just taught my US History survey class where I give them two halves of King's 1963 MOW speech (unattributed) and ask who they think gave the second speech.

<insert Pam from The Office meme: "they're the same speech">
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George MacKerron @jawj.prof
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Just published in Economica: using Mappiness plus granular crime data, @pankabencsik.bsky.social, @richarddickens.bsky.social and I show that violent crime causes increased stress to people living in the immediate vicinity over the following week. Open access. doi.org/10.1111/ecca.70037
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social
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“As early as 1984, Michael Crichton’s short story Mousetrap suggested that behavioral traces in typing and mouse use might be as distinctive as fingerprints…” omarwasow.com/wasow_text_as_behavior.pdf
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See omarwasow.com/Crichton-Mousetrap-Life.pdf
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“As early as 1984, Michael Crichton’s short story Mousetrap suggested that behavioral traces in typing and mouse use might be as distinctive as fingerprints…” omarwasow.com/wasow_text_as_behavior.pdf
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social
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Man, this John Carreyrou guy seems like a pretty good reporter
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Circumstantial, but a lot of circumstance. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.7zac.rJQPFKEo1ZrT&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Never forget*

* Except when there are “concerns about ‘engaging in conversations that might take the participant out of the context of Europe, 1933 to 1945, and into present day.’”
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Also bsky.app/profile/owasow.bsky.social/post/3mhdjic4f7s22
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Would rather be walking or cycling to work but currently need to commute by car and have rarely felt better about driving a 14 year old Prius V (and similarly wonder how people are *surprised* their gas guzzlers guzzle gas).
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George Pearkes @peark.es
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This thread is shocking in the best possible way.
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andy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social
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From D&D to rap to metal, the PMRC to social media outrage, @masnick.com notes, ‘Every generation gets its moral panic. Every time, someone insists “this time it’s different.” Every time… the panic (eventually) looks ridiculous…’ www.techdirt.com/2026/03/31/free-speech-experts-jonathan-haidts-moral-panic-is-as-old-as-democracy-itself/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=techdirt-daily-newsletter-for-datemtext-datedordinal-datey-2 cc @enbrown.bsky.social
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Laura Tamman @lauratamman.bsky.social
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Fascinating work.
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social
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"Veiled capacity" is excellent 🤔
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Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com
9d
This is great stuff. Revolutions are a bottom-up phenomena that can be shaped in effective ways
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
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Really fun experience working on this paper with @owasow.bsky.social. When you think about it, it's just two Black and Jewish guys studying the effects of a Black and Jewish partnership to build 5,000 Black schools in the rural South on participation in the Civil Rights Movement
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