Nate Clark
@nateclark.net
Political scientist studying American politics and the media @UCLA | sketch comedian and filmmaker | sometimes that guy from that thing.
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Which old, played out “rigged election” tropes will Trump try to bring back tonight? Play along with “rigged election” Bingo!
In anticipation of Trump's press conference on alleged election interference tomorrow, we're doing an early release of our "Rigged Election" Bingo game. Which worn out tropes will he and his operatives roll out (again) tomorrow? Create your own card to play along. bingo.cip.uw.edu/s/92d3739d-2...
"Rigged Election" Bingo
Spot the tropes before they spread — can you get BINGO?
bingo.cip.uw.edu
July 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Which old, played out “rigged election” tropes will Trump try to bring back tonight? Play along with “rigged election” Bingo!
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omfg I don’t care anymore about sunrises vs sunsets, I just hate changing the time, y’all can pick whichever time you want and it’s fine with me as long as we stop changing the time twice a year
People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises
July 15, 2026 at 3:41 AM
omfg I don’t care anymore about sunrises vs sunsets, I just hate changing the time, y’all can pick whichever time you want and it’s fine with me as long as we stop changing the time twice a year
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Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
July 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
Can you imagine?
July 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Can you imagine?
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We see minimal to basically no impact on the whole in switching the author to a computer. That’s pretty disconcerting.”
@snsoroka.bsky.social of UCLA on his student Jun Luo's paper “Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism.”
@snsoroka.bsky.social of UCLA on his student Jun Luo's paper “Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism.”
July 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
We see minimal to basically no impact on the whole in switching the author to a computer. That’s pretty disconcerting.”
@snsoroka.bsky.social of UCLA on his student Jun Luo's paper “Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism.”
@snsoroka.bsky.social of UCLA on his student Jun Luo's paper “Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism.”
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WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
June 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially:
“people are hurting.”
“ceos are fine.”
“people are hurting.”
“ceos are fine.”
BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them?
HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.
HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.
May 31, 2026 at 4:04 PM
This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially:
“people are hurting.”
“ceos are fine.”
“people are hurting.”
“ceos are fine.”
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I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Negativity and Misinformation
There are large and growing bodies of research highlighting inaccuracies in news coverage. In this paper, we suggest that negativity biases account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccur...
doi.org
March 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!
Current Board Members - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
March 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!
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“Hostile commenters are more likely to cross boundaries by targeting opposing news stories and exhibit weaker echo chamber structures.” Check out this new paper on the cross-cutting nature of hostile news commentary, lead-authored by @shnoh.bsky.social (who's on the market!). doi.org/10.1177/1940...
Engaging to Oppose: Cross-Cutting Patterns in Hostile News Commentary - Seonhye Noh, Stuart Soroka, 2026
Prior work shows that passive news engagement, such as selection and consumption, exhibits strong news selectivity. Far less attention has been given to more ac...
doi.org
February 19, 2026 at 9:21 AM
“Hostile commenters are more likely to cross boundaries by targeting opposing news stories and exhibit weaker echo chamber structures.” Check out this new paper on the cross-cutting nature of hostile news commentary, lead-authored by @shnoh.bsky.social (who's on the market!). doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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I'm very excited about the most recent @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication, "Catching Fire in the News
The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....
The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....
Catching Fire in the News
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Catching Fire in the News
doi.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I'm very excited about the most recent @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication, "Catching Fire in the News
The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....
The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....
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This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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Well, the pursuit of knowledge had a nice little run there
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Well, the pursuit of knowledge had a nice little run there
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Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
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As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.
Logged into the SBA website this morning to check the status of our disaster loan—we lost our home in the Palisades Fire—and was greeted by the Trump administration blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
Partisan misinformation on a non-partisan government website.
None of this is normal, folks.
Partisan misinformation on a non-partisan government website.
None of this is normal, folks.
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Logged into the SBA website this morning to check the status of our disaster loan—we lost our home in the Palisades Fire—and was greeted by the Trump administration blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
Partisan misinformation on a non-partisan government website.
None of this is normal, folks.
Partisan misinformation on a non-partisan government website.
None of this is normal, folks.
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Thanks to this administration and Congress, KCRW has laid off 10% of the staff today. This is a dark day amid very dark times. Please support us if you can. KCRW.com/donate.
Become a KCRW member today!
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KCRW.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thanks to this administration and Congress, KCRW has laid off 10% of the staff today. This is a dark day amid very dark times. Please support us if you can. KCRW.com/donate.
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This should be a far bigger story than it is.
Mike Johnson is refusing the basic constitutional right of representation to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Mike Johnson is refusing the basic constitutional right of representation to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
It's been 23 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This should be a far bigger story than it is.
Mike Johnson is refusing the basic constitutional right of representation to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Mike Johnson is refusing the basic constitutional right of representation to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...
New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, he did not file a required disclosure form tied to the role with the SEC—the same kind of paperwork error he has used to attack Trump's political foes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own
As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...