Keith A. Preble, Ph.D.

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23 July

Both the hardcover AND ebook are on sale! Ebook just came out today! www.rienner.com/title/Smart_...

Keith A. Preble, Ph.D.@poliscikeith.bsky.social

The electronic version of my new book #SmartEvasion just arrived in my inbox! 💯

nytimes.comInside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Midterm Ballot With Another Dan SullivanOperatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.

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What a mess: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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The Intercept

@theintercept.com

"It is no coincidence that the Trumps and the Bolsonaros are so fond of each other. The affinities become obvious when you watch Bolsonaro’s failsons end up in Trump’s America," writes @intercept.com.br's @andrew.intercept.com.br. buff.ly/e7Yq35c

theguardian.comFlávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after Brazil election lossFar-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via Ecuador

If I were a Bolsonaro supporter, I'd be upset that he fled the country. Why support a politician who simply flees when they lose and it calls into question the motivations behind the candidacy in the first place? Even his own party has now accepted Lula's win. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

washingtonpost.comWhy these Arab Americans who voted for Trump now back Abdul El-SayedMichigan’s Arab American voters helped deliver a GOP presidential victory. But in a competitive Senate race, many say the Democrat is the “America First” candidate.

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The Washington Post

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Michigan’s Arab American voters helped deliver a GOP presidential victory. But in a competitive Senate race, many say Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is the “America First” candidate.

wapo.stBolsonaro effectively concedes in Brazil after Trump suggests he won’t helpTrump says the presidential election looked “rigged” but did not say he planned to intervene on behalf of the right-wing politician.

I think the US president has his hands full with running the USA coupled with a difficult midterm elections - there may be no more bones to throw: wapo.st/4dXjVeT

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Roland Paris

@rolandparis.bsky.social

The economics of aluminum production exposes the self-defeating logic of Trump’s tariffs. Very good piece of reporting in the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/business/alu...

wsj.comAmerica Needs Canada’s Aluminum. Trump’s Tariff Exposed Just How Badly.Smelters in Quebec run on cheap hydroelectric power. The Trump administration’s 50% tariff has pushed up prices for American industry.

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nytimes.comBrazil Election Live Updates: Lula Wins Re-Election as Flávio Bolsonaro Rejects Result (Gift Article)President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s win ended a string of conservative victories in Latin America. His opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, called for the election to be annulled.

science.orgAre your earliest childhood memories still lurking in your mind—or gone forever?Studies of “infantile amnesia” find that memory works differently in the developing brain

My earliest memories are the weeks leading up to my 5th birthday as a four year old. Don’t remember much before that. Guess it is kind of normal? www.science.org/content/arti...

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politicalwire.comTrump to Remove Some Tariffs to Help Susan Collins

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Merriam-Webster

@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Taegan Goddard

@politicalwire.com

Trump to Remove Some Tariffs to Help Susan Collins https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/23/trump-to-remove-some-tariffs-to-help-susan-collins/?ap=b

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Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

This is why Mamdani was elected and why he is the most popular NY mayor since Fiorello LaGuardia. (Perfect Spanish and six other languages, and he spends his time addressing the problems that preoccupy New Yorkers). bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

iowacapitaldispatch.comTrump calls for Omar to resign, defends Ramaswamy campaign ad at Iowa rally • Iowa Capital DispatchAs the president visited Sioux City to support Iowa Republicans, he also spoke about politicians from states like Minnesota and Ohio.

I'm pretty sure Ilhan Omar has no plans to resign at the president's behest: iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/10/22/t...

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Charlie Warzel

@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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CTG UAlbany

@ctgualbany.bsky.social

You're invited! Please join us join on November 2 @ 10:00 a.m. EST when we'll introduce our Practitioners' Guide focused on opportunities for #publiclibraries to serve as strategic enablers of inclusive #civicengagement around #AI. Thank you #IMLS! Register here forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.

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ProPublica

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NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

As I've "grown up" & become more "adult," I've been replacing furniture & getting rid of old stuff I don't use or need. I wish I knew who was taking the things I was leaving outside my house because I'd love for them to take my couch, too! 😂 Glad people are finding a use for the table & chairs.

One chair I put outside because my adorable academic co-pilot with whiskers decimated the fabric with her claws. I wish she'd be that aggressive with the scratching post! Someone took it before the refuse collectors got to it last week.

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Woke up to an article acceptance this morning! 🎉 This paper is a class paper I did with my students at Miami University when I was there as a VAP from 2022-25. In my last semester, students in my Economic Statecraft course chose to do a survey project, which we received funding for and fielded. /1

The current venue (I'll share later) provided the best peer review feedback I've ever received as a scholar. The reviews helped me learn new things, and I was able to improve the presentation and analysis of the survey results (I've even incorporated some of these insights into other projects). /10

While the survey design isn't perfect and there are of course lots of room for improvement, the paper's contribution is more in what it demonstrates than how it demonstrates it. I'm excited to share this project in print, and I hope to develop other papers from the survey data in the coming months.

I'm not a survey methodologist by any stretch of the imagination. Because of the short time in a semester, I overlooked a lot of things. If I could do it again, I would probably have tweaked the survey to make it experimental and also pre-registered it. Despite those limitations... /8

I still think the paper has a lot of interesting things to say. It was tough to get people to accept a local level analysis of tariff use, and I sent the paper to four different venues, each time it got rejected. I will say the rejections were very helpful in shaping the paper. /9

While the theory, methods, and statistical analysis of the survey is mainly me, the students' contribution is front in center in the paper's introduction, in the survey instruments, and in the literature review. /6

Because of the students' immense contribution to the project, each will be listed as a coauthor after me on the project, highlighting their integral role in the paper. I'm really proud of them for doing such great work, and I want to do more of this kind of work in my courses in the future. /7

They designed a short survey that captured demographic and political data about respondents and asked 10 questions. The students also helped me with the IRB, too, and each student had to do the necessary training as part of the course. /4

Once approved, we fielded the survey, got back the results, and each student chose a topic connected to the literature review. I incorporated the students' research into the literature review and many of the ideas we discussed in class. /5

I wanted students (25 of them) to have a research experience that wasn't simply writing a class paper but allowed students to work collectively to produce the survey and do literature reviews for something we could publish somewhere. The survey the students designed was pretty good. /2

The Menard Family Center for Democracy at Miami University graciously supported the survey. At the time, there was a lot of fear and concern about the tariffs the Trump Administration was proposing, and students wanted to examine Ohioans’ feelings about tariffs. /3

science.orgPhones impede learning: Evidence from a massive phone-free classroom experimentLower-performing students benefited the most, but even higher-performing students expressed support for the policy

Cool study! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/t...

techcrunch.comThe internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day | TechCrunchFrom AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities to flaws in Node.js and popular AI tool LiteLLM, cybersecurity teams have plenty to worry about this week.

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csis.orgMissile Diplomacy: North Korea Ramps Up Threats in Trump 2.0Amid President Donald Trump’s calls for summitry with his “friend” Kim Jong-un, as well as his observation that Kim has been “unthreatening and respectful," North Korea has not slowed its missile test...

I don't understand the Ramaswamy campaign's push to run that ad and some politicians glorifying it. It's not a bold move or brave at all. Taking a person's personal trauma and using it as a political weapon is gross. And why would anyone be impressed by endorsement from a mom like that.

I just don't think someone who finds the use of this ad as permissible should be governor or hold any political office. We can't say that the victims of the abuse are simply "liars" when the state didn't think so. Everyone regardless of their politics should be condemning this ad.

bit.lyCongratulations to That Great Humanitarian, Vladimir PutinPlease update your dictionaries accordingly.

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The Atlantic

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“Calling Putin a humanitarian is like calling Hannibal Lecter a humanitarian, although there is more of a case to be made for Hannibal because he does, at least, subsist on people.” @petridishes.bsky.social on Steve Witkoff’s recent remarks to the Russian president:

@kevintmorris.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

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Kevin Morris

Pleased to share the amicus brief we filed before the US Supreme Court in the Mi Familia Vota case. The case threatens to allow SCOTUS to implement many of the worst features of the SAVE Act and deserves your attention www.brennancenter.org/media/16412/...

reut.rsAnthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reportsAI startup Anthropic recorded a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of this year, including $72 billion in ‌accounting charges, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a draft initial public offering prospectus.

Wow, what a waste of resources. Think of what $80 billion could do for societies around the world…

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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J

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Allison Gill

@muellershewrote.com

NEW: Hegseth's chaotic secret evacuation of a US base in Bahrain left military families in harm's way. “They’re not telling the truth. They’re not telling the full story. They’re not telling how much damage there really was." www.ms.now/news/militar...

ms.now‘I was terrified’: Military families describe their harrowing evacuation from a Navy base in BahrainIn exclusive interviews with MS NOW, military family members said that after a hasty and traumatic evacuation from Naval Support Activity Bahrain in March they have been living out of hotels and short...

Flying cars? Now everyone thinks they’re a pilot? Lord help us all! 😂

YouGov America@today.yougov.com

Oct 19-20 poll of 8,627 U.S. adults (±1.4 points) % who say they think flying cars definitely or probably will | won't ever become widespread in the U.S. U.S. adults 36% | 49% Democrats 32% | 54% Independents 30% | 53% Republicans 47% | 39% yougov.com/en-us/daily-...