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Fascinating look into soldiers' conversations with loved ones. Adds context to the fear around mobilization, when soldiers are calling home to say that 60% of their regiment has been killed, or that 90% of an elite unit has

On Friday, a lifelong dream was fulfilled when I was randomly called to the stage for Star Wars trivia at a showing of RotJ. I made it pretty far, but was eliminated on this one: Can you name this character?

* How much corruption do Russians think is happening in 🇷🇺? * In Jun & Jul, we asked respondents to name what share of reps of various govt institutions/ authorities they think are involved in corruption/ bribe-taking. This 🧵shows data for Putin's office, Duma, police & army. 1/

If everyone moves over to Mastodon, this is gonna be a real problem for me

🔓📖 Grateful to share that this article in this month's American Political Science Review is Open Access, thanks to an agreement between Oklahoma State Univ. and Cambridge University Press Check it out if you are interested in courts and elections in authoritarian regimes! doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

For "fun", preregistering one extremely cold take and one hot one: 🧊: Democrats will overperform the fundamentals but underperform the polls; will lose both chambers. 🔥: Fetterman loses in PA but Warnock wins in GA

This is happening in real time. The Russian minister of defense Sergey Shoigu orders (live on TV!) withdrawal from the occupied territories on the right bank of the Dnipro river. That is, Russia withdraws troops from the city of Kherson. A major victory for the Ukrainian army.

Russia to withdraw troops from key Ukrainian city Kherson, the only regional centre they had captured since invasion began bbc.in/3WL9a4Z

Not seeing much talk of election manipulation on r/conservative this morning, which I take as an encouraging sign

What is the effect of de jure judicial independence in non-democracies on election fraud? Cole Harvey investigates in the #APSRNewIssue #OpenAccess #PoliSciResearch ow.ly/tHI350LtNUR

Roll 25d10 to use Investigate on the election results.

Russia has awoken the firey god So'kker; he will decide your country's fate.

My desk copy of this Russian politics textbook arrived yesterday; very excited to read through it!

I haven't posted there yet, due to OSU's fall semester being still (still!) not over, but I'm @[email protected] on Mastodon. If you enjoy a unique mix of election manipulation, Star Wars, and children's tv content, please do hit me up over there

Was a real pleasure to present this memo at the PONARS DC Spring Policy Conference on Friday! (Though the argument is not a happy one.) Great to connect with colleagues from around the world, including Oklahoma neighbor Dr. Hannah Chapman

When this happened, I suggested to my students that Russia and the US had the capability, but not motive. "Pro-Ukranian groups" motive may be clearer, but how do they get the means? All very tangled. nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/…

Prepping to talk with students about R vs. Stata in class today, and I am in my office losing it over how Stata pitches the speed of its various offerings. "TWICE as fast as Fast? Surely that's the fastest it can go?" "Buckle up, pal..."

Sounds a bit like Lukashenka bought (some portion of) PMC Wagner today