Michelle Dion

Political scientist @McMasterU; research methodologist; cat, dog & taco lover; Texan in Canada; pop culture geek. Not nec'ily in that order. she/her/hers

[Michelle Dion @michelledion]

@OntarioParks A large tree branch fell/damaged our truck while parked at our campsite. Your ops tech took pics/filed report but did not give me rept #. The province is not responding to my requests re: their "investigation" in order to fix my truck. Can you please help?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is speaking to a massive amount of empty seats in Georgia right now

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Today, Trump:

—Said he doesn’t “mind” if reporters get shot at his rally
—Said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after he lost the 2020 election
—Hinted at enacting Project 2025 if he wins, promising it will be “nasty” and saying “you're gonna see things that you're not gonna believe”
—Spread baseless election conspiracy theories and said it “should be illegal” to release polls that look bad for him

[FBI @FBI]

FBI Statement on False Videos.

[Chris Prosser @caprosser]

New from @jon_mellon and me in @apsrjournal looking at the impact that regularization (e.g. Ridge regression, LASSO etc) can have on adjusting for confounders, with particular application to claims about the effect of survey non-response on estimates of polarization.

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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Unearthed audio: Billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk says that Trump’s agenda will cause “hardship” for the middle class, but says it’s “necessary”

[NBC News @NBCNews]

The Washington Post has lost about 8% of its paid circulation since Friday’s announcement of the non-endorsement, two sources familiar with knowledge of internal matters told NPR. https://t.co/YTzmVg8pSu

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

CNN cuts away from Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to fact check him: “We are hearing scores of lies from the former president. He has come on stage and said a number of things that are just not true…”

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job.

A billionaire does.

[Michelle Dion @michelledion]

@sbmitche

[Beth LeBlanc @DNBethLeBlanc]

Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov Gretchen Whitmer have stopped at a Kalamazoo restaurant after the rally.

Both ordered Oberon.

[Michelle Dion @michelledion]

Just cancelled my @washingtonpost subscription because the CEO has blocked @PostOpinions from endorsing Harris/Walz. Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.

[Michelle Dion @michelledion]

@MerriamWebster Bureaucracy. Remuneration.

[Clifton van der Linden @CliffvdLinden]

The team at @VoxPopLabs has just launched the 2024 U.S. Presidential and Senate election edition of @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself at https://t.co/hE9DupFbvc.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Folks, here's the latest on the resources my Administration has mobilized to support survivors and communities in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

More help is on the way.

[KUT Austin @KUT]

On Monday, Travis County is hosting a voter registration drive across the county with at least four locations open until midnight. Find a place to register in-person here: https://t.co/ODSXTcIGtt

[Erica De Bruin @esdebruin]

⭐️NEW article: We conducted a randomized experiment at our institution, a selective U.S. liberal arts college, to evaluate two interventions designed to reduce gender bias in qualitative student evaluation comments. Spoiler: neither worked! https://t.co/UCqoj2yaxT

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Willy. He has very floppy ears and has never received an email. Living the dream. 13/10

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

JD Vance: “Murders are up by 81% because of what Kamala Harris has allowed to happen in Springfield"

Daniel Driscoll, Republican Prosecutor in Springfield: “During the time that I’ve been with the office, 21 years now, we have not had any murders involving the Haitian community”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The final 2020 debate was October 22

The proposed CNN debate is October 23

🐔 @realdonaldtrump

[Michelle Dion @michelledion]

A great question for a run of the mill undergrad class in IPE. 🙅‍♀️

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?

Trump: We allow a lot of farm product into our country. We're not going to allow so much to come in