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Alan Dershowitz: I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party turned 18

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22nd) at 12pm PT for our Brown Bag talk, featuring UC Berkeley PhD student, Paige Park, who will be presenting her project, “Deep Learning Approaches to Demographic Forecasting.”

Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom.

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
calmatters.org/investigatio...

Lori Chavez-DeRemer out at Labor. In addition to Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, that's three members of the Cabinet who're out. Hmmm. Three women out, no men.

What a coinky-dinky.

Isn't that because when the pop growth rate is near zero, d ~ 1 / e0 ?

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

It's a circle.

The last year that the US had a TFR above "replacement level" was 2007. How much lower is the US pop today than it was in 2007?

China began the "one child pledge" in 1979. How much lower is China's pop today than it was in 1979?

I got your balls and strikes right here.

We’re hiring! The Gateway is looking for a Research Scientist to join the CESR team.

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Loved ones remember Paralympian Dory Selinger after fatal McKinney crash Loved ones remember Paralympian Dory Selinger after a fatal morning ride in McKinney. Friends hope it leads to safer roads for cyclists.

Oh no. Lost his leg when hit by a car. Lost his life when hit by a car.
www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/l...

1. I can't ever remember using the GFR.
2. I'm sure others do.
3. I think the last time I taught its definition was around 1975 (or possibly 1976).
4. It's a ratio, not a rate, like the IMR and the NRR.

I can't ever remember using the GFR.

Actual footage of me trying to explain to my child that the Bluesky outage "just happened" to occur when our paper about deaths in ICE detention was coming out:

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library There are striking disparities in life expectancy across sociodemographic groups in the United States, shaped by structural forces such as racism, class inequality, and policy environments. To what e...

New in PDR! Happy to see this one out.

Structured Inequality, Uncertain Lifespans: Demographic Perspectives on Predicting Individual-Level Longevity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

AAUP | Diversity is much more than woke politics Professor James Holland Jones writes in support of diversity beyond DEI, explaining how vital it is for success in the academic, business and social world.

In the Stanford Daily today.

stanforddaily.com/2026/04/13/a...

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If your main organizing principle is that anything done by the government is unnecessary, inefficient, burdensome, incompetent, or corrupt, when you're in charge you pretty much have to prove it so.

Honoured to have been involved in this collaboration, led by the dream team of Kylee Hoffman and @ayesha-mahmud.bsky.social

I don't know who teaches that course but, to be fair, if 1) that description were accurate; 2) it were the only course I'd taken; and 3) I had a mediocre white guy's self-confidence, maybe I'd be a pop panicker too.

??? coursebrowser.dce.harvard.edu/course/intro...

No.

I try not to be a gate-keeper but he "trained as a computer engineer and then data scientist" and "The Birthgap research project began in 2016 when, as a lifelong learner at Harvard Extension School..."

Oh.

Viktor Orban can still remain prime minister of Hungary if Mike Pence has the courage.

Looks like he could read the handwriting on the wall. Wish others could read walls as well. As wall well.

Reports say that Philipsen was using new prototype Shimano pedals that weren't compatible with MvdP's cleats.

Ooops.

Arenberg decisive.

One needn't be a saint to get my support but I pretty much draw the line at being a shit.