If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t?

So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

New post: "Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters"

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/16/s...

do I know any Philadelphians who know the logistics about filing permits for protests?

Come work with me to use machine learning to defeat Trump!

job-boards.greenhouse.io/blueroserese...

the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”

Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

go birds

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i don't want to sound like a shill but i just love this tool and need to share it. if you refuse to pay for software with mail merge, Avery has this site with google doc integration.

www.avery.com/software/des...

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

every morning the nyt fact-checkers looked in the mirror and asked themselves "what would someone with dissociative amnesia write about this election?"

The share of unbanked Americans is at its lowest level since the FDIC began keeping track in 2009. www.fdic.gov/news/press-r...

So apparently this site just turns into “go birds” every four days.

Wow George I thought you were Bayesian.

Why did the 2016 election look so much like the 2012 election? Partisan identity — not policies or even candidates — now drives American politics.

here's a good summary www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

Democracy for Realists Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it

seven years ago, this book helped me make sense of the first trump win. going to reread. once i'm out of my darkest.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I’m going to desperately try to replace my twitter addiction with this app. Hello to old friends! And looking for suggestions of who in Philadelphia politics space I’m missing.