wild. do you happen to have access to a transcript or recording?

The @nytimes.com and @natecohn.bsky.social shared their readers' ideas for how to stop gerrymandering. The most popular proposal? Proportional representation.

"Proportional representation would make gerrymandering irrelevant. But it would do a lot more than that." t.co/1nLM8D02E8

Monopoly Politics 2026: How 81% of 2026 elections have already been decided - FairVote We project that 81% of House seats will be safe for one party, with another 9% leaning strongly to one party – 18 months before the election.

If you really want to fight for democracy in America, you need to acknowledge that winner-take-all elections are really poor instruments of democracy.

@fairvote.bsky.social is out with its Monopoly Politics report, and it's a must read. fairvote.org/report/monop...

North Dakota legislature passed a bill banning the use of Approval Voting (used for elections in its largest city, Fargo) as well as any potential use of ranked-choice voting

If you happen to live in ND, now would be a good time to call Gov Armstrong and ask for a veto!

ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-...

How would constituent services in American multi-member districts work? Under proportional representation, minority-preferred candidates tend to win even more seats than under single-member districts.

A question I get a lot on proportional representation is how would constituent services and casework operate in multimember districts.
Quite well, I think.
I teamed up with Anne Meeker at @popvoxfdn.bsky.social to explore how.
Here's our report:
protectdemocracy.org/work/how-wou...

The title of the paper, "Beliefs about Perception Shape Perceptual Inference: An Ideal Observer Model of Detection", with the author names, and Fig. 1: a schematic of an inverse optics account of vision.

Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review.

There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

has there ever been a (functioning) legislative body designed such that all roll call votes are secret by default?

me neither!

unfortunately (fortunately?) this is a fake memo created as a meme --- just thought you should be aware

a greater willingness to categorize foreign influence (aka propaganda) campaigns as unprotected speech might go a long way.