Dems in WA and OR should prepare to redistrict in 2028 if SCOTUS strikes down the VRA. Here’s what a 10-0D Washington and 6-0D Oregon looks like. This flips 3 GOP districts, and all but OR-02 are >D+10. As the Utah GOP says, they cover urban and rural areas and are thus fair.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Your Bluesky experience will be immensely improved simply by browsing Will Stancil’s replies and blocking everybody being a freak. This takes out like 90 percent of the shittiest people on the site and makes everything better.

Wow

Incredibly funny

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.” #EpsteinFiles

Working on something

Dems should demand a full ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis as a condition for any deal. Please, just give us this. Get them out

Will Stancil is also somewhere around the leftmost 90th percentile of the electorate. A helpful reminder that "I'm a leftist who hates liberals" is not only a tiny niche view, it's an incomprehensible statement to the vast majority of Americans.

Hey @icegov.bsky.social come arrest me, if you think you can. Literally. Make my day.

Today I announced an initial set of actions to protect city residents in the face of increased federal immigration enforcement activity. #thisisyourcity

Philly DA vows to prosecute "wannabe Nazi" ICE agents who violate the law: "If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice."

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

Yesterday, I met with Maj. Gen. Gent Welsh of the Washington National Guard. We had a good conversation about what's going on in Minnesota and to talk through different scenarios. Bringing up our National Guard is one tool we have to protect Washingtonians if necessary.

Secretary Noem, your administration now openly authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter people's homes without a judicial warrant. That is blatantly unconstitutional – ICE cannot authorize itself to break into people’s homes. If ICE attempts such unconstitutional measures in Washington...

A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet). But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings. The lesson: let the world see.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

idk man my current barometer for whether LLMs are creating order-of-magnitude increases in programmer productivity is this website, where the staff all post almost exclusively about Claude and yet they haven't shipped a meaningful feature in forever

Can’t believe I‘m saying this, but Bill Clinton put out a pretty powerful statement about the killings in Minneapolis.

Ooooh, ooooh, I can answer this! It’s because American police culture was begat of the Southern slaveocracy, and has never been reformed in even modest ways!

There are two Americas. Pick your side wisely. One ideology always loses.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Protesters clashed with federal agents for another night outside the Whipple Federal Building, which holds ICE detainees. Agents fired less-lethal munitions and deployed chemical irritants at the crowd. 📷️: Jeff Wheeler

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

Mood in minneapolis right now

I’ll share any picture anyone sends of these memorials

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

U.S. troops stationed on Greenland sitting next to Danish troops stationed on Greenland sent to deter America from invading Greenland

One thing very tangible and expected about the Greenland Crisis is the quietest posters on this site have been the "everything I don't like is American Imperialism" brigade, which - hm.

A reminder that a lot of the same ppl on this app sneering at Will Stancil being out on the streets & tailing ICE are the same ones that said it was the height of recklessness to give your email to the No Kings march mailing list bc "theyll find you if you do that."

My last two shots before my world went dark.

This book is a {gt} treasure trove! rich-iannone.github.io/gt-effective... Written by @richmeister.bsky.social, and shoutout to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for telling me about it. #RStats

Either that or someone got a terminal diagnosis with a very short end date.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

You're already paying costs of climate change. Most of the cost is subsidizing wealthy drivers in suburban sprawl so they can drive from sprawl housing in fire/flood zones into the city. And they're now doubling down and demanding *even larger subsidies.* Kick 'em out of the social compact, IMO.

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family. What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory. On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

Essential tools to do data science/prediction/simulation modeling in Python: * marimo notebooks (pip install marimo; marimo edit --sandbox ___.py) * ibis ("ibis-framework[duckdb]" to install it) * sklearn (with major emphasis on make_pipeline) * HSMA-style simpy (des.hsma.co.uk) + vidigi

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

This dichotomy: *happy* vs. *merry* embodies the 17th century conflicts in England between the deeply religious & more lighthearted cultural elements. Oliver Cromwell famously banned all Christmas celebrations from 1644-1660 to avoid people getting "merry" on this sacred day of prayer.

Seattle’s Link Light Rail (1 Line) is crazy long. 66 kilometres (41 miles) in one mostly straight line!