As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

Honestly, an amazing demonstration of misusing statistics to evaluate causation. Could not have made a better "don't do this" video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhQ_...

Excellent thread on proposed rule for scientific grantmaking. Consider weighing in on this issue!

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

New proposed rule would include criteria to block grants awards if they are... deemed to 'promote anti-American values.' The rule also requires that discretionary awards must:'...demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.'" elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US gofund.me/140322128

"I'd like to read some W.E.B. Dubois" I say to myself naively, not realizing he's one of the most prodigious American authors, exceeded only by Louis L'Amour.

If you've submitted to Journal of Statistical Software in the last few years and have comments (good or bad) about the review process (time lag etc.) could you please DM me ... ?

This is truly horrific to me.

Sometimes I just wish Markov Models were easier to find.

DuckDuckGo is a great search engine, if that is something you want: duckduckgo.com

“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”

Joint talk I gave with Russ Lenth at WASANR on how the maintainer hand-off is going for 'emmeans'. jpiaskowski.gitlab.io/talks/WASANR...

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

gross

I wrote about my favourite 3.2 weeks of the year in The Beaverton

"software tools + experience create an illusion of [statistical] competence" -- WASANR

solution: update rlang (and make sure to resnapshot for renv)

Great talk by @lucystats.bsky.social at the Agricultural Statistics conference in Lincoln. wasanr.unl.edu

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

Ah, this error that crops up every few years (rlang won't compile in a GHA). The maintainer of R actions has a "works on my computer" attitude, so I won't bother going there. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Any recommended AI tools for summarizing an entire library/package?

Totally lost trying to figure out the "SciENcv" format for C&P and BioSketches. The eraCommons is a endless series of circular links, but low and behold, instructions on how to format an *XML* format, something most scientists have never heard of.

The President is going to steal >1 NSFs worth of money from the US government

seeing all the folks laid from the WaPo is genuinely sad. They have lost their jobs and a once great media outlet is accelerating its own demise. Bezos could have spent his money to support that institution, but he is choosing not to.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

These guys are a masterclass in terrible negotiating

Many people need help in MN foor rent, food, etc. People have not been going to work out of fear of being kidnapped.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

As calls grow to abolish ICE, Alec Karakatsanis warns activists not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.”

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Sharing this on behalf of my cousin and his partner who are teachers in St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are raising funds for the low-income families in their schools who are afraid to go out and struggling. Thank you so much for checking it out ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/support-ha...

"a known carcinogen"????

I heard folks are wondering about the shadowy cabal of billionaires who have been funding handwarmers in the Twin Cities. Stay tuned, we have a new Twin Cities supplies wishlist dropping after dinner! Be the shadowy cabal you want to see in the world. 💓

"They took his handcuffs off and told him to stay out of trouble and once his citizenship gets revoked, they would come back to get him. The agents jumped into their vehicles and drove off while laughing." 😡 Please donate if you are able to!

Canadians understand us better than we understand ourselves

honestly.

My latest: How Renee Good's murder and paramilitary assaults on US cities reflect longstanding right-wing race war fantasies and Stephen Miller's fixation with a novel about white genocide. I also talk about the stories we tell and live in opposition to these narratives and share a must-reads list.

For folks asking: yes, the person shot has died. Just announced. The video circulating shows what can only be described as an execution.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

Turn off auto play on your videos *right now* and if the video crosses your timeline you do not have to share it!!

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

Another protestor shot dead in Minneapolis by ICE, after being forced to the ground by many agents (at least 6) and beaten. This is a very disturbing video to watch, so if you choose to view it, do it with caution.

stand your ground but for the stock teams ring tone

THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD

This is hard to watch