Secret club meets tmrw. Stay late after the Hangout. (Bring your Qs abt submitting talks for posit::conf(2026)! @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social and I will spill the beans. I mean, we'll help. Probably! Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!! #databs #rstats #python

If only computers had built in clocks in order to tell time using some sort of deterministic machine-readable format. But alas, the only way to know whether it's daytime is to pay nearly a dollar every 30 minutes to ask a fancy autocomplete bot.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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There’s a deep rot to the core of this administration and Stephen Miller is one of the most dangerous people in the country right now. Noem’s got to go, but so does he.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Everything Stephen Miller and DHS say should be presumed to be a lie, without exception.

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Trump doesn’t always chicken out. But he does chicken out if and when the bond market creaks. This is perilous. It’s also something Democrats can and should exploit. And, in the final analysis, a flight to safety from the US might be the least worst way for America’s experiment with fascism to end.

We asked 10 Minnesota residents to tell us about life under ICE occupation. Read their stories, and put yourself in their shoes. We may all find ourselves experiencing what they are, whatever the city or personal circumstance, before too long.

2025 was a massive year for Posit & the open-source community! 💕 I’m happy to share the 2025 Year in Review. Highlights include Air for fast #RStats formatting, AI updates, Quarto, ggplot2, & Great Tables milestones, & $750k Open Source Pledge! Read more: posit.co/blog/2025-po...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

I keep thinking I'll be posting soon with some notable updates to share, but then I run out of time for updates because I'm busy writing puzzles. 😅 Soon! In the meantime, if you haven't tried The Daily Spell yet, give it a shot! I'm really surprised and happy about the response to it so far. 💜

A despicable U.S. government murdered Renee Nicole Good with 3 bullets, then tried to assassinate her character with absurd lies But brave resisters with cameras pulled back the mask and showed America the truth. Let Jan. 7, 2026 mark a turning point. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

ICE OUT NOW

On Jan. 6, 2021, bloody insurrectionary violence interrupted the peaceful transfer of power. Today, America is still caught in an epic struggle between selfish forces of rule-or-ruin autocracy & the unyielding defenders of constitutional democracy all over America.

Donald Trump wants you to forget that January 6 happened—but for one police officer who protected the Capitol, and another man who attacked it and was pardoned, there’s no forgetting, Jamie Thompson reports: theatln.tc/o2OQTnKk

A Jan 6 archive from @npr.org apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

How about means tested nonrefundable tax credits instead

Your company may match donations; I finally started using our giving portal because then I don’t have to remember to request a match.

"When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The response Dems give should be simple: *Too bad. We have the power now.* A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored."

Am I the only one that remembers this PSA: don’t drown your food! youtu.be/fIyPm0Z06KE?...

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Ok, @marcoshuerta.com, we watched It's a Wonderful Life 😭 You're right, it's great! Cried my eyes out! (I hadn't seen it since I was little and remember it being too sad to watch. It was still sad as an adult, but it was also really good.) Happy holidays, y'all ❤️

Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Oh one more thing about fossil fuel; the whole idea that natural gas is so much greener/cleaner than coal is sort of true when you burn it, but so much methane is emitted when it's extracted, & methane is a potent greenhouse gas, that, well, it's not. And we've know that for a while.

This is flat-out illegal. Congress determines the name of the Kennedy Center. Demolition of the East Wing is irreversible. This can and must be fixed. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/t...

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Tomorrow's DS Lab will be great for those curious abt - digging thru the backend of websites to see API calls - using Postman - alternatives to web scraping @marcoshuerta.com is gonna show us how he does this stuff! Come join us!! pos.it/dslab <- registers for the series #databs #python #rstats

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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.