Good question from @jayleetx.com prompted this look. The precincts that were strong-Harris and strong-Cuomo looked like other more progressive precincts on the ballot initiatives

Lotta incorrect finger pointing on the demise of Question 6 (the move to on-year elections) in NYC. Conservative precincts voted against it at the highest rate

This is the lesson of 2025

"If you set different rules, people will change how they play the game." Thanks to those who made it to yesterday's *Hot Seat* w researcher Shannon Grimes! Our latest democracy and elections work/quips/analysis are always available via newsletter: sightline.org/newsletters

Just learned: It's so easy to sort strings that are numbers in proper numerical order with the {stringr} #Rstats 📦's `str_sort()` function and numeric = TRUE!! x <- c("8", "10", "1", "40") str_sort(x, numeric = TRUE) [1] "1" "8" "10" "40"

going to Portland this week! what's going on?

sometimes when you're very overdue on doing laundry, your only shirts available are your worst shirt, for obvious reasons, and your favorite shirt, which you have reserved in case of emergency. this is known as the Launderer's Paradox and may result in you wearing your favorite shirt to walgreens

America's pundit sickness in one sentence: "The question for Mamdaniism is not just whether it will play in Park Slope or Prospect Lefferts Gardens—it’s whether it will play in Plano." THAT IS CATEGORICALLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE QUESTION, HE'S RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, NOT PLANO

"voters are why I lost" is the funniest possible thing for a politician to say.

Still the most insane growth story in urban America. Population was only 560k at the turn of the century

Any excuse to repost an all-time Bluesky banger

Go vote, NYC. 🗳️

YYYY-MM-DD OR NOTHING AT ALL

producers in the control room turning a big dial that says "manufacturing consent" up to 11

Gotta admit, “Yes, cers” is a bit odd. As my wife said, it sorta’ has Teenjus vibes.

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

Whether visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, almost all of us will have or know someone with a disability. As Mayor, I’ll fight like hell for truly accessible public transit.

because America is so lax about unmarked cop cars and its state agents love using them so much, it’s impossible to say whether this is an ex-cop car, a current cop car, or just a regular Ford Explorer with steelies and a light bar plopped on it.

I’ve seen a lot of “the left is blowing this race by uniting behind a socialist like Zohran” takes but not enough “the establishment/center is blowing this race by uniting behind a sexual harasser/corrupt weirdo like Cuomo” takes

people think agriculture is fully solved science for some reason and, uh, it’s not

society was better when both cars and smartphones were helpful tools and not mandatory devices for participation in society

Reupping this piece from this week: Violent crime is falling rapidly across America www.economist.com/united-state...

The problem of constitutional law, in a nutshell:

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

Pope from Chicago All things go, all things go

Oh, also, we're hiring in #Alaska! @sightline.org is such a great place to work, I've been here for a million years **by 2025 standards** Seriously tho #Anchorage has a housing shortage and #AK is modeling democratic elections systems upgrades (#RCV #OpenPrimaries) www.sightline.org/lead-researc...

GDP shrank by 0.3% annualized in Q1 of 2025, according to the BEA’s advanced estimate www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr...

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I'm working with that's 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Cuomo's reputation for "competence" is a totally imaginary media creation, designed to dupe liberals in a blue area into electing a conservative. His governorship was a series of embarrassing fuckups! Over and over! Didn't matter because media understood alternative to Cuomo would be a progressive

congestion pricing is on track to be one of the most successful climate/livability/urban policy initiatives in history. and it's revenue positive!!!

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

This is especially funny because there are so many nerds who would write a housing plan for free for a politician who didn’t suck.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Come work with us! We're hiring a senior #housing researcher to develop and drive pro-housing policy at the local and state level. You could help us lift exclusionary zoning rules and promote policies that make Cascadia more affordable.

Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way

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i should be in charge of the marvel movies. i will cast mark rylance, jared harris, mark strong, paul dano, and paul giamatti as the avengers. their headquarters are the municipal planning office of a midsize american city. the supervillain they defeat will be various challenges to zoning reform

i don't think all that stuff with the tariffs is a very good idea

congestion pricing is the perfect example of why you can’t chase polls. yeah it was unpopular at first but the alternatives (broad tax or let MTA crumble) were even more unpopular and every other city has seen congestion pricing become more popular once it actually goes into effect and works

The plan to speedrun modernizing the social security database is just the latest instance of a common theme in Musk's campaign: He's SO convinced he's a peerless supergenius that it never occurs to him that if it were this easy to do something, maybe other people would have done it already.