wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

1/10 So the fake claims of "trans" and "antifa" symbols comes from both ammo stamps and casing inscriptions wrongly reported. They try to paint Tyler as left, but like Crooks this is a fringe right wing Groyper. Here's the details on registered Republican, Tyler Robinson: x.com/adamscochra...

MSNBC fires political analyst Matthew Dowd for having a thoughtful and rational take.

@matthewjdowd.bsky.social said nothing wrong. Go read his quote. On point. Pathetic move by MSNBC leadership.

I'll say again: This matters. For months NYT has been pushing "Harvard is about to cave" line. That line is 100% in MAGA's interest. Every other institution will think, "If not even Harvard can stand up, how could we." Today, NYT: Oh, I guess it's a disagreement WITHIN THE TRUMP TEAM.

Seems about right.

The Census Bureau's online analysis tool for the ACS PUMS is virtually unusable. Try IPUMS instead. usa.ipums.org/usa/sda/

The historical U.S. census just does not get old. What a treat to work with these census and IPUMS data enthusiasts. @mattanelson.bsky.social, @j-david-hacker.bsky.social, Matthew Sobek, Lap Huynh, @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social, @stevenruggles.bsky.social, @ipums.bsky.social

More on Trump’s proposals for the census, and the federal statistical system…. apnews.com/article/trum...

Rewriting history: Smithsonian removes Trump, the only president impeached twice, from its exhibit about impeachment. "Only three presidents have seriously faced removal," the exhibit now says referring to Johnson, Nixon and Clinton @janaykingsberry.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

On CNN, Vought repeats his lie: "They [NIH] in some respects caused the pandemic by their own research, for gain-of-function research." Fact check: The viruses involved in NIH-funded research "were genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 and could not have been the source of the COVID-19 pandemic."

I replicated the graph using a cohort life table (available here: www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/a...), for all races. Very close fit after age 50, still a big mismatch at younger ages, especially age 20 (1950 census). Looks like a major undercount of young men 1940-1970. 1/2

Two high-ranking officials at NOAA were placed on leave. While the reasoning behind the move is not clear, they led the investigation into whether NOAA’s scientific integrity policies were violated during the so-called "Sharpiegate" scandal of President Trump’s first term: cnn.it/452GqJZ

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

I'll second that!

IPUMS invests in the past for the future. @ipums.bsky.social blog.popdata.org/ipums-archiv...

To be fair, he probably can't remember any of these tweets.

One thing you've got to give Tucker, he recognizes the value of population statistics.

Here are my conclusions about disclosure control in 2020. Unfortunately, they seem to be going down the same misguided path. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Update on 2030 Census privacy protection plans...

Life Among the Legoheads (1995) www.wired.com/1995/03/rugg...

Flashback three decades: The King of Quant www.wired.com/1995/03/rugg...

At a previous hearing in the cases, Young, a Reagan appointee, asked the defendants if the policy of the NIH was now “homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion.” 5/n

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

I'm sorry. I stopped typing and just listened. I'll post summaries as they're published. But the end was that Judge Young went on to defend judicial independence and to underscore the perilous moment in American history where racial discrimination is tolerated. He ends with "Have we no shame?"

Big crowd considering it was cancelled!

NEW: In a letter to the Senate, the U.S. Postal Service says a proposal to auction off 7,200 USPS electric vehicles and rescind Inflation Reduction Act funding for more EVs would hurt its ability to deliver mail and "waste crucial funds for no reasonable purpose" about.usps.com/who/governme...

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

"We have new drugs and medical technologies that have been very, very effective and successful," [MPC Member] @wrigleyfield.bsky.social explains, adding, "you would hope that that would be true in 60 years of medical progress." www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

He will be missed!

The violent detention of Sen. Alex Padilla was terrible. But what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said right before it might be even more frightening—and it's just one of several authoritarian messages coming from Trump and his comrades.

This is a great article made better by inclusion of a scholar named Elizabeth Wrigley-Field.

There's good news tonight! www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

Type-1 error: reject true null Type-2 error: accept false null Type-3 error: produce result not in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Watch: @ipums gets the Geospatial World Forum award! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMV...

I've seen a few mentions of Trump firing the Librarian of Congress, but I haven't see any confirmation that this is more than just his magical thinking.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

Pope: JD is wrong! x.com/drprevost/st...

What is going on with the weighted counts in the January 2025 CPS? Find out in our latest blog post: blog.popdata.org/weighted-cou...

The University of Minnesota has joined the lawsuit over the NSF indirects. Hooray!!! fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

Stewarding our physical resources for global impact! @ipums.bsky.social @minnpop.bsky.social

While we are known for leading the way in expanding digital access to integrated census and survey records from around the world - did you know we also have a physical archive? We recently moved it here to IPUMS HQ. Share the data preservation love ❤️

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.