I've made ideological perception data I've been working on for a while available at the Harvard Dataverse and put together a website here voterperceptions.org with a bunch of visualizations about it and with too much explanation. I've spent too much time on this, so I hope people find it useful

At what point in Capital does someone kiss Karl Marx?

Cuomo under investigation: 🙂 By the Trump justice dept: 😟

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

Non religious husband is unimpressed to see me at my *Most Catholic*

Chicago Pope is just three hotdogs in a trench coat

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

we're gonna keep appointing new, increasingly more vance-hostile popes until he converts back to protestantism

Da Pope

A new pope has been chosen. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

if you’re in line to become the next Pope, STAY IN LINE

This is the period known as schrodingers pope

Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

Catholicism is like everyone here is a loser [positive]

We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.

Somewhere there is an NYU liberal arts major who touched an idol at the same time as Bill Kristol who is now telling their polycule why we need to get troops back in afghanistan

The only way for them to use this data is retaliatory. So here’s your nightmare fuel for the day. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Yeah, rich women can go into space, but can they go into the ocean in a taped together submersible directed by an Xbox controller

You mean to tell me if we get sent to a prison in another country accidentally, John Roberts can just keep me there ?

Can you please think for a second how this data is about to be used by people without great intentions? You’re playing with fire.

I want one former staffer to say “actually that’s on me, my bad”

Do you think they’ll bring back the printed cloth flour sacks so I can make clothes for the baby?

elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times”

At least now I understand how he bankrupted a casino

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

The pendulum of impressions swings wildly between stupid/ignorant and evil/calculated

Absolute nightmare blunt rotation

Equal Pay Day is today. And we’re busy understaffing anti workplace discrimination agencies goodauthority.org/news/equal-p...

I have such great colleagues i sometimes forget most in academia are spineless and won't stand up even at a time like this

Gwen Stefani’s mask off MAGA moment is easily explained by 1) she’s a Gen-Xer from Orange County who married an Okie named Blake 2) people believe there’s a market for right wing pop culture now 3) mainstream punk and punk-adjacent artists have also regularly done fashy heel turns

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

My favorite film genres 5. Muppets in this thing 4. The law is making a MISTAKE 3. This workplace is not good 2. Kids overcome odds through teamwork and friendship 1. Quotable (buddy) comedies

Am I not sleeping bc I’m stressed? Sure. Did I cast on a sweater that’s beautiful in the night? Also yes.

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

This country is run by people who you would avoid at any party.

I’m not Mearsheimer but I don’t think we work with other countries just for thank you notes

Billionaires are indeed very stupid. They’re bad historians. But not learning history is also key to them justifying everything they do. Plenty of bad historians aren’t absolute monsters.

I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE TOE SUCKING VIDEO ANY MORE THANK YOU

Me, a genius, doing history: Wow people who do stuff seem to have a high propensity to do stuff. Interesting

750 political scientists in support of democracy* *unless there’s a networking event and you “have to” cross a picket line

Never forget someone far less qualified than you are today fully believes they deserve to be in any room.

Sometimes I think that it’s easy enough for me to make a mistake and not know enough about politics and then someone else completely forgets about FDR

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.