aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi! The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in! And they don’t look good for Pepsi

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

Been helping the folks at CBS news think through admissions data in a post-sffa world. They collected the largest dataset so far of uni's fall 2024 enrollment by race (and standardized it). Caveat caveat caveat, the clearest trend is: www.cbsnews.com/news/college...

Not printing your essay at night lest the dot matrix printer wake up the entire block

🧵HURRICANES If you live in a place that's likely to be affected by hurricanes, PLEASE have go-bags prepped & ready (resources & suggestions, following). 1) This resource is still up at NOAA www.noaa.gov/hurricane-prep; don't have faith that it'll stay that way, PRINT OUT anything you find useful.

Lowe’s Dyson Nivea Tiffany Capital One UPS Disney Door Dash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo Pepsi Nissan PWC Citi Mastercard …all pulled their support for Pride. If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability. popular.info/p/pride-and-...

My statement on the charges filed against me:

www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20... Extremely prepared to mail all my future comics with the Chris Ware stamps

LGF!

“It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.” - Anton Scalia

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Hey #qualitative folks! Workshop this Friday on how the open source #CAQDAS QualCoder compares to licensed options NVivo, Atlas.ti, and MAXQDA. Register here! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... I'll be emailing the recording to everyone who registers, so do sign up even if you can't make it live.

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.

Backyard park has done it again, the first bird I saw when I opened my eyes this morning was this gorgeous Rose-breasted Grosbeak who was checking out my feeders.

This article is good background (except that it bizarrely claims the university only became tax exempt in 1915. That’s when “tax exempt” status became available, but it was a nonprofit corp not paying a tax for most of its history before that) spotlightdelaware.org/2025/03/20/n...

LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."

yessss native penguins dataset in #rstats 4.5 ALSO the ability to load single functions from packages!

Is there a resource to help with running multi-level models with rethinking::ulam() datasets have several thousand rows? The model fitting (even calling precis() ) takes forever. Do I need 1) a high-performance computer or 2) a different language? @rmcelreath.bsky.social #rstats

Does the rethinking 📦 in #rstats have a function for obtaining the E-BFMI value for a MCMC model built with rethinking::ulam? I get a warning message about low values for that measure but cannot seem to produce it with other functions in the package. @rmcelreath.bsky.social

Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

This is a $45,408,138 grant, set to run from 2019 to 2030, to study methods for helping students with disabilities achieve their post-high school goals. It was just arbitrarily cancelled. This is too expensive but SpaceX funtime isn't and god forbid we tax billionaires. ies.ed.gov/use-work/eva...

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Breaking — All probationary employees at OPM were just fired in a mass phone call. Acting Director Chuck Ezell told staffers, "I encourage you to use this as an opportunity for your next step forward," per recording I reviewed. On site staffers were given less than an hour to leave.

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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

This program to teach students about the US Constitution & citizenship is funded through a federal grant from the US Dept of Ed. We were just notified to stop work because they are attempting to pull the funds. This money has been appropriated by Congress & supports thousands of kids in 35+ states.

I've met with many cabinet nominees across many admins, and my meeting with RFK Jr. was by far the most troubling. He rattled off debunked conspiracy theories & lied to my face—denying his own statements he'd made on record. We cannot confirm an anti-vaxxer as Secretary of Health.

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

The AP must refuse this but more importantly the rest of the White House Correspondents Association should back them. Boycott the press briefings until they relent, and if they refuse, walk out. There is no real use to them in any case. Trump craves attention. Deny him that and he’ll cave.

External studies have shown: -NIH funding directly or indirectly supported the development of ALL new treatments that were FDA approved between 2010-2020 -the return on NIH investment is estimated at 25-40% annually given the improvement in productivity from a healthier workforce Facts matter.

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

This is an absolutely astonishing report. DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root. This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

One of my favorite IES products are Practice Guides. Imagine taking a look at an evidence-based guide for teachers to better support students and concluding "let's stop making these." Here's a link to a copy since the IES site may not exist when you read this: drive.google.com/file/d/1plrK...

Cut to NIH grants, initially only blocked for the 22 states included in the lawsuit, now is blocked for all states. Hopefully folks at places like Penn State and Iowa, where they had been told they could not submit or receive NIH grants, get some relief too.

What Works, Cancelled

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB Education Sciences Act of 2002 Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

The @abaesq.bsky.social has now made it clear its stands for the rule of law. Thank you for this clear statement! We will watch to make sure your actions match your words. On to the next small act of resistance.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Watchdog: USAID all but loses ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent aid over Trump foreign funding freeze, staff cuts.

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

No consolation or long lasting relief, but bsky.app/profile/kine...

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.