Cool.

I went to bed early but have now enjoyed my husband's crash out over Butker with glee over morning coffee.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

My cat just opened the door to the liquor cabinet and crawled in. And that's the vibe for today.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So, I'm no data expert (I am), but what sticks out to me here is the rate of sex abuse in 2016-2019 and then after. Hmm.

Every Supreme Court ruling is “look, we’re not saying what Trump is doing is legal, we’re just saying we, the highest court in the land, will not stop him, and will prevent others from doing so.” They *know* it’s not legal, so they find other ways to allow it.

The only Indiana Jones reboot I want to see is this one.

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

May the Lord bless you and keep you buddy.

Good Night World

Well my own alma maters will see no more $ from me until they sign this.

Disappointed but not surprised to not see any of the Nebraska system schools signing on yet.

Removing a black 4-star general at Secretary of Defense and replacing him with a white talk-show is the perfect example why DEI is essential. It's not about hiring unqualified minorities, it’s about foiling the majority's habit of hooking up under qualified mediocrities of their own caste.

What in the actual personal data?! So are we just going to write a straight API from EMRs directly into this man's inbox?! Sounds ethical and totally sane. Jfc.

Cool cool. You know, just our ability to measure things and make decisions with data.

This

Chiefs Kingdom, riders up. We gotta go get our brother ourselves.

I'm past the point of shock, but this is just...

We are in wild times. Dump all the salad dressing they bring you onto that bed of greens. Ain't no time for dry salads folks. Enjoy what joys we have left.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That's the appropriate response immediately after reading. Then it's to call every elected official, everywhere.

One of these is very important to me. Let's do the right thing Kansas City.

I did not have 60 Minutes reporting on concentration camps on my bingo card.

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (before they scrub it)

I hate everything right now, but I'll never stop recommending the EJI as a metric. Never.

The lack of sorting makes me want to immediately deport the data analyst that created this. Jfc #makechartsgreatagain

Brother #CoryBooker is going for the MF-ing record ✊🏾

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

Is this a modern Saint Crispins Day speech or what!?

It's the weekend. Remember that rest is resistance sometimes.

I know empathy is under attack these days, but my god, the very real mental health toll this is having on real people is killing me. These are real people! Trying to just live and work and be good public servants and they are being tossed around like cat toys.

@blsteenson.bsky.social ...uh... I'm gonna need one of these.

100% cosign. This is critical funding for students. KCPS is academically meeting and exceeding standards. It's time our facilities did too.

Fun fact from Missouri, hog farm country, one hog processing plant I know of processes the meat for ham... and then sends it to Mexico to be deboned because deboning is labor intensive. Boneless ham comes back via train and gets sold to consumers. Hope y'all like bone-in ham.

It was the find-out-iest of times...

Hey 18F friends, see below. And also, PorchLight Insights is here to help you too in whatever way we can, data analyst nerds to data analyst nerds.

To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.

Nothing like flying into an airport in the city where your team just got their butts kicked and seeing the discounted merch. Womp womp.

My white lady fragile is showing, but today was too overwhelming. Their claim that Stacy Abrams hiding gold bars in a bunker was just too much for my brain to manage.

Walked around the yard as the snow melts and thought of Dylan Thomas' And Death Shall Have No Dominion. It's been a long winter, but signs of life emerge. Dormant bulbs are about to break out. I'm gonna cling to that reality.

Sure would love to go to the @sturgill-simpson.bsky.social concert in Independence, MO, but it happens to fall on the Kentucky Derby, my favorite holiday. As such, I would welcome Sturgill to attend my Derby party! Mint juleps and bourbon flow like the Ohio river after a hard rain.

Okay so actually, this is really true in that a chart needs narrative to be impactful on the audience. You can make a chart newsworthy by grounding it in a story about real life. Nobody wants to digest a chart on its own.

As for me and my parasites, we will serve the public no matter what they call us.

In a long list of regrets, I suspect this one will prove to be one of the biggest. May God have mercy.

As a government employee, I couldn't accepted any gift above a certain value and this clown is selling himself his own trucks. Jfc.

I'm just a white lady living my life, trying to be in solidarity and as such JD Vance and his fake ass hillbilly carpet bagging ass can go to hell instead of the sacred ground of Dachau. You've sacrificed nothing. You are doing nothing. You are nothing. You do not deserve to stand where they stood.

Saddle up cities, we ride!

Data is worth fighting for. Thanks to this judge.