What Americans say is very important to being truly American, via NBC: 87% believing in liberty/equality 82% voting 58% community involvement ... 33% being born in US 22% political engagement www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. from what i've witnessed on bluesky whichever way it ends, some guys will be standing amid the smoldering and gelid ruins staring at their phones and continuing to argue about popularism. sorry about the scansion.

congratulations to TK TK on their nomination to the Supreme Court

i took a semester of introductory Spanish and now I can tell Paraguay and Portugal apart from Porguay and Paratugal

people repeatedly using the words "voters" when they're talking about the results of surveys of US adults is both a) sloppy and b) quite telling about the lens through which they view public opinion

my joke-post oeuvre

you're just biased against my cool job at kinko's because you're an originalist

#SCOTUS has determined that states can choose to count mail-in ballots postmarked by #ElectionDay but which arrive later. 📬 In our 2024 post-election survey, 34% of verified voters told us they mailed in their ballot.

the great american state fair the fair american state good the excellent american state poor

This is a smart little explainer on the questionnaire design process: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/p...

"They look out for each other. They’re a clique. They don’t like outsiders, they really don’t. They’re cutthroat. They’re ruthless.” Inside the food truck mafia that's become a fixture of the National Mall ⤵️ washingtonian.com/2026/06/29/d...

NEW from me - I spent time behind the scenes with Jon Ossoff, the Democrats’ sudden 2026 viral hit, talking about why he thinks his approach is working in Georgia, how having young kids changed his view of older senators, his favorite movie - and yes, 2028 www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...

this is excellent, and also as a native Valley Girl, I feel like I do get to indulge in some mild "gluten's heart of darkness"-style condescension about NYC discovering froyo

introducing reiki weighting, where I just wave my hands vaguely near the dataset and maybe it makes it more representative

how much will everyone yell at me if I start calling it "humidmaxxing"

still think that AP style should call for "Dans Sullivan," but the split photo credit here is extremely good

i took the political compass quiz and it said i was "somebody with too many thoughts about bad questionnaire design to continue taking the political compass quiz"

odyssey 2: the evenyssey

we should start using "clinched" for decision desk calls

Gallup, 1947: "What's the best way you, yourself, have found to keep cool these hot summer days?" 27% Cool location, stay in shade, avoid sun, find cool spot, get away from city 22% Relaxation, take it easy, keep quiet, do as little as possible 14% Don't think about it, keep occupied, work

Babe babe wake up this film has a scene where the protagonist rifles through documents

pivot to goose

I wrote about the polling on Americans' feelings about the country at 250, and also I included a 1947 Gallup poll about the historical events people would most like to witness, because of course I did

New analogy just dropped: "This year, instead of our surveys giving us one snapshot in time, we have a flip book."

I wrote about the polling on Americans' feelings about the country at 250, and also I included a 1947 Gallup poll about the historical events people would most like to witness, because of course I did

charli xcx and the chicks, "goodbye earl, so confusing"

a charli xcx country collab called "merle, so confusing"

if you want to be elected as the head of the American Dental Association, do you have to run a presidental campaign

a lot of folks see data journalism as a very recent phenomenon. i would argue they're quite wrong. want to read one of the best and oldest pieces of data journalism out there? read A Red Record by Ida B. Wells. it's over a century old and is pure data journalism at its heart.

washington DC is approaching perihelion

TY to Verasight for letting me run this fun little question on whether people treat "polls" and "surveys" differently (people in the industry would use the words synonymously, but I've seen some qual to suggest that people who differentiate prefer "survey." reports.verasight.io/reports/aapo...

i've always considered my state to be "solid"

"we can really use the rain" --guy thrown overboard from noah's ark

slack...what on earth

this screenshot is, to me, exceptionally funny www.mashed.com/2184949/bts-...

Between Sept. and Dec., healthy adults who received the covid-19 vaccine reduced their likelihood of emergency department and urgent care visits by 50% and cut the likelihood of covid-associated hospitalizations by 55% compared with those not receiving a 2025-2026 vaccine dose @lenasun.bsky.social

good morning especially to the very nice PR person who was happy to forward details on the survey's "metrology" (given the above, would you be surprised to learn that the details did not include a clear explanation of the sampling frame)

Fix journalism forever with a plugin that adds " — and that's bad" to the end of every paragraph in a political news story

this is the last time I play truth or dairy

I wanted this to be, like, an actual list of specific dogs by neighborhood: "Buster in Noe Valley" vs "Chompers in Soma."

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... when you think about it, aren't all Polls a Reflection of the broader public

I think this is a fascinating question to ask. I think it goes some way to explaining why the political right think they are constantly losing the 'culture war'.

We had a fun* little survey question that's somewhat related to this on our latest: "How well do you feel people who share your political values are represented in pop culture?" s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28... *fun means something different to survey researchers, or at least to me

suddenly imagining a world cup game translated into Corporate where the announcers just excitedly shout "OKR"

STARMER TREK

i don't follow UK media quite as closely, did someone already do KEIR PRESSURE

do you think every time he hears the word "algae," al gore hears it as "al g" and is momentarily startled

just add water just subtract fire just multiply earth just divide air

imagine how much chaos one could create by changing one's name to "Yard Sign" and running for mayor

you can keep your mister autumns men, for this is me theonion.com/it-s-perfect...