In honor of this special day, new poll results: A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana and support for medical marijuana is overwhelming. Read more @today.yougov.com: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

The Strait of Hormuz has dominated recent news coverage, but the U.S. has been blocking oil shipments to Cuba for months, making fuel unavailable there. In a new YouGov poll, we show that many Americans disapprove. More analysis in the replies and at @today.yougov.com: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

meeting people who mainline gpt slop all day but dismiss wikipedia as unreliable because a teacher didn't let them cite it 20 years ago

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

% of U.S. adult citizens who said each of the following is trustworthy, according to polls conducted in [March 2025 | February 2026] The number of people who vote in national elections 43% | 30% Ocean temperatures 45% | 33% Population counts 46% | 35% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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Our culture has a contingency which is obsessed with finding the magic phrase which will turn off bigotry but look, there just isn't one. Which is why we need both systems to prevent that bigotry from shaping policy and a culture which shuns and shames those who are bigoted.

That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.

In non-crypto news, I made a website: love-emoji-kitchen.com

I love when old polls give you hints about the history of language! You can tell the naming convention between lunch, dinner, and supper was in flux enough that they couldn’t use the current standard to ask the question

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9: Trump's Cabinet % of U.S. adult citizens who would favor | oppose Trump firing the following people in his Cabinet Rubio 29% | 36% RFK Jr. 43% | 33% Hegseth 40% | 29% Bessent 29% | 23% Bondi 44% | 22% Lutnick 33% | 18% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9 % who think U.S. military intervention will improve | worsen the situation for the Iranian people U.S. adult citizens 31% | 37% Democrats 4% | 64% Independents 24% | 40% Republicans 64% | 8% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9 % who say [the Iranian people | the U.S. government] should decide who leads Iran U.S. adult citizens 76% | 6% Democrats 85% | 4% Independents 75% | 5% Republicans 69% | 10% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran. Why? For starters, majorities don't think Iran posed an immediate threat, don't think the war will end quickly, and think Trump needed congressional authorization. New polling with the Economist / YouGov: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A CNN analysis of more than two dozen videos found agents routinely violated both federal and local policies.

Do partisans cheerlead for firings? A majority of Americans approve of firing Kristi Noem, but Republicans are more likely to approve when it's described as "President Trump's decision." Most Democrats approve either way. Results of the experiment at @today.yougov.com: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Really looking forward to those noon sunrises.

64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks www.gelliottmorris.com/p/64-of-amer...

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

Strength In Numbers coverage in Axios this morning: www.axios.com/2026/03/07/t...

Mar 6 poll of 4,346 U.S. adults (+/-1.9 points) % who approve | disapprove of the U.S. attacks on Iran U.S. adults 37% | 50% Democrats 10% | 81% Independents 26% | 56% Republicans 74% | 14% yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

If you commit the Strategist's Fallacy then you think that Labour moving right on immigration shores up Tory and Reform defectors But if center/right parties won't vote for you because conditions are poor, all you've done is force your base to flee to the left www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

First poll I've seen on support for impeaching Trump over his handling of the Epstein files www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/...

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

This Sunday it's time to spring forward, but most Americans want clocks to stop changing. More Americans want to permanently spring forward than permanently fall back, but more would support than oppose either option. New @today.yougov.com article: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

Would you describe the color of the sea as: 1. White 2. Black 3. Wine-dark 4. Other (please specify, we really need more words for colors)

Life moves so fast. Take a breath and slow things down, like a group of people walking five abreast at the airport.

yougov.com/en-us/articles/542... Abolish ICE is not a minority position .

Clean sweep

Every time I read a “x LLM is better at doing my job than I am” article, it turns out the person writing the piece is at best 50th percentile for their job. My theory is these people are trying to position themselves as AI pros because they know they’re going to get fired soon

Pew Research Center finds 100% approval for laser gun sounds

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NEW Economist/YouGov Feb 27-Mar 2 % who think ICE officers should be [required to wear uniforms that identify them as part of ICE | allowed to wear masks that hide their faces] U.S. adult citizens 75% | 31% Democrats 92% | 6% Independents 77% | 22% Republicans 57% | 65% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

NEW Economist/YouGov Feb 27-Mar 2 Majorities of Democrats have supported abolishing ICE in many polls this year For the first time, at least half of Independents support it (52%) 68% of Republicans oppose abolition, although 23% support it, a new high yougov.com/en-us/articl...

50% of Americans now support abolishing ICE, the highest share we've ever seen in @today.yougov.com polling. Only 39% of Americans want to keep ICE as a federal agency. Nearly half of Americans say they have no confidence in ICE at all. More at yougov.com/en-us/articl...

% who trust [leaders of the U.S. military | AI systems used by the U.S. military] more to make decisions about the use of deadly force U.S. adults 53% | 4% Democrats 49% | 5% Independents 48% | 4% Republicans 63% | 4% 13% of U.S. adults trust both equally yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

% who think that the effects of AI on society will be very or somewhat positive | negative U.S. adults: 30% | 44% 18-29: 43% | 30% 30-44: 31% | 42% 45-64: 24% | 50% 65+: 25% | 48% yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

The amount of pacifism-shaming in the newspaper, suggesting that anyone who questions war lacks guts or doesn't understand that bad guys need to get dealt with, is ... exactly what happens at the beginning of every war. But don't worry, war-dead, they'll acknowledge the complexities later!

NEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

if any person in your life had somebody arrested for throwing a snowball at them, you would surmise that person is the softest and most entitled person imaginable

went to the store __________ AI Summary ✨ Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

Hoping today's LA Times crossword is a hit🎵 You can solve for free here: www.latimes.com/games/daily-...

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

7 in 10 Americans believe that “less than half” or “hardly any” of the immigrants deported since January 2025 were violent criminals www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...