things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

This may be the only time this has ever been said about New England

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

This question was run in PA in 1990. FDR had been dead 45 years

Paid leave, presumably.

In related news, I'm having an avatar run a marathon for me today. Hope I'm not sore tomorrow!

Starting a job posting thread in the survey industry. First, off Pew on their methods group

More newly published Greenberg reports: Israel surveys from 1998-2001 for the Middle East Peace Information Center and the Labor Party ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/search...

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

My son just asked me, in discussing Christian teachings on sexual morality: “didn’t Jesus meet this prostitute and she became his wingman?” Mary Magdalene is wingman to JC to me forevermore.

Not a public health pro, but follow a lot of them. I remember trying to explain at work that everyone needed to be ready to work from home for an extended period. Someone said "if the worst happens and parents need to be home for a couple weeks." I realized they weren't even beginning to understand

I just got charged $1.25 surcharge for decaf. I disapprove of this.

It feels really weird to say this, but I’m loving this Pope

“Wrecked” Feeling a little like this these days, as I suspect many are. Like standing on a tiny foothold of rock with nothing around but water. But holding on to that thin chain of hope. #artsky (paper collage on wood under resin - hard to photograph without some shine off the resin)

God, I love weekends

The Stan Greenberg collection continues to roll out. Today, something for my Latin American studies peeps: a series of 21 polls from 2001 to 2003 in Bolivia for candidate/president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada with some nice trends bit.ly/4qNBVfg

Tired of thinking about current events? Distract yourself with a deep dive into the Gore campaign or maybe Clinton's 1993 polling. No datasets, but banner books and time series. The first reports from the Stan Greenberg collection are live! bit.ly/4aC0tBN

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:

I'm teaching a few survey research courses live and online. First, a free one hour seminar. Feb 20 instats.org/seminar/surv... Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro Surveys (Feb 26-27): instats.org/seminar/intr... -Advanced Surveys (March 5-6): instats.org/seminar/adva...

Feb 16, 1941 #WWII NYT Thirty were selected from many applicants to form a unit apparently unique in military history. They are to be part of a special detachment to make use of the Comanche language, because it is so little known, for code purposes in communication. www.nytimes.com/1941/02/16/a...

The presidential library explorer tool makes this very clear: www.archives.gov/findingaid/p...

Christa McAuliffe. Not just the most, but the only famous alum of my high school.

The @datavizsociety.bsky.social organizes the Du Bois Challenge again this year. The hashtag is #DuBoisChallenge2026 or you can join the dedicated Slack channel of DVS 📊 Datasets are here: github.com/ajstarks/dub...

Union members seeing clearly here

Whoa thehill.com/homenews/med...

An indication of how perception of time seems to have changed. This survey was fielded in November of 53, a full 10 months into the Eisenhower administration, and a solid majority thought it was too soon to judge its performance.

Speaker Mike Johnson failed to reinstate a ban on lawmakers’ ability to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs when three Republicans crossed party lines to vote with Democrats. https://cnn.it/4qnT3I9

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Student interested in polling? Join me this afternoon to learn about the Roper/AAPOR DuBois Scholar and Roper Kohut Scholar programs! These summer programs offer $5000 stipend for 10 hrs/wk remote, including weekly Zoom discussions with industry leaders. cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

So I spent this weekend on one of my hobby collages. Something was off. After many attempts, what worked was throwing out the original conception & removing specific elements I was attached to. Now the piece works visually and symbolically. The process built the depth. That’s why not to use AI.

I am nerding out on these Public Opinion Index for Industry reports. The public opinion questions will be added to iPoll, but there's so much here: studies of specific companies, surveys of workers in particular industries. The right academic could have a field day. So DM me if you're interested

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

Running across this in a LBJ internal poll made my heart swell with Masshole pride

Going through decades of Public Opinion Index for Industry from ORC. Mostly surveys, some case studies and experiments. The viewpoint here is pure Red Scare. For example, what is the basis for saying high school students know ”amazingly little”?

BREAKING: The Washington Post eliminates its sports department and reduces overseas journalists in large-scale cuts, an AP source says.

Study records for some new-old Danish and Norwegian polls 1956-1970 now published. Need conversion. tinyurl.com/5hyrytfd Mostly international affairs/foreign relations, but also youth issues, elections, personal finances, drunk driving, church attendance, mental illness, and nude beaches!

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Wondering how many of the folks who are against sharing the location of law enforcement have an issue with systems that give you a heads up when there's a speedtrap ahead (Note: I hate those things, there's no excuse for speeding)

AAPOR members! Enter our annual slogan contest and get your words on AAPOR conference swag: www.cognitoforms.com/AmericanAsso...

just choked on my beverage

Thank you to our friends at Gallup for hosting the #AAPOR Executive Council's Winter Board Meeting! From their DC HQ to computers across the country, we came together & continued the conversation on how AAPOR can best serve its members, the public & the #publicopinion & #surveyresearch community.

Monthly sessions offer archiving skills and resources to document underrepresented stories in Portland's Black community.

I have repeatedly seen videos of people being murdered this week. But a figure drawing needs a warning.

#artsky #collage paper collage This includes a nude figure drawing, and will therefore be classified as “adult”. Because AI is a Puritan.

Hoe small is the Ithaca airport? This small

My messages on Schumer's voicemail always start with calm coherent statements about Democratic values and effective strategies for attaining policies that will embody them and quickly disintegrate until I'm cut off with a "beep" just as I'm yelling "grow a spine, you useless bastard"

Long shot - does anyone know anything about the methodology of the Norwegian Markeds-og Medianinstituttet surveys of the 80s and 90s? Specifically - in person or telephone? I know so little about methodologies in the Scandinavian countries, I can't even make an educated guess

Snowed in for a bit. Painting tiny seascapes and listening to Pixies' Doolittle album on repeat (as one does). Tisha Mark ©2026, Tiny Seascape No. 2602, oil on Arches oil paper, 2.5"x2" Original is available (ships when dry, approx 2 weeks): tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #SciArt