ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. It’s hard to imagine exactly how Buddy Cianci’s mayoral election crosstabs from an Italian-only sample could kill me, but I suppose it’s possible…

Ring the Bell. paper collage #artsky

One of the stupider hills I will nonetheless die on is that I don’t read any book with a title that describes a grown woman 1) as a “girl” or 2) in terms of her relationship to a man. The Girl Who Ran or The Clockmaker’s Daughter or The Tailor’s Wife or The Girl on the Train. Why so many?

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Ending Friday with coming across another question in my absolute favorite question series from UK Gallup: In or Out? (1989)

Storage visit days mostly consist of telling myself “don’t get distracted!” over and over.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Quote post with a song you can’t hear without thinking of a movie it was in www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEbS...

Old polls teach me so much about controversies I never knew existed. Danish Gallup, March 1963, on the preferred spoken form of numbers

Why won’t these people do their work as humans and grapple with death like the rest of us?

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Saw a Crane Wives show last night at the request of my 13 yr old. Great show, the young crowd was very into it, great energy. The audience did the sweetest thing. When the band finished and walked off stage, a chant started up "One! More! Song! (beat) One! More! Song!" 1/2

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

Our polling suggests 15% of Mamdani voters did NOT back Harris in 2024, because they preferred Trump, voted third party, or just didn't vote Even higher share of Mamdani-not-Harris voters never voted for mayor before Queens where Mamdani flipped most Trump voters, turned out lots of new voters 2/

Wrote and called my senators. Probably won’t help, but if there’s any chance, have to know I tried.

It's time for Fun Poll Friday! Actually, maybe Foreign Poll Friday - these polls cover pretty heavy issues, particularly focusing on international relations. But they're interesting, and that's close to fun! Most of these remain in column binary, but can be converted. DM me. (1/?)

I'm reading the Cornell agreement with the government and hoping I just don't understand something.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

I met a sloth. His name is Han Slowlo

Glued, not resined, the usual drill. Paper collage.

Glued not resined, as usual, because the resining process still makes me nervous, so I put it off. #artsky #collage

Looking how politicians and advisors have categorized voter groups in old political polls can be jarring to say the least. From 1990, these "status groups" are bizarre, not to mention bigoted.

Despite the threat of catastrophic long-term care costs, Boomers continue to splurge on luxuries like vacations, dinners out, and name-brand foods and clothes. Why can't they learn to be responsible?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

In a four-way assignment of iPoll database questions across the broad categories of knowledge, attitudes/beliefs, personal characteristics, & behaviors/experiences, knowledge made up >2% They are in there; the idea is not new! But fewer than any other category

If one more dude (and it’s always a dude) tells me that I can solve all the complex issues of normalizing datasets from a couple thousand different organizations, none of which use the same coding and most of which change their own approaches over time, with a goddamned LLM, my head will explode

I know it's tiny in the grand scheme of things, but I still get pleased every time I see an iPoll question with an accompanying image

Tomorrow Joe Lenski and Murray Edelman are going to tell what Murray describes as "the complete story, which has never been told" of the evolution of exit polling and election night forecasting, and if you're a political junkie, you shouldn't miss it: ropercenter.cornell.edu/events/roper...

Every time I see this dude all I can think is “my, my, my, my Mitchell.”

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Okay, old poll nerds. Any idea what this variable is about? All I can think of is Young Frankenstein

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One of my favorite things is finding an old unpublished survey with data and documentation, then discovering through reading the questionnaire that the sample was really interesting. If anyone want a survey of 500 working women in India in 1968, hit me up!

Every single “leftist” account that is posting about how lame the protests are because only violence will bring about change: follows 200 people, is followed by 130, and has posted >1,500 times, almost all replies. Color me skeptical.

Disability is one of the only minority groups you can join at any time. Everyone thinks they will be the exception. It won’t happen to them. They will “try harder” and overcome. They think we’re failing. It is not a moral failing and very few people will be the exception.

This is a great resource. Please share and wide: We Have Rights “An empowerment campaign to prepare for and safely defend our rights during encounters with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)” #Pinks #ProudBlue www.wehaverights.us

Another glued-not-resined.

It’s pissing me off that I can’t enjoy Diane Keaton’s brilliant performance as Annie Hall because Woody Allen ruined everything.

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues] Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

not yet resined, but at least glued. “Phoenix.” #collage #artsky

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I know people ask these questions to get over social desirability bias (I'm not sexist, but THEY are), but this is silly. Many are reading this as 4 in 10 won't vote for a woman for president (also implied by the headline). It's really that 4 in 10 know a sexist, and I'm stunned it isn't 100%.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

As an adult I have been employed at a number of "elite" institutions, but these days I feel pride only in my alma mater, Wesleyan, which has not forgotten that values come first. I hope the big schools will humble themselves to take the lead from one of the little ones. I'm not too optimistic.