Tim Walz: "I've got an announcement to them on our LGBT community, especially our trans community: stay the hell out of Minnesota for the folks who want to hassle those people. These are our neighbors."

We're about to kick off a new @dslc.io book club to read @nrennie.bsky.social 's forthcoming book: "The Art of Visualization with #ggplot2: The #TidyTuesday Cookbook" (nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/)! Head to DSLC.io and join our Slack to join the book club! #RStats #DataViz #DataVis

H/T @just-jack-1.bsky.social

Couldn't sleep. Wrote and left a VM for @repbillfoster.bsky.social

I find "America isn't really set up for it" to be an annoying rebuttal to any sort of proposal to reduce car dependency. Our leaders used policy to create a system of car dependency and we can sure as hell use policy to undo that. There are absolutely barriers, but do nothing is not a solution.

The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.

H/T @donmoyn.bsky.social

Because Bari Weiss is not an advocate. Because the billionaire corporate owners who installed her to curry favor with Trump are not elites. Its the people who actually spend their lives learning about a topic that you should distrust.

Happy 2026! 🎆 My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing. I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday! patreon.com/DSLC #RStats #DataBS

Long Jan 1st hike to kick the year off right. Your moment of zen:

The large print paperback is the way to go.

Adding Natchez Trace to the 🚴‍♂️ bucket list. Well done NPS

I'm in awe of what the NPS does, every day.

This Wendy's ran out of fries 🍟. Is 2025 over yet?

The Chicago Way.

Dan hooked me with "I really don’t like when people use the Bible to hurt vulnerable people and groups." I'm one chapter in so far. Buy this book everybody 1/ #bookskeet

All of this thread. I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.

GOAT

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. (welp it's been nice knowing you)

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Cooking up a National Park Service / National Historic Site road trip. What am I missing?

It’s not like the true motivation here was ever a great mystery. A constitutive element of MAGA fascism is cruelty for its own sake; Republicans are coming after trans people because they are a small and largely powerless minority. @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...

Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people "This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead." prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...

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this full statement was remarkable and it's worth taking less than five minutes to listen and absorb what Rep. McBride says here. She notes her biggest regret in life was her inability to experience a childhood free of pain.

5 of 5

(Children are not getting these surgeries) (Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)

Don't threaten me with a good time

Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Don't delay! Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000! So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you? 🗃️🧪

How excited am I allowed to be about Josh Starmer of #StatQuest joining us on the #DSHangout this week?! BECAUSE I AM EXCITED! Josh makes me feel seen bc we both love explaining stats stuff in friendly ways, helping folks, & not taking ourselves too seriously #databs #rstats #python #datascience

This post is a killer. A collection of videos how wrong were the predictions of Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya. Trump put the lunatics in charge of the asylum.

There is a ginormous body of research devoted to giving mice huge doses of stuff to prove that it's dangerous.

constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu....

Will survey the Nextdoor reaction out here in the burbs

spot on Jamelle and Adam 🚴‍♂️trekking across rural counties Iowa or Tennessee, purveyors of woo butter their bread saying that the locals are authentic and good and noble. And that the outsider is incapable. Low IQ. The answer is not that we join in the woo. It's pathetic and dangerous.

If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.

Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?

Our corner of NE Iowa gained quite a few Okie farming families as more land was cleared and drained. The dialects and the bigotry were there into the 80s.

apropos of nothing: using R to render a blue sky to post on bluesky #RStats #rayrender

4/6. Using snow to envision a better community.

Kim Reynold's Field of Dreams is available.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

From @beefrunner.com prideinag.substack.com/p/not-everyo...

An important thing about cities is that people are often engaging while walking, biking, or taking public transit, as opposed to the car-centric suburbs. Cars isolate us and make us angry and unhappy.