Husband. Father. Pinballer. Montanan. Hunter. Gatherer. Professor of PolSci &Env. Studies @ Reed College. Buy my American Pol Reader: https://teapawt.net/t.co/NjKZvlnvLv
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Chris Koski retweeted
Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator
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I made some plots to help visualize why coalition formation in Israel is so difficult right now
We are witnessing an extremely rare situation that political scientists call a "Condorcet cycle" - a demonstration of Arrow's impossibility theorem in the wild!
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Think the @HaleyforMI @AbdulElSayed saga is totally bonkers? The data agrees with you.
It’s also a part of a wider trend - the left’s donors don’t hold grudges. The establishment’s do
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There is new Census data out today.
This is the population of children ages <5 in Portland from 1980 to 2025
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LGM Podcast: "What Happened?" With @PolicyProcessor and @LemieuxLGM lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/202… @lefarkins
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Donald Trump has nominated Gríma Wormtongue as ambassador to the Kingdom of Rohan
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Voter turnout declined in 42 states & DC. It rose in only 7 states, 4 of them battlegrounds (GA, PA, MI, & WI)
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Women = Arya Stark.
Black People = The Unsullied
Puerto Ricans = The Hound when he decides to not run away from the fire
Liz Cheney = Theon
Republicans switching = Jamie fighting with Brienne after they bang.
Normie dems = Jon Snow
Progressives and Unions = Drogon
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UPDATE: Toss-Ups eliminated entirely, goes live tomorrow AM. Final count:
Democrats favored to flip 179 R-held seats
Republicans favored to flip 50 D-held seats
Democrats are favored to net 129 seats in state legislatures this year in our classic model.
41/44 2024 state legislative forecasts as of tomorrow will be pretty much final at @CNalysis. Just NC, GA, OR left to go. Currently, we project:
Democrats favored to flip 176 R-held seats
Republicans favored to flip 50 D-held seats
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Thanks to @CopyrightOffice, McDonald’s franchisees now have the right to repair their own ice cream machines.
In March @FTC filed a comment in support of this change, and we’ll keep using our tools to protect people’s right to repair.
ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
McDonald’s often maligned, seemingly perennially-broken ice cream machines could soon become a thing of the past. today.com/food/news/mcdonald…
