David H. Montgomery
@dhmontgomery.com
Words, data, code. Senior data journalist with @today.yougov.com. Host of the French history podcast The Siècle (@thesiecle.com).
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This is pretty wild, Turkey basically just nuked the lower levels of its football pyramid because everyone involved, from the players to the refs to club executives, were betting on matches www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is pretty wild, Turkey basically just nuked the lower levels of its football pyramid because everyone involved, from the players to the refs to club executives, were betting on matches www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
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Coast Guard: Uh, see, uh...D'you think there's any possibility that you could, uh, come about and go back there and, uh, and do any searching?
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The exchange between the Coast Guard and the Arthur M. Anderson on the night the Edmund Fitzgerald went down is one of my Roman Empires — asking the Anderson to come about and search, and Captain Cooper saying yes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyaE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyaE...
The Lost Fitzgerald Search Tapes
Rare radio chatter between the Arthur M. Anderson and the Coast Guard November 10th, 1975. The last time anyone ever heard from the Edmund Fitzgerald
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2023 at 1:05 PM
Coast Guard: Uh, see, uh...D'you think there's any possibility that you could, uh, come about and go back there and, uh, and do any searching?
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The latest from YouGov (n ~ 4.3k)
Who do you blame for the shutdown: Dems 31, Reps 34
Approve/disapprove of the deal to end the shutdown: approve 37, disapprove 29
Who do you think benefited most from the deal? Dems 9, Reps 38
today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
Who do you blame for the shutdown: Dems 31, Reps 34
Approve/disapprove of the deal to end the shutdown: approve 37, disapprove 29
Who do you think benefited most from the deal? Dems 9, Reps 38
today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 4.3k)
Who do you blame for the shutdown: Dems 31, Reps 34
Approve/disapprove of the deal to end the shutdown: approve 37, disapprove 29
Who do you think benefited most from the deal? Dems 9, Reps 38
today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
Who do you blame for the shutdown: Dems 31, Reps 34
Approve/disapprove of the deal to end the shutdown: approve 37, disapprove 29
Who do you think benefited most from the deal? Dems 9, Reps 38
today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!
October 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!
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Editor: You get that frontispiece for Leviathan?
Etcher: Sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.
Etcher: Sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Editor: You get that frontispiece for Leviathan?
Etcher: Sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.
Etcher: Sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.
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Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
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Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true
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This encapsulates something about the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is author and former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Larry Millett, speaking on how far apart the Twin Cities were, psychologically and practically, pre-interstate.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This encapsulates something about the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is author and former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Larry Millett, speaking on how far apart the Twin Cities were, psychologically and practically, pre-interstate.
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LLMs have tons of accuracy issues but I must note as an expert that 19th Century *human* historians were also very capable of confidently hallucinating “facts,” extrapolating wild nonsense based on a single misunderstanding.
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
LLMs have tons of accuracy issues but I must note as an expert that 19th Century *human* historians were also very capable of confidently hallucinating “facts,” extrapolating wild nonsense based on a single misunderstanding.
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What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...
@histphilosophy.bsky.social A friend is looking for books/articles on the role of “European Jews and Jewish philosophy/ethics/etc.” in the Enlightenment — with the addendum, “beyond Spinoza.” Can you recommend anything?
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@histphilosophy.bsky.social A friend is looking for books/articles on the role of “European Jews and Jewish philosophy/ethics/etc.” in the Enlightenment — with the addendum, “beyond Spinoza.” Can you recommend anything?
My house in the Wedge got a lot of canvassers. From Fateh's campaign and from multiple pro-Fateh groups. From Chughtai's campaign, whose lit featured Fateh. Some lit did also list Davis & Hampton as part of the "ticket," but no one knocked on my door specifically on behalf of either man.
DA’s 🧵 is worth reading & I would only note that Davis spent a good part of the campaign with ZERO paid staff. The Minneapolis “middle” (center-left, whatever you want to call it) doesn’t have any sort of durable campaign infrastructure. Frey does & DSA does. You need 2+ years to win mayor‘s race.
this analysis is strange in that it doesnt answer the fundamental question about Minneapolis voters - if Frey's multiple lies and polarizing ways were truly against their values and they were tired of it, why did they not choose Davis? www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My house in the Wedge got a lot of canvassers. From Fateh's campaign and from multiple pro-Fateh groups. From Chughtai's campaign, whose lit featured Fateh. Some lit did also list Davis & Hampton as part of the "ticket," but no one knocked on my door specifically on behalf of either man.
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
Want cute holiday crafts? My wife has a table at Minnehaha United Methodist Church’s Holiday Bazaar today, 9 am - 2 pm, selling greeting cards, gift tags, prints, napkins, wax seals and more! Plus lots more tables and lunch being served! www.instagram.com/p/DQvJkrLE9E...
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Want cute holiday crafts? My wife has a table at Minnehaha United Methodist Church’s Holiday Bazaar today, 9 am - 2 pm, selling greeting cards, gift tags, prints, napkins, wax seals and more! Plus lots more tables and lunch being served! www.instagram.com/p/DQvJkrLE9E...
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DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
No, officer, I don't know where that sleeve of graham crackers went. And actually, I don't want to say any more on this subject without an attorney present.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
No, officer, I don't know where that sleeve of graham crackers went. And actually, I don't want to say any more on this subject without an attorney present.
The 45% Ceiling remains unbroken.
BREAKING: Jacob Frey has been re-elected mayor of Minneapolis.
Frey received 50% of the vote after second- and third-choices were reallocated — a stronger share of the vote than in 2021
Omar Fateh is the second-place finisher at 44.4% >> www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
Frey received 50% of the vote after second- and third-choices were reallocated — a stronger share of the vote than in 2021
Omar Fateh is the second-place finisher at 44.4% >> www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
Jacob Frey wins re-election as Minneapolis mayor
Frey won a deep-blue city on a moderate platform.
www.axios.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The 45% Ceiling remains unbroken.
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UPDATE: There are 39,205 ballots that didn't rank Frey or Fateh #1.
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
2025 Mayor results
This race requires ranked-choice tabulation on November 5.
vote.minneapolismn.gov
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
UPDATE: There are 39,205 ballots that didn't rank Frey or Fateh #1.
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
Four years ago, here's the share of Minneapolis voters who ranked each candidate anywhere on their ballots.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Four years ago, here's the share of Minneapolis voters who ranked each candidate anywhere on their ballots.
Does anyone know what’s up with the St. Anthony New Brighton school board election and the “SANB Parent Coalition for Teachers and Students” group? Their website is conspicuously light on details about things like who they are.
SANB Parent Coalition for Teachers and Students
SANB Parent Coalition is a growing
group of local parents, caregivers, educators, and community
leaders committed to restoring the integrity of our schools.
sanbcoalition.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Does anyone know what’s up with the St. Anthony New Brighton school board election and the “SANB Parent Coalition for Teachers and Students” group? Their website is conspicuously light on details about things like who they are.
Why I'm getting less sleep lately: My small, impressively shriek-y kiddo had gone from drinking 11% of her daily milk at night in June to 23% in October, and nearly 30% the past few days.
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Why I'm getting less sleep lately: My small, impressively shriek-y kiddo had gone from drinking 11% of her daily milk at night in June to 23% in October, and nearly 30% the past few days.