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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
They need to get back together… and leave us alone
davekarpf.bsky.social Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h
So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this.

And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.

We're all agree on that, right?
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Heading into 2026 like this
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org
Geordi LaForge rejecting this code library(tidyverse) penguins |> mutate( nice = glue::glue( "{species} on {island} Island ({body_mass} g)" ) ) |> select(nice) #> nice #> 1 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3750 g) #> 2 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3800 g) #> 3 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3250 g) Geordi LaForge approving this code library(tidyverse) penguins |> mutate( nice = str_glue( "{species} on {island} Island ({body_mass} g)" ) ) |> select(nice) #> nice #> 1 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3750 g) #> 2 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3800 g) #> 3 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3250 g)
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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tstaub.bsky.social
You know how the joke is "every map of Chicago is the same;" I feel that's even more true of Germany.
ansgarw.bsky.social Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 1d
This hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss.

Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
A map of Germany consisting of hexagons. Each hexagon is filled by color according to the share of people aged between 15 and 24. Eastern Germany shows much lower shares, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
Anyway, can't believe St. Paul Police are acting like this on the eve of their holiest day (the release of another Zootopia movie)

www.fox9.com/news/st-paul...
St. Paul police screen 'Zootopia' as part of anti-bias training
More than 800 employees of the St. Paul Police Department recent went through their annual equity training.
www.fox9.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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joshlinden.bsky.social
Some important data about making inclusionary zoning work

Among other things: the per-unit (below market) tax abatement subsidy (using Portland's model) is less than public cost to directly fund a comparably priced unit in, for ex, an all affordable development. And it's driving results
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
PCU set at an HBCU. Final answer.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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aaup.org
“This is yet another rollback of academic freedom & shared governance. It’s not the place of a state—it’s not the place of politicians—to tell faculty such things & it opens a door for political reprisal, for other ways to limit academic freedom.”

- Noor O'Neill, President AAUP Indiana Conference
Ind. May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values”
Indiana may reject proposed degree programs at public institutions that don’t “cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values of American society.” Earlier this month, the Indiana Co...
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Look if you design a logo that good, there's just no way not to end up here after a while.
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
A24 morphing into its final form as a lifestyle brand
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If this conversation intrigues you, check out Will's book from @uncpress.bsky.social:
Jesus Springs
In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town of Colorado Springs. Drawn by cheap property, beautiful scene...
uncpress.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Terrific conversation here with one of my former students who's just published a brilliant book on how Colorado Springs became the "evangelical Vatican" and what came next.

Check it out!
herberthistory.bsky.social Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 1d
How did Colorado Springs become the epicenter of evangelical capitalism? What's the link between the Air Force and Christian Conservatism? And how did Donald Trump become the Prayer Warrior In Chief? That's what Will Schultz and I are reckoning with this morning. Links below.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
surlyurbanist.bsky.social
We all have jobs, but miss me with these articles of agents lamenting forcibly tearing families apart *while they’re actively doing so*. The entire point of ethical courage is to not do this monstrous shit. It’s to not fall on,”I’m just following orders.” They didn’t have to do this. Still did, tho.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow." "She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right." "We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued. We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."| • "I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said. "We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that our case was straight forward." "He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it… "Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything." Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon. "She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.” "They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on." As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed. "My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
Lol. Dare I say that lmao, even? in any case how is Princeton not too rich and august for this!? 😭😭😭
Center for the Decentralization of Power Through Blockchain Technology, Princeton University
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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libraking.bsky.social
🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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weedenkim.bsky.social
It lasted 0.000126263 Scaramuccis.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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bhighsmith.bsky.social
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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joelanderson.bsky.social
Don’t know why but this very sad clip reminds me of that scene from “40 Year Old Virgin” where homie says a breast feels like a bag of sand.
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2d
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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cbswope.bsky.social
What better way to start a new semester and return from maternity leave than to share a new paper with my brilliant co-authors! We examine Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) through a critical urban theory lens
uaanews.bsky.social Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · Aug 16
NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Emergency rental assistance under COVID capitalism: A case study assessment of state and local rent relief programs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
His childhood bullies and parents must also be tried at the Hague for failing us all
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2d
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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kevintmorris.bsky.social
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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nogoodwyfe.bsky.social
LOL apparently the students drew a turkey saying “me hate AI” and the Google AI promoters poured water on it to erase it 😭 I TOLD you Carolina students weren’t gonna fall for this

(video stolen from Weekly Weirdo insta)
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Clarkesworld was one of the first online magazines I submitted to. They eventually published one of my favourite short stories that I've written (drafted over one night, not sure I can do that anymore), 'muo-ka's Child'. Help Neil keep the lights on at one of sff's best magazines:
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM