Brad Jones

I'm looking forward to meeting up with a great lineup of survey folks in Minneapolis on Friday celebrating the 80th (!) anniversary of the Minnesota Poll.

I'll be talking about new methods in conducting local and state opinion research.

mnpoll.umn.edu/symposium-3-...

I've heard some objections to this approach based on accessibility (e.g. speech-to-text uses the same paste functions). Have you given any thought to how to allow valid uses of pasting?

A picture of the nutrition label of the chimichurri container with an implausible precise number of servings of 45.36

Serving sizes 🤝 polling estimates

Better when rounded

Does "Department of War" branding make it easier for Dems to cut defense spending?

The Bear Shaped Hole by John and Thomas Dougherty

This was excellent (even though I almost couldn't make out the words toward the end through the tears welling up). An extraordinarily beautiful book about grief and rememberance.

@writerpoetjohn.bsky.social @thomasdocherty.bsky.social

I think between 200 and 300 people

Pete Seeger as an excuse to post the lyrics in alt text: [Verse 1] What a friend we have in congress Who will guard our every shore Spend three quarters of our taxes Getting ready for the war [Verse 2] Guns will make our coastline bristle And we have to fill the skies Full of planes and missiles They'll be paid for by and by [Verse 3] Have you noticed all the progress In our mighty airborne fleet? By the time a plane's adopted It's already obsolete [Verse 4] Modern bombs are sure to carry Loads of glory, joy and thrills What a privilege to bury All the death our money kills [Verse 5] There's no factory profit brothers And we have to do or die One improvement then another They'll be paid for by and by

Is someone working on updating Pete Seger's "What a friend we have in Congress" to fit our current situation? (original lyrics in the alt text)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEI...

Pew's validated voter report should be required reading for folks interested in US politics

No kings protest in Windsor Colorado

#nokings Windsor, CO

How well do people really understand the politics of their own neighborhoods?

On Thursday, May 15, from 4:30–6:00 PM, my colleague Alexis Essa and I will present new findings from YouGov at the AAPOR Annual Conference in St. Louis.

I hope to see folks there at #AAPOR2025.

🚨 Call for all AAPOR board gamers! 🚨
GAMEPOR is finally officially on the conference schedule, now named "Longitudinal Leisure Study (with board games)".
Bring your favorite (and luggage friendly) board games to the conference and come join us for an epic game night! 🎲
#AAPOR @aapor.bsky.social

Horton is obviously the birth father - the baby emerges from the egg with a trunk and elephant ears. It gestated for 51 weeks ... the child didn't get to be that way from Horton sitting on the egg

www.bbcearth.com/news/elephan...

Think about it... we're told the story from Horton's perspective who is clearly an unreliable narrator. Wise Mayzie knows that the only way she can get him invested in the child is to have him contribute how he can -- even at the expense of her own reputation.

Horton Hatches the Egg - Wikipedia

On my 500th reading of "Horton Hatches the Egg," I'm solidly convinced that the correct interpretation of the story is that of a wise mother doing everything she can to get her child's absentee father involved with its life.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_...

My five year old destroyed me the other day as I was explaining something: "I think you are talking to yourself, dad"

NPORS is a fantastic resource and public service.

My sign: Coloradans against kakistocracy (government by the worst people)

This one was mine

HANDS OFF FORT COLLINS COLORADO

Protesters at a hands off protest in Fort Collins, Colorado

It was a little cold and windy at times, but the Fort Collins #handsoff protest was really well attended.

Fort Collins hands off rally

@smbrnsn.bsky.social do you know if it is possible to estimate how much the church might have lost as a result of the Trump tariffs?

Hopefully there will be a good turnout!

Headed out this morning to take this bad boy for a spin

Our protest sign: "They're eating the checks / They're eating the balances"

We're headed to a protest in Fort Collins today.

My homemade protest sign which reads: Coloradans against kakistocracy"

Please clap for my protest sign #50501

Lovely illustrations by Shelly Cunningham (who doesn't seem to be on BlueSky)

The last page from Vincent D'Onforio's excellent children's book Pigs Can't Look Up "I want to be treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time "

I love Pigs Can't Look Up by @vincentdonofrio.bsky.social

It feels especially appropriate during poetry month. Thank you for putting such a beautiful thing into the world.

Do folks have recs for other gentle bedtime reads for little ones in this same vein?

YouTube video by Lovett or Leave It Trump Officials Scramble After Leaked Group Chat Fallout, Hegseth Swears No Martinis Involved

@jonlovett.bsky.social enunciates the feelings I've been having during this first 100+ days of Trump's second term in this clip. "He's doing just enough... going right up to the edge of where it would be unacceptable for us to have a normal night. But we all do... "

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtKC...

Do we think the "forks" translation thing from Google is like those false entries that used to be put in encyclopedias to cath plagiarism?

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