Sam Van Horne, Ph.D.

aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi!

The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in!
And they don’t look good for Pepsi

Why to count the eggs in the eastern Phoebe’s nest of course!

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.

Screenshot from article that reads: Black students experienced perhaps the most significant one-year shift. At the 76 schools that previously considered race in admission but no longer do, the average share of Black students dropped from 6.4% in fall 2023 to 5.3% in fall 2024, the lowest level in the data collected since at least 2015.

Been helping the folks at CBS news think through admissions data in a post-sffa world. They collected the largest dataset so far of uni's fall 2024 enrollment by race (and standardized it). Caveat caveat caveat, the clearest trend is:

www.cbsnews.com/news/college...

Not printing your essay at night lest the dot matrix printer wake up the entire block

🧵HURRICANES

If you live in a place that's likely to be affected by hurricanes, PLEASE have go-bags prepped & ready (resources & suggestions, following).

1) This resource is still up at NOAA www.noaa.gov/hurricane-prep; don't have faith that it'll stay that way, PRINT OUT anything you find useful.

19 companies pulling back their support for Pride For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

Lowe’s
Dyson
Nivea
Tiffany
Capital One
UPS
Disney
Door Dash
Live Nation
Anheuser-Busch
Diageo
Pepsi
Nissan
PWC
Citi
Mastercard

…all pulled their support for Pride.

If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability.
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My statement on the charges filed against me:

Chris Ware Illustrates USPS Stamp Pane Celebrating 250 Years The United States Postal Service (USPS) is celebrating its 250th anniversary this July and for the Sestercentennial will be issuing stamps commemorating the occasion: WASHINGTON — On July 26, 1775, th...

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Extremely prepared to mail all my future comics with the Chris Ware stamps

Small green figs developing on my tree

LGF!

“It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.” - Anton Scalia

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

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Hey #qualitative folks! Workshop this Friday on how the open source #CAQDAS QualCoder compares to licensed options NVivo, Atlas.ti, and MAXQDA.

Register here! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

I'll be emailing the recording to everyone who registers, so do sign up even if you can't make it live.

I asked for help with a problem on a SAS forum and someone asked an LLM and posted the bull**it answer.

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.

Backyard park has done it again, the first bird I saw when I opened my eyes this morning was this gorgeous Rose-breasted Grosbeak who was checking out my feeders.

a man with a beard and a bracelet on his wrist is looking at another man . ALT: a man with a beard and a bracelet on his wrist is looking at another man .

Warfinity

FT graph FTW

I thought the $75 parking tickets were supposed to fix all this anyway

I think what typically happens in these situations is that municipalities negotiate a much higher price for the property they are selling because they are going to miss out on the tax revenue for years to come. Rather than levy a tax that does not sunset.

Newark tries again to enact UD student head tax The city of Newark is seeking to impose a head tax on University of Delaware students in order to help pay for services for the school.

This article is good background (except that it bizarrely claims the university only became tax exempt in 1915. That’s when “tax exempt” status became available, but it was a nonprofit corp not paying a tax for most of its history before that)

spotlightdelaware.org/2025/03/20/n...

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."

yessss native penguins dataset in #rstats 4.5

ALSO the ability to load single functions from packages!

Is there a resource to help with running multi-level models with rethinking::ulam() datasets have several thousand rows? The model fitting (even calling precis() ) takes forever. Do I need 1) a high-performance computer or 2) a different language? @rmcelreath.bsky.social #rstats

SAS has some available macros for making codebooks automatically. If your metadata is in good shape (variables are labeled and have formats assigned), you get a nice file.

@telllab.bsky.social