Neil Stenhouse

senator andy kim i have also used the canva mardi gras flyer template recently mazel tov to u

love to pick up my phone and see 5 - 10 different things each of which successively makes me angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire fucking life

‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:

Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov

spoiler: NO

Let’s expand the Supreme Court and set term limits for justices.

Repair democracy in 2026. SamForNJ.org

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“…both Asian and Black Americans who worked hybrid reported less interpersonal conflict and stress but more positive affect and control when they worked remotely than when in the office”

These are plots how hybrid workers who were Black and Asian that experienced racism during the pandemic felt about hybrid work environments. Workers in both groups felt more agency in general and around conflict, also more positive affect, in remote settings v. in - person.

Our second study found that, of those working hybrid, Asian and Black workers who experienced racial discrimination at work felt more agency, less negative affect, less conflict, and equal in motivation in remote v. in-person work contexts...

This is a table showing some differences in proportion of racist experiences for Asian Ams working remotely or in-person during the pandemic.

Our first study found that Asian folks working remotely experienced less discrimination than those who had to work in person during early COVID-19.

That got us thinking, did remote work protect some Asian folks from experiences of racial discrimination?

The answer from our work is probably yes it did!

I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. 🧵

Thats one reason you don’t hear about it in punditry. Stories based on data coming from question wording rather than meaningful attitudes are a major input to the Take Industrial Complex

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

Finally got to @gelliottmorris.com's piece this week on how poll question wording dramatically affects responses. It's excellent. This is classic stuff in the political behavior subfield of poli sci, but we don't hear enough about it in punditry.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

How to win in November

we live in the stupidest fucking time in history

'those movies where people watch a video because it's supposed to make you die in a week are unrealistic' I say as I watch another person take a Chotiner phone call

don't forget to throw your beads at strangers for purim

Did he confuse Jews and Cajuns?

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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“13 going on 30 justices” a play on words from the seminal classic 13 going on 30 + supreme court justices. Inspired by “27 justices”

You inspired me

I’m crying, how does a senator from NEW JERSEY do this

“We are in an undeclared state of war.”

After Mike Johnson says the US is not at war, and Donald Trump says it is, Lindsey Graham tells @premthakker.bsky.social a third answer: an “undeclared state of war” — which, he suggests, allows the US to illegally strike ships in international waters.

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Mum’s dad: Pilot, flew bombers WW2, then Berlin Airlift, crop dusting post war (including a stint teaching Bangladeshi pilots)

Dad’s dad: Psychiatrist

Top DOL Lawyer Urges Relaxed Enforcement in Unionized Workplaces Labor Department attorneys should refrain from pursuing legal enforcement in unionized workplaces, Labor Solicitor Jonathan Berry said in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

The Department of Labor was created to protect all working people. Weakening labor enforcement that protect wages and safety on the job because they are union members is a blatant and outrageous attack on *all* workers’ rights.

Nicole Byer Found Poop In Her Airplane Blanket And The Story Is Insane "There was poop in my blanket! Give me an airplane!"

It's one of the craziest airplane blanket stories since Nicole Byer found poop in her sealed blanket on Delta www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/nic...

I did not share the original story because my gut was that the sourcing was dubious. Someone who knows more about the sole source confirms that skepticism. Don't fall for clickbait, read the piece linked below.

(If the story is confirmed by other outlets, that's another thing. But ... it's not)