is he gonna fire Noem "like a dog" too because she might take that as a murder threat
05.03.2026 18:39 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0is he gonna fire Noem "like a dog" too because she might take that as a murder threat
05.03.2026 18:39 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This piece from 2021 has also stuck with me (and has lots of overlap with Sawyer's excellent points): www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
05.03.2026 17:11 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Your piece is great, esp. w/r/t the Tenure Chase. I'm not sure I agree *entirely* with your argument (b/c institutions vary in what "counts" + how they weight it) but I would say it's definitely an articulation of the Standard Paradigm every scholar has to consider in charting their path.
05.03.2026 17:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
ok this is really good (per your usual) but I am AGHAST to see that your internet time piece is turning 15 years old.
are you going to let it get a cellular device?
My initial objection to billionaires was based on the extreme income inequality that creates them, which is warping America, blunting human potential, & ruining lives.
Now, my primary objection to billionaires is their outsize role in warping democracy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-l...
If gerrymandering is when politicians pick their voters, is NIMBY-mandering when politicians pick not having more voters in the first place?
05.03.2026 15:21 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0there really needs to be human consequences for this terrible, terrible murder of innocent civilians by the U.S. government. human consequences in the perpetrators' lived existence. not enough to just hope hell is hot hot hot.
05.03.2026 15:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I was surprised, much like I was surprised when I went looking for an agreed-upon measure of political trust. βSurely,β I thought, βsurely there is an agreed-upon construct that I can put in the survey with which reviewers will not take massive umbrage.β
05.03.2026 14:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thereβs a wide range of measures, some are about perceiving authenticity through news coverage. I went with something else that had a mix of adjectives like trustworthy. I havenβt run the data, I had to collect it last year right at the end of the fiscal year lest it go poof.
05.03.2026 14:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I dug into the authenticity literature last summer, and itβs so incredibly loosey goosey. (Did a little preliminary testing in my political graphic design research about whether logos cue authenticity or not.)
IMO we cannot as a field measure authenticity. Itβs βknow it when I see it.β
Yes x 100. I think this also gets into questions of βauthenticityβ and what kinds of aesthetics and identities are perceived (by pundits? by voters? which voters?) as βauthentic.β
05.03.2026 14:44 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Consistently, in survey after survey, housing availability and affordability is THE number one issue facing Massachusetts voters.
A βstatus quoβ approach to housing from any elected official, of any political party, should be considered malpractice today.
Itβs all of the above. I donβt have fridge capacity to cool everything before hand. I could keep it all outside for 24 hours on the porchβ¦ itβll be in the 40s. I donβt have coolers and donβt want to have to handle ice bags.
2 or 3 cases of seltzer on the porch overnight will just have to do!
Is seltzer in cans a non-starter? What about spindrift?
05.03.2026 02:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Tweeps, what is a non-alcoholic beverage for adults I can serve at room temp at my childβs birthday party this weekend?
(Do people drink room temp LaCroix?)
What if you did it Pardon The Interruption-style where you had a countdown clock on each topic?
04.03.2026 21:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's the intersection with being a Maine RV *and* being in a Dynata panel. I've used that firm. There are valid questions about whether one could weight it to representativeness.
04.03.2026 20:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My guess is that some group who wanted to help Fine was looking for a vehicle to wash their money. It's legal, after all. But it's odd, and I wonder why EDW said yes? There must be other seats that are Dem Woman vs. Actually Bad People in the primary and GE.
04.03.2026 20:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But what if my dense urban neighborhood contains a surface parking lot and I'm terrified that it might become 103 homes, of which 15 will be subsidized-affordable, within 1 block of a major transit stop? What if I want the parking lot to remain a parking lot?! What then?!
04.03.2026 19:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I actually think that tracks given a) prior turnout numbers in Maine general elections, both midterm and prez, which are usually high-turnout, combined with b) the kind of people who get enrolled into a panel survey from firms like Dynata.
04.03.2026 19:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm 100% serious when I say: In a state with only 1.1M RVs and 330k registered Dems to start, people are gonna get REAL TIRED of taking surveys (and maybe get tired of admitting they're sticking with the Nazi tattoo?)
04.03.2026 19:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What's your read on the latter? The Biden/Crockett overlap is obvious, but IMO Jimmy and Bernie don't have a ton in common (other than maybe plain-spoken anti-corruption, maybe anti-establishment?).
04.03.2026 13:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Huge E-Day swing in Loving County, was 4-2 Talarico in the Early voting, went 4-0 Crockett on E-Day! Those are raw votes. It has a population of 64 people.
04.03.2026 05:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Losing urban centers?! He carried Austin (Travis), San Antonio (Bexar), El Paso, Corpus (Nueces). There are cities in Texas other than Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth.
04.03.2026 05:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
it's here but not there, odd
votehub.com/2026_tx_sen_...
Yes, when the Dem primary turnout includes 33% of people with No Primary history it's inclear that a panel is going to capture that.
Frankly that's why (IMO) most of the polling in this race is a hot mess! You'd have to sample the whole file and screen for intent to vote in Dem primary, no?
... Talarico winning Latinos is not a surprise for a number of reasons.
What's interesting here is the low turnout in some of these counties.
who is that?!
04.03.2026 02:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0yup, I don't think we'll necessarily know tonight.
04.03.2026 02:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's 254 Texas counties, it's a lot to keep track of. As someone who organized down there for 9 years, I am most curious about Bexar (San Antonio, heavily Latino, hotly contested DA Race; Jimmy taught public school there), El Paso, and the RGV generally.
04.03.2026 02:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0