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Kevin Collins

@kwcollins.bsky.social

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Co-founder, Survey 160. Loves survey and voter participation. Researcher. Democrat. YIMBY. Husband and Dad. Opinion haver and measurer. Outdoors and cooking enthusiast. He/Him

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Mar 24

“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 9h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t worry, they’re only making it appear better on the outside, not any structural changes that would improve functionality inside

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 8h

A Supreme Court being repaired and renovated is perhaps a metaphor

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10h

Crostata di Marmelatta di Fico using the jam I made this weekend from last of this year’s fig tree harvest

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12h

Once again struck by how many prominent "heterodox" thinkers split off and create their own institutions not because of academic censoriousness but because no one who closely examines their methodology can possibly take them seriously.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 12h

Just gonna leave this here.

In survey data, LGBT young people report consistently worse mental health than heterosexual young people.
Whether this is because LGBT causes mental illness (i.e. the minority stress or anomie hypotheses), or because
mental illness causes individuals to be LGBT is beyond the scope of this work.2

Footnote 2: Meyer, I. H. (1995). "Minority stress and mental health in gay men." Journal of health and social behavior: 38-56; Michael Bailey, J.
(2020). "The Minority Stress Model Deserves Reconsideration, Not Just Extension." Archives of Sexual Behavior 49(7): 2265-2268.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 13h

-gate

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 13h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 20h

Corruption Watch

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 20h

Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric

The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

www.msnbc.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty much

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else watching Brewers / Dodgers on HBO Max and seeing unsold ad inventory, repeatedly?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

How many times have both outs in a double play been attributed to the same defensive player?

Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 1d

In answer to your questions ...

No, I've never seen that before.
No, it didn't happen because I will Strange But True madness to happen.
Yes, we just saw a "grounded into double play" on a ball that looked like a possible slam over the CF wall.
And the catcher recorded both forceouts.

Baseball!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

It's just gutter racism, through and through

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Did Contreras get the third out by ... jogging from home to third?

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

The strangest double play I've ever seen

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

That is one of the craziest plays I’ve ever seen in an MLB game.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Striped bass Livornese with garden tomatoes (or which are doing better in October than they did in July)

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: the GOP needs to be replaced by a pro-democracy center-right party

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the more defensible alternative? “Which comes closer to your view” paired alternatives?

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often reminded measurement in social science takes a back seat to hypothesis testing which isn't great for knowledge accumulation.

More folks should read:

eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...

We also use agree-disagree scales too much (myself included)

eiko-fried.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced." www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

(e) PERSONAL POSSESSION OF REGISTRATION OR RECEIPT CARD; PENALTIES
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly it's past time for media companies to realize that the streaming services are central not an add on, and for all of them (paramount, disney, etc, to drop the "plus" branding)

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Is this writeup anywhere yet?