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MatttttttttB
@matttttttttb.bsky.social
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e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader
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For reasons we can speculate it’s basically not reported as such, but Trump’s personal racism is a real political liability for Trumpism imo
Yet Trump still hasn't endorsed Earle-Sears, wouldn't even allow her on his call with Miyares the other day lol bluevirginia.us/2025/11/mond...
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i thought this reporting was helpful. nothing new, of course, but a good illustration of our health care system’s scamminess left a huge opening for MAHA to capture folks with grievances (real, perceived, and astroturfed). strong consumer/patient protections can’t be an afterthought anymore
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When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story:

1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground

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White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
www.theatlantic.com
No, I’m not currently trying to get us to go back to the source for some data instead of sorting through 5 years of inconsistently formatted spreadsheets, why do you ask
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MTA data & analytics blog is an incredible resource for people working on data in the public sector. This latest post has some great practical advice for setting up a central data team and establishing data engineering capacity.

www.mta.info/article/less...
Lessons learned in starting a central data team
Learn how the MTA succeeded in setting up a central data team and a general purpose, cloud-based platform for data analytics.
www.mta.info
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🖼️ A natural history of birds,
Albin, Eleazar, 1713-1759.
This account has taught me I have basically no idea what a vaccine is bc these posts about vaccines that could prevent cancer and vision loss and whatever just make me think, what, how is that possible
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
“HADES” placed appropriately right on top of Midland
The details in this 1888 map are pretty interesting to look at.
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So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development
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It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.
Miller doesn’t wanna be dragged from his home by an outraged federal worker lol
The cosplaying military junta: like their leader, none of the people below served, so they brandish guns and tear gas try to make people cower anyway.
NEW: Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over military homes that until recently housed senior officers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
…wouldn’t that be the point?
Have the stories circulated on here about how he makes people cry in class and openly disdains students who didn’t go to Harvard or Yale?
A colleague old me that undergrads at his school recently invited Amar to speak at non-trivial expense, and he spent most of the talk hectoring the students to buy the book unfavorably reviewed downthread
The problem is the insistence upon one story. We do not need one, we do not have one, we should not demand one.
Close passed, honked at, and stared down by a very small man in a very big truck trying to make a permissive left arrow. The classic
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Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
doesn’t sound like a very good working relationship
I guess the story can’t be told this way nowadays, but in 2023 you could’ve talked about differential privacy as a tech sector imposition on public sector stats processes
Wouldn’t have thought differential privacy would get any coverage this admin. Dire framing in this case doesn’t really suit imo
US census data is carefully anonymized for good reason. Now Republicans want to change that -- and their plan could put the data of every person living in the US at risk.

Important reporting from @telliotter.bsky.social
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
www.wired.com
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"Maybe the only way to turn the tide of misinformation... is to flood the algorithm w/ the right stuff. Unfortunately, flooding the algorithm takes resources, policy changes, and a unified, evidence-based message—the things that a fully funded federal Safe to Sleep campaign had previously promised."
‘These Aren’t Statistics​. These Are Babies.’ Why Online Misinformation About Infant Sleep Is More Dangerous Than Ever​. - Consumer Reports
Whether scrolling, searching, or shopping, parents are bombarded with misleading information and imagery about unsafe infant sleep practices and products.
www.consumerreports.org