Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
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what's stopping your survey from utilizing this questionnaire design (via www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
what's stopping your survey from utilizing this questionnaire design (via www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
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I'll believe the resignations when I see them...but certainly telling that people want to leak this sort of thing. 1
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'll believe the resignations when I see them...but certainly telling that people want to leak this sort of thing. 1
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They’ve learned a few things about accounting since Enron
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
They’ve learned a few things about accounting since Enron
“Naaaa….nanananana naa na… Katamari Damacy”
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Naaaa….nanananana naa na… Katamari Damacy”
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So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
Today (24 November) marks the passing of Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. He remains regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music.
📷 Getty
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November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
Extremely limited time opportunity for skeleton gladiator contests in skeleton arena
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Extremely limited time opportunity for skeleton gladiator contests in skeleton arena
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The problem Donald Trump has as pretender to the throne of America is that he leads a party full of scavengers who are all realizing it might be in their best interests not to pretend anymore.
War of the Brown Noses - Truthdig
The great Trumpworld crackup has only just begun.
www.truthdig.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The problem Donald Trump has as pretender to the throne of America is that he leads a party full of scavengers who are all realizing it might be in their best interests not to pretend anymore.
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Every one of his speeches and pressers should be transcribed word-for-word. Just total verbal gobbledygook.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Every one of his speeches and pressers should be transcribed word-for-word. Just total verbal gobbledygook.
This is what social scientists refer to as “real fucking bad”
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is what social scientists refer to as “real fucking bad”
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Yup. This is a link to the No Kings 1 day data from June. At NoKings2.0, participation continued to be predominantly female, white, highly educated and middle aged (mean was 46 in DC and the median was 44--so older than the first day of action in June). danarfisher.com/2025/10/23/n...
NoKings 2.0 Brings Joyful Resistance Across the US
On October 18th, a coalition of left-leaning political groups coordinated a second national day-of-action to declare that the US has No Kings. Almost 3,000 events took place across the US during t…
danarfisher.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yup. This is a link to the No Kings 1 day data from June. At NoKings2.0, participation continued to be predominantly female, white, highly educated and middle aged (mean was 46 in DC and the median was 44--so older than the first day of action in June). danarfisher.com/2025/10/23/n...
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My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
A big failure: no stories on DOGE “ending” even raise the possibility DOGE was designed to just destroy -destroy agencies & programs the Project 2025 crew dont like, & generally destroy the possibility or even the idea of effective government. Covering “all sides“ would at least reference that view!
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A big failure: no stories on DOGE “ending” even raise the possibility DOGE was designed to just destroy -destroy agencies & programs the Project 2025 crew dont like, & generally destroy the possibility or even the idea of effective government. Covering “all sides“ would at least reference that view!
At long last, we have created the reckless sun blocking technology from the sci fi classic “Don’t Make Snowpiercer Happen For Real”
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
At long last, we have created the reckless sun blocking technology from the sci fi classic “Don’t Make Snowpiercer Happen For Real”
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These guys have been telling billionaires what they want to hear about climate change for decades now, and finally culture has caught up to them. Congrats I guess.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These guys have been telling billionaires what they want to hear about climate change for decades now, and finally culture has caught up to them. Congrats I guess.
There are no movies that take place where I’m from but this one was FILMED there
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There are no movies that take place where I’m from but this one was FILMED there
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When I hear arguments like "we're building the future, and isn't that the most effective altruism of them all?," I think of the billions spent on the Metaverse.
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
When I hear arguments like "we're building the future, and isn't that the most effective altruism of them all?," I think of the billions spent on the Metaverse.
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Ralph Lauren released a USPS commemorative capsule collection.
Ralph Lauren Creates Commemorative Capsule for USPS
The U.S. PostalSservice was established in 1775 and celebrated its 250th anniversary this year.
wwd.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Ralph Lauren released a USPS commemorative capsule collection.
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More and more I feel like the Times doesn’t have an ideological bias so much as it exists to create an image of American politics as very serious even when it’s the silliest it’s ever been
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
More and more I feel like the Times doesn’t have an ideological bias so much as it exists to create an image of American politics as very serious even when it’s the silliest it’s ever been
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
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The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/oX4FTOF
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now
Political analyst Michael Podhorzer discusses why the Republican candidates in New Jersey and Virginia came nowhere near matching Trump’s 2024 support among voters of color and young voters.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/oX4FTOF
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
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"Part of the reason you see this attraction to Trump is that rural areas in the Midwest are becoming less white for the first time in a long time, with the influx of Hispanic Americans and East African immigrants. So people are thinking, “Well, wait a minute, we thought that this was ours.”"
‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump
For her new book Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Broadleaf Books, 2025), Denker again traversed the country. This time she was investigating the radicalization of whi...
barnraisingmedia.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"Part of the reason you see this attraction to Trump is that rural areas in the Midwest are becoming less white for the first time in a long time, with the influx of Hispanic Americans and East African immigrants. So people are thinking, “Well, wait a minute, we thought that this was ours.”"