Ariel Edwards-Levy
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
@aedwardslevy.bsky.social
Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Reposted by Ariel Edwards-Levy
All around Dionysian stage
The drama was cerebral
Orestes thought the sea was calm
Pop goes the weasel
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 AM
arghhhhh
January 21, 2026 at 2:33 AM
storm weasel is more like the grink than the milkshake duck, I admit comprehensibly
More like the original Grink
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 AM
YES this is much closer
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 AM
they're actually conceptually pretty different tbh but I just really wanted to write that particular sentence
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 AM
relatedly, if anyone writes a paper on CATI sample composition and gets it into AAPOR/POQ/etc. under that title, I will buy you a beverage
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 AM
why would you possibly want to go to an amusement park when you could be drinking lukewarm coffee with several hundred pollsters

(look forward to saying hi!)
January 20, 2026 at 10:34 PM
honestly unsure whether "participants in this discussion predominantly share their favorite methods for cooking Brussels sprouts" would be funnier on an article that is about cooking Brussels sprouts or an article that is not in any way about that
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM
this is very good and I'm appreciatively mad at it
January 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
ha, thank you
January 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
shouldn't have named the cat apostrophe
January 20, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I am prepared to commute into the office as needed as long as my coworkers are prepared to listen to me kvetch out loud for eight hours about the cold
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 AM