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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Aug 25

The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Aug 25

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Aug 20

The American media's only weakness: transparent pretexts and obvious lies, which it can't refute without feeling partisan

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’m sorry, you and disabled people generally deserve much better (and our whole global community!).

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · Aug 18

Not much: open.substack.com/pub/grimoire...

No, Conscientiousness Hasn't Collapsed Among Young People in Recent Years

How the Financial Times created a misleading meme and contributed to the firehose of nonsense on screen panic

open.substack.com

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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · Aug 14

I recently learned that our statistics book (bayesrulesbook.com) cannot be listed on syllabi in Florida.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Aug 18

I will die angry at joe manchin for this shit

Child poverty among Hispanic and Latino Americans tripled after the program ended, jumping to almost 25%.

ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was just 4 years ago that this country cut the child poverty rate almost in half. Then we just....stopped www.census.gov/library/stor...

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

An R package for working with generalized additive models

Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

gavinsimpson.github.io

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Shameful violation of the Air Carrier Access Act. 🤬 I hate how they caused the problem and kept adding to it.

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Allie Wilkinson @alliewilkinson.bsky.social · Aug 16

Just had a frustrating, humiliating and dehumanizing experience with
@americanair.bsky.social
at
Reagan Airport
as a #disabled person. It started with insufficient staffing for wheelchair assistance.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Aug 16

Julia Sebutinde, the vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has said God "is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel" and the signs of the "end times" are "being shown in the Middle East".

She is a judge who supports the accused

www.middleeasteye.net/news/icj-vic...

ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'

Judge Julia Sebutinde says signs of the end times 'are being shown in the Middle East'

www.middleeasteye.net

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · Aug 15

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 14

Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Aug 16

Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/16/s...

Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result - emptywheel

Trump doesn't want to talk about what demands Putin made of him in yesterday's meeting. He does want to cling to the lies about Russia getting him elected that he can only sustain if Russia is willing...

www.emptywheel.net

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Aug 14

No doubt, working more intelligently generates leverage that can out produce any amount of poor work. Really consistent compounding is the key.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Aug 14

1. An awful lot of progress in medicine is based on "it worked somewhere". Most of it probably.

2. No effects can be guaranteed to generalize into the future, but that doesn't seem to bother anyone

3. This from @epidbydesign.bsky.social et al is also worth a read pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30299451/

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Aug 14

INDIA (JUL) WHOLESALE PRICES YOY ACTUAL: -0.58% VS -0.13% PREVIOUS;EST -0.48%

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · Nov 13

i think the latest moves really clarify that conservatism has nothing to offer the world but death and destruction

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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · Aug 13

Image from BBC showing multiple wildfires in the last 24 hours across southern Europe.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Aug 13

The leaders aren’t experts and have ulterior motives? Ding ding ding!

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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · Aug 13

'extreme heat is having a particularly severe effect on tropical birds. We found increased exposure to extreme heat has reduced bird populations in tropical regions by 25%–38% since 1950

This is not just a temporary dip—it's a long-term cumulative effect that continues to build as the planet warms'

The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · Aug 12

70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations phys.org/news/2025-08... #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #Birds #Wildlife #Tropics

70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations

Human-driven climate change threatens many species, including birds. Most studies on this topic focus on long-term climate trends, such as gradual rises in average temperatures or shifts in rainfall p...

phys.org

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Aug 13

> China Sanctions Two EU Banks, Hitting Back at Europe’s Moves

China’s government is upset they can’t support Russia’s genocide with impunity. 🧠

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...