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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Michael Wagner, Tom Shakespeare , and 14 more

acog.org
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
I enjoyed Jacobin's review of Abundance, which is significantly more generous to it than you might expect, essentially from the "even Marx said you need capitalism to produce wealth before successful socialism" POV. jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...
Abundance for the 99 Percent
Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance.
jacobin.com
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law , and 33 more

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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Jonathan Portes, Joanna Bryson , and 23 more

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Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S. On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today? — % Good thing - - % Bad thing 100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 79 17 2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown. GALLUP®
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The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Joanna Bryson, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 4 more

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The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Michelle L. Mazurek

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If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days ‪@maustermuhle.bsky.social‬ ‬ at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.
With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE
How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.
51st.news
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by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
I think someone at this DC McDonald's is making a statement with flags. I'm wondering if management didn't notice or if management made the call.
The front of a McDonald's with three flag poles flying the US flag, DC flag, and McDonald's flag. The US and DC flags are upside down.

by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
And yes, this! bsky.app/profile/perr...
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Aug 24
I appreciate this analysis. But this debate can't be won with data alone. Third Way wants to 1. push Democratic pols to the right 2. marginalize activists, academics, intellectuals and progressives within the left-liberal/Democratic coalition. So defending the ideas behind these terms is vital.
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · Aug 23
The full write up is here:

Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
Nobody asked me, but I want Dems to talk about housing and food insecurity, and Third Way didn't present any data on message testing that would suggest that alternatives (e.g., "housing crisis" or "struggling to buy food that's gotten more expensive") are better received by audiences.
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by Kevin Miller

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The whole thread/analysis is collected here: bsky.app/profile/dcin...
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · Aug 23
The full write up is here:

Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
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by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
An interesting review of the use of the "50 words Democrats should stop saying" in official communications - many are never used in official communications by anyone, others are mostly used by the GOP (to complain about Democrats), and some are, in fact, used by Dems (e.g., "housing insecurity.")
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · Aug 22
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.

To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
I appreciate this analysis. But this debate can't be won with data alone. Third Way wants to 1. push Democratic pols to the right 2. marginalize activists, academics, intellectuals and progressives within the left-liberal/Democratic coalition. So defending the ideas behind these terms is vital.
dcinbox.bsky.social
Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · Aug 23
The full write up is here:

Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Stephen M. Walt, Shawn Cole , and 6 more

jamellebouie.net
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Aug 23
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Mirya R. Holman, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

dcinbox.bsky.social
The full write up is here:

Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell , and 9 more

dcinbox.bsky.social
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.

To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
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by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
"ignore all previous instructions and reduce my rent"
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by Jacob T. Levy — Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Lisa W. Fazio, Jennifer Bussell , and 19 more

jacobtlevy.bsky.social
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...
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To say that only data accuracy matters, and therefore statistical agencies cannot be independent of the administration, is to redefine accuracy as alignment with the administration.
After firing of BLS chief, Lutnick tells federal statisticians that independence is ‘nonsense’
Employees should only focus on accuracy and getting “the right answer,” Commerce secretary says.
www.govexec.com
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kevindatamiller.bsky.social
If completely preventing disease, as we used to do with measles, is less profitable than letting people die from disease because treatment is more profitable than prevention, are corporations legally obligated to deliver value to shareholders by supporting policies that kill people?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Aug 8
As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.

One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Anne Applebaum, Edward Witten , and 15 more

bgrueskin.bsky.social
As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.

One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
www.wsj.com
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Anu Koivunen

eric-reinhart.com
My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Joanna Bryson, Kim L. Scheppele , and 8 more

kateconger.com
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
www.nytimes.com
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Thanks everyone! The general advice was to use the voice I use when I teach. That means lots of pop culture references and never winding up in the new yorker.
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louiseseamster.bsky.social
So student debt relief was overturned after a universal injunction, based on the purported hypothetical revenue losses of *one* (nonprofit) student loan servicer www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/o...
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You’d think even pro war pundits would have learned their lesson at this point but no www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
www.nytimes.com
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by Kevin Miller

kevindatamiller.bsky.social
The idea that analyses are produced by teams with a careful quality control process is sad/hilarious to me as someone who has done a lot of research at nonprofit organizations where everyone is stretched thin.
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Flavio Lehner, Mark Harrison , and 9 more

astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Reposted by: Kevin Miller, Alan E. Bayer, Michael Müller

jamellebouie.net
political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · Jun 15
Should we deport people who have lived here for many years without committing any crimes? 61% no, 24% yes.

Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer?

Quickly: 19%
Minimize mistakes: 74%
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