#Partisanship

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. As promised- here is the quantitative reality of 2018 & the effect of the Kavanaugh confirmation. As you can see- it impacted partisans on both sides, but D's were

Aubrey Gordon (she/her/hers)

yrfatfriend

A new friend, who generally has good, thoughtful politics and is actively engaged in social justice work, just delivered a lengthy monologue about how disgusting it is to be fat

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

So, as an aside, if you read my whole comment, which I'm happy to see @eliza_relman used, this tweet I'm QTing is like a prima facie example of The Problem.https://twitter.com/luscombeland/status/1384324170926936066

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

This decision is INSANE. By a 2–1 vote, the 8th Circuit rules the Minnesota Secretary of State and the Minnesota state courts unconstitutionally usurped power from the state legislature by

Michael L. Barnett

ml_barnett

I’ve been especially depressed about the state of the world the past few days and this illustrates exactly why.Covid-18 is now officially Yet Another Public Health Crisis where no accumulation

Laura K. Field

lkatfield

A few thoughts in response to the Vermeule piece.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ All meaningful constitutionalism is "common good" constitutionalism. Traditional liberal democratic con

Jacob S. Rugh

JakeRugh

"Today, given what we have experienced over the past four years, it is not enough to just to register our disapproval of the President. We need to elect someone else

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Understanding GOP-Trump-Putin love Oh, pick me! @MarkSZaidEsq !I can answer your question about why Trump remains so popular with the GOP.Richard Hofstadter, in his classic work The Paranoid Style

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

As cases surged this week, I asked more than half a dozen researchers (epidemiologists, virologists and psychologists) if the U.S. has lost its COVID-19 war and if widespread lockdowns are

Ron Coleman

RonColeman

Sit down. I have something to tell you. And it's going to make you sad. But it's also an opportunity you must take. And immediately. It's this: People you love

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

Fall is coming. Beware those who will pursue socially and economically destructive policies in the name of protecting your health and safety. Beware those who will use rising cases to

Zhou 'eat hot chip' Enlai

massiveblunder

This thread saying that Kamala is one of the "most progressive" senators based on "metrics" is going around.As someone who works with stats, I'm triggered when political actors abuse popular

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. Watching this rally footage from progressive Ds, who are rightly asking/pushing for Biden to stay committed to the issues/platform he ran on. The ideologically liberal part of the Dem

Crystal Ferreira

cfthisfootnote

Statues have always been intertwined with politics.One of the most striking examples of the politics of statues can be found in Florence, right in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s

Michael T Nixon (Chillmonger)

VPNiX0N

There has been some chatter about whether or not we should support specific political candidates. Here is some helpful perspective...from EG White herself (source is the EG White estate). All

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

I will offer an olive branch. There is a lot of value in incorporating context and prior judgment or "subjectivity" in statistical models (that's why being Bayesian is so great!).