Tyson S. @TysonS

Virginia voters: if you've been wrongly purged from the rolls you can re-register at the polls under same-day registration & still cast a ballot.

BREAKING: Retweet to make sure every Pennsylvanian sees this headline.

This is an insanely good piece of political communication. People keep calling this “vibes.” The political work that is being done is to re-claim what America, patriotism, service, hard work, etc mean for a multi-racial, pluralistic democracy. This is essential political work.

Tina Smith @TinaSmithMN

2 years ago

We are not going back.

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The Harris-Walz campaign just dropped their first Tim Walz video, introducing him to America. Please watch and share widely!!

@mattywood A few times at Wrigley! Made friends with a group from Kansas and had so much fun I missed my flight that night!

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument. I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses. These words are fantastic for activating people, but they are also lies. The US government currently spends around 50B per year keeping people housed. States, of course, have their own budgets. If Bill Gates spent the same amount of money the US does just to keep people housed, he would be out of money in 3 years. I think that would be a great use of his money, but it would not be a permanent solution. The statistics about there being more houses than homeless are just...fake. They rely on looking at extremely low estimates of homelessness (which are never used in any other context) and include normal vacancy rates (an apartment is counted as vacant even if it's only vacant for a month while the landlord is finding a new tenant.) In a country with 150,000,000 housing units, a 2% vacancy rate is three million units, which, yes, is greater than the homeless population. But a 2% vacancy rate is extremely low (and bad, because it means there's fewer available units than there are people looking to move, which drives the price of rent higher.) Housing should not be an option in this country. It should be something we spend tons of money on. It should be a priority for every leader and every citizen. it should also be interfaced with in real, complex ways. And it should be remembered that the main way we solve the problem is BUILDING MORE HOUSING, which I find a whole lot of my peers in seemingly progressive spaces ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSED TO. Sometimes they are opposed to it because they've heard stats that the problem is simple and could be solved very easily if only we would just decide to solve it, which is DOING REAL DAMAGE. By telling the simplest version of the story, you can get people riled up, but what do you do with that once they're riled up if they were riled up by lies? There are only two paths: 1. Tell them the truth...that everything they've been told is actually a lie and that the problem is actually hard. And, because the problem is both big and hard, tons of people are working very hard on it, and they should be grateful for (or even become) one of those people. 2. Keep lying until they are convinced that the problem does not exist because it is hard, it exists because people are evil. Or, I guess, #3, people could just be angry and sad all the time, which is also not great for affecting real change. I dunno...I'm aware that people aren't doing this because they want to create a problem, and often they believe the fake stats they are quoting, but I do not think it is doing more good than harm, and I would like to see folks doing less of it. One thing that definitely does more good than harm is actually connecting to the complexity of an issue that is important to you. Do that...and see that there are many people working hard. We do not have any big, easy problems. If we did, they'd be solved. I'm sorry, it's a bummer, but here we are.

Final points of last night’s presentation: 1- People are quick to correlate: admit rate with institutional quality; graduation and retention rates with instructional quality; and SAT scores with intelligence.

@jmhorp Congrats Jeremy!

Yale and Harvard deciding to not participate in USNWR rankings is great, but undergraduate programs can't "not participate" as much of the rankings relies on federally-required data reporting that the magazine can use. We can stop doing the reputation rankings, however.

Median Usual Weekly Earnings Divided by Average Net Tuition and Fees at 4-Year Public Colleges

@Alexa_MRo @HistoricalCNN Here you go legiscan.com/LA/text/HB813/…

@Alexa_MRo @HistoricalCNN And seems like we are already there! lailluminator.com/2022/05/04/abo…

@rudygamble @_bomichael How about Margot? Squeezes more AB somehow?

@DerekVanRiper I’m there! We can always do Valentinas or La Barbeque

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) - One student's obsession with admission to an elite university imperils the entire universe. Some fantasy violence.

🚨ALERT: Arizona Republicans pre-file bill to limit drive-thru voting to only voters with disabilities, require drop boxes to be supervised by election workers for ballot return and ban drop box locations outside of polling places and election offices. democracydocket.com/alerts/arizona…

Today, on the 1 year anniversary of the 1/6 Insurrection, we call on Congressional leaders, members of the media, and just about anyone who will listen to prioritize saving our Democracy. With less than 362 days remaining until the next Congress is sworn in, we must act now.

@EastsideAphrod1 @kittypurrzog I would say “if” trump is alive and not in jail and “if” Democrats don’t fix voting and elections, then good chance Trump wins by either Electoral College or coup

@akilbello And they probably didn’t even have the Scorecard data which has salary and debt data