Cecilia Bisogno
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Living With a Murderer
On personal responsibility under the second Trump administration
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Per White House pool: Trump has announced a deal with Skadden law firm in which the firm will provide $100 million in pro bono work that the administration approves of. “This was essentially a settlement,” Trump said.
Obama 2010 (Koch brothers spending massively on Republicans): Citizens United should be overturned, money in politics corrupts Clinton 2016, Biden 2020 (Koch brothers sit out, most billionaires are anti-Trump): hey jack, don’t worry about it, it’s all good 2024:
Oh no! Is it kosher to share a tweet on this site? who knows I have terrible internet etiquette here gooooes
NEW: After learning the definition of oligarchy, 67% of Democrats and 61% of Independents say the U.S. is becoming more oligarchic. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/3/...
"A new poll from @dataforprogress.org finds that likely voters largely oppose the U.S. taking ownership of each location...Majorities oppose the U.S. taking Greenland, Canada, and most starkly, Gaza. Only 23% want the U.S. to control Gaza, while 62% oppose that idea."
Trump’s 2025 imperialist tour: Buy Greenland, invade Gaza, take back the Panama Canal, and—just to keep things ridiculous—rename the Gulf of Mexico.
New CongressData update with its r packages & web app: cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/ We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style
CongressData
The CongressData Project aims to compile, disseminate, and encourage the use of data relevant to research of the US Congress and tracks member-level variables across the states across time. We have gathered more than 900 variables from various sources and assembled them into one large, useful dataset. We hope this project will become a 'one-stop shop' for academics, policy analysts, students, and researchers looking for variables germane to the study of the US Congress.
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NEW: Our comprehensive post-election report examines the factors that led to Trump's win, using longitudinal data collected throughout 2024. Primarily, we find that voters were upset with the economy and the status quo.
Recent DFP polling similarly finds that CFPB's actions on medical debt collection and banking are overwhelmingly popular across party lineshttps://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/11/21/voters-overwhelmingly-support-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureaus-recent-actions
At a Senate hearing today, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) claimed that CFPB Director Rohit Chopra’s continued efforts to protect consumers went against the wishes of the American public. But the truth is that Americans across party lines support the CFPB’s fight.
Seems like disinvestment in communities is tied to far right wins in Italy - a lot of similar right wing wins in low education investment areas in the US. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NEW: While the upcoming Trump administration could upend the CFPB, recent CFPB actions to take on banks and medical debt are overwhelmingly popular. dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/11...
New issue alert! Multiple survey requests, QR codes, consent to link, web surveys, data integration models, imputation, small area estimation, multiple error sources and more, plus a farewell letter from the outgoing editors! academic.oup.com/jssam/issue/...
Volume 12 Issue 5 | Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology | Oxford Academic
An official journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Publishes cutting edge scholarly articles on statistical and methodological issues for sample surveys, censuses, administra...
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