Kate Cronquist
@kcronquist.bsky.social
Data science + public policy. 📍DC. Big fan of public transit, Latin America travel, and cats.
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
I saw no good April fools jokes and I think it's just because *waves hands signaling everything all around us*
Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
RIP to the NYT mini crossword, and with it, my will to face the day.
Metro I love you but Gallery Place-Chinatown needs some air 🥵
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
There has been a lot of focus on the District’s budget due to an effort in Congress to force the District of Columbia to cut 1 billion dollars in spending 6 months into the fiscal year. Budgets can be complicated, so to combat confusion I’d like to introduce “The District Budget, 101 pt 1”. 1/4
In largely progressive DC, many civil servants fear for their professional livelihoods as the new Trump administration takes aim at the federal bureaucracy. “You work on anything related to policy or regulation and you're now an at-will employee and we could be fired tomorrow.” @51st.news
Local federal workers react to Trump's new work policies: 'People were sobbing in the halls’
Many of D.C.'s civil servants panic as they face job losses, hiring freezes, and return to office mandates.
51st.news
a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
nytimes.com
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
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The D.C. area will see home prices rise more than anywhere else in the mid-Atlantic in 2025, with the median sale increasing to $638,000, as return to office leads more people to relocate closer to urban centers, BrightMLS forecasts.
Just fixed my running toilet all on my own so basically I'm a plumber now. Is there a fed agency for which I should put my name forward?
Our World in Data now provides APIs to access their datasets programmatically. Here's a quick example that shows how to use them: www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11... Thanks, @ourworldindata.org
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Our World in Data recently announced that they are providing APIs to access their data. Coincidentally, I am using one of their datasets in my workshop on time series analysis at PyData Global 2024…
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Happy to be here ☺️ looking for all things data science, public policy, transit, mapping, equity, and progressive data-supported ideas.
