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Marc Porter Magee

@marcportermagee.bsky.social

I live in Virginia with @kportermagee, our 3 adorable kids & 3 scruffy dogs. Personal account. Work: CEO & founder of 50CAN.

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Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · last yr.

100 students in a school meant for 1,000: Inside Chicago’s refusal to deal with its nearly empty schools https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/06/13/chicago-public-schools-declining-enrollment-causes-small-schools-high-costs/

‘A lack of political courage’: Why is Chicago avoiding its school enrollment problem?

Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students.

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Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · last yr.

In terms of donors, Trump complicates the oligarchy story. While most of his 2020 funding (55%) came from the top 10%, that’s the lowest reliance on wealthy of any candidate we studied. Nearly 45% of 2020 donations came from bottom 90%—a remarkable shift for a Republican. 3/ cup.org/4cfm0Az

Figure 2 in paper presents the proportion of a campaign’s itemized total from each wealth group in stacked bar charts. Each bar represents a candidate-year, with segments showing the percentage of total dollars that come from each of four wealth bins. In both 2016 and 2020, Trump was much less reliant on the wealthy than Romney. Compared to Romney, Trump’s share of dollars from the bottom 90% is 9 percentage points higher in 2016, and 20 percentage points higher in 2020. In dollar terms, Trump got 2.7 times more dollars than Romney from the bottom 90% (in 2020). Likewise, Trump’s share from the top 1% (the sum of the top two bins) is 9 and 15 percentage points lower than Romney’s. To be sure, most of Trump’s dollars still came from the wealthy. Even in 2020, the wealthiest 10% gave him 55% of his dollars. However, the bottom 90% nearly matched them. To put this in sharp relief, the candidate with a wealth distribution of dollars closest to Trump’s in 2020 is Obama.
Marc Porter Magee@marcportermagee.bsky.social · last yr.

Biden believed the best way to stop Trump was to give every Democratic interest group a reason to be loyal. It backfired. “How did Democrats back themselves into this corner? Partly they’re pandering to pro-tariff constituencies (i.e., unions, once reliable Democratic allies).”

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Marc Porter Magee@marcportermagee.bsky.social · last yr.

“after suffering their biggest defeat in decades, Democrats are deeply fractured, rudderless, and struggling to figure out at the most basic level what their message and strategy should be” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘If We Don’t Get Our S--t Together, Then We Are Going to Be in a Permanent Minority’

It’s been months since Democrats suffered a devastating defeat at the polls. For all the talk about the party’s need for change, few seem actually willing to make the leap.

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Marc Porter Magee@marcportermagee.bsky.social · last yr.

This seems like a pretty big finding to understand why inequality in education is increasing: When high-performing students got broadband in their homes, they learned more. When low-performing students got broadband in their homes, they learned

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Karen Vaites@karenvaites.bsky.social · 2y ago

“If early, aggressive moves to contain the pandemic can be forgiven, it’s harder to excuse officials who clung to the shutdowns even amid mounting evidence that they were wrongheaded. School closures are the most important case.”