Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone
Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.
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I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed
MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · 10h agoJuro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty made an enormous difference. It entered into force in 1970. President John F. Kennedy thought we might have 25-30 nuclear weapons states by the 1980s. We now have 9.
What kind of maniac made it so “The Last of the Morticians” was the subheading and not the headline???
Harper’s Magazine@harpers.bsky.social · 7h ago“‘I am here to help this person,’ he told me of his approach as a mortician. ‘It may just be their vessel. But there are people that love this person.’” John Semley (@johnsemley3000.bsky.social) on the dying art of the open casket. buff.ly/NOl45CD
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
If Stevens won they would not print that moderates didn’t get the big election night they wanted, they would print that moderates have struck back and reasserted their place leading the party
Politico@politico.com · 13h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
"Culver's is a decent road curd" is a tremendous take.
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 17h agoWhat is u doing
BART SIMPSON PLANS DREAM HOUSE WITH INDOOR HALF PIPE AND GIANT UNDERWATER TV
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
Universal claims about the ideology of any country or civilization will always fall short. The multiple traditions interpretation of US history is much more helpful. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America
PDF | Analysts of American politics since Tocqueville have seen the nation as a paradigmatic “liberal democratic” society, shaped most by the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Rese...
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Robert L. Tsai@robertltsai.bsky.social · 10h agoSkeleton key accounts of history fall short
New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
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Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h agoThere’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore
the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.
“A p-value is the most widespread statistical concept that is not definable in a single sentence“ CHECKMATE
Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · yesterdayStop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
As a 90s kid it is almost impossible to imagine The Shredder in NYC being a good guy and yet…
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 19h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
"Domestic drama" is an interesting way to describe horrific sexual violence and child abuse.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 9h agoA domestic drama involving a House lawmaker and his former father-in-law, a U.S. senator, has shocked Capitol Hill and prompted escalating accusations with both personal and political consequences.
a banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/
