Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
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oh come on
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December 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
oh come on
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Good case from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com for impeaching Pete Hegseth. A key point raised here is that we shouldn't ever assume anything is politically out of reach. Think big and it shapes a better form of opposition politics:
www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Good case from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com for impeaching Pete Hegseth. A key point raised here is that we shouldn't ever assume anything is politically out of reach. Think big and it shapes a better form of opposition politics:
www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
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NEW IN: The DOJ is expanding its effort to gain access to sensitive voter data in 18 states, most of them Democratic-led. This is the first instance in which the U.S. Department of Justice has requested physical ballots. trib.al/3i7SatM
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
NEW IN: The DOJ is expanding its effort to gain access to sensitive voter data in 18 states, most of them Democratic-led. This is the first instance in which the U.S. Department of Justice has requested physical ballots. trib.al/3i7SatM
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ICYMI, new piece/thread from me on the remarkable new turn in the Abrego Garcia case. Everyone should read the judge's latest ruling. It goes deep. It neatly captures the essential lawlessness and state terror of the Trump era:
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
ICYMI, new piece/thread from me on the remarkable new turn in the Abrego Garcia case. Everyone should read the judge's latest ruling. It goes deep. It neatly captures the essential lawlessness and state terror of the Trump era:
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This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
mynbc15.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
“The benefits of serving have never been more appealing” hmm what about all those times where they hadn’t recently purged top JAGs to help clear the way for war crimes?
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.
To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.
Opinion | America’s Military Needs a Culture Shift
The benefits of serving have never been more appealing, but the Pentagon needs a better approach to recruiting new talent.
nyti.ms
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“The benefits of serving have never been more appealing” hmm what about all those times where they hadn’t recently purged top JAGs to help clear the way for war crimes?
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DOGE never happened, apparently
December 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
DOGE never happened, apparently
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“In 2029, we will pass a law retroactively annulling all presidential pardons for crimes that directly benefited the president and his administration. And we will not permit the corrupt Supreme Court to stop us from seeking justice.”
Trump and admin lawyers know Pete Hegseth and others in the chain of command on the boat bombings are legally vulnerable. Adding to this from @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social, the Trump Murder Memo "justifying" the bombings also makes this clear:
zeteo.com/p/trump-is-a...
zeteo.com/p/trump-is-a...
Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“In 2029, we will pass a law retroactively annulling all presidential pardons for crimes that directly benefited the president and his administration. And we will not permit the corrupt Supreme Court to stop us from seeking justice.”
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The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I understand why NY Public Health is doing this, but I think it has the potential to compound long-term damage by branding the CDC as unreliable, when it's the GOP that deserves the label.
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I understand why NY Public Health is doing this, but I think it has the potential to compound long-term damage by branding the CDC as unreliable, when it's the GOP that deserves the label.
He looks like the weird cowboy in Mulholland Drive
December 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
He looks like the weird cowboy in Mulholland Drive
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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This is fascism
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is fascism
What I post from
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What I post from
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Julia Garner/Jenna Ortega gender-swapped Heat remake
Al Pacino is the ultimate "he's a little dude but you never think of him as little" actor because (at his best) he has the heart of a f***** lion. That's how I feel about Julia Garner. I've texted this before, but she is this generation's Pacino: the world's tiniest volcano.
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Julia Garner/Jenna Ortega gender-swapped Heat remake
Hey Sarah Isgur may be helping the Supreme Court maintain power as they shred the Constitution but at least she also helped enable mass-scale child separation that thousands of families will never recover from
Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hey Sarah Isgur may be helping the Supreme Court maintain power as they shred the Constitution but at least she also helped enable mass-scale child separation that thousands of families will never recover from
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This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.
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A year ago, our lawsuits helped make sure congestion pricing would go into effect on January 1, 2025. Now, the results are clear:
Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.
Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.
Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone.
Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs.
e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...
Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs.
e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution
e360.yale.edu
December 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A year ago, our lawsuits helped make sure congestion pricing would go into effect on January 1, 2025. Now, the results are clear:
Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.
Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.
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Gore would've almost certainly won if the entire state recounted with the same standards for every county.
Note: The SCOTUS decision doesn't seem likely to have affected Gore's chances of winning, despite most of the focus on that decision.
Note: The SCOTUS decision doesn't seem likely to have affected Gore's chances of winning, despite most of the focus on that decision.
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Gore would've almost certainly won if the entire state recounted with the same standards for every county.
Note: The SCOTUS decision doesn't seem likely to have affected Gore's chances of winning, despite most of the focus on that decision.
Note: The SCOTUS decision doesn't seem likely to have affected Gore's chances of winning, despite most of the focus on that decision.
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"striking effectiveness of the Republican effort to prevent local election officials from applying election law equally to all Florida citizens."
"680 of the overseas absentee ballots were illegally counted"
"680 of the overseas absentee ballots were illegally counted"
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"striking effectiveness of the Republican effort to prevent local election officials from applying election law equally to all Florida citizens."
"680 of the overseas absentee ballots were illegally counted"
"680 of the overseas absentee ballots were illegally counted"
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Reminder on the anniversary: the best social science evidence we have suggests Florida Republicans stole the 2000 election.
"Did Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?" Kosuke Imai and Gary King
gking.harvard.edu/files/ballot...
"Did Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?" Kosuke Imai and Gary King
gking.harvard.edu/files/ballot...
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reminder on the anniversary: the best social science evidence we have suggests Florida Republicans stole the 2000 election.
"Did Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?" Kosuke Imai and Gary King
gking.harvard.edu/files/ballot...
"Did Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?" Kosuke Imai and Gary King
gking.harvard.edu/files/ballot...