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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 8h

Which is to say, all of us

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9h

It’s time to abandon the idea of chasing after “swing voters.”

We gotta start targeting the angry. Those who have been failed by the system. Those who are being screwed every day despite giving it their all.

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 8h

At this point, between this garbage, the Argentina stuff and American Flag Swatstika guy (plus don’t forget ICE) I can say that I am worried that we’re only at the beginning of how awful this is going to get

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 13h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 13h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 13h

Important update: the Sprouts Market near me has cinnamon pecans in bulk that taste like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and they're gonna need to back a truck up to my house and dump about 2 tons of it or I'm gonna get real cranky

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 13h

This is the heart of Project 2025 (yes I know you already know...)

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13h

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 14h

The only rally in DC that erupted into chaos and violence in my [40+ yr] memory was the one that took place on January 6, 2001

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 14h

I really think we’re feeling the full force of the pent up racist rage of 8 years of Obama + DEI + MeToo + Biden. That is to say, Trump 2.0 has fully opened the door to what I hoped had disappeared. Unfortunately it just got worse

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 1d

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 14h

What is the need for teargas anyway, other than these fascists signing up just to throw teargas canisters at brown people.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 1d

"When two measurements have been made, it is natural to think of analysing the first, and the difference between second and first. These indices are not independent, however, and to treat them as independent is to introduce spurious correlations into the results." (Oldham 1962)

Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 1d

Stats quiz! There are 4967 questions covering the data collection period from 1877 to the present day. Let's get started!

Q1: What's wrong with this graph 🤔

For context, these are 10 patients with spinal cord injury tested before & after transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (TSCS)

#stats

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

This sucks too, because these are great data sources for teaching as well as research. So not only did this kneecap the surveillance mechanism for health, it’s also going to have trickle down effects for the next generation of public health professionals

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

In some ways that’s worse than just being a total douchebag

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

I love that the person believed they were being helpful. Who are these people that have the audacity to say this crap!?! (…sigh, I already know…)

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

ALSO mastering the basics so that you’re not a Data Scientist who throws a computer vision pipeline at a problem where logistic regression will do

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! Coding is thinking. My new rule of thumb: Use a LLM only to write code to do things that either are low priority or that I don’t have time to do and wouldn’t have done without LLM (while assuming the generated code is only 80% right).

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