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A.J. Million

@ajmillion.bsky.social
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Washed-up D2 runner, information scientist, U-M research faculty, criminology data archive director, and girl (2x) dad. Thoughts are my own.

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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We'll get on it.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
ok what are we actually doin here
A can of Mountain Dew with added red, white and blue colors, mystifyingly identified as “American Dew”
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Trump admin drops court fight on 15% IDC www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t...
statnews.com
Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs
The Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its fight to slash NIH support for research indirect costs
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The moment he started talking about Sewer Socalism is the moment I started paying attention. He's being way more thoughtful than I expected.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Who needs Heated Rivalry when you have this?
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I have seen the future, and it's one where information scientists define "information" as increasingly diverse types of mediated objects. Documents are so over. doi.org/10.1002/asi....
doi.org
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.
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Angel of the Ozarks @angeloftheozarks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"What if your hero is in the Epstein Files?" No way in hell Dolly Parton is in the Epstein Files.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Al Gore heckling the Commerce Secretary is peak 2026.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Cold War ended and they replaced the USSR with Democrats and liberalism as their enemy.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Canada takes the stage. Given the circumstances, I'd say thst he is overperforming for a political newcomer.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Anyone who doesn't pay fealty to the mad king is an enemy. Fuck these clowns.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Yup.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Second, everyday life is still pretty normal here. It's the exceptions that send off alarm bells. Things are good until suddenly they arent.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
An observation (or two) from down south. First, y'all have responded well. I see a level of social cohesion that reminds me of the U.S. in the 30s. People either rise to the moment or they don't, and so far, you have.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Modern day speculators.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
FWIW, he's openly acknowledged that the best proof of his ideas and governing philosophy is when they succeed. He may be a socialist, but he's sending signals that he's also a pragmatist.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
That or this administration is plain nuts.
media.tenor.com
the joker is wearing a purple suit and making a funny face while standing in a dark room .
ALT: the joker is wearing a purple suit and making a funny face while standing in a dark room .
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
There's a reason. The cultural conservatives here don't want international openness, because if there is, they know that the country will change. I honestly think they want us a little isolated.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I second this. ❤️🇺🇸 ❌️🍊
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My wife is Canadian. I asked her about some old cannons pointing across the Detroit river a few years ago. She stayed quiet. 😂
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
An enterprising left-leaning politician might find a way to work with evangelicals to regulate the industry across-the-board. But doing that would require leadership.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The Trump administration has said it was improving the SSA. A year in, it looks like the mess that everyone else predicted. Not enough staff, manipulation of numbers and declining performance. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The troubled disability benefits system is also deteriorating after some improvement, with 66 percent of disability appointments scheduled within 28 days as of December — down from nearly 90 percent earlier in the year, data shows.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Exhibit A in why the Democrats are completely feckless. Franken resigned over indiscretions that look trivial compared to those of Trump, when all he needed to do was say, "I'll resign when he does." If you're gonna self-immolate, then make some good come from it.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The President is relying on the same legal theory for attacking Venezuela as he is for deploying US troops in American cities. Let that sink in.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Movement conservatism is an oxymoron. The moment that American conservatives started to act like insurgents and revolutionaries and reformers, they stopped caring about what the public wants.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
They're gonna win, aren't they?
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The world got mean this year, but I'm still standing. Is that the best you got?!
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Are the artists who cancel boycotting themselves? 🤣
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Something that suprized in 2025 was the maximalist Canadian response to the Trump administration. What didn't suprize me was how little my countrymen understand our neighbors.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The problem with picking a fight is that you can lose it.
wired.com
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Looking at the historic reduction in US homicides from many angles. I appreciate the Real-Time Crime Index data - 12-month rolling trends for 570 cities 2018-2025. But this graph from U Chicago Crime Lab made me appreciate what Baltimore and St Louis have accomplished from their peak to 2025.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The past is never the present. If you want to accomplish something, you need a clear-eyed understanding of the world as it is, not as you think or hope it is. This has been Progressives' biggest failure during the Trump years.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This is some insane shit from Bari Weiss
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I grew up in her hometown. Her mom is a conservative activist who defended J6ers.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thrilled to share my most recent paper examining the information needs of firearm injury-prevention researchers. Our takeaway? Supporting these people requires knowing what data they need to "do" research, but to determine that, we have to support their work. doi.org/10.5334/dsj-...
doi.org
Information Needs and Data Harmonization—Two Sides of the Same Coin? | Data Science Journal
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Brown Internationale know they gotta stick together. 🙄
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com
Edward Ongweso Jr
@bigblackjacobin
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Almost certainly the greatest misallocation of capital you or I will ever see. There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born.
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@MosesSternstein • 11h
Al-Capex is the everything cycle, now
Just under 50% of GDP growth is attributable to Al Capex
US real GDP growth contribution from tech capex
Percent
3.5%
Contribution from tech capex
3.0%
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Contribution from rest of economy
1.0%
0.5% -
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
youtu.be/6gITdGoKpSw?...
youtu.be
55 BURGERS 55 FRIES (just the order)
YouTube video by areyousorrynow
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is exactly what is/will happen. When you strip ideology away, you're left with the practical parts of politics, and those matter too.
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
No. But his prior association will help him have it both ways, unlike Cuomo.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A nice piece by @johnkubale.bsky.social and @maggielevenstein.bsky.social about federal statistical data.
theconversation.com
Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I've been thinking a lot about the difference between doing a "search" and doing "research" and how that works with conspiracy theory/lies to control our public sphere. Here's an old thread from 2023
Tweet from 2023. Text reads: "A thing that's interesting is how "do your own research" on the internet has changed how we understand truth, knowledge, science, and facts. I talk about this with my students a lot, maybe it's a useful thing to think about."
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A.J. Million @ajmillion.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
That's exactly it.
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