Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025More information on shortest splitline: - rangevoting.org/GerryExec.html - rangevoting.org/GerryExample... - rangevoting.org/SplitLR.htmlrangevoting.org RangeVoting.org - Splitline districtings of all 50 states + DC + PR 010
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025If Governor Newsom sees through his announced plan to put such a gerrymandering measure on the ballot for the consideration of California voters, I will vote against it. 110
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025What he should *not* do is pull California further along the path that Texas is pursuing and exacerbate a political cancer which already erodes public confidence in institutions in many other states (Republican-run and Democrat-run alike). 100
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I have written the governor -- along with my state assemblymember and state senator -- to advocate this. If he pursues this course, he will demonstrate the sort of bold leadership he is seeking to project. Absent that, he should leave our non-partisan redistricting commission as is. 100
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025If Governor Newsom wishes to make a *real* challenge to Texas' gerrymandering, he should make the ballot proposition he'll put before voters an opportunity for California to adopt the shortest splitline method of electoral district drawing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUS9...youtube.comThe Shortest-Splitline Algorithm: a Gerrymandering Solution [Bonus Video]YouTube video by CGP Grey 110
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025For those aghast at CBS’ choice to cancel @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, know that CBS has history with #censorship. During the Vietnam War, Tommy & Dickie Smothers routinely battled with the network over The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. @stephencolbert.bsky.social stands in legendary company. 010
Reposted by Ian McCulloughshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/06/2025headline construction masterclass 466282096723
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Right now, NBA executives are sobbing at the lower forecast for Finals ad revenue. 110
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It’s The Running Man. youtu.be/g_QHzV3NVPk?...youtu.beThe Running Man (1987) Trailer #1 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard DawsonYouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers 040
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Alcatraz isn’t going to reopen and there isn’t going to be a 100% tariff on “foreign made movies.” Notice, though, how by saying some new batshit crazy things that President Trump has shifted media headlines away from whether or not he believes in Constitutionally-guaranteed rights to due process. 010
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Coverage of the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has gravitated towards his biography and what he’s done and alleged to have done during his life. All of that is irrelevant to the current situation. The only seven words that matter right now are: • “Checks and balances” • “Court orders” • “Due process” 24510
Reposted by Ian McCulloughEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18/04/2025You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately. 137198415766
Reposted by Ian McCulloughFeral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 23/03/2025If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...ohchr.orgReporting a disappearance to the Working Group 5646512
Reposted by Ian McCulloughPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so. 366107453827
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025His unshakable fixation on tariffs as a federal government revenue stream are nothing more complicated than the fact that he will do anything and everything he can to not pay income tax. He simply can’t see beyond that. Don’t look for anything deeper. 010
Reposted by Ian McCullough60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/202560 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4clubLPcbsn.wsTrump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El SalvadorA gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. 384122935774
Reposted by Ian McCulloughDEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 07/04/2025We're just disappearing people into a black site slave labor camp because they look a certain way and speak Spanish. That's what people around the world will think of when they think about America and Americans. 042
Reposted by Ian McCulloughRick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Have I mentioned the cover-up is worse than the crime? Because the cover-up is worse than the crime. 593155922731
Reposted by Ian McCulloughVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/03/2025these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point 382769852
Reposted by Ian McCulloughAnna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 19/03/2025Jackie’s name was big enough to be restored. The many others who were removed, with the same justification, will not get the same attention. And that’s the problem. 141875590
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The fact that competitive sports — a decidedly extracurricular activity — has become weaponized against academic institutions that acknowledge and affirm that trans people exist seems to suggest that the problem isn’t trans people. The problem is competitive sports tied to academic institutions. 000
Reposted by Ian McCulloughWilli Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This is really cool. It helps you find games based on your accessibility needs or preferences. For instance, I prefer single-player games that allow me to resize subtitles. I tested it to see if it would find games I already play and love, and it's done a fairly decent job. #VideoGamesAccessibility 032
Reposted by Ian McCulloughHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free. 237128722309
Reposted by Ian McCulloughHà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The way to build hope is by creating norms for empathy, belonging and safety. Sometimes that means speaking up bc you don’t get to say that you are empathetic by tolerating toxicity. 0294
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The McMahon family will produce the 2028 election, which will be decided by cage match at Capitol One Arena in D.C. Just wait until Kamala goes John Cena on Gavin! 000
Reposted by Ian McCulloughJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogynymilitary.comNo More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by MenDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint... 10373058110751
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The sitting President of the United States of America has gifted the Communist Party of China unrivaled global influence and gifted a former KGB agent the functional dissolution of NATO. As a child of the 1980s, the cognitive dissonance is dizzying. 000
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Research work I was involved with at my former job: www.turnitin.com/instructiona...turnitin.comWhere to next? | TurnitinLearn why Where to next? feedback has the greatest impact on student growth and how to implement it in the classroom 110
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025WE ARE MICROSOFT TEAMS. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.media.tenor.coma glowing object in the dark is surrounded by red cloudsALT: a glowing object in the dark is surrounded by red clouds 010
Reposted by Ian McCulloughSarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy 41467403484
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Trump can kill the key deal between USPS and Amazon, crank up tariffs further on lines of Amazon-sold goods, set regulations that kill AWS globally, and make sure that Blue Origin rockets never see a launchpad. A capricious President and a conflicted owner means WaPo can’t offer independent insight. 000
Reposted by Ian McCulloughProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2025Who owns our newsroom? No one. ProPublica is a fiercely independent nonprofit. Not even our board or our donors know what we’re working on until it’s published. We are powered by 70,000 of you and counting. Join us: propub.li/4ih6dmJ 6453261042
Reposted by Ian McCulloughKurt Wagner @kurtwagner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025New: Ex-Twitter workers keep winning severance claims against Elon Musk. Employees are 20 for 20 so far in getting full severance from Musk via arbitration, including four people who were laid off after the "Fork in the Road" ultimatum www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comMusk’s Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ EmailFormer Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company in 2022. 6844391179
Reposted by Ian McCulloughAmanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...nbcnews.comHouse Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cutsA number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government. 36424801077
Reposted by Ian McCulloughSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/02/2025Yes we are.media.tenor.coma man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .ALT: a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies . 2162
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I was also approaching the line of thought from the perspective of “What would most cis folks — especially those spreading transphobia — absolutely object to if their gender identity was called into question?” 2160
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025That is very true. I guess my understanding is that in the “bathroom battles” those who ignore that trans people exist are ultimately focused on external anatomy. I wasn’t being mindful of AMAB/AFAB who’ve transitioned and are facing demagoguery starting with sports participation. Please pardon me 1220
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Rather than being oblique about chromosomes and gender markers, let’s say it aloud: penises and labias. The question on the form should be exactly that: “When an armed agent of the United States Government forces you to take off all of your clothes, will they see a penis or a labia?” 1441
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The logical conclusion of this policy is that all international travelers to the United States must apply in person so that they can be strip searched and have their genitalia inspected. 3591
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Richard Hofstader’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics from 1964 seems an essential read. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Par...en.m.wikipedia.orgThe Paranoid Style in American Politics - Wikipedia 010
Ian McCullough @ianmmc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025President Trump is simultaneously increasing consumer prices by imposing tariffs and increasing unemployment by canceling Federal contracts and laying off workers. We’re headed straight for painful stagflation. 010
Reposted by Ian McCulloughAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/02/2025going back in time to tell myself this image is going to end the human race 172124241582
Reposted by Ian McCulloughJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/02/2025The Oregon Trail generation speaks 153134111550
Reposted by Ian McCulloughChalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 14/02/2025Michigan’s superintendent says Trump’s ‘equity ideology’ executive order won’t change state policy www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025/02/1…chalkbeat.orgMichigan Department of Education says Trump’s executive order won’t prompt state policy changesSuperintendent of Public Instruction Michael Rice said the state’s curriculum standards won’t change to exclude “equity ideology.” 13211
