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Jay Lee

@jayleetx.com
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Democracy + Elections @sightline.org (views my own) ... plus #rstats, data viz, mapping, bikes, NYC, whatever else I'm into this week

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My methods training was okay to good but it definitely left me with the impression that analysis was something like 80% estimating 15% presentation 5% wrangling and it’s actually 96% wrangling
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Did you make that image for the anti-communist club fundraising email?" "Sure did, boss, and made sure to use red, too!"
An image that appears in a fundraising email of Donald Trump holding a red card with "Anti Communist Club" in white letters.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
i'm troubled by the election results coming out of new york city tonight. i firmly believe that no one should ever do anything
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 20/06/2026
big things happening in groups G and H
2026 World Cup standings table for groups G and H, showing one draw, no wins, no losses for all eight teams
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 17/06/2026
Metro areas like Houston & Phoenix grew at a much faster rate overall, than regions like New York & Washington DC. But this was not the case in those regions' already developed neighborhoods. There, the New York & DC regions grew *more quickly* than the equivalent areas in Houston & Phoenix!
Percent change in housing units, 2000 to 2020, by tract density in 2000, 20 largest US metropolitan areas.
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Football is here Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
i'm fine with people choosing bicycles as a primary mode of transportation. in fact, there are lots of benefits to doing so. all i'd ask is that they run a gas generator or something for a couple hours a day to fulfill their commitment to the carbon footprint
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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hey, during my sabbatical I made a podcast! It’s a one-shot miniseries about what happened after the world’s most ambitious upzoning campaign won. Here’s the trailer; episodes coming weekly all through June & July. You can subscribe on Apple/Spotify/etc. rss.com/podcasts/yim...
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YIMBY Country | Podcast on RSS.com
In 2021, the nation of New Zealand announced the YIMBY rapture.In the country's five largest cities, you would be allowed to build up to eight-story buildings anywhere within a 10-minute walk of mass ...
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Kate Macfarlane @katemacfarlane.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We can’t stop people from moving to the Puget Sound region. We can make policy choices to minimize the environmental impacts of growth. In the Seattle Comp Plan, that means legalizing urban infill. Build up, not out. Seattle doesn’t have room to sprawl, but other cities in the region sure can.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
maybe i'm too YIMBY brained but it kinda feels like everything with AI is getting channeled through data centers because "cancelling construction projects" is unfortunately the most effective form of state capacity we have rn
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 03/06/2026
the dream of the 1890s will one day be alive in california
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amb @amb.fyi · 03/06/2026
the secret it to never drive a car in Seattle and visit in June when there’s approximately twenty hours of daylight and the orca whales are waving to you while you’re on the bus
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Paying attention to local politics means you will regularly feel the level of burning hatred most people feel for war criminals, but directed toward a real estate agent who keeps voting against library funding
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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ahoy housing wonks in Alaska and BC! Sightline is hiring part-time contributors to help advance housing abundance in these two corners of Cascadia. Please spread the word! www.sightline.org/about/careers/
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Al Vanderklipp @alvanderklipp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ranked choice voting elevates candidates who speak to the broadest swath of voters. In the 2022 contests for AK's US House seat, that was Mary Peltola. In 2024, it was Nick Begich. It really is that simple. New analysis of ballot data from myself and @jayleetx.com for @sightline.org below. ⬇️
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 04/05/2026
Top 10 neighborhoods by housing density added, 2020–25: 1—Greenpoint waterfront Brooklyn 2—East Harlem Manhattan 3—Navy Yard DC 4—Downtown Brooklyn 5—Hunters Pt Queens 6—Journal Sq Jersey City 7—Lower E Side Manhattan 8—The Drag Austin 9—Downtown Jersey City 10—LI City Queens
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“After enduring nearly a century of systematic resistance to the Fifteenth Amendment,” the Chief Justice wrote, “Congress might well decide to shift the advantage of time and inertia from the perpetrators of the evil to its victims.”
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
we’re not going to know in the moment but someday we are going to live through the last oil supply crisis in human history
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 15/04/2026
Best Ever Death Metal Band, Chavo Guerrero, Psalms 40:2
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Come work with me!
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
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well it’s dan @danbe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
NEW VIDEO: North America’s Elevator’s Problem Elevators are absolutely essential to modern cities..... and it turns out North America kind of sucks at them. We partnered with @sightline.org to look into the many issues plaguing our elevator industry, and what it might take to fix it.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
day one in mamdani’s new york
a guy wearing a “i ❤️ ny” cap reading the qur’an in one hand and the communist manifesto in the other
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
maybe the greatest pitch frame in baseball history
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Price those curbs! 👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 25/11/2025
Any pro tips on the calendar-at-home? I've been using a notebook calendar and recently struggled with a) not knowing my future availability while out of the house and b) accidentally double-booking myself 😶‍🌫️
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 24/11/2025
Exciting new research that demonstrates how localities in the same metropolitan area have wildly varying tax bases—which go on to have a huge impact on the ability to provide services. Rich towns can collect more taxes, give themselves better services, and reinforce inequality.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
the two types of part time state legislator: - retired dentist - part time employee of a progressive nonprofit both of these end up having distinct problems!
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 06/11/2025
I think the statute of limitations on those should be equal to the time since the election in question
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 06/11/2025
Nice work! Any idea if that upper left tail of Cuomo/Yes precincts is the same precincts as the upper right tail of Cuomo/Harris precincts in your earlier viz? bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 23/10/2025
I just got mine in the mail! Absolutely fascinating/unsurprising how hard the Council is going against these. I've also been getting a ton of youtube ads from the charter commission, but those stop at "affordable housing is important, flip your ballot over and vote on the measures" (not vote "for")
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is the lesson of 2025
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 03/10/2025
"If you set different rules, people will change how they play the game." Thanks to those who made it to yesterday's *Hot Seat* w researcher Shannon Grimes! Our latest democracy and elections work/quips/analysis are always available via newsletter: sightline.org/newsletters
A group of people in discussion, seated in a colorful classroom
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 04/10/2025
temporarily? what do you know that I don't
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Just learned: It's so easy to sort strings that are numbers in proper numerical order with the {stringr} #Rstats 📦's `str_sort()` function and numeric = TRUE!! x <- c("8", "10", "1", "40") str_sort(x, numeric = TRUE) [1] "1" "8" "10" "40"
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 30/09/2025
okay bad wording I've heard the news I'm looking for shows etc while I'm back in town
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 30/09/2025
going to Portland this week! what's going on?
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Jay Lee @jayleetx.com · 18/09/2025
And the STUDENTS are going??? Apparently SA can just make students do anything during the school day!! If only there were some sort of oversight structure that could increase standards for charter schools...
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
sometimes when you're very overdue on doing laundry, your only shirts available are your worst shirt, for obvious reasons, and your favorite shirt, which you have reserved in case of emergency. this is known as the Launderer's Paradox and may result in you wearing your favorite shirt to walgreens
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