Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 3hMildly ironic that the Pittsburgh-est guy ever is most closely associated with Chicago 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026GOPs are pulling $ out of races in Trump states like NC and GA, while Trump sits on half a billion dollars in campaign cash. 1100
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Measles Are Great Again! I wonder whether people would be so cavalier if Measles had a scarier name like "Blood Blisters." 011
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026At this point in the year pollsters have not fully transitioned from being thinkers to short order cooks, and there are some vertiginous shifts within the day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2hX...m.youtube.comCello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: II. Allegro scherzandoYouTube video by Jean-Guihen Queyras - Topic 021
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Chart by @aedwardslevy.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/p... 030
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's also too late to really get credit for doing anything. Gotta just rely on the $ and the negative to carry the load at this point. 020
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Onion nailed it (15 years ago) theonion.com/tea-party-co...theonion.comTea Party Congressman Calls For Tax Breaks To Put Out Raging Wildfire In DistrictWASHINGTON—With a massive wildfire currently raging out of control in his district, Tea Party Caucus member Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) pressed Congress to pass immediate tax breaks Tuesday to combat the... 040
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026To put it another way, Republicans have a problem you can't just message your way out of. 120
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They've tried their one policy trick already, and they won't oppose the policies people think are driving up their costs, so GOPs are left with attacks on trans kids and cheerleading an economy people think sucks. 110
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They could en masse stand up to Trump, forcing a rollback of tariffs and an end to the war. 130
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Republicans did tax cuts bigly last year, promising everyone great economic growth, so they have already tried their One Neat Trick. 120
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When is the last time Republicans offered a policy solution other than tax cuts or deregulation? rollcall.com/2026/10/07/r...rollcall.comRepublicans need to make a solutions-based argumentWhen the Iran conflict began last spring, many were predicting the election would come down to only a narrow set of congressional districts. But every day that we get closer to Nov. 3, the already lar... 161
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Football / sports would have made more sense as part of the explanation in the 1990s when the college was half the size it is now. Not so much at ~7,500 undergrads. 010
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Eva Marie Saint had two kids under the age of 4 when she shot North by Northwest. 010
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hey @mollyknight.bsky.social has Rojas always worn a Van Cleef & Arpels necklace? 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026His brand of evangelicalism, radical at the time, feels almost quaint at this point. 110
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Jim Bakker was ubiquitous on Virginia television when I was a kid. I used an image of him and Tammy Faye for years as my profile pic. 100
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The only garment I have ever owned that was / will ever be described as "iconic" by RuPaul. 141
Reposted by Jeff LisztMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle. 210514
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They alternately make him invulnerable and incompetent in order to keep the plot moving. It's frustrating. 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My kids run around like Navin R. Johnson when the new issue of The Week Junior arrives 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026MTA is reliable only in being the worst www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/05/t...nydailynews.comThe MTA is blocking a new Penn StationSince taking on the Penn Station Transformation Project, I’ve spoken with thousands of New Yorkers and visitors. People are quick to point out the dated station’s obvious shortcomings: the narrow and ... 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh (originally reported by WaPo) www.engadget.com/2275315/flor...engadget.comFlorida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners - EngadgetSt. Lucie County thought it had 52 Flock cameras, but found many more that were unaccounted for and unpermitted. 010
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hard to believe a YouTube gun influencer would have this attitude towards women. Will be interesting to see whether TX23 voters care. 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What it definitively solves is a much smaller-bore problem: runoff elections are expensive to conduct, and low turnout. 110
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026First off, RCV is a massive pain in the ass for pollsters so if people don't want it that's fine with me! I helped pass it in NYC but it is absolutely NOT a panacea. It helps with, but does not solve, any of those problems. 100
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anyone who complains about a paywall is saying they don't care about the quality of the information they ingest. 010
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Okay, here are some problems with our current system: 1) Voters are bombarded with negative ads instead of hearing about substance 2) Candidates can easily write off too many constituencies, especially communities of color 3) The whole world got fucked by protest votes for Ralph Nader 100
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The main arguments for RCV are: 1) discourages negative campaigning 2) forces broader coalition building 3) allows people to express themselves without throwing away their votes on protest candidates 120
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I keep wondering whether Willis was at the Hawks game, and that was going to be the payoff. 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Molly Murphy, one of the most powerful women in DC washingtonian.com/2026/09/30/m...washingtonian.comMost Powerful Women in Washington 2026The influential women shaping politics, business, law, media, education, nonprofits, the arts, and more across the region. 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Punishing models that mention cheating in their chains of thought teaches them to keep their intentions hidden from researcher" 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Correct, they're not at odds. They're just the same as they have been for years, and they're the underpinnings of bipartisan immigration legislation that still can't get anywhere close to the finish line. 100
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also majority support, incl about half of Dems, for voter ID (double face palm) 000
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Odds and ends from our survey for WSJ: majority support for "stopping illegal immigration at the border" and "pathway to citizenship for long-term immigrants who contribute to their communities" (face palm) 320
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Higher taxes on the wealthy and even more price caps? Check and check. 010
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Government selling cheaper Rx direct to customer? Sure thing! 120
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tl;dr: Americans hate Socialism (the word) but are cool with a lot of Socialism (policy). www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political LabelsA new Wall Street Journal survey finds broad support for caps on prescription drug prices and strong border security. 191
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I suspect anything J6 is a base motivation play and not really intended to persuade, but the GOP staffer class is so terminally online that who knows 061
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm not being paid by @kwcollins.bsky.social to say this, but it's a good idea to have TTW in the mix. 041
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, the point about non-probability panel sample was a more general one. But we saw in our September data that some modes are showing more nonresponse bias in favor of Ds than they were earlier in the year. 270