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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We're excited for Monday and hosting the first in our series of 4 lunch-time briefings in Sacramento. Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/preventing... #CaLeg

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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You're invited! Join us on Friday, October 30th for a lunchtime briefing to hear about new research on older workers in California and discuss the path forward for policymakers. A moderated panel and Q&A session will follow. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/preparing-...

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Deep dive into the past. As a kid I thought this was the funniest show I’d ever seen—was so disappointed when it was cancelled. The movies only partly made up for it.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 29/09/2026

Huge congrats to the brilliant economist and historian Ellora Derenoncourt, one of this year's MacArthur Fellows!

Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/09/2026

he is (For so I know he is, they know he is) A most arch-heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Census Bureau says it found 24k noncitizens who voted in 2020. Here's the issue.⁣ ⁣ It's hard match citizenship and voter records perfectly, especially when some records are missing SSNs. ⁣ ⁣ We cover it in today's substack: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?

A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.

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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Skilled programmer who is passionate about improving policy and programs in California? So are we! Join the California Policy Lab's UC Berkeley site as our next Senior Data Analyst. First review is Aug 27th. capolicylab.org/careers/seni...

Senior Data Analyst
UC Berkeley site
We’re hiring a skilled programmer who:

Wants to inform policy development and improvements in California

Is fluent in multiple programming languages

Is experienced with large administrative datasets

First review date is August 27th

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Choices: You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand what you voted for, or You’re a complicit cynic who fully understands what you voted for and are hoping your constituents fall, yet again, for the disappointed moderate routine. Either choice, it’s time to retire.

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m certain I got measles (and nearly died) and my sisters did not bc of both state-level school vax requirements and parent overwhelm. I had other shots—it’s unclear how I slipped through the cracks, but it’s certain my shots predated MMR, and its availability would have saved me some grief.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

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LumenARRT! @lumenarrt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our dove flies in Biddeford. Mainers deserve to live and work in peace. ICE out!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wrote about Mitch McConnell’s monthlong disappearance, and the absurdities of elite impunity that allowed it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Mitch McConnell mystery is solved. But it doesn’t look good for America | Moira Donegan

The senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one’s job in the US Senate

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

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Live updates: King calls for transparent investigation after Biddeford man killed in ICE-involved shooting

Protests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S.

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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"And so we saw a window here to really make a difference and bring new data to bear to this question." Prof. Till von was interviewed on the Takeout with Major Garrett about the new California AI Unemployment Tracker (CAIT): www.cbsnews.com/video/califo... #AI

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California's AI job tracker finds no early evidence of unemployment from AI

California now has the nation's first dashboard to publicly track artificial intelligence-related job trends, ones created and ones lost. As of now, early findings show no evidence of rising statewide...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 19/06/2026

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary via www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

A Sankey diagram showing how votes from Troy Jackson, Shenna Bellows, and Angus King III contributed to Hannah Pingree’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary for the gubernatorial race, even though Nirav Shah had more votes than Pingree in the first round of voting

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/06/2026

"I might have been guilty of some runaway self-indulgence from time to time. I mean, I used to literally drink pearls and once declared war on Neptune. But is America really going to sully its iconic symbol of democracy with Dana White’s CTE speedrun machine?"

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I am Emperor Caligula, and Even I Think the White House UFC Event is a Bit Much

“I know this might seem surprising coming from me. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no stranger to bread and circuses. But considering that the price of bread is ...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/06/2026

I have never been retroactively madder about a federal government shutdown than when I realized today that the 2025 October supplement to the CPS was never administered, eliminating a key source of data about college enrollment patterns last fall. 😡

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Have you seen a total eclipse before? Can attest they are mind-blowing.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax

Silicon Valley’s growth over recent decades has made California rich — and one of the most unequal places in America.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How dare they not cast someone born from a swan’s (er, Zeus’s) rape of a Grecian queen and hatched from an egg?

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Huh. Portland Press Herald's typically sycophantic, power-coddling columnist goes rogue and spells out the ugly truth about who Susan Collins has become. Didn't see that coming. (Try to look past -- or at least hold your nose during-- the Joe Lieberman encomiums.) #MEpolitics

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Susan Collins no longer even pretends to be a moderate | Steve Collins

Maine’s senior senator once held up the late Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecuticut Democrat, as a role model. I knew Lieberman, and I know Collins falls well short of his commitment to centrist politics.

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tell me you never worked in a restaurant without saying you never worked in a restaurant.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan

Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in

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LD @velouriaaa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Man Murders Eight Children seems like a more accurate headline and doesn’t speculate that anyone else may bear responsibility in his motive. A fight didn’t kill them. He did.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A Wegmans is a terrible place, where the management has moved everything since your last visit, the exits—casino like—are hidden from view, the many sample trays are cesspools of semilethal microorganisms, and all customers but you are tranced out center aisle with a cart 3X as large as needed.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If you’re in Sacramento on April 9th, come to our 12-1pm lunch panel to hear new insights on this research and what it means for California policy. eventbrite.com/e/priced-out... (9/9) END

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Priced Out: New data on who's leaving California

New California Policy Lab research shows who's leaving California, where they go, and whether it pays off.

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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

NEWS: We’re releasing new research today on who is leaving California, where they go, and what happens to their finances after they move. capolicylab.org/priced-out-r... 🧵(1/9)

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Priced Out: Relocation Amidst California’s Affordability Crisis - California Policy Lab

Using unique data, this report shows who is moving out of California, where they move to, and whether it pays off.

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Congrats! I am from Maine and lived in Brunswick from 2019 to this past October. It’s a fantastic town.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Last summer, a restaurant coworker from the early 90s told me he still played the folk music tape I made for him 30 years ago. A proud moment.

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Elect a clown, expect clown shoes.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2026

[Exit Murderer.]

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

She got her start mimicking Olympia Snowe and claiming her hero is Margaret Chase Smith. A look at her voting record shows she’s a right wing radical who opportunistically switches position if her vote isn’t critical. MCS rolls over in her grave any time someone calls Collins a principled moderate.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2026

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10/02/2026

🤡

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

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Maggie R. Jones @maggierjones.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Good grief. As a Mainer, I was ready to stan, but that just made me uncomfortable and kinda nauseated.

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