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Sally Hudson

@sallylhudson.bsky.social
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economist // former Charlottesville state rep 🏛️ // UVa prof // election reform 🇺🇸 // I write about bright lights for democracy ✨

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dream Job Alert! ♥️ The Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center is looking for its next leader as they scale their work across the country. Can’t rave enough about this talented team and the careful work they do to build a more perfect union.
electionadministrationresourcecenter.bamboohr.com
Executive Director
Executive DirectorFull-Time, Remote Position Lead the nation's premier nonprofit supporting ranked choice voting implementation. The Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center is a national, nonpartisan 5...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court has affirmed what is explicitly outlined in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and should never have been in question: All children born in the United States are U.S. citizens.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Being moved into the Death Master File can be devastating to someone who is still alive because it can cut off their financial access. Last year, career staff warned that falsely giving people death dates could be catastrophic, though the administration overrode those objections."
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Firefox @firefox.com · 04/06/2026
Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 01/06/2026
When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is. The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away. An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/05/2026
I honestly hate the concept of debating. I'm not interested in adversarial communication with someone who has already decided they lose something if they learn something.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Most countries dream of a single MIT-caliber research center. The US has dozens and we're bleeding them dry.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challenges—aging CBC that hasn’t cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesn’t matter under national polarization Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy
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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
a real one.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
yo
History's first U.S.-born pope, whose family history. includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas," (Magnificent Humanity), which was released Monday.

The sweeping manifesto is about safeguarding humanity in an era of increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. Leo raised the trans-Atlantic slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling, such as the unregulated labor required to procure rare minerals needed for Al chips.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 22/05/2026
People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Phasing out methane gas is something Charlottesville has considered at points. From a climate and health perspective, it’s a very good idea. And as this points out, it’s also an equity issue.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.
Section 4 of 14th amendment
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”
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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This article, it seems to me, thinks it is describing a massive tectonic shift in public epistemology when it says Gen Z determines truth when an originating emotional response is cemented by social reinforcement. Well, if there’s a BIG shift, this ain’t it. This is how it has always been done.
wired.com
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true...
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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 17/05/2026
just talked to a state CIO the other day who’s entire budget is getting eaten by this change and now needs to figure out how to quickly pivot
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."
Péter Magyar addressed the Hungarian parliament after being sworn in as PM.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
When it comes to finding an EU anthem, the strategy of going with one of Beethoven's most recognizable bangers as opposed to commissioning some sort of new Europudding tune was a stroke of genius.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026
Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now that’s a sunny side-up spin on inflation!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
To make way for their new gerrymander eliminating Memphis’ majority-black district, Tennessee Republicans are set to repeal a law that bans middecade redistricting. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
tennessean.com
TN GOP to repeal 1970s law barring redistricting between census
For more than 50 years, state law has blocked lawmakers from redrawing congressional districts between each U.S. census. GOP leaders plan to change that.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Protected bike lanes in Charlottesville will results in hundreds more daily bike riders in the city and county. Many people are eager to bike, but unwilling to do so until we have the right infrastructure in place.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
That’s us, Virginia — paying way more to power our homes!
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
wsj.com
WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants. Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Grateful to Governor Spanberger for trusting me to serve in this new post on the State Board of Elections — ensuring fair, secure, and accurate elections for all Virginia voters. Never to be taken for granted!
governor.virginia.gov
Governor Spanberger Announces Board Appointments
RICHMOND, VA — Governor Abigail Spanberger today announced board appointments.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words. Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...
medium.com
March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Watch to the end. “There were no books.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
nytimes.com
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Attacks leave dead vs killed
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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com
Announcement for the “Recast/Reclaim” March 14 exhibit opening at Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. Image of one ton of bronze ingots rendered from the 2023 melting of Charlottesville’s notorious statue of Robert E. Lee, the attempted preservation of which mobilized fascists to hold their violent 12 Aug 2017  “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. The bronze ingots will be recast into new public art for the city of Charlottesville.
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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The statue is gone, and what comes next is up to you. From March 14 - May 30, @jsaahccville.bsky.social invites you to help shape the future of the Lee statue's melted bronze as we consider proposals from MASS Design Group, PUSH Studio, and Hood Design Studio. www.eventbrite.com/e/swords-int...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Today's @gelliottmorris.com post is really eye-opening with respect to Dems' optimal midterm strategy ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
gelliottmorris.com
New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak
Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
True in public service, too.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My head hurts.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Our grasp on reality is slipping. The response rate to the survey behind the unemployment rate (and the rest of the household survey) is now lower than during the pandemic. The decline in response rates during the first year of the Trump Admin 2.0 was larger than at any time outside the pandemic.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I used to live in a big house in Boston with a bunch of Air Force Academy grads granted leave from active duty to study at MIT — aerospace engineering & cybersecurity. Some of the smartest, highest-character men I’ve ever met. Heartbreaking that our country is no longer proud to produce them.
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Joseph Viviano @josephdviviano.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We need to raise the bar on research code right now. 1) documentation and tests are dead simple now. 2) creating benchmarks integrating across multiple implementations 3) have agents double check your work / fix broken tests 4) fix outstanding bugs in major scientific packages
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13/02/2026
Independents say 2:1 that Bad Bunny "better represents America" than Donald Trump www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/02/2026
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Schuyler VanValkenburg @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Let’s build some houses.
virginiamercury.com
‘Housing near jobs’ bills have cleared Virginia House and Senate • Virginia Mercury
Bills that could allow by-right zoning for apartment buildings, townhomes and mixed-use developments in certain commercial corridors cleared the Senate Thursday, one of several proposals to boost hous...
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
❄️ Cville SOS ❄️ Is there somewhere closer than RVA that sharpens skates now that the Main St Arena is closed?
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis
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