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Jonathan Tannen

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Philadelphian. Statistics & software engineering & politics. Tech Lead Manager at Blue Rose Research. Blog at sixtysixwards.com

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If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t?

So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

17.06.2025 19:24 👍 6848 🔁 1821 💬 189 📌 102
Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

New post: "Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters"

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/16/s...

16.05.2025 20:36 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

do I know any Philadelphians who know the logistics about filing permits for protests?

20.03.2025 00:57 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
Machine Learning Engineer (Remote) Remote

Come work with me to use machine learning to defeat Trump!

job-boards.greenhouse.io/blueroserese...

07.03.2025 20:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”

06.02.2025 14:40 👍 14134 🔁 2343 💬 215 📌 89
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

05.02.2025 12:49 👍 28731 🔁 6506 💬 1389 📌 583

go birds

21.12.2024 19:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Free Label Making Software - Avery Design & Print With Avery Design & Print, label making has never been easier. Make labels, cards, and more with free templates and designs from Avery, the most trusted online label printer.

i don't want to sound like a shill but i just love this tool and need to share it. if you refuse to pay for software with mail merge, Avery has this site with google doc integration.

www.avery.com/software/des...

13.12.2024 15:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

03.12.2024 15:02 👍 5078 🔁 1003 💬 97 📌 249
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every morning the nyt fact-checkers looked in the mirror and asked themselves "what would someone with dissociative amnesia write about this election?"

24.11.2024 19:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FDIC Survey Finds 96 Percent of U.S. Households Were Banked in 2023 | FDICShare on XFollow the FDIC on X WASHINGTON— Nearly 96 percent of all U.S. households were banked in 2023, according to just-released national survey by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The 2023 FDIC National Survey ...

The share of unbanked Americans is at its lowest level since the FDIC began keeping track in 2009. www.fdic.gov/news/press-r...

19.11.2024 14:48 👍 84 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 1

So apparently this site just turns into “go birds” every four days.

14.11.2024 13:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Wow George I thought you were Bayesian.

14.11.2024 13:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why did the 2016 election look so much like the 2012 election? Partisan identity — not policies or even candidates — now drives American politics.

here's a good summary www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

11.11.2024 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Democracy for Realists Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it

seven years ago, this book helped me make sense of the first trump win. going to reread. once i'm out of my darkest.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

11.11.2024 13:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m going to desperately try to replace my twitter addiction with this app. Hello to old friends! And looking for suggestions of who in Philadelphia politics space I’m missing.

10.11.2024 18:07 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0