🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇹🇼 🇵🇸 Carl Schmertmann

Contreras 🇧🇷 x 🇺🇸 Judge

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He said "Winter Olympics"! 🤯😊

The 17-year-old high school pitcher getting MVP Aaron Judge to hit into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded was a great moment. (Son of an MLB player and a Brazilian mom, of course!)

Add 1 to the approximation (which admittedly still leaves it at zero). My son-in-law was watching in Salvador, with narração em português (!).

Not jealous at all. Nope.

There is a tsunami of fake social science research coming for us, and the American Sociological Association doesn’t care There are so many red flags that this system is sending up, crying out for the scholarly research enterprise to defend itself. Sadly, reader, that does not appear to be happening.

I wrote it up here, with a picture of a mockingbird, and links to data and code.
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This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime.

It’s hackneyed now but it should never be: don’t normalize this.

Now is the time for Pres. Obama to step up. He is a powerful voice for American values and has a big bullhorn, yet he has been mostly deferential to the office that Trump is destroying. Let's hope he starts making more noise and more trouble! 🇺🇸

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A fun Friday night activity for the whole family!

The Crook-In-Chief robs the US of $1.6 BILLION with his (paid for) pardons alone. That's only so far and he's only getting started.

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

truthout.org/articles/flo...

Montana Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines drops reelection bid minutes before filing deadline Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, who is also a Republican, entered the race shortly before the deadline.

Daines exécutes one of the key maneuvers of dynastic electoral politics. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"They put the number of cases connected to Sturgis in the range of 115,000-260,000, or 10 to 20% of all cases in the US at the time. This was just one month after the rally occurred & it was still spreading."

Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Lawless authoritarianism:
-"How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times"
-"Officials Violated More Than 50 Court Orders in NJ"
-"ICE violated at least 96 court orders in January"
-"The judge then provided an additional count of 113 more court orders violated in 77 more cases"

He's so good at this that Noem's lips deflated.

Questioning your assumptions is usually worthwhile.

www.thefarside.com/2026/03/04/1

This workshop is really good and I strongly recommend it to early-career demographers (and hopeful future demographers)

🤓 So happy to finally see this paper with Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Afua Durowaa-Boateng published 🥳
➡️We combine patchy DHS data and UN TFR to create harmonized datasets of education-specific TFRs 🐣@socialstats.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @oeaw.bsky.social

Q: "Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this Committee?"

Hillary Clinton: "Absolutely."

"Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers … That is behavior that fits a pattern if one were looking for a pattern."

Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the ra...

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Unless those Americans are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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We'd be in a better place if university leaders would constantly beat this drum. Teaching critical thinking makes for better neighbors and citizens, while creating knowledge for knowledge's sake has driven massive economic gains, often in unpredictable ways. Interfering with this is folly.

Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline - N-IUSSP Worldwide, the path leading to delayed fertility is more complex than it may appear at first sight. Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk offer a few keys to better interpret current ... Read more

"Remarkably, South-Eastern Asia shows stable timing patterns despite total fertility declining from well above replacement in 1950 to below replacement today" www.niussp.org/fertility-an...

43 years ago I thought the same about Reagan, who now seems like a model of civic behavior and rationality

30 years and I'm only figuring out *today* that Pokemon = "pocket monster" ??
😯🤯

Oh, yeah? Would a dying empire do THIS?!