Mike Czaplicki

But experimental results for an ad don't matter of the issue is not important or low on the agenda for voters. In 2024, the economy dominated voters' attention. In contrast, in Gallup data, trans issues polled at the bottom of the league table in terms of perceived importance to voters. (4/n)

Before @samghoward.riliberator.com came on the scene, there was Henry F. Reilly. (ProJo, February 26, 1961)

Lazy reporting and writing. Dateline New York. Guy didn’t come here or ask anyone local whether his premise was correct. Good chance this was pitched by the subject. Classic case of bad national reporting. So many issues with this piece.

Pawtuxet Village might be aging, but they still know how to have a good time.

There's this concept that unemployed people should "treat looking for a job like it's full time work" that doesn't really survive first contact with the *actual* labor market. There are very quickly diminishing returns to looking for work.

I felt she found my letters and read each one out loud... 🎶

March 14, 1938 Winona Republican-Herald

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

Police agencies can update all the general orders they want (and they should) in pursuit of the shiny networked-surveillance toy, but they are only one important problem in a system that has multiple failure points. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Yep, that's why you're all moving to Rhode Island. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/m...

8-year-old me could have really used this article.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

State DOTs control most of the deadliest city streets (including this one in Memphis), but they won’t fix them bc they don’t want to constrain speed or vehicle throughput. The funding issue is bogus IMO. State DOTs always find $$ for favored roadway expansions. Urban safety just isn’t a priority.

Attention snow globalists! The periodic MinnBid government auction of confiscated snow globes is back for another round. mnbid.mn.gov/productView/16662

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

19:35 Nature 1-Humans 0 (End of Period 2)

Current mood: youtu.be/2z2OSUPO1bM

Less direct, but I've always thought Richard Daley was targeting angry divorced guys in his 1983 primary challenge to Jane Byrne.

"A list…reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Forget retirement. Richard Charest is jumping from Rhode Island state government back to industry after all, raising ethics questions. By @nancyklavin.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/10/15/r...

Radio excerpt of my One on One interview with Democratic LG @sabinamatos.bsky.social. Full interview drops later this week www.oceanstatemedia.org/one-on-one-w...

BREAKING: The total cost of defending and resolving lawsuits naming former CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara now stands at $472.8 million, according to a @wttw.bsky.social analysis. Another 25 lawsuits remain pending in federal court.

Average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.5 percent in September and are now back to where they were in January, 2025. That means that Americans, on average, have experienced zero real wage growth since Trump returned to office.

The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

Rhode Island utility shutoffs soar as COVID pandemic forbearance program expires www.providencejournal.com/story/busine...

Harris PhD student Jacob Herbstman has an important working paper: The first I've seen to rigorously quantify the costs of aldermanic prerogative in Chicago. More stringent alders -> reduced permit activity and lower density, which means less housing supply and higher housing costs in Chicago.

Tired: Days of Rage Wired: Days of Cold, Diligent, Bureaucratic Fury

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Back on our no-school bullshit.

When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.

The biggest pumpkin is from the smallest state! 🎃 Congratulations to Ron Wallace on making history with a world-record 3,156-pound pumpkin. Just another way Rhode Island punches above its weight — gourd-geous!

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Attention on Deck: New England Review of Boats Issue 1 is now available for preorder! Shipping out on October 25. Get it here: newenglandreviewofboats.square.site/product/-pre...

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"Today you get the feeling that war becomes the means to an end itself, and wars continue because people want to stay in power. They have created an environment where war becomes the condition under which they can continue ruling, and that’s very dangerous." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/m...

I don't see anything erratic here. For over a decade, Trump has prioritised "getting along with Russia"; since 20 January 2025, Trump administration policy has reflected that priority. It's perhaps the most consistent aspect of Trump foreign policy. 🧵on Trump and sanctions.

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

So along with public executions I see we're making star chambers great again. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...