Hillsboro is such an extraordinary community! I’m honored to serve on our school board with brilliant and wise colleagues who I learn from every month. Since January is board appreciation month, each school gifts us a bit of “swag” so we can represent them around the community. Mark and I were eager to try out our Glencoe High scarves 🧣🧣🧣

@TrueSlazac Here in America, Andre Rieu is considered the height of European culture

@matthewstoller CAP wrote an article last year about her accomplishments, mostly centering around increased conservation and relations with Native Americans

@natehiggins I used to think the UK Greens were an impressively serious party compare to the US. But nowadays it is a little bit ironic that the (co)leader of the Green Party there is most well-known for his vociferous nimby opposition to offshore wind energy.

@Docstockk The natural, animal instinct in all of us is to treat those in our tribe as most important. Ethical philosophy and theology have often been about pushing us to consider something beyond those base instincts: that every human is of equally infinite dignity, worth, and value.

@kevingohwm Obviously public opinion is very against Magnus right now, but it's hard for me to understand saying nothing like this has ever happened before. Kasparov told FIDE to take a hike when he started holding his own classical championships. It was a drama that lasted many years.

@StatisticUrban Fahrenheit is human-scale, Celsius is water-scale. 🇺🇸

@Locati0ns Doing this as a cartogram where each district is the same size would be interesting.

@StatisticUrban Johnson is a tough one, because he was absolutely, catastrophically wrong on policy and a more solid Republican would have been so much better for reconstruction, but the Tenure of Office Act was a pretty sketchy deal, so I don't know.

You make an interesting case. The part that can feel complicated is that those of us who believe a more Scandinavian social democracy economic model would increase human happiness and flourishing also feel somewhat unrepresented by the centrist positioning that many Democratic presidential candidates run on. In this election we are seeing red states approve ballot measures increasing the minimum wage, paid sick leave, and strengthening union rights. These sorts of ballot measures passing feels like evidence that the electorate does support progressive and left-leaning economic priorities. So while there will be many think-pieces urging Democrats to move toward the center, there is also evidence that a strong and urgent focus on the practical, real-life benefits to progressive economic policy can win.

@JDCocchiarella @AllanLichtman "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to read a poll is insignificant next to the power of the Keys."

@dobdob365 I think this person might have the power to turn Lichtman's Keys

@TrueSlazac Whereas this looks like the editors should choose a new color scheme

It was great to celebrate things being on the upswing by taking mom and grandma out for our annual autumn visit to Oregon Heritage Farms, Smith Berry Barn, and South Store Cafe. Had a delicious white bean chili at the cafe and then some apple cider donuts at the farm.

@StatisticUrban why were these colors selected? red-green-yellow seems so counterintuitive and hard to read without consulting the legend. Perhaps a gradient would be more suitable?

The longest continuous truss bridge in the country leads across the mouth of the Columbia River with one end in the small town I grew up in: Astoria, Oregon. Once each year the bridge is closed down for three hours to vehicle traffic for a run/walk across this epic 4.2 mile span. It forms the core of the Great Columbia Crossing 10k. I had never joined in this event growing up, but a few months ago my grandmother suggested we do it together this year for memory’s sake. It’s been over a decade since either of us lived in Astoria, so it was a fun chance to see how the town has changed. There are strict limits to how long the walk can take because the bridge has to reopen to vehicles on time, but despite not being the most athletic person in the world, Gram and I made it in the time limit! We are a bit sore and tired, but proud of our accomplishment!

@ryansongalia Adams admin starting to remind me of the way British schoolchildren remember the fates of the wives of Henry VIII (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived).

@LinkofSunshine Texas and Georgia are fine, but just wait for blue Vanderbilt 😁

@CollegeGameDay @PatMcAfeeShow I rewatched the Hobbit movies recently. At the ending of the final movie there's a moment where Tauriel weeps over Kili's corpse and bitterly asks "why does it hurt so much?" Thranduil answers "because it was real." That's how I feel about the PAC-12 watching this.

@RobbieGramer That was an oddly vague piece in the newsletter... the reader is given zero context for what the claimed reasons are or why the delays should be more severe in this area compared to others.