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The impact of gambling on college sports viewership is crazy. The % of men 21+ who will bet on March Madness is up over 50% vs last year. civicscience.com/interest-in-th…

@JustinBlake304 The list of states known for the most egregious gerrymandering is pretty evenly split between R (Texas, NC, Ohio) and the ones you mentioned on the D side.

@jdcivicscience Yes CA, MA, and IL historically agree.

First, these polls need to define “valid ID” to be credible. Second, while Musk is right about the will of the people, he wouldn’t like about 10 “left-leaning” issues I can immediately think of with this kind of public support.

@Aerocles While I agree with the political sentiment, the ICE bit jumped the shark. Also, the dude who plays Langdon is doing the best acting job on the show this season, and that’s saying something.

No one in my feed is talking about last nights episode of #ThePitt and that’s a problem for me

@JustinBlake304 Every bill introduced to enact redistricting reform over the past two decades was authored by Democrats (Klobuchar, Lewis, etc). Opposition to business regulation (age-gating, AI) almost always stems from the right...Trump and Musk have been the biggest opposition to AI reg.

@jdcivicscience I’m on board but those aren’t liberal positions. Liberals have the most gerrymandered states in the country. Age-gating and AI are 80/20 issues for the whole country. The difference in the comparisons is that liberal congress 100% votes against voter ID even on a clean bill.

@JustinBlake304 Ending the gerrymander; Age-gating on social media; Regulation of AI;

@jdcivicscience You can’t name 3 left leaning bipartisan issues with 80% public support. There aren’t any.

The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy

@Aerocles 100%

This is the best thriller since The Americans. Second best show on now, right after The Pitt

The most hated technology in history.

I had a fun - and very important - conversation with the brilliant @edels0n on the latest Dumbest Guy in the Room podcast this week. We talked about the ticking time bomb of wealth inequality, why Americans hate AI, and lots more. Give it a listen. youtube.com/watch?v=klhmTW…

CivicScience's February Well-Being Index inched upward slightly (0.59 points) as sadness and worry receded ahead of the Iran conflict. Read more: hubs.la/Q046cMTq0

62% of Americans ‘strongly oppose’ privatizing the U.S. Postal Service — from yesterday's Poll of the Day. That's more than double the share who support it. Weigh in on questions like this every day. Join the list hubs.la/Q046cfb70

@Aerocles That too.

@jdcivicscience No… I don’t consider Gremlins a horror movie by any stretch.

I have a qualm with today’s connections

Following January's decline, the CivicScience Consumer Financial Health Index fell 1.29 points in February to 59.89. Credit outlook rose slightly, but it was not enough to offset declines across other index components. Full reading: hubs.la/Q045CqVP0

If we're calling balls and strikes, there are definitely more nationalists on the right criticizing the Admin over Iran than there are globalists/neocons on the left lauding the move.

On this day in 1993, Mario Lemieux underwent his last radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. That night, he had a goal and assist. He then recorded 2.67 points per game to win the Art Ross with 160 points in 60 games, 12 points ahead of Pat Lafontaine who played 24 more games.

@joeybagovdonuts Restaurants that leave the tails on shrimp in a sauced, plated dish.

What's a tiny inconvenience that irrationally annoys you?

The Penguins are 16-3-4 since Christmas.

@colin_dunlap This whole episode shows how our politics have become about fealty over orthodoxy. If you're a globalist, you should support this. If you're not, you shouldn't. What has everyone twisted in knots is the globalists voted against Trump and the anti-globalists voted for him.

US-Israeli military action in Iran is another case of some in our country (even some elected) positioning support for it as a “far right” ideology. It isn’t. To many it’s logical and sensible. An insistence all who disagree with progressives are “far right” has grown tired.