Scott Jones

Former @wvhouse Redistricting Analyst, now doing (mostly) transportation GIS

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

Evolution of WV county populations since 1900.

[Charestiste🇨🇦🍁 @RealAlbanianPat]

Hudson's Bay Company went from a British Territory owning much of Canada to a stall inside Canadian Tire

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

William Howard Taft riding a water buffalo while serving as Governor of the Philippines.

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

Depressed Ned Beatty

[The Redistrict Network @RedistrictNet]

Can you identify this congressional district?!

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

I hear AOC can run a mean pick 6

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Instead of the DNC autopsy you could just read this excerpt from Kamala Harris's book that I posted last year to great acclaim

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Okay. I’ll “make it make sense.” Virginia has a constitution that applies in Virginia but not in those other states, and the government of Virginia did not follow that constitution, which is illegal.

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

@bitmapped Good way to boost the sale value of stagnant IP to soak some nostalgic Gen Xer looking to make an ironic purchase

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Every stitch, every detail.

[Ryan Glasspiegel @sportsrapport]

I don’t want to be mean but this really sounds like a them problem

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

🫣

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

Staffers for Seattle Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson abruptly end an interview with KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels when she can't answer basic questions

Wilson has been criticized for dodging the press & being unable to answer basic questions since she came into office

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

People are very myopic on AI. Giant leaps forward like this are just around the corner. AI will replace tedious work, the result being the amount of work able to be done by the same workforce will expand.

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

Coming soon to a South Hills boutique near you.

[vi @oyevivekk]

New uniform of the Bangladesh Forest Department 👌🤣

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

NYC is proving that shoplifting is a simple repeat-offender problem. And an easily solvable one.

Shoplifting increased 64% from 2019 to 2023. It was the same 300 people committing a third of the shoplifting in the city. But only a small portion of retail complaints led to arrests, so retailers stopped calling police and just put their deodorant behind plexiglass, or have you press a button and wait four minutes to buy toothpaste. It's been stupid.

Now the city and state are going after those repeat offenders with a few key tactics:

1) The state now lets prosecutors aggregate thefts across incidents, so five $200 shoplifts from the same Rite Aid becomes a serious felony, not misdemeanor slaps.

2) NYPD started banning serial shoplifters from stores with trespass affidavits so they prosecutors can stack charges when they came back

3) NYPD used data to put foot patrols in commercial corridors and officers at subway stops shoplifters used as escape routes.

4) NYPD encouraged retailers to call them about the thieves who show up everyday to steal small stuff, and then they followed through with arrests.

Thanks to these measures, retail theft is down 20% in the first quarter of 2026, with double-digit declines in every borough. And the recidivism rate dropped from 20% to 13%.

The NYC economy was hemorrhaging $4.4 billion a year to shoplifting. They're now reversing it pretty cheaply, just by tracking repeat offenders, arresting them, and upgrading their charges to make it easier for prosecutors to punish them.

[Christopher W. Jones @cwjones89]

Just learned this was the state flag of Florida in 1845 and I think this might be the most hilarious state flag design of all time:

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

@wvwasp @Michael_Haid I think this is one of those “pro-market” vs “pro-business” splits that the kids are talking about these days

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

(Joke partially stolen from @Crawley4WV )

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

Democrat social media managers the moment they discover that swears exist

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

RIP

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

@AskAnnAli @wvgazettemail Mark Dean had a bill for that

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

It’s too profanity-laden for even 2026 Twitter, but if you see @sassydemasi, ask her about my logic as to why posting “endorsed by Other Politician” turns more voters into undervotes than anything else

[Scott Jones @CScottJones]

8yo campaign accounts with $1000 you should’ve used on mailers are sourdough starters for men.