Hunter📈🌈📊

Professionally overthinking things that do not concern me.
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Policy-centered tweets about tech, bio, urbanism, economics, & politics

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@NYPoliticsTakes There is some evidence he respects Pelosi as well.

[Basil🧡 (they/them) @LinkofSunshine]

The asset limit for both food stamps and disability is like 2-3k in total assets.

How are we supposed to bring people out of poverty if we directly disincentivize people saving any amount of money to do so?

[Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @RepMGP]

I've got a bright idea

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Maybe there's some 4D chess going on, because 7 Dems missed this vote but voted today in the House on other matters.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

I'm perhaps the rare person who has been impressed with Schumer but very unimpressed with Jeffries.

11 absent Dems?

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

Hegseth avoids House rebuke - too many Democratic absences. Impeachment plan sent to committee to die.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

I certainly have my disagreements with Schumer, but he's generally very competent.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

I wonder if one could finagle a redistricting case here.

The court would be 5D-4R.

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

🔵 News - Texas GOP Justice Debra Lehrmann is considering retirement, which would allow Democratic Governor Gina Hinojosa to appoint a replacement and flip the court majority to Democrats

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@bobuedqm @FoliageReport Urban heat island.

[Theo @theoelections]

Houston Metro without Harris County

Talarico flipped them blue.

R+25 to D+1

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Not to be dramatic but it's very difficult to overstate the importance of 2030 midterms.

That's the redistricting cycle. Enormous implications.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@NickyFrank30 They're doing a hand-counted review of 10% of precincts. It's a require of Kansas law for any race <1%

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Really, in order to do major policy in TX, Democrats first need to consolidate their power and electability with nearly-universally popular moves.

The most major thing they could is win the TX Supreme Court in 2028, re-elected Gina in 2030, and watch the gerrymander crumble.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

I think in an ideal world, Matt has a good point.

But 1) Dems still do not control the TX Senate, which makes any discussion of an income tax rather academic, and 2) the ballot measure to permanently enshrine an income tax ban in the constitution passed with 74.4% of the vote.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Very glad she won, but Gina Hinojosa maybe a rare example of a red state Dem who I think is genuinely much too conservative on the merits.

https://t.co/c35xpBeXqa

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@souljagoyteller It's more likely than not.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

This is an insane choice. The vote was 106-73.

Between Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and minority leader Jim Jordan, one does not get the sense the GOP learned literally anything at all.

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has been elected House Minority Leader.

Jordan, a staunch Trump ally and founding member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, will lead House Republicans following their defeat in the 2026 midterms.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

In the 1970s, Atlanta was the only Republican part of Georgia lol.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@hutchinson I'm not actually sure there's anyone that some segment of the online left wouldn't reject.

Even AOC and El-Sayed, the two most prominent (eligible, non-ancient) lefties would get hit.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@NailYourShoes IDK I think if you get a Doctor of Medicine from an Ivy League it's pretty prestigious.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Four members of the 13-member incoming Dem freshman Senate class went to an Ivy League school.
- Chris Pappas, Harvard, AB in Government
- Abdul El-Sayed, Columbia, MD
- Sherrod Brown, Yale, BA in Russian Studies
- James Talarico, Harvard, MEd, Education Policy

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@LondonNewLibs Yeah I almost didn't count it tbh

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Just realized Nithya Raman will be mayor during the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. Huge opportunity for her tbh.