Martin Bergstrom

Strong opinions about data, politics, and food; none of which I share online.

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What I wouldn’t I give for a leader who appointed @nntaleb as flaneur in chief. No dealing with bureaucracy nonsense or political posturing or confirmation hearings. Just walking and thinking and occasionally lending a word of wisdom or a scalding rebuke when needed.

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It’s a sign of the canvassing capacity that the Harris campaign has in PA that I’m getting called having voted once in a municipal primary in 2017. I should be (and probably am) the 8th tier of potential voters

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@wcmatthews Designed to actually recruit you, or designed to suggest to Dems that there will be an army of poorly trained pull watchers threatening them?

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@NateSilver538 Yeah going from a 20% chance to a 45% chance (not empirical, entirely my gut) is a swap I would make any day. I think a lot of Dems didn’t want to push Biden publicly because a replacement would probably still lose, but those two losing chances are very different

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Saying Mayor Adams will be too distracted to focus on leading the city well after this indictment assumes he was ever particularly focused. Or leading well.

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@LaissezWhere Mike Pence attracted one fly? Hold my beer

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I’m worried that Tim Walz’s biography will encourage some young the sociopaths who aspire to higher office to go into teaching instead of staying in the places we can reliably keep an eye on them, like congressional offices and prestige law firms.

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Well the effort to allow felons to vote just got a lot more bipartisan

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Whoever put a hex on @erling has really kept Tottenham in the match #MCITOT

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This is the most electrifying, terrifying article I’ve read this year https://t.co/3wwnYnLkRS

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There’s no more pleasant morning than a mild hangover and finding out there’s open civil war in a nuclear armed state

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An lo on the day #TuckerCarlson was fired, “shadenfreude” became the most googled word in America

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Think that @MittRomney could get to 218 and only allow house business that had a sponsor on both sides of the aisle? The speaker doesn’t have to be a sitting representative #McCarthy #Speakerofthehouse

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The Democratic Party has more than enough room for flakiness, thin skin, and shameless catering to the donor class. I’d rather #Sinema not sully the reputation of independents

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These midterm election results really reinforce my decision to move from blue Michigan to the important swing state of New York #Midterms2022 #Hochul #NewYork

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Hell yeah, upgraded health insurance just started today; let’s do something reckless

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@TheSporkful Agreed, but I think the moral of this story is that men who propose unfunded tax cuts for the rich probably SHOULD be chased out so quickly, and with such fervor and glee

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All of the things I remember telling myself to remember today, I remember

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@Amtrak any idea when the Adirondack train will be back?

[Martin Bergstrom @atBergstrom]

The woman in four inch heels standing on the subway without touching any supports is my god damn hero