Ben McGuire 🫘

doing data stuff for elections, public policy, and COVID response. live in DC but Nebraska is home. 🫘 🫘 🫘

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

When people ask if I know Ben, that crazy old wizard

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

every time they show travis kelce onscreen like chugging a beer or whatever the whole bar boos enthusiastically it’s really great

[------- @masooga]

Watching the knicks in a bar in brookyn and when they showed tswift and kelce everybody booed. Haven’t seen them since

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

I’m flying internationally today and you fill out the customs entry form online but to submit it you have to take a screenshot of your own form and upload a picture for someone to read and I think it’s cool that we’re recreating physical forms online from first principles

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@katienotopoulos in the last five years alone they attached nerds clusters to gummy candy, made like twenty flavor combinations, and then made the interior juicy

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

I live by a rum distillery in DC and every time I come here someone tries to order a tequila shot, and when they’re told ‘this is actually a rum distillery, we literally only have rum,’ they then immediately try to order a shot of vodka

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@KeldonB counterpoint every terrible bet I make is now a direct investment in Philadelphia mass transit infrastructure

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

therapist: curtis sliwa without a beret isn’t real; he can’t hurt you
curtis sliwa without a beret:

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

curtis silwa's forehead has the skin of a 25 year old for wearing a beret his whole life

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures

[Alayna Treene @alaynatreene]

POTUS is on the roof of the White House— asked why he’s up there, he shouts back to us through his hands: “just taking a little walk”

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@lukeisamazing Midwife droids HATE her

This Naboo mom Lost The Will To Live for plot reasons

LEARN THE TRUTH NOW

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

My FOIA response that my emails with the richest man on earth are too "intimate and embarrassing" to release is prompting a lot of questions already answered by my FOIA response

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

NEW: As part of my effort to track @ElonMusk's influence in the Texas Capitol, I asked for all of his emails with Gov. Greg Abbott for the last several months.

Abbott's office rejected my request, saying some of the records are too "intimate and embarrassing" to release. #txlege

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@johannes_ff me when I’m at the top of my game

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

so far this morning I’ve gotten Instagram ads from Ireland, Canada, Lithuania, and Poland suggesting I escape the chaos in the United States by getting dual citizenship and moving there

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@WIRED

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani on an incredible win and a courageous, principled campaign.

People are hungry for a government that is relentlessly focused on improving their lives, even when it means standing up to corporate power and moneyed interests.

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@merici ah! well,

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@JamesFBooth @rmc031 Congratulations!!!

[Aaron Gershon @agershon99]

Mark Pope: "I've got hungry, hungry guys."

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@zoerosebryant the entity was in carhenge all along

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@lib_crusher no community note, it’s real

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@johannes_ff but is it Abundant

[Ben McGuire 🫘 @bean_mcguire]

@charlotteeffect popularism!

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

EIGHTY EIGHT PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS OPPOSE PLACING NEW TARIFFS ON IMPORTED GOODS, PER CBS/YOUGOV