Chris Oates

CEO, @LegislataApp. Lecturer, @BUPardeeSchool. Political risk and civic startups. Correctly predicted the demise of the European Super League

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Childcare is not simply a matter for parents and kids. Not having it available costs all of us. Join me at https://t.co/8UlkQMrwZg to help get this done.

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Looking to talk to comms people in #mapoli about building a new (and completely free!) service to make sharing and getting press releases visibility easier. DMs are open or reply here with folks with expertise on it. Aim is to recreate a bit of the old school Twitter utility.

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For #mapoli, we've got some transcripts hot off the presses.

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This week we take a look at what came out of the mid-year economic roundup. It's one of the dryest hearings you'll ever read, but it's vital to understanding what's happening.

Also, I learned that on Beacon Hill, the One Big Beautiful Bill is "OB3"

https://t.co/RnUVRkTjbO

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The title of this week's roundup of State House hearings is designed solely to get into @katielannan's #mapoliwithanimals thread

https://t.co/kVyTNXQIK6

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Full data is here: https://t.co/MOiLBvJuHU

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New for Connecticut politicos: We turned cosponsorships of legislation at the General Assembly into a network map to find who's close to whom.

Some nuggets:

- @CraigFishbein is the most central
- @BergerGirvaloCT most frequent connector between distant reps

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You can also see how much each legislator co-sponsors with each other and the full data here.

https://t.co/Rm6gcTx7v6

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We're looking to see what bill co-sponsorships can tell us about politics in North Carolina. For example, @JohnTorbett is the most "central" in the House and @friendsforbatch is the most central in the Senate.

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Starting a multi-part project assessing the initial election explanations from the New York Times for all presidential elections from 1852 to 2024. Part 1 is here, covering 2000 to 2024, with a surprising worst take (spoiler: it was 2012). https://t.co/8XNN4ybwgY

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For the #mapoli crowd, we're rounding up what Legislata has collected over the past week. It's not another newsletter full of hot takes, but a briefer of the events, reports, and transcripts you may want to check out. https://t.co/0Wv0Wune6Z

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@jarjoh Any idea why Avon is excluded?

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With the @BOSCityCouncil meeting just wrapped up, we have a flash transcript available, thanks to the @bospolicyinst. Lots of interest in getting into the details of this proposal

https://t.co/s2rc4wozwu

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So the real October surprise is @mikeduncan dropping an entirely new podcast?!

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Also, as an explainer on the transcript. We use AI to generate them to allow it to be done faster and more affordably than traditional methods.

Words in black are where the AI model is confident they're correct, purple are somewhat confident, and red is not very confident.

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For those interested in @RankedChoiceBos , @Legislata has the transcript up for the City Council hearing yesterday, courtesy of @bospolicyinst. Here's how @Ruthzee opened the hearing.

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You can view it for free or sign up to set keyword alerts, search through old transcripts, or access all other #mapoli content at https://t.co/EED6BMKTfd

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I opened up the latest Boston City Council transcript and found a discussion of the local skunk population. Perhaps the best example that local government is not a glamorous profession at all times #bospoli

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Really don’t like @PlayStation charging for an annual PlayStation plus subscription with no emails warning renewal is approaching. That’s $87 I’ve just wasted I’d rather have back

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What would this world mean for politics? Immediately, nothing. The Senate would still vote and act as it always had. But there is something unstable when the popular and represented vote shares are so different, and I wouldn’t be surprised if institutional reform ensued

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In the (admittedly very unlikely) event that the FL, TX, MT, and WV Senate races see party flips, next year Democrats would have a 51-49 Senate majority while representing nearly double the population, by the measurement of each senator gets half the state population