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Public Affairs, Funk & Bolton | Maryland Policy & Politics | Communications | Media Production | [email protected]

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@LizWebsterSBF
Liz Webster
4 days
šŸ“Š The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped šŸ‘‰it’s vanished. Completely. This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows: • 5 million 2016 voters have died • New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1 • 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin • Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
@LizWebsterSBF
Liz Webster
4 days
9 years on, Brexit no longer has a mandate. The Leave majority has literally died out. New analysis shows: šŸ”¹ +8 million majority now want to rejoin šŸ”¹ Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by 8% šŸ”¹ Only 25% of Leave voters think it was a success šŸ”¹ The 2025 ā€œresetā€ fixes less than
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@BenjaminGroff
Ben Groff
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"Initially, it featured banter about petty grievances, but soon their grievances grew to world-historical proportions."
@PollTracker2024
Politics & Poll Tracker šŸ“”
5 days
The New York Times did a profile on Jennifer Welch (gift article so it’s free read) https://t.co/aPmjcqPYKC
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@davidshor
David Shor
23 days
The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
@davidshor
David Shor
9 months
Trump was just as unpopular going into November as he was in 2020. What changed this cycle is Democrats' massive favorability decline and Republicans trust advantages on the issues that mattered most to voters this cycle (the economy/inflation/cost of living).
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@arpitrage
Arpit Gupta
23 days
Insurance is unaffordable because reinsurance companies, which hedge the risk, have added large markups Public reinsurance programs, covering spatially correlated tail risk at actuarily fair rates, can lower insurance costs By my colleague Adam Solomon https://t.co/gPdjyqk5Yp
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@MayorBMScott
Brandon M. Scott
11 days
As of this morning, Baltimore has seen a 29.8% decrease in homicides and a 25.2% decline in non-fatal shootings. As we enter the last month of the year, we are doubling down on our work to continue this progress into 2026 and beyond. One life lost to violence is one too many.
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@2024dion
Dion
14 days
The mechanism by which housing becomes cheap—filtering—is extremely simple and intuitive and it’s unfortunate that left NIMBYs have come up with a useless thought-terminating cliche (ā€˜trickle down housing’) to avoid understanding it
@sam_d_1995
sam
14 days
would you look at that: yet another study finding that building more housing, even ā€œluxuryā€ condos, makes housing more affordable overall left-NIMBYs are so frustrating because we share the same goal of more affordable housing, but their policies make housing less affordable
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@propublica
ProPublica
12 days
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. https://t.co/RsPUlxoWUG
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked...
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@BenjaminGroff
Ben Groff
15 days
At Thanksgiving dinner talking about the important things: the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
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@sam_d_1995
sam
25 days
the most under-appreciated local government success over the past three years? it’s actually Baltimore imo -murders down 60% -major pro-housing reforms including ending parking mandates, legalizing single-stair buildings, and permitting denser housing
@MayorBMScott
Brandon M. Scott
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Today, I signed a package of bills to make housing in Baltimore more abundant and affordable. These bills will help folks buy a home and grow wealth, counter decades of disinvestment, and make sure both long-time and new residents feel the benefits of Baltimore's Renaissance.
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@BenjaminGroff
Ben Groff
18 days
The most interesting thing about the Deciding to Win report, published recently by a Blue Dog group, is the clear vector towards economic issues. Notably the report supports the view that the cost of living crisis (affordability) is as or more important as jobs and growth.
@AaronRegunberg
Aaron Regunberg
18 days
Wow. This is from *James Carville.* It really is starting to feel like economic populists have won the debate. Our haters have become our waiters -- time for us to all build a table of success for the Democratic Party.
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@BaltimoreBrew
Baltimore Brew
18 days
"Why I lost faith in zoning." https://t.co/iftNcP7LDX Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @MayorBMScott's bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
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@BenjaminGroff
Ben Groff
21 days
With a B!
@CarterElliottIV
Carter Elliott, IV
21 days
BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Wes Moore announces a $2 Billion investment from AstraZeneca in Maryland. The LARGEST private capital investment in A DECADE supporting over 2,600 jobs!
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@GovWesMoore
Governor Wes Moore
23 days
I’m pleased that Maryland continues to attract international companies like Nature Cell to the U.S., while also creating hundreds of high-quality jobs in Baltimore.
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@kungfupete
Pete Lee
25 days
Anyways here’s the very best version of the ā€œpeople in bulky clothes flying through different terrains via giant cranesā€ genre from Burberry. It’s simply the most beautiful and bold piece of wirework filmmaking ever
@kungfupete
Pete Lee
26 days
Why don’t YOU try cutting together a stunt sequence where the actress is only in three shots and the double(s?) looks nothing like her and see how few cuts you need
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@BenjaminGroff
Ben Groff
29 days
I asked two large language models what font this was and they couldn’t figure it out. Large ā€œLā€ model.
@alessio_joseph
Joseph Alessio
29 days
i’m in the WSJ talking about fonts https://t.co/p45rSwpx1i
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@BenjaminGroff
Ben Groff
30 days
If there’s anything I can’t abide, it’s a modest friction.
@timdesilva
Tim de Silva
1 month
Apparently, only 16% of people check Uber and Lyft. I'm very surprised! Every time I do, I'm shocked by the amount of price dispersion..
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@emilymbadger
Emily Badger
1 month
The One Big Beautiful Bill ratchets up work requirements for Medicaid. In the process it will force states to pay millions more to one company -- Equifax -- to verify that residents qualify for the program. Wild @sangerkatz @sarahkliff @a_elkeurti story here:
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@Niemean_
nie nie.
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Resources for the month! Someone may need to see this. Sending love and light, always!ā¤ļø
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@jasonc_nc
Jason,
2 months
A message from a firefighter made me realize I’ve perhaps never been explicit in terms of heights of single stair buildings. Single stairs up to 6 stories have proven safe in Seattle for decades. We now have a body of research from fire protection engineers and a recent study
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@IamKingWilliams
Your Next Best Friend
2 months
There’s too many Op-Ed’s and tweets about people being afraid of public transit because it has mentally ill people, homeless people, and Black people they are afraid of With the unspoken part that they will only ride until they have police come and arrest and likely kill a few
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