Ben Groff
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Public Affairs, Funk & Bolton | Maryland Policy & Politics | Communications | Media Production | [email protected]
Baltimore, MD
Joined February 2009
š The Brexit majority hasnāt just slipped šitās 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
9 years on, Brexit no longer has a mandate. The Leave majority has literally died out. New analysis shows: š¹ +8 million majority now want to rejoin š¹ Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by 8% š¹ Only 25% of Leave voters think it was a success š¹ The 2025 āresetā fixes less than
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"Initially, it featured banter about petty grievances, but soon their grievances grew to world-historical proportions."
The New York Times did a profile on Jennifer Welch (gift article so itās free read) https://t.co/aPmjcqPYKC
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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
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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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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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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The mechanism by which housing becomes cheapāfilteringāis extremely simple and intuitive and itās unfortunate that left NIMBYs have come up with a useless thought-terminating cliche (ātrickle down housingā) to avoid understanding it
would you look at that: yet another study finding that building more housing, even āluxuryā 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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Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. Itās also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. https://t.co/RsPUlxoWUG
propublica.org
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. Iāve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked...
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At Thanksgiving dinner talking about the important things: the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
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the most under-appreciated local government success over the past three years? itās actually Baltimore imo -murders down 60% -major pro-housing reforms including ending parking mandates, legalizing single-stair buildings, and permitting denser housing
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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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.
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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"Why I lost faith in zoning." https://t.co/iftNcP7LDX Baltimoreās 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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Iām 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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Anyways hereās the very best version of the āpeople in bulky clothes flying through different terrains via giant cranesā genre from Burberry. Itās simply the most beautiful and bold piece of wirework filmmaking ever
Why donāt 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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I asked two large language models what font this was and they couldnāt figure it out. Large āLā model.
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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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Resources for the month! Someone may need to see this. Sending love and light, always!ā¤ļø
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A message from a firefighter made me realize Iāve 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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Thereās too many Op-Edās 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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