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The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 5h

Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 12h

Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 6h

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 6h

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 15h

Another migration story with huge benefits for the US. Keep killing the goose laying the golden eggs, you morons.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now that I have tenure, I've decided to get political in my introductory Economic History of the US class, so I teach the Constitution, checks and balances, and that vaccines work

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My favorite conspiracy theory is that @gelliottmorris.com isn’t actually updating the House simulation results because he’s scared of what he gets

Dems shown a 99% chance of winning the House

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the current context, I don't think the human brain is equipped to deal with worries about elections in two countries at the same time

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look, another one who read a newspaper piece with a voters focus group

Halloween figure detaching head from body

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Votad, estimada burbuja blueskiera, VOTAD

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

…and elections in Spain probably coming in late November… 😓

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Debate between candidates for UT House Districts 10 and 11, and UT Senate District 5 CJ Hernandez's closing remarks (1:15:45) 🔥🔥🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MZY...

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Candidate Forum - UT House Districts 10 & 11, and UT Senate District 5 - 9/28/26

YouTube video by Weber County League of Women Voters

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First time ever buying it (kid lobbied successfully). I guess today we became Americans.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

$90,000 of income per capita, more than 7,000 TV stations... and zero options in the US to watch today's game between @fcbfemeni.bsky.social and Real Madrid

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Demand curve for hairdressers shifts to the right in Cambridge, MA.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Working on my sabbatical report. On the one hand, I'm feeling pretty proud of what I accomplished. OTOH, what a funny concept of "sabbatical" we have in academia...

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Jorge Bielsa-Callau @jbielsacallau.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

No son dos, son cuatro. Esto de @dfuentescastro.bsky.social es posiblemente lo más documentado/sensato sobre el carajal inmobiliario. "Quisquillosidad": Con los sistemas de información/manejo de datos actuales, debería saberse el número y localización de viviendas vacías. elpais.com/opinion/2026...

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Las cuatro Españas de la vivienda

El problema está en las reglas y los incentivos de mercado que condicionan las decisiones individuales

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Jon @arfmeasures.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me *reads the news out loud* Spider *depressed* holy shit

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/10/2026

Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely. It's also a good time for vulnerable people to get vaccinated against another winter risk, RSV, and to get up to date on protection against COVID-19.

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Andrés Actis @actisandres.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Portada de 2023.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"“todo el mundo puede solicitar [la vacuna para Covid]” y Pérez insta a ello: “Aquellas personas que puedan vacunarse, que se vacunen y lo hagan en la mayor brevedad posible”."

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Launching the Álvaro ∞ model. Welcome to the singularity, everyone.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Anglos had strong opinions about us Italian-Americans

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I had an in-class presentation about voting. One student was also under the impression that the driver license implied being a registered voter. Telling your students how to (actually) register can be incredibly useful.

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No soy rubia por los pelos. @nosoyrubia.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

¿Por qué comprar en Consum antes que en Mercadona? Pues por cosas como estas.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My House district (Trump +29) has the R candidate only 5 points ahead…

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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Consequential histories: A field experiment at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum" Just accepted at the Journal of Politics www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Consequential histories: A field experiment at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hegseth says “anti-American losers in our media” are committing “treason” by not obediently amplifying his Iran war lies. He hasn’t held a war briefing for reporters at the Pentagon since May. Which means he hasn’t justified his actions to the public, even though he’s conducting a war in our name.

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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran

In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My default is to grant AI executives talking about AI's impact on society the same credibility I'd have given to tobacco executives in the 1960s talking about tobacco's impact on health

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had a student whose mother warned her about the serial sexual harassers in my former department...because they sexually harassed students when the mom was a student thirty years before. Not the same as SA, but very indicative of the pattern. Men are protected while women suffer.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Schmitt vs Smith? Writers are getting way too lazy

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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is book release day!!! So thrilled that An Inconvenient Woman is finally out after years of research & writing. Thanks to everyone who has ordered or told their library to order - I truly appreciate you!♥️♥️♥️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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An Inconvenient Woman

A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just to put things in perspective, the US has a significantly higher pedestrian death rate from traffic accidents than most OECD countries have from homicides (most OECD countries are around 1/100,000 for homicide) www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

FIGURE 1. Pedestrian death rates,* by country — United States and 27 other high-income countries, 2013–2022

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm getting nervous because I'm getting sincerely hopeful fiftyplusone.news/forecast/sen...

fiftyplusone.news gives Dems a 71 percent-change of winning the Senate

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wikipedia's English article for Bertrand Cantat doesn't mince its words. The French article does.

Bertrand Lucien Bruno Cantat (French pronunciation: [bɛʁtʁɑ̃ lysjɛ̃ bʁyno kɑ̃ta], Occitan: [kanˈtat]; born 5 March 1964) is a French murderer, singer, and songwriter.

Bertrand Cantat, né le 5 mars 1964 à Pau (Basses-Pyrénées), est un auteur-compositeur-interprète, musicien et poète français.

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.

Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI has rendered Beamer presentations almost as easy as PPT ones for guys like me. Conspicuous consumption demands that cool guys in academia come up with a new, extremely intricate standard for presentations.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/09/2026

This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Linda McMahon was in her living room late one night, shortly after Trump won his second election, when her phone rang. Trump wanted to know if the woman who had led the Small Business Administration in his first term — and had been CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment before that — wanted to be his secretary of Education.

“Mr. President,” McMahon recalled telling him, “you know that I have not been in the world of education.”

“Well, you did graduate from college, didn’t you?” he responded, according to McMahon’s recollection.

Trump wasn’t looking for someone with education credentials. What he wanted instead was another business leader that would deliver a “return on investment” in the Department of Education. He also said her goal would be to put herself “out of a job” with the eventual downsizing of the department, she recalled.

“That’s not necessarily how I would expect to be courted,” she chuckled before accepting his request. McMahon would be the only one of two members from Trump’s first Cabinet — along with budget director Russ Vought — to be invited back for the second.

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