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bigwiggwhatup.bsky.social @bigwiggwhatup.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@destinythegame.bungie.net @bungiehelp.bsky.social new player guide is WOEFULLY outdated. I'm getting a friend into the game today and I genuinely have no idea wtf content he has access to, then I see the new player guide telling titans to focus on resilience 🤦‍♂️ www.bungie.net/7/en/News/ar...

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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

If he cannot carry out his agenda without breaking our laws, violating our Constitution, ignoring the judiciary, alienating our allies and crashing the economy… It’s a criminal agenda.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’ve been trying to say this for years: people’s politics reflect their social networks and perceived social environment. The social environment of the US power class is largely Twitter. This is why Elon Musk taking over Twitter broke America and why so many people have gone insane

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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Clean food was nice while it lasted. Is this what you want, not being able to trust that the food you eat and the medicine you take won't kill you or your family?

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21/03/2025

if you kill your kid by not allowing them to be vaccinated you can get a full time grifter job in the anti vax movement but if a school shooter kills your kid you'll get smeared by the same people that make anti-vax child killers their heroes. the commonality is they all love it when kids die

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What a set of bullet points

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

NYT: “As Republicans Search for Answers on Immigration, A Final Solution Makes Headway”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The far right will break any rule in pursuance of its agenda. Meanwhile liberals will sacrifice everything they purportedly believe in to obey a bunch of rules they made up in their heads, like “ex-presidents can’t be political leaders” or “you can’t be honest about how bad the opposition is”

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s.

The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession.

Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation.

Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.