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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apply to work for Caitlin Patler and me on immigration policy research! We are looking for a post-doc and details below! Please share widely!

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 13/08/2026

to coerce universities into bullshit "settlements" that had nothing to do with antisemitism at all. The patently illegal northwestern settlement --- see details of why it's patently illegal by @heidikitrosser.bsky.social and me here: www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates#h.hk... --- [cont🧵]

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2025.12.08 | Northwestern Law Professors Detail Legal Violations in Northwestern/Trump “Deal” For Immediate Release December 8, 2025 Download this document as a PDF here Northwestern Pritzker School...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
Abstract
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....

Graphic shows the 24-month mortality rate for different conditions for people who are in the 2 year waiting period for obtaining social security disability insurance. Shows nearly 40% mortality for cancer, followed by about 15% digestive diseases, blood diseases, and HIV/AIDS. Lack of health insurance coverage during this period likely contributes to these higher rates of death.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yep. Here's the list of telescopes that were used to achieve the goals of NASA's DART mission, and basically every single one of them outside the USA depended on collaborations with and labor* from scientists and non-scientists who are not US residents. *and that labor paid for by non-US sources

A map of the world with the locations of several dozen telescopes listed, including at least one on every single continent.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Pike Place public street seating is finally back baby! Come and enjoy. And if you would like year-round seating, that is something you can request in their survey, which closes soon: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

People sitting. person with hand cart unloading

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

2/ These actions aren't just illegal, although they are that. They aren't just unconstitutional, although they are that. They are anti-constitutional: they strike at the core of one of the principles that allows our entire constitutional order to function.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

(Starting an 🍎 review 🧵 because we live in a golden age of apples and they don’t get enough respect. Feel free to mute). First time trying Pizzaz, a newer Honeycrisp cross, and I’m a fan! Still crisp like a Honeycrisp, but a little more tart and low key flavor. Maintains color when cut. Easy eating

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Also, please share for visibility!

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"BUT TRAFFIC KEEPS GETTING WORSE!" No it doesn't. Average daily trips on the Aurora Bridge, 2004 vs. 2023, dropped by more than a third. Similar decreases across Seattle.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 03/02/2026

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

OPCD has released the final proposed zoning maps for Phase 2 of the Comprehensive Plan, implementing "Centers and Corridors." one-seattle-plan-zoning-implementation-seattlecitygis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/zoning...

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Zoning Map

Centers and Corridors Zoning Changes The map below shows proposed zoning changes released and transmitted to the City Council in January 2026 as part of the Centers and Corridors Legislation. OPCD has...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Walk through what that 'mask off' world looks like: Europe accelerates rearmament, functioning as an independent power bloc - to which the United States' neighbors, threatened by our bullshit, will want to realign, creating flash-points for potential trans-Atlantic Big Boy Wars. 4/

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App
This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details.
• State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024.
• State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024.
• Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024.
• Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021.
• Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"When people are—essentially randomly—either approved or denied for SNAP, workers who get access to SNAP work *more* over the next three years." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

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When Volatile Work Schedules Meet SNAP Work Requirements

New policies put low income workers in jeopardy of losing vital supports

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/12/2025

and judge pan gets at what i was gesturing towards earlier today: that this idea that the purpose of the executive branch is to effectuate the political agenda of the president is extra-constitutional. it has no basis in the text or the history for that matter!

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This Southern propaganda sucks, but it reminds me of good Apple News I neglected to share. WSU Extension was at our conference last week and brought the new Sunflare variety. It’s not available commercially for a couple of years, but it’s magnificent. Yes, it pairs well with Cougar Gold.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left. And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction. What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:

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Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety - Bolts

Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Econ 101 midterm question: Based on what you know about risk pools and adverse selection in healthcare markets, will giving people money instead of giving them money to buy health insurance lead these markets to function more effectively, or will it just lead more people to be uninsured?

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Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

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Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata

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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Due to DOGE cuts and then the shutdown, the number of listings for jobs in the US Federal government is down about 75% compared to recent years.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

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Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I organized an economist amicus brief in the IEEPA tariffs case the Supreme Court will soon hear. You can find the full brief here: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.

Diagrams showing the evolution of Thomas Jefferson's low east and west terrace colonnades from 1803 to 1819.
Both the east and west terrace colonnades were set half-underground to be visually subservient to the White House main building, and were inspired by Jefferson's similar design at Monticello.
From: McDonald, Travis, "The East and West Wings of the White House: History in Architecture and Building", White House History, White House Historical Association, No. 29, Summer 2011
Source: https://www.poplarforest.org/wp-content/uploads/white-house-wings-article.pdf

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White House, Theodore Roosevelt East Wing expansion and East Terrace Colonnade restoration (1902)
Detroit Photographic Co. (1904)
collection: Library of Congress

View of the now-demolished East Colonnade and Terrace which was first built by Thomas Jefferson in 1805 and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 looking towards the East Garden, designed by First Lady Edith Roosevelt, shortly after its completion. The East Garden is now called the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. (1904)
Collection. Library of Congress
Source: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/white-house-east-garden-1904

Views of Franklin D. Roosevelt's enlarged East Wing connected to the main body of the White House by the now-demolished East Colonnade and terrace which was first built by Thomas Jefferson in 1805 and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

Photo credits: Aerial Views of the White House East Wing and colonnade from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) by Jack Boucher (1992) from the North-East (above) and South-East (below).

East Wing from the "East Garden" side in 1952, showing the gallery colonnade glassed in, and FDR's second floor added (Truman Library - Abbie Rowe)

East Colonnade from the now-destroyed Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks (2020)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/10/2025

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Some of the key elements:

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,
' President Trump, one of the named Defendants, is not included in this Order.
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as long as the Journalist has an objectively reasonable time to comply and an objectively
reasonable opportunity to report and observe;

b. Issuing a crowd dispersal order requiring any person to leave a public place
that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6,
2023), Sections III.F and XII.E;
С.
For purposes of this Order, a crowd dispersal order is a lawful command
given by a Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area when three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct that are likely to cause substantial harm in the immediate vicinity;
d. Using riot control weapons including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PIS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns,
Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs) - on members of the press, protesters, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others;

To facilitate the Defendants' identification of Journalists protected under
this Order, the following are examples of indicia of being a Journalist: visual identification as a member of the press, such as by carrying a professional press pass, badge or credentials; wearing distinctive clothing or patches that identify the wearer as a member of the press; or carrying professional gear such as professional photographic or videography
equipment. Other indicia of being a Journalist under this Order include that the person is standing off to the side of a protest, not engaging in chanting, sign holding, shouting slogans, or otherwise protesting, and documenting protest activities, although these are not
requirements. These indicia are illustrative, and a person need not exhibit every indicium
to be considered a Journalist under this Order. Defendants shall not be liable for unintentional violations of this Order in the case of an individual who does not wear a press pass, badge, or other official press credential, professional gear, or distinctive clothing that identifies the person as a member of the press.

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 15/09/2025

NYT INVESTIGATION: Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. NYT digs into links between a lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

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Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The disappearance of the senate continues to be dangerous for economic policy. Reforming the Fed is a big question, with lots of potential avenues, each with huge risks if done wrong. We're doing this recklessly and I hope this is not a pattern for future appointments. /end

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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 10/09/2025

NEW // Powered Link Train Crosses I-90 for First Time in Pivotal Test By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/10/p...

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Powered Link Train Crosses I-90 for First Time in Pivotal Test » The Urbanist

# With the long-awaited inaugural

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This is striking. Sen Adam Schiff's lawyer, Preet Bharara, writes to DOJ accusing FHFA head William Pulte in detail of corruptly and unlawfully weaponizing the bureaucracy against him for Trump. The letter also offers exculpatory evidence for Schiff. Here are some key excerpts:

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