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Carolyn Sissoko

@csissoko.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the West of England

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 13h
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 14h
Holy smokes. What on earth is going on here? This is not fact-checking! At best it's poorly-informed nonsense but it feels very much like calculated misinformation. #MEpolitics
PolitiFact tweet: Troy Jackson said that Susan Collins “put people like Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court that took away Roe v. Wade.”

Collins did vote for Kavanaugh but it’s misleading to draw a direct line between Collins and Roe v. Wade’s end.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14h
good morning, today is October 9 and Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is now playing at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles it's happening!
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 13h
Get that digital euro up and running internationally lads
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23h
Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18h
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h
This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 23h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20h
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Absolutely wild. Why did ABC 404 this story?
Screenshot of ABC News page with a 404 message w a headline “oops! Page unavailable”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The victory over Reconstruction was not confined to one state. By the last decade of the 19th century it was complete. The violence was targeted, and the terrorists won. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Volume 83 Issue 2
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Lynchings were frequently committed with the most flagrant public display” www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Minnesota is beautiful. All the people here are beautiful. You should come visit. In the end, we will win because of course we will. We will outlast whatever this is because way more people everywhere are good.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/10/2026
These findings raise questions about whether NDS, like DOGE, is skirting rules and regulations to bring its chosen staff into government and is functioning as an arm of the tech industry as much as a government initiative. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Decades of disinvestment and austerity is actually a significant reason why stuff is so expensive! We don't invest in in-house staff, fund projects piecemeal, and do everything as a one-off, so everything costs more.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 08/10/2026
“This kind of fake-public company should not exist. Every public share should be valued the same. Dual-class shares should be banned outright… The reason founders like Zuckerberg set up a dual-class structure is that they want all the benefits of being publicly traded with none of the drawbacks…”
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is a question for Jason and other believers in crowding out: If the AI bubble bursts and data center investment collapses, do you think that construction spending in other sectors will go up or down? I think it will go down.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paul's really careful empirical work is a very important contribution to this discussion: it shows the huge unintended consequences when an intervention designed to improve safety fails to consider the broader set of pressures and incentives workers are under.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Noooo Almost two-thirds of the population of chinstrap penguins have disappeared from a remote volcanic island near Antarctica, aerial surveys suggest. The research team say climate change is affecting the birds' food supply and survival www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's largest penguin colony hit by climate-driven decline
Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a death blow to social scientific research in the US
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
The court is basically saying that knowledge of the victim being trans is potentially exculpatory for a self defense legal claim. This is explicitly greenlighting the panic defense and saying a victims trans status might excuse a murder.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is great papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Could not be prouder of my union.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 07/10/2026
Serious fiscal state capacity is when it’s shock and awe among offshore wealth holders. (“They” are the Communist Party.)
FT: One Chinese tech investor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says he and friends of similar high net worth were shocked by the precision with which the tax reforms target key offshore holdings and historic income, and the tight deadline set to pay.

“They have the system, they know your investments overseas . . . they can actually break open those trusts,” he says. “I think they’ve been thinking about this for a long time.”
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 07/10/2026
“When Rosa Luxemburg asked ‘socialism or barbarism?’ she was posing too stark a choice. Ours is between mild reform and barbarism. And it’s not clear which our ruling class will choose.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tories on Tuesday: "we'll spend £10bn on a missile system we don't understand". Tories on Wednesday "we'll cut taxes!" These are not serious people.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“No warrants are shown, as far as we can tell there’s no legal ground for them to come onto private property. It seems like they’re pushing through the construction process quickly and will deal with the law later,” said Rachel, a land defender who spoke with UR about the raids.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/10/2026
This is great work from Will, breaking down the evidence on the impacts of rent control according to the finer details of the policy 👇
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes! Excellent post. Standards aren’t regulation or red tape. Europe’s success with the GSM standard (while the US allowed standards competition) helps explain success in mobile tech.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An interesting thread on AI and maths proofs
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ABC lawyer says Trump administration threats are working, and that editorial decisions “are being affected right now” in coverage of the midterm elections “that the American public has a right to hear about.” Kudos for transparency, but fuck you for obeying in advance. deadline.com/2026/10/abc-...
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ABC To Judge In FCC Lawsuit: Trump's Regulatory Threats Chill Speech
At a hearing for ABC's First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC, the network's attorney said "we are watching everything we do" in spat with agency.
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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Economists may correct me, but I think this is what’s called a monopoly. #BustTheTrusts
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Congresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 06/10/2026
We will hold this administration accountable for ALL of their crimes.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts.
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