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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is an impressive, intellectually honest decision.
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Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This post specifically really doesn't tell us about *higher* turnout effects either way, instead focusing on *all registered voters*. Plus, it shows declining dem % among registered nonvoters (54.5% in '20, 53.1% in '24)! Is this a dramatic shift? No, but it points to "nonvoters getting more R"
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Degrowth Donald
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
If Carney wins in Canada, the case for Powell 2028 becomes unimpeachable
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Stirring words in my inbox forwarded from a USAID staffer "This Order is Unlawful, and We Must Refuse to Comply"
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
For all the hand wringing about tech-world interest in Effective Altruism, it seems distinctly preferable to the currently empowered strain of Effective Sociopathy
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Guy whose pro-border wall study gets rejected because he calls it a “barrier”
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In a terrible news week, will take this bit of great news: Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney transplant in two months ago, seems to be doing well. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Well sure, it sounds bad when you put it like that
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Free trade agreements are..." A good way to create economic growth: 58% (+17) A dangerous threat to American jobs: 13% (-20) Unsure: 29% (+3) Innovative / Jan 24, 2025 / n=1007 (% Change With 2016)
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
al gore is the perfect man: hard working, smart, very handsome, progressive, cripplingly autistic
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If by “imperfect” you mean “actively nonsensical and based on a fundamental ignorance of the topic” sure
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In fairness to Sam, Trump is definitely not *neo* imperial
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I don’t think people appreciate how unusual the US system of long-term fixed rate mortgages is. This isn’t a problem in most European countries because you simply cannot get a mortgage with a fixed rate, or if you can the mortgage is 15 yrs www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Got this booklet in the mail and immediately wondered which cult sent it. I was not disappointed!
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dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
"To build a whole climate policy approach around green industrial policy and then refuse to take any policy cues from the people actually running the green industries is ridiculous." www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism...
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Liberalism not socialism
Democrats need to stop acting like business careers are immoral or corrupt
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I think education polarization does mean that a lot of people who are liberal or on the left generally think they're too good to be party-line hacks.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A surprising number of people are like “I can abide murdering a health insurance CEO in cold blood in midtown Manhattan at point blank range. But retweeting Andrew Huberman after that NYMag story came out is a bridge too far…”
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NBER @nber.org · 08/12/2024
Serial acquisitions of anesthesia practices led to price increases of 30 percent with no quality improvements, from Aslihan Asil, Paulo Ramos, Amanda Starc, and Thomas G. Wollmann www.nber.org/papers/w33217
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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
But I still think it's crazy that people who need kidneys have to wait for volunteers to come along! The bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act that Congress is considering now could help by giving new donors a $50k tax credit. @dylanmatt.bsky.social has a great piece on it: www.vox.com/future-perf...
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The moral case for paying kidney donors
Kidney donors save lives. Why aren’t we compensated for it?
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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
1 - article describes effective altruism as “the dominant way to think about charity” and worries about crowding out other giving. But EA is under 0.5% of US giving! Arts giving alone is 10-20x bigger. This is like complaining that art films are eating into Marvel's market share.
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R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler @rdbressler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The concentration of heat-related mortality among younger people is quite disproportionate compared to other causes of death: Although just 16% of overall deaths from all causes are among under 35 year olds, 75% of heat-related deaths are among under 35 year olds
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When talking impoundments, it's critical to note Nixon lost every single case in court that was decided on the merits - before the ICA was law. Some very limited historical impoundments happened - but were never challenged. As soon as they were challenged, courts said no even without the ICA.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Globally, the Healthcare Profession is Under Siege From Left and Right "Bashar A., an optomestrist in the Damascus area, says that healthcare professionals are scared - events such as the recent shooting of the UHC CEO 'have us all on edge'"
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Former Staffer: Institute of Price Stabilité @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Tumblr post 
A: Elf liberalism probably goes insane
A: "elf liberalism is the same as gnome fascism" - phrase that has been echoing in my head for the past 30 minutes
B: what the fuck does this mean?
A: it's not my job to educate you
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R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler @rdbressler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What’s the most important choice in determining the social cost of carbon (SCC)? My #EconJMP shows that because deaths from emitting CO2 are large and concentrated in poor countries, valuing lives is the most consequential choice in determining the SCC in latest-gen models, more than discounting 🧵👇
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations
U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.
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Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Well played.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Remember, Thanksgiving isn’t easy for everybody. Some people got sewn into Charlie Brown’s pants at the big parade and, to this day, can’t stand bald boys because when they see them, they think they’re back in the pants.
Patti Harrison in the “capital room” sketch from I Think You Should Leave, wearing a business suit she bought with her parade money.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
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Hannah Groch-Begley @grouchybagels.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Are you writing a book about political economy/progressive policies/other things @rooseveltinstitute.bsky.social might find interesting? Do you have a book contract w/ a publisher? DO YOU LIKE MONEY? If so consider applying to our (virtual) Author in Residency! (1/x) form.jotform.com/CampusNetwor...
Screenshot of the Roosevelt Author in Residence description from the application, which includes "a $7,500 monthly stipend for 12 consecutive months" for writers to deliver on the expectations outlined in their book contract.
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Jonquilyn Hill @jonquilynhill.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This week on Explain It to Me, William wants to know more about ranked choice voting and if it can fix….whatever it is we got going on politically right now. I turn to @dylanmatt.bsky.social for some (admittedly messy) answers. open.spotify.com/episode/16BU...
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Could ranked choice voting fix our elections?
Explain It to Me · Episode
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here's my paper on how budget reconciliation works! There are a lot of great explainers, but I think my value add is working through specific examples of things that've failed to make it through reconciliation and explaining the parliamentarian's reasoning. www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
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How Does Budget Reconciliation Work?
What are the rules of reconciliation? What is allowed in, and what is not?
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