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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 34m

That's John "Moral Clarity" Ossoff, for those of you who don't think that Democrats are willing to condemn their opponents on principled grounds. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 1h

The president is trying to incite pogroms. He promises to protect those who participate.

On Truth Social, @realDonaldTrump writes:
“The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back.
You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us! President
DONALD J. TRUMP”

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 3h

This is in no way an exaggeration. Trump does want to save his political power by inciting violence. Fortunately, we have already seen the people of Minnesota reject this and mobilize to protect their neighbors, even at the cost of their own lives. American heroes. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 3h

Livestreamed. An administration full of officials drawn from of social media content creators reaches its dark apotheosis. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 3h

To name something is to have power over it. Every wizard and every schoolyard bully understands that. We know where Trump's understanding of the phenomenon comes from. bsky.app/profile/muel...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 5h

Thank goodness we didn't drop a few hundred billion over the years since the pandemic into green energy or health infrastructure or something obviously useless like that. bsky.app/profile/jess...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 5h

Personally, I'd be too frightened to join up if they used that "Other Mommy" trailer I saw before the Odyssey. Two Mommies sounds pretty mellow, though. Like a wacky divorce-remarriage film from the 70's. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 5h

Or a traitor! Your majesty's boundless good nature and generosity were again taken advantage of by unworthy and dangerous men. You should consider well how best to punish his disloyalty.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 5h

So much for the value of practice. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

Entire administration made up of ragebait, niche podcast/Youtube failures. Incomprehensible to anyone outside their epistemic test tube. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hello? My English-Republican translator needs calibrating. May I confirm that "Democrats will make doorknobs in stores dirty" is just dementia-Boomer coding for "they will let non-white people in?" bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

Wait . . . the ECB is a duck? bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been half an hour in a huge queue to get Covid and flu vaccination and that makes me happy. Good to see my community looking after itself.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

So . . . stuff that ICE is rendering innocent people to third country detention centers to endure, then? bsky.app/profile/klas...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

Completely legitimate thing for a Central Bank to do - accepting that "price not justified by fundamentals" is a necessarily political determination. bsky.app/profile/dmwo...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

In any alternate reality, I'd assume that these messages were AI-generated to discredit the American President for propaganda purposes. With Trump, my presumption is that they're real and he's leaving messages for Iran like an elderly shut-in calling the bank fraud hotline bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, but the Sci-Fi channel's "Fire Hurricane" straight-to-cable movie in 2003 was even better. Watched it on a double feature with "Mansquito." bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

Nope. Henry Ford with a serious drug problem, I'll give you, but not Thomas Edison. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

So you're saying that she's just too low-energy for this administration? Or that we'll find thousands more chat logs running the same scam? bsky.app/profile/egge...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

Once you embrace the internal, non-linear logic of the Trump economy, it all makes sense. Damn that Joseph Robinette Goldstein. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

I've decided to give up and embrace economic updates provided by a demented chipmunk on meth. It's like learning to love Big Brother - I'm actually happier now. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

That's exactly why Stalin had him ice-picked in Mexico - dude was a fanatical defender of the integrity of women's sports. No one reads history any more.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

"The unapologetic pursuit of national power" is an absolute and unavoidably evil thing - any Catholic should know this. What's more, the Trump movement doesn't even have a usable definition of the American "nation." Its folk-ethnic ideology is a ridiculous Nazi fantasy. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. I never would have imagined that this would be the most insane thing I learned about JD Vance. bsky.app/profile/elia...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Re-electing Donald Trump in 2024 was the most idiotic and grandest act of (albeit corrupted) democratic national suicide in history.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

If you are an American, you will pay for every penny of their folly no matter how the Trump administration tries to hide it. Gas prices and service on an unsustainable national debt are only the start. Future violence and the breakdown of global order will be much more costly still.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Even if true, consider the additional costs of transport under war conditions - directly in the form of insurance (10% of cargo value?), hazard pay for crew, and time/rerouting plus indirect costs in the form of the staggering expense of US military escort. bsky.app/profile/ship...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 8h

There should be an elite squad of highly trained data visualization specialists who investigate and prosecute offenses like this. Like Edward Tufte's X-Files. Maybe they could also figure out the Scoob-Doo thing, because the data is so confusing that I think he might win. bsky.app/profile/thet...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 8h

Thomas Jefferson, who firmly and truly believed in the existence of a "natural aristocracy" among men of superior persons who should run society, recognized that material success - often determined by undeserved inheritance - was not a reliable way to identify such persons. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 8h

This is far beyond the 25 Amendment. This is mad emperor, mental-collapse-requiring-institutionalization territory. bsky.app/profile/jose...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

The head of the Fraud Task Force unaware of corruption inside the Trump administration, despite it being widely covered in the media. All by design: The Public Integrity unit in DOJ was gutted and has been told to focus on welfare fraud in blue states. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

The unit is hiring again to focus on “how politicians and state officials facilitate the misuse of taxpayer dollars.” That sounds good — until you realize what this actually means is they plan to go after blue state officials for allegations of welfare fraud. Trump’s circle will remain safe. After all, his former defense lawyer runs the DOJ now.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

This clip is also amazing. Rubio is asked first about an IG investigation. He ignores this, and says he will not respond to media accusations. But the media is all we have. The internal mechanism of accountability like IGs are not working because Trump broke them. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Under Trump, Inspectors General, whose job it is to root out corruption, have been defunded and fired, replaced with friendly appointees. Among the remaining career staff “nobody wants to speak up about anything.” The State Department Office of Inspector General is led by two acting officials, and has produced one third fewer reports in the last year.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you, JD. I'm going to save this quote in the hope that I get to teach an introductory political economy course - or a seminar on the field's intellectual history. In the mean time, I'll just try to imagine the contempt in which your former teachers must hold you. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

The statement is pure folly - a bombastic, fascist announcement of a doomed quest to achieve something that cannot exist in the real world and would be a horrifying curse if it could. I hope that my country can eliminate the evil these people represent before it works too much harm on the world.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

This is a repellant, dictator's vision - national power to dominate others is an empire's objective, not that of a republic. And "national power" itself in an age of complex economic and environmental interdependence - to say nothing of nuclear weapons - is at best a subjective, relational thing.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

Actually, it's nothing like that. You should really save this kind of asinine pedagogic analogizing for your LinkedIn page or the commencement address you're asked to give as an alumna at her liberal arts college at the last minute when their 1st choice speaker cancels. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dude's trying to get ahead of blaming the coming crash on Democrats. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And the key is that you do this not by any insight into the underlying object of speculation. You do this by understanding the psychology of other market participants. And this is part of the reason why Hayek and efficient pricing theories break down in speculative bubbles.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not "panic before everyone else." Anyone can do that. People (rightly) panicked about Tesla's P/E ratio a decade ago and what did that get them? Panicking immediately before everyone else is the practical version of "calling the top."

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Many people believe that the first rule of success in finance capitalism is "don't panic." They are incorrect. "Don't panic" is, in fact, the first rule of Galactic Hitchhiking. The first rule of success in finance capitalism is "Panic Immediately Before Everyone Else." bsky.app/profile/nied...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What - do you object to the scientific concept of a "control group" now? bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Honestly, though, I felt this way one year when a student evaluation said that they had been amazed to learn about how much Herbert Hoover had tried to do to combat the Great Depression and how many successful New Deal programs had antecedents in Hoover's policies.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My problem is that I try so hard to be fair to people who are obviously ignorant and wrong that I might subconsciously be unfairly biased against valid and decisive arguments just because I agree with them. It's so insightful of you to see that in yourself, Justice Alito. bsky.app/profile/espi...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not that I would presume to second guess Ukrainian defense policy, but maybe she should use her sword against the demon wolf of darkness symbolically representing the attempted Russian genocide of Ukraine and not just her magic golden defensive shield hand. bsky.app/profile/maks...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Upon further investigation, I would just like to apologize. To Resusci Annie. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cats with hairballs, into Bluey, flat buttocks . . . Amazon "about you" page or niche dating profile? bsky.app/profile/dexe...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the constant authoritarian tells of these guys is their desperate dislike of public spaces where they might encounter normal American citizens. Big closed compounds like the Kremlin or Zhongnanhai are what you build when you despise and fear your people.

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