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Geoffrey Williams

@geoffreyfw.bsky.social
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Associate professor of economics at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. NB: Not actually a crested macaque.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 1h
Over at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, some thoughts on RJ Mitte, Walter White Jr., and child actors. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/no-m...
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No More Child Actors - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Breaking Bad would not have worked without Walter White Jr. As played by RJ Mitte, Walter Jr. (or, as he sometimes preferred to be called, Flynn) was not the heart of the show, as innocent characters ...
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lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Finally a proper working paper for this study that produced one of the most astounding figures I've ever seen. Basically economics is different from every other field, empirically. This paper looks at the concentration of university affiliations for award winners. www.nber.org/papers/w35875
Figure 2 from the paper: institutional concentration of university affiliation at time of award correlated with institutional concentration of phd granting university. Economics is the most concentrated of any field. 
Figure 2 from the paper: institutional concentration of university affiliation at time of award correlated with institutional concentration of lifetime employment. Economics is the most concentrated of any field.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Altman, Amodei and the Trump administration will learn that creative destruction sounds like a great idea until you have to call your insurer
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! The 2027 Meeting of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at @nber.org will be held on April 2, 2027! The deadline for submissions is December 10,2026. Please Share!! More details are here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Okay this one is good
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christianity has ALWAYS been a contested faith. Somehow Dems have let themselves be spooked out of the contest for 40+ years. Happy to see that seems to be changing!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Geoffrey Williams @geoffreyfw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lexington native Jenisha Watts’ thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... @drfarls.bsky.social
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Why I’m Sending My Black Son to Private School
I admire Nikole Hannah-Jones’s choice. I am making a different one.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a beautifully written and absolutely gutting essay by @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t think I’ve ever before seen US military personnel risking their careers like this. This is very different and worrisome.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're standing there w/our eyes closed getting punched in the face."
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What a... careful... way of describing gutter racism.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the Blazing Saddles approach to bargaining. youtu.be/Z_JOGmXpe5I?...
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Blazing Saddles - Nobody move or ...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New paper alert! “Heritability and social interaction in labor market outcomes: Evidence from the population of twins in the United States,” with David Card and Moises Yi, out today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 09/09/2026
Jaws: You're gonna need a counterfactual shark
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Geoffrey Williams @geoffreyfw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s strange thinking back to that morning 25 years ago. I was in NYC and when the towers fell I was about 1.5 miles from Ground Zero. At the time I fell in with the popular view that Al Qaeda was some existential threat to the US, which seems ridiculous now. 1/2
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 10/09/2026
Unfortunately, very crappy news today from me, on the McClatchy hedge fund gutting Kentucky's second-largest paper 👇
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10/09/2026
Apparently every newspaper in the world has decided to just run the president’s campaign for him
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These are the first three slides I show my crim 1Ls: "In L&O terms, the first half hour, from the iconic chung-chung to the blasé discovery of the body, to the jaded jokes between old and young cop to the aggressive interrogation to arrest? Not this class. That's Crim Pro 1."
Various scenes from the first 30 minutes of L&O.
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Seen on the DC Metro Yellow Line, which stops at the Pentagon
A photo of Hegseth shirtless with text “me good at BENCH PRESS not so good at running war”
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
He should do this so we can see if Google will change it. Maximize the contradictions
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R'lyeh Precinct Captain Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
READ THEORY!
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Kaitlin @justktln2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984 | Joe Kloc
a poem
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So this seems real bad. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Meet 'Castle Breaker,' Iran's missile wreaking havoc in US war
Exclusive: Analysts tell USA TODAY the US military wasn't prepared to stop the 'maneuverable' Kheibar Shekan missile Tehran has deployed in the six-month war.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The core problem - once you've tried to murder someone and their entire family, you don't have any deterrence left - remains unchanged.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de…
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/08/2026
Cockroaches Feeling Very Optimistic About Future Of Planet theonion.com/cockroaches-feeling-ve…
Cockroaches Feeling Very Optimistic About Future Of Planet
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Zach was my teaching partner at the Naval War College. He's an all-around great guy with a strong sense of honor and professionalism. He's speaking out against a deep stain on our country: the betrayal of Afghans and others put their lives at risk to work with us.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So..it appears to be the original Schlesinger (1948) survey of historians, with the three most recent Dems (and you know who) tacked on. In case anyone wants to know.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Boat Strikes Are Murder www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.
By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How to Clean Up a PR Mess: Dolly Edition www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/how-...
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How to Clean Up a PR Mess: Dolly Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A few years ago I shifted the focus on one of my assignments in our bedrock Diplomacy course from positive PR to negative PR. This is to say, “what do you do when you have to resolve a mess?” This is ...
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, no! Dolly Parton had such a pure soul and beautiful heart. Her philanthropy touched so many people in need.😢
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Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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