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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3h

We used to be a proper country. No more state-month #JOLTS. When we starve our statistical agencies of resources, they can't produce as much insight. #EconSky #NumbersDay

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is transitioning their state-level Job Openings and Labor Turnover data from monthly to annual releases, creating a need for alternative indicators to support timely state labor market monitoring.

Join us Wednesday as we present a Quarterly Workforce Indicator-based framework for monitoring labor market conditions.

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 8h

f(x) is actually short for fhtagn of x

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 23h

And you wonder why I care so much about math education...

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 29/09/2026

Can someone please explain the hate for target trials? Seems like one of those nerd wars that is kind of a nothing burger.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 29/09/2026

Getting a little weary of every other interview on NPR being about AI doomerism. Like: there's other more important stuff going on right now.

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 29/09/2026

As a person who doesn’t think AI is all that bad and that it is not inherently evil, my god I am made to look like utter evil fool who has gone completely insane by others who like using this tool. It is so maddening and exhausting to be put in the same bucket with some of these folks. GET A GRIP!!!

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

My Seattle #WashingtonHeartWalk team is 73 percent toward our $10K fundraising goal for @americanheart.bsky.social. Help us raise the rest! As a sudden cardiac arrest survivor, it would mean a lot to me, personally.

An image of the poster just before discharge from the hospital where he received treatment in the aftermath of sudden cardiac arrest.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

The good news is that if we continue to make the argument that every economic trend is due to AI, the collection of administrative demographic and economic data becomes a non-issue! Lazy mono-causal assumptions FTW!

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

admittedly late to the rubin report on sociology commissioned by the tube top of selective universities. “the inequality monocrop” is a philly haircut you got on south street in 1997 and why did no one tell her

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

On Cornell situation: Name, shame, and jail, as Anas would say.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

Re-upping this question.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

WFHWFHWFHWFHWFHWFHWFHWFHAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIWFHWFHWFHEFHEFHWFHWFHWFHAIAIAIAIAI. End of ZIRP, hiring overhang, kids going to school on screens while their parents day drink? Lol quiet peon. WFHWFHWFHWFHWFHWFHWFHWFHAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIWFHWFHWFHEFHEFHWFHWFHWFHAIAIAIAIAI. AI! WFH!

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

Holy @&$! The quiche my wife just made is off the charts good.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026

If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…

Eric Lipton NYT
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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 26/09/2026

Before my cardiac arrest, I was @&$!ing JACKED. Since then, I’ve been a bit too afraid to get back to the same activity level for a long time, lost a lot of strength and mobility. Happy to say I’m 100 percent ready to change that now, been putting in the work more regularly now. It’s… a slog.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 26/09/2026

I know people on here who run a podcast. I'm going to be releasing some audio on multiple channels and wonder if folks have a good experience with Transistor.fm.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 26/09/2026

I promise not to do to you what Koria Wilder is doing with her own father’s voice because her father gave her full control of his estate when he died.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

The fact that this person is facing jail time whereas other US politicians breaking federal finance and political campaign finance laws aren’t is maddening.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In case you don't get it, today's Supreme Court ruling allowing states to use flawed SAVE data is infected by these fraud claims. Non-citizen voting (and registration) is exceedingly rare. However, the *perception* is that huge amounts must exist requiring extraordinary measures to combat it

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is... troubling. SCOTUS is allowing the Trump administration to use an error-ridden tool that relies on inaccurate data. This tool has already led to false allegations of non-citizen voting. Now, it could "accidentally" remove legal voters from the rolls, causing real disenfranchisement.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

cornellsun.com

EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

NEW NINJA WARRIOR EPISODE JUST DROPPED

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

"What is this Ben guy so up in arms about people ignoring when the most life-changing technology emerged on November 2022 and changed everything about everything?" THIS. I'm up in arms about THIS.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

How long do you think it will take before what happened to research on the post-2022 labor market (ie, everyone thinks everything that happens to it now is because of AI) happens to research on, say, mental health? Cardiovascular health? Social science is gonna become one big monocausal JOKE.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

I $&@!ing love this guy IMMEDIATELY

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/09/2026

I've been thinking about this photo all day. Considering how the Trump administration is constantly ranting about Communists, and how Pete Hegseth is always nattering on about our WARFIGHTERS, it's genuinely crazy to me that this image exists. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kowt...

Screenshot of a Getty photograph captioned: "U.S. military personnel unroll the red carpet at the bottom of the stairs of an Air China plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on September 23, 2026. (Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)" Above it, also in the screenshot, is a paragraph of text from a Bulwark article that included that picture. The text reads: "That was certainly the sense conveyed by the ceremony as a whole. There was the televised spectacle of American service members on their hands and knees, smoothing wrinkles and picking specks of dirt off the 100-foot long red carpet that had been unrolled for Xi, as Chinese officials looked on approvingly from the door of their airplane before their leader descended the stairs."

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

The president violates federal law on a regular basis and I’m kind of tired of not hearing more people in the business community openly admit this.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026

NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...

courtlistener.com

Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com

EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...

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Giles @gdeejay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm currently writing a blog discussing whether it's still worth learning to code. I was already thinking about this myself, but part of my motivation comes down to hearing "glad I didn't learn to code" one too many times. Writing it has been carthatic. #rstats

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

God I love your writing, Ana Marie

Think of it as self-preservation. Stop riding on Air Force One and you won't be terrorist bait the next time around.
Don't stop reporting on Trump and the effect Trump has on the world, no, those stories are more urgent than ever. Tell the stories of the toddlers forced to represent themselves in immigration court, military malpractice, undisguised grift, the affordability crisis, data centers bleeding rural America dry.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026

“I remember seeing him on TV and thinking, ‘No, that can’t be Kash,’ but sure enough, there he was, addressing the nation about a missing person case.” — Daisy, local golden retriever

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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI

WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

They’re stealing our neighbors more quietly now

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 24/09/2026

Let's think, just for a few moments, about how plausible it is that literally everything that is happening in the labor market right now is because of AI.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 24/09/2026

By this time next year, @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @scientificdiscovery.dev will have a YouTube channel and podcast where they try different kinds of ice cream while they just *WRECK* bad science in the most hilarious ways.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 24/09/2026

This from Shaw is a wild wild wild fever dream. Holy mackerel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to...

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