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JDayne

@humanistdot.bsky.social
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Macro, behaviour & inequality econ ethusiast, otherwise it's films, football and outdoors

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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asura @asura.dev · 24/09/2026
I wish more people would address this as an executive problem. No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security. For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/09/2026
"You'll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn't real, the Tooth Fairy is imaginary, and there's no such thing as the 'invisible hand of the market.'" buff.ly/KM3opmg
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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Corey Husak @chusak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New simple but striking analysis from @americanprogress.bsky.social Wealth inequality has exploded since the end of 2024: -In real dollars, the top 0.1% has gained 8,000X as much wealth per household, as most American households.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finally! That's what I'm talking about! #politics
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 31/08/2026
The US is currently suffering a bad case of very powerful men dangerously decoupled from reality
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The rapid way in which this has just become an accepted daily feature of American politics, rather than an immediate presidency-ending scandal, is yet another reminder that @tompepinsky.com was right a decade ago, despite all the people who didn’t want to hear it then & still don’t now.
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Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable
Americans have an overly dramatic view what the end of democracy looks like.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
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Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat
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Sisuthefin @sisuthefin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump has received his highest polling numbers to date … Impeachment polling at 74% want him gone
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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the World Cup is one of those things that reminds us we’re one humanity. Sucks that a corrupt few influence so much division in us. Day to day life around the world is still that we eat, drink, laugh, cheer for a goal. Remembering our shared humanity is so important now. If we forget, we’re doomed.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Eight people are presumed dead in the B-52 crash in California today. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing portraits of Black generals and spending millions of dollars on ribeye steaks and lobster tails.
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Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base
B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards air force base in southern California’s Mojave Desert, officials say
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Carney fans: Cutting the US Forest Service and affecting the ability to track wildfires? Omg, Trump is so awful! Also Carney fans: Cutting Environment and Climate Change Canada and affecting the ability to track wildfires is good, actually. www.npr.org/2026/06/12/n... 1/2
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Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn
The president is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“the president was loudly booed in the countrys most populous city we traveled to this small town in south dakota to find out why”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/05/2026
"When people hear about the trolley problem, they only consider the folks tied to the tracks. They don’t think about us, the passengers aboard a runaway trolley about to have the unsettling experience of passively participating in the bone-crunching death of another human."
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A Passenger’s One-Star Review of the Trolley Ride from the Trolley Problem
’You can’t expect luxury on public transit, but the seats were very uncomfortable. Also, the brakes failed, and we began barreling uncontrollably down the tr...
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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"why use google?" webpage from 1999
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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
When did INSIDER TRADING become legal? It used to be a Federal crime with up to 25 years in prison. Mike Johnson said he needs to trade on inside information to pay his bills, like every other person in Congress. Law breaking Speaker of the House, third in line for the Presidency. CREEPY.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Jay Powell faced a pandemic that nearly broke markets, the worst inflation in 40 years, and a sustained presidential assault on Fed independence. Few Fed chairs have faced one of those. He faced all three. A reflection on what he leaves behind: www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
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How Eight Tumultuous Years Pushed Jerome Powell and the Fed to the Limit
The pandemic, inflation and White House pressure tested the central bank’s leader as never before.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 13/05/2026
I want everyone who had any hand in all this corruption imprisoned. We have lost our republic and Trump is raiding the Treasury for himself and his cronies
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Kevin Hassett’s Fox appearance today was a perfect encapsulation of the Trump economic program: 1. He pledged insanely unrealistic growth numbers that have no basis is reality. 2. He then said if they fail to achieve those numbers it will be the fault of Democratic states.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
You didn't "earn" a billions dollars, Jeff Bezos. You *took it* from your poorly paid workers.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
They need to all go to jail for the rest of their lives. The magnitude of the crimes are unprecedented & we have not internalized the scope & scale of criminal authoritarianism that letting boys with toys access all the data & destroy the government by end-running around Congress represents.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/05/2026
"No other driver in history has been asked to take as many fitness tests as me. And I ace them all." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
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You Know I’m a Good Driver Because I Ace the Tests the DMV Keeps Making Me Take
“No other driver in history has been asked to take as many fitness tests as me. And I ace them all.”
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Canada’s wealth gap is the widest it’s been in StatCan’s recorded history. You’d think Carney would focus on that -- not privatization. In fact, “Carney’s policies will only make inequality even worse," @dtcochrane.bsky.social, a senior economist with the Canadian Labour Congress, told me. Uh oh:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026
anyone who attended that WHCA dinner is an embarrassment, and current events have not changed this
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 26/04/2026
Yeah I dunno but I wouldn’t claim to call myself a journalist and president of the WHCA while sitting next to the man who said Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi probably deserved to be dismembered alive by a bone saw. Just a grotesque group of people.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Tonight, today, this week, this year, this decade in a nutshell.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Oh look. Another “really bad idea” to fix climate change. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/c...
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A New Idea to Save the Climate? Dam the Bering Strait.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 24/04/2026
A new study highlights one of the largest temperature anomalies recorded anywhere, ever.
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How Antarctica warmed by 28°C in the depths of winter – and what it signals for the decades ahead
A new study highlights one of the largest temperature anomalies recorded anywhere, ever.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/04/2026
Not the onion.
A digital screenshot of a news article from "The Independent" website, dated April 13, 2026.

The headline reads: "Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person." Below the headline, the subheader states: "Trump grabs two bags of McDonald’s before issuing threats to Iran over nuclear program."

The article features a video still showing Donald Trump standing outdoors in front of a white building, wearing a dark suit and purple tie. Next to him stands a woman wearing a red t-shirt that says "DOORDASH GRANDMA." The video player includes a title overlay that reads: "Trump claims offensive Jesus meme was him 'as a doctor' healing the sick."
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 13/04/2026
Over 80% of people want a wealth tax for billionaires. Of course they’re resisting with their army of lawyers and lobbyists, but we’re building ours. I’m so excited to be teaming up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 👉
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Why are we allied with these people?
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‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.
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philo-07.bsky.social @philo-07.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 07/04/2026
So much of this could have been prevented if the men in the Epstein files had been prosecuted instead of protected.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
For his entire life, this is what the “Art of the Deal” president understood a “deal” to be: threaten others until they give you what they want. He has no grasp of actual negotiation or dealmaking - only shakedowns. Combine that with a war he’s desperate to end and you get genocidal threats.
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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It’s such a tired point but it can’t be said enough that if a Democratic president was even a fraction of this insane in public the entire Republican Party would spontaneously combust in horror
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
None of this stops, it can't even stop getting worse, until this whole constitutional wrecking crew is removed from power
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I am sickened by the NYT and others normalizing Trump’s threat to bomb Iranians “back to the Stone Ages” as simply a sign of a possible “expansion” of the war. It’s a barbaric statement, promising horrific war crimes. Everyone should be appalled.
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