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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It’s striking how effectively republicans tied mainstream dems with random internet communists, despite the two groups hating each other, while the vice president and shadow president are clearly in a million group chats with literal nazis and people hardly notice

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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon

Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/02/2025

The SAVE Act is systemic misogyny. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of women--those who changed their name after marriage but don't have either a birth certificate or a passport with their new legal name.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Absolutely. The degree to which congressional Dems should break the norms they've respected in the past ought to be proportional to the threat posed by what the administration is now doing, and that threat is unlike anything we've ever seen.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Yes. For every post you put in front of me, you better have a record of me explicitly opting in to seeing posts from that person if you don’t want to accept liability for it as a publisher. Changing the law to reflect this has gotta be a day one priority in the event we get through this intact.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

White House going nuclear on...the WSJ ed board.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed. But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

hmm somehow i dont think the guy who explicitly compared the city of god to a city of migrants said that the good samaritan was actually about the person in front of you and that alone

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:

they just fired the law and policy section at ENRD

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Had a rly good research idea and it was someone’s job market paper 4 years ago 😭

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Should we continue to encourage kids to go to college ? Or push them to take up a trade ? I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Has Vivek's tweet about Boy Meets World and Whiplash made it over here? It's very long but one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.

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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

wemby is like the climate change of the NBA. you know it’s coming to get us all but there’s really nothing you can do about it so you just sit back, smile and say “wow what a beautiful 70 degrees day in november”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Other countries like Finland are vaccinating farm workers, who are the vast majority of humans getting bird flu right now. The U.S. is not vaccinating farm workers for bird flu. The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

1) you're benchmarking against a historical norm, so if the historical norm was a shortage, your estimate will say that the shortage today isn't so bad. you see this in their estimate of the rental housing shortage by county: No shortage in the Bay Area!

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Honestly? It rocks that we just live in a world where a non-trivial number of people who vote are now just completely detached from reality. Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 11/12/2024

i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Kudos to South Korea's right-leaning ruling party, which turned against its own embattled President and rejected his bid to declare martial law. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Welcome to the United States of Latin America baby

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

There’s nobody I trust to help the Democratic Party win more than Ben Wikler. If he doesn’t win this we are screwed

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵

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Unite. Fight. Win.

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 29/11/2024

Should Chicago fire Matt Eberflus right now? @adamjahns.bsky.social on why it’s time for the Bears brass to have that tough conversation ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk. They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings. Lead article in the latest AER issue: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Posting an abstract for an undone paper as a commitment mechanism (and because I love working with this team)

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Under Biden I went from a shitty apartment to outright ownership of a single family detached home in a major metro and the excellent economic conditions were a huge part of that.

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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

TRANSCRIPT: Full text of our chat with BU economist Jetson Leder-Luis on Medicare fraud. Going to do a little thread on this, since there were so many interesting insights. First, what is ambulance fraud, why is it the "perfect" form of healthcare fraud. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

(CNN) - President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates .., people close to the transition planning say. www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

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Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candi...

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

It’s heat lamp season on the CTA 🥰

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/10/2023

Breaking News: A federal judge struck down Republican-drawn voting maps in Georgia, saying they violated the civil rights of Black voters.

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Georgia’s Voting Maps Are Struck Down

Republicans in the state violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 26/10/2023

Ford/UAW look to have struck a deal.

Ford, UAW Said to Reach Tentative Deal to End Autoworker Strike
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 07:26 PM
By Keith Naughton, David Welch and Gabrielle Coppola

(Bloomberg) --The United Auto Workers reached a tentative labor agreement with Ford Motor Co., people familiar with the negotiations said. The breakthrough puts pressure on the carmaker’s two chief rivals to reach deals and end a protracted strike that has already cost the industry billions of dollars.
The tentative deal includes a 25% wage hike and is subject to union leadership approval, according to the people, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly. An announcement is expected around 8 p.m. local time in Detroit.

General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV are set to meet with the UAW on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Join us for our special coverage this morning of yet another attempt by Rep Jim Jordan to become House Speaker

It’s the This Is Fine meme with me instead of the cartoon dog

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Does someone wanna buy this data for me 🥺

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

because believing in god is not necessary to believe in ideas like justice, solidarity with the oppressed, mourning tragedy, or celebrating survival. and because we have survived literally millennia of genocide attempts, and i’m not going to let my lack of belief in god kill my culture.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

My funniest day as a Jew was talking to a Christian who was *very* annoyed at how Mormons "just took the Bible and tacked another book on and somehow think that's a religion." Whooo, buddy. Do I have some news.

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

For a company that only has one job, Dropbox does that job quite poorly!

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I need this place to stay alive through at least the next few months so I have somewhere to rant about graduate school admissions 😭

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Jacob Herbstman @jacobherbstman.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Bluesky is a lot more active than I would have guessed, I suppose network effects can only do so much

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I wrote a book with Tal Gross! "Better Health Economics: An Introduction for Everyone" If you want to hear me discuss some of the material from the book, come to the ASSA continuing education session Jan 7-9 (I’ll be including some of the material from my book in my Health Economics lectures)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

NEW from me: The Fed no longer believes a recession is necessary to stop inflation, instead seeing a soft landing where interest rates remain higher for longer In fact, a contingent now believes rates will be structurally higher than pre-COVID www.apricitas.io/p/the-fed-se...

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The Fed Sees a Softer, Higher Landing

Fed Forecasts Now Imply a Recession is Not Necessary to Stop Inflation and that Rates Might Remain Higher For Much Longer

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