iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Look, you may have thought this was just a vanity project, but we have very important plans to shoot a lot of sniper ammunition in Washington DC and we really do need somewhere to store it.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, am I reading the news correctly that there is a new cruise missile named after Ayn Rand's most irritating book, being built by a Peter Thiel-backed defense contractor named after the bad guys in Halo?

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This doesn’t suprise me at all. It has happened on every social media platform as has been well documented and studied and as you all know with every wave of bots and and blue waves and trolls and romance scammers I’ve been whispering kinda loudly for folks to worry about this…

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 09/07/2026

ICE killed a father of three yesterday and no one is talking about it. /1

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 08/07/2026

Early care & education services are spatially differentiated. Using cell-phone mobility data, we measure worker & consumer commutes in a novel way, at the provider level. Great working with @gabriellepepin.bsky.social, @jborowsky.bsky.social & Liz Davis. research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont...

Close to Home? Five Key Facts about Child Care Customer
and Worker Commutes
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 26-432
Gabrielle Pepin
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Jonathan Borowsky
University of Minnesota
Elizabeth E. Davis
University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
June 2026
ABSTRACT
Parents often cite location and convenience as important factors in choosing a child care provider. We use data on individual mobility from GPS in cell phones to study commutes to each licensed early childhood care and education (ECE) provider in 14 states separately for center customers, center workers, and customers of home-based child care providers. We document five key facts about ECE customer and
worker commutes. One, center customers and workers commute farther than home-based customers to ECE providers. Two, substantial shares of customers and workers commute 10+ miles to their ECE
provider. Three, commute distances to ECE providers vary substantially across geographic regions. Four, commute distances, especially for center workers, increase with provider neighborhood socioeconomic
status. Five, commute distances vary by the racial and ethnic composition of the provider location, even after controlling for measures of socioeconomic status. Results suggest variation in ECE market size by provider type, geographic location, and workforce characteristics, which has implications for policies intended to increase supply within the sector. Higher-income customers may lift child care prices and wages across a broader region than where they shop, impacting access in less privileged regions. Interventions targeting child care wages may have geographical spillovers outside of child care markets defined by consumer behavior.
Key Words: child care, commutes, early childhood care and education workforce, market size
This work was supported by a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m proud to have the endorsement of 10 out of 10 members of the Minneapolis House legislative delegation for my candidacy for Hennepin County Attorney.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

No, see, "overruled 90 years of precedent in order to expand presidential power" is the way *critics* describe it. *Your* side says: resisting intrusion into core executive functions, protecting the sanctity of the separation of powers, and acknowledging that the precedent has been whittled away.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Guess what everyone, the spoils system is constitutionally mandatory! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"We are party to a services agreement with a security company owned by Mr. Musk and organized to provide security services concerning him, .... $4 million for such security services in 2025, and $1 million for such security services from January 1, 2026 through February 28, 2026."!

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Someone's bankers have a sense of humor #SpaceXIPO

The body of a rocket, viewed from one end. The mirrored surface reflects a fiery conflagration filling the background. In the top left corner, the text RISK FACTORS in block capital letters.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

SpaceX's prospectus is WILD: "We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market (“TAM”) in human history" Fascinatingly, very little of the projected market is space-related. 90% of it (26.5T/28.5T) is AI. "Our AI business is in a relatively early stage"

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So... I wonder what the founders would think about the fact that our constitutional institutions have deteriorated so far that Congress is now getting lectures about checks and balances from the King of England.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social I would like to debate you on whether the Iran war can be justified under Just War theory in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Please have your people reach out to arrange the particulars. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This discriminatory death penalty law moves Israel further from the Jewish and democratic values on which it was founded – and from the core values of American Jews. 1/3

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Trump isn't just contending that a narrower interpretation of the Citizenship Clause is preferable. He is saying there is a class of persons without rights, the aim of every authoritarian throughout history. Further, he argues that he has the unreviewable power to decide who is in that class.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Republican negotiation: Fund ICE or we'll defund food stamps. Dems: Okay you win. Dem negotiation: Reform ICE or we'll defund airport security. Republicans: No. Also, give me your shirt, loser. Dems: OK lets fund airport security. Can I put out a press release saying I am a tough and strong?

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"No stupid rules of engagement" -- Pete Hegseth www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u... www.military.com/feature/2026...

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Maine is 95% White and 61% Rural (cf Ohio 70% White, much less Rural) bsky.app/profile/shar...

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"[L]ight the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon" is one of the more coherent theories of the Iran war that the administration has offered so far.

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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Left: Aug 20 2025 Wapo editorial
The Texas gerrymander freakout
What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.

Right: Feb. 7 2026 Wapo editorial
Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.

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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Conejo Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody

The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.

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Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket

A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists. #econsky #news #harvard

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Give us absolute power! Without all these silly norms and constitutions we'll be able to get the important stuff done. Yes, a few heads will get cracked but it's for the greater good of the nation! {Cracks heads; gives up on greater good; constructs massive monument to own vanity}.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15/08/2025

No one can deny the reality of climate change. Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social So, did you guys know each other in college? Anyway, thank you both for fighting for freedom, justice, and good governance!

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Putting aside historical or legal arguments, the "unitary executive" seems to be quite a terrible system from a policy point of view.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

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Jews for Food Aid for Gaza

Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If YIMBY urbanists are listening, I have a question for you. How do you deal with risk of future negative externalities from vacant housing? It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Trump accuses Harvard of judge-shopping after Harvard files suit in the state where Harvard is located.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

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Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines

Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/04/2025

lol jokes aside as a researcher and #phd student, all I'm gonna say is that public scholarship matters more now than ever. And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot. bsky.app/profile/ifls...

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In the other place, newly appointed DOJ Chief Economist Julia Pollack throws shade on @hamiltonproject.org, claiming that their graph misleadingly hides spending increase trends under Biden that the administration has fixed.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

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