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Jordan Weissmann

@jhweissmann.bsky.social
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If it says ‘Mai Tai,’ sure
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In which I argue that the Mai Tai, not the old fashioned or martini, is the true Great American Cocktail slate.com/life/2026/07...
slate.com
I’ve Finally Found the Drink That Deserves to Be Called “the Great American Cocktail.” It’s Probably Not What You Think.
Better bring your little umbrella.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hey @davidwondrich.bsky.social, would love to interview you for a cocktail-related piece I’m working on. DM me if you have a moment.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Trump’s college compact is an Orwellian intrusion into American higher education, in which “academic freedom” means gutting departments unfriendly to conservatives. So far, no university has said yes, but they need to stay united against it. www.theargumentmag.com/p/trumps-col...
theargumentmag.com
Trump’s college compact is a trap
The administration is hoping to divide and conquer America’s universities. Schools need to unite and keep saying no
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
After the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk, I watched as one right wing influencer after another said it was time to wage war on all left-wing institutions. Then, Trump echoed them in his oval office address. It's frightening he would even hint at it. www.theargumentmag.com/p/charlie-ki...
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Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Ok we've made fun of deficit hawks forever but @jhweissmann.bsky.social has a convincing case that if you care about social welfare programs you actually do need to start worrying about the debt! www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-i-lear...
theargumentmag.com
How I learned to start worrying and hate the deficit
It's time for liberals to wake up about the national debt
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Part of that will require a grassroots effort to win the culture war over taxes, which Democrats have all but ceded
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My argument for being a liberal deficit hawk. Between slashing taxes and crushing immigration, Trump policies are a disaster for our fiscal future. Libs need a longterm plan to fight back that doesn’t compromise our goal to protect and improve the welfare state. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
open.substack.com
How I learned to start worrying and hate the deficit
It's time for liberals to wake up about the national debt
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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-aft...
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One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs ⋆ The Palm Springs Post
Police confirm one person is dead after a bomb explodes outside a reproductive facility
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research. In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*. This is an extinction-level event.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The fun part of this video is where he explains that Oxford and Webster both define a body slam as the wrestling move.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/04/2025
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 02/04/2025
Stockpiling in Free Trade Zones in every US state surging amidst tariff fears. www.ft.com/content/bafa...
ft.com
Trump tariffs drive imports into US foreign trade zones
Policy uncertainty fuels surge in use of approved facilities that temporarily exempt businesses from paying levies
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Looking forward to hearing Bill Cassidy’s take on this www.wsj.com/politics/top...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA
In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You know, I still would not rate the chances of a Canada invasion highly (like, less than 5% chance). But watching this Greenland presser, I’d understand it if Ottawa was doing a little war gaming right now.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants. Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds. (Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)
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Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
New York (CNN) — Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/ne...
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Student loan news: The Dept. of Education is apparently planning to turn back on the applications for income-driven repayment plans tomorrow, according to two sources familiar with the administration's plans. SAVE and REPAYE will no longer be options. IBR and PAYE will be.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hm. Carpetbagging isn’t a great strategy.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
She’s targeting Jan Schakowsky, who is a popular progressive, but also an 80-year-old incumbent who represents a college town. (Evanston, home of Northwestern). Absolutely can imagine this being a serious challenge given the frustrations with the party.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
lmao I can’t believe they printed this
The New York Times
"A current policy approach is like if you signed up for a Crunchyroll anime subscription that you knew you couldn't afford, but now that it's time to re-up the subscription, you pretend it's free because you've already been paying it."

Bobby Kogan
Senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a progressive research group; former adviser to the director of the Office of Management and Budget; former Senate Budget Committee staffer
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
BYD says it has a battery system that can charge in 5 minutes, slightly more time than it takes to fill a tank of gas. The big US automakers are just hopelessly behind, and it feels like their foreign sales could easily be wiped out in a few years as a result. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
BYD Unveils Battery System That Charges EVs in Five Minutes
BYD Co. unveiled a new system for electric cars that the Chinese automaker says will allow them to charge almost as fast as it takes a regular car to refuel.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
One of the more useful pieces I once edited by @benmathislilley.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
“Doing What an Angry 3-Year-Old Would Do” Is the Only Remaining Republican Principle
You'd think this would be an unsustainable way to govern or win elections. But temper tantrums can last a long time.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Do you have any sense of what's left at IES? Anyone?
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hi Betsy — I'm a reporter with Yahoo Finance. Do you mind sharing how this list was compiled? (DMs open).
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Yes, I was around talking about how the Germans were assholes then. And from a macro and trade balance perspective, which is what Greece etc. should care about here, miltary keynsianism is fine.
etc.care
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Department of education announces it’s cutting its workforce by 50% (including buyouts/retirements)
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This fuckin’ doof made his name trying and failing to stand up to German austerity. And now…
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Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New Yorkers when deciding on a mayor and picking the worst possible candidate
media.tenor.com
a man with a horse drawn carriage says tradition
ALT: a man with a horse drawn carriage says tradition
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Also note: That "pattern and practice of discrimination" section could almost certainly be turned against organizations it finds engaged in "illegal" DEI practices — though we have yet to see how aggressively Trump's DOJ will actually pursue that. We're potentially talking about a very big club.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The administration has not explained exactly how it plans to implement the PSLF order, and putting it into practice in theory would take a lengthy rulemaking that could then be litigated. But it's not hard to put 2+2 together here and see where all this could be headed.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On Monday, the Education Department said it was sending letters to 60 universities about similar issues. The schools included the ivies, state universities like Rutgers and some surprises like George Mason.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One of the items on that list included "engaging in a pattern of aiding and abetting illegal discrimination." Notably, last week the DOJ announced an investigation into whether the UC system "engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination" based on its handling of Gaza protests.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Trump admin has made several recent announcements suggesting it is aiming to strip employees at major universities of eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, or at least give it the option. Friday, Trump signed an EO barring nonprofits from PSLF if they engage in "illegal" activity...
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/03/2025
We need cheap rent so 23 year olds can make rent waiting tables 4 days a week and party 6 nights a week.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
On Friday, Trump announced that he planned to cut off PSLF for workers at nonprofits that engaged in ‘illegal’ or ‘improper’ activity via executive order. Based on item D on this list, it looks like he plans to wield that cudgel against DEI. Could have massive ripple effects.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
That too bsky.app/profile/theg...
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Tesla’s crashing, Twitter’s out, Trump’s telling him to slow down DOGE. Not a great few days for Elon.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For background finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...
finance.yahoo.com
Trump administration removes application for popular student loan repayment programs
The Department of Education made no announcement before removing online application form for several student loan repayment plans.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Student loan news: 25 Senate dems have written a letter to the Education Department asking when they’re planning to bring back IDR applications and what’s going on with recertification. The unfortunate takeaway for borrowers: Nobody outside the department seems to have any idea what’s going on.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes, he is bringing those things up on the phone. I think we’re also seeing why they’re a bit of a longshot. (The markets are melting down every time Trump appears to get serious about tariffs.)
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Right, that’s literally the point
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Oh, lol, I accidentally logged back on here. Anyway, yes, if we invade Canada I’ll do some reassessing.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
There is a large audience on Bluesky (and I guess a smaller one here?) that thinks doubting Trump will invade Canada is as silly as doubting Putin would invade Ukraine in ‘22. Remember that in ‘22 Russia had already invaded Crimea and was massing troops at the border.
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Looks like I’ll have quite the list!
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I’ll tell you what everybody: If Donald Trump invades Canada, I’ll come here and personally apologize to all the people frothing at me right now. Feel better?
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
No, fuck you
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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The Europeans have always been terrible at social media
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