Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Two tire workers independently told me "I put these on my wife's car" which I think is one of the best endorsements of a car's safety! 100
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Rewatching Anchor Man, and I think Trump is Ron Burgundy without the redeeming qualities. 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Gen Alpha is not okay: Jared Leto Joker costumes: 5 Heath Ledger Joker costumes: 0 000
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Lots of excellent reporting and writing in the NYT today. Will post some, but I’m out of gift links. First, and most importantly, the great Nikole Hannah-Jones on the lived experience of Black and queer people in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...nytimes.comWhat the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed 1618936
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Does anyone else think that this feels inappropriate? Like you're made of peanut butter... where did the peanut butter on your finger come from!?!?! Note the jar looks full and maybe even sealed? 010
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I had my first chili atop pasta today, and all I can say is "well done Cincinnati" #QueenCity 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I love going to costco on bike/walking It feels like cheating! 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 11/09/2025First day substitute teaching tomorrow! Should I school of rock them? 000
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzUrban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Research shows that criminalization and encampment clearing doesn’t solve #homelessness. In a new post, Urban #research experts highlight evidence-based solutions like #housing vouchers and supportive housing to address homelessness in DC and beyond.urbn.isThe National Guard Won’t End Homelessness. Housing Resources Can.Despite a nationwide trend toward criminalizing people experiencing homelessness, decades of research show that housing resources and other supports remain the best solution to helping people exit hom... 22615
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I agree with Paddington Bear as to the merits of marmalade! 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Broken clock tariff? This seems like maybe the one tariff I can get behind. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTrump threatens 50% tariffs on India for buying Russian oilIndia, which now faces among the highest tariff rates imposed by the US, called the levy "unjustified and unreasonable". 010
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" Katzderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Since my tweet about Jeff Bezos, I've been getting a lot of replies such as these. "Where do these dress rules come from?" "When do they change?" These are very good questions, so let me answer them. 🧵 533672525
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzMother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/06/2025Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.motherjones.comCriminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after DobbsThey were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws. 652131745908
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzKayla @kayla.ooo · 21/06/2025I think I messed up the instructions somewhere 1123232
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Sometimes electric vehicles are more efficient and save money. This is bad policy. 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I mean it's a metro area with only like 3.7% of the country's population. Like, I mean one out of every 25 people lives in LA. 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Please note that I also support magpies, jays, and even jackdaws! I support all corvids! 020
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzM. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 04/06/2025SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑 1843061
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzNBER @nber.org · 31/05/2025Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus www.nber.org/papers/w33849 14283114
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Don't worry, if we get rid of NPR, then we won't know that we don't know! 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I'm excited for Colorado to show us what alt-history California would look like. I live car free in Boulder, and there really is a lot of good car-free bones. 032
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/05/2025State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organizationtheonion.comState Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist OrganizationWASHINGTON—Promising to stamp out the extremist movement as well as its sympathizers, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the WNBA had been designated as a terrorist organization. Accord... 1315679722
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 09/04/2025With all this stock market volatility (caused austensibly by one man). Do we know that Trump and the Trump organization are not insider trading? 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I have a lot of problems with Rand Paul's version of libertarianism: mostly because it fails to account for externalities. However, "I have a trade deficit with my grocery store" is a great line which succinctly shows why zero trade deficit is not necessarily a bad thing. 010
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I often say that Boulder is conservative (note the small c), and this article is exactly what I mean: 🧵 www.westword.com/arts/opinion...westword.comSundance Could Destroy What Is Special About BoulderAs Chief Niwot said, "People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty." 110
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025In light of the tariffs, is anyone interested in requisitioning an eyepatch, crew, and ship with me? Pirate/smuggler seems like a cool and very American line of work! Yarrrr! 000
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero. 10706253012919
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzNBER @nber.org · 05/04/2025Police search low-income motorists more often but are less likely to find contraband in those searches and disparities are driven, at least in part, by class-based profiling, from Benjamin Feigenberg and Conrad Miller www.nber.org/papers/w33629 0106
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025It's wild how incompetent these guys are. 010
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025This would be a breach of trust and incredibly counterproductive for American taxpayers 2348
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzMetro @wmata.com · 04/04/2025Ready for the weekend? Enjoy normal service on ALL lines, no planned track work, and a two hour early Metrorail opening on Sunday at 5 a.m. for the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run! 🌸 2794
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I see some anger at Switch 2 games costing $80. Games started costing $60 in 2005 for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in 2005. If you adjust for inflation, this is equivalent to about $100 in 2025 dollars. $80 is pretty cheap for something you can easily spend 10+ hours playing. 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Shout out to my partner for telling people that Cory Wong (one of my favorite musicians who I do talk about often) was giving a marathon speech to the senate after mishearing me this morning. 000
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/04/2025File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS. Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.directfile.irs.gov 736191134628
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return.”theatlantic.comAn ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran PrisonThe Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return. 42381210
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Cory Booker is no longer speaking ... April Fools! I would have stopped being coherent hours ago! 000
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzRobert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Did you catch the @bikeeastbay.bsky.social op-ed about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail in the East Bay Times this morning? www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/26/o... The final vote on whether it stays open 24/7 is next Thursday, April 3rd. Learn how to show your support at BikeEastBay.org/RSReastbaytimes.comOpinion: Keep the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail openCongestion on the bridge is a real issue, but it is not caused by walkers, cyclists and others using the trail. 2316
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is a bad argument. Most people laid off from the government will find another job within a few months. Public sector jobs are important because they provide public goods or regulate public resource extraction. These goods and resources are valuable to the public at large ... 100
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Katz: Where does that confidence come from" Derik Queen: "I'm from Baltimore..." 281459210
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzNBER @nber.org · 23/03/2025Scandinavian employees work more from home. Likely causes are high trust and advanced technology. Increases in remote work affect the spatial distribution of local service jobs, from Adam Gill, Lena E. Hensvik, and Oskar Nordström Skans www.nber.org/papers/w33581 03914
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzNBER @nber.org · 21/03/2025Minority bankruptcy filers are more likely to have their cases dismissed without debt relief, especially when assigned to a White bankruptcy trustee, from Bronson Argyle, Sasha Indarte, Benjamin Iverson, and Christopher Palmer www.nber.org/papers/w33575 0105
Reposted by Jerald "Jerry" KatzThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/03/2025Grimes Slaps ‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ Sticker On Child 66114041503
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, telling people to buy Tesla stock is such naked corruption. He should be impeached immediately. Comments at 4 minute mark of this video: youtu.be/TQQ3LWnn2NU?...youtu.beGOP Pumps Tesla As Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 000
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I think the scariest thing about the FED decision is that it is anticipating lowering rates with inflation. This indicates a possibility of stagflation (stagnant economy/recession + inflation) The Last time we had this type of recession was the late 1970s/early 1980s. #econsky 100
Jerald "Jerry" Katz @jokonomist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Chappell Roan is getting the job done! (The job is getting me to move my hips) 000