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Justin Bloesch

@justinbloesch.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Cornell. Macro, labor, inequality. "Bloesch" rhymes with "mesh".

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Noncompete clauses reduce workers' earnings. Noncompete clauses also provide no measurable protection against trade-secrets being leaked beyond standard NDAs.
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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
so absurd. There will be a process undertaken by Maine Dems to choose. Maybe all the national groups should STFU. They've done enough damage already Let Maine Dems decide. They've got many terrific options: Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson, Ryan Fecteau to name a few www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
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Democrats Clash Over Who Replaces Platner Even Before He Exits
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/07/2026
New in PN: Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve "We are living under the personalist dictatorship of a hateful clown obsessed with the news cycle and owning the libs. And unfortunately, since he has the whole federal govt at his back, his ridiculous tantrums can in fact ruin people’s lives."
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Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve
Congrats, America.
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎵 corn is a shitty solar panel 🎶
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Another key difference b/w now and the 90s is the huge macro tailwind of rapid globalization was helping bring inflation down, it wasn’t just the internet. We now face the inflationary headwind of de/reglobalization & the supply chain frictions that come with it
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/06/2026
Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel
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This event is about celebrating America’s unmatched greatness after 250 years — which apparently doesn’t sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bullshit clickbait headline.

Rain or shine, we’re celebrating our great country no matter what. GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸
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UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
the things DOGE has brought back are frankly nuts
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Reminder that this guy is using his current job to go after Trump’s political opponents by illegally digging through their mortgage records. He’ll now have access to America’s most sensitive secrets. Don’t be surprised when he illegally uses his new post to do Trump’s dirty work.
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Meet the Trump housing official leading probes into the president’s foes
Bill Pulte has inserted himself into some of the Trump administration’s biggest directives
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“What a headline.” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14/05/2026
More evidence of wage growth decelerating emerging today, from @atlantafed.org. Within-worker, over-the-year median wage growth rate decelerated to 3.6% in April from 3.9% in March. Consistent with evidence from aggregate average hourly wage change from employer survey in #JobsReport.
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION! a short history of the transition from goods to services alongside some recent discussion from @rajakorman.bsky.social and @conorsen.bsky.social on What Is Going On With Healthcare www.forcesofproduction.com/p/services-o...
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Services on the Supply Side
Looking away from Manufacturing for a moment
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New @nberpubs: "The Postpandemic U.S. Immigration Surge: New Facts and Inflationary Implications" www.nber.org/papers/w3516... "the supply- and demand-side effects of the immigration surge roughly cancel out, causing a negligible response of inflation."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“You know we’re in a war,” President Trump said yesterday, as a White House letter to Congress asserted that the War Powers Act doesn’t apply because there’s no war. Utter contempt. Congress is cool with it. Because the GOP majority also has contempt for the law, Constitution, country, and people.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hunger strike in MI migrant detention center truthout.org/articles/hun...
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Hundreds of Incarcerated Migrants Go on Hunger Strike in Remote Michigan Prison
Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
my newest in Liberal Currents: in celebration of Tax Day i make the case for liberals to collect more taxes, not less www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...
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Actually Collect Taxes
A gameplan for turning an overlooked federal agency into a flagship of liberal governance
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
*ongoing* ceasefire
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Israeli strikes kill 14 in Lebanon amid ongoing ceasefire
The US announced three days ago that the ceasefire was extended by three weeks after talks.
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Justin Bloesch @justinbloesch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
To be fair, if they did log points, this would work!
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Trump regime, which is unconstitutionally withholding evidence that the President sexually abused children, sent the FBI to investigate an NYT reporter for investigating the FBI director’s use of government planes for his girlfriend. Just a true thing that we learned about today!
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
for the record, i just now completed @arindube.bsky.social book. It is marvelous in just about every way, a true successor to What Do Unions Do by Freeman and Medhoff (a huge compliment, btw), over 40 years ago.
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Justin Bloesch @justinbloesch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Quite the turnaround. I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/04/2026
Are environmental reviews really a problem? Well, folks, consider: a Sam's Club on north Aurora (near where I live) closed several years ago. Been sitting vacant, attracting ... the stuff vacant buildings attract. There's a proposal to open a low-cost grocery there. Much needed! However ...
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Justin Bloesch @justinbloesch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Some good news.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/04/2026
This was great stuff from @atwilliams.bsky.social www.forcesofproduction.com/p/a-chain-re...
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A Chain Reaction
How much indirect inflation should we expect from the Strait of Hormuz closing?
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Justin Bloesch @justinbloesch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A periodic reminder (Ben is not doing this) that real wage growth tells you almost nothing about labor market tightness!
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
US imports of large computers surged to a new record high in February data released last week, hitting a pace of $300B/year amidst the AI boom. That's up 170% over the last year and 480% since the release of ChatGPT in 2022
A graph of US imports of large computers and computer parts & accessories
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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
He’s functionally abolished Congress
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I have yet to dig into detail but it’s interesting to note that the same discipline, economics, has the highest reproducibility (does the code run?) and lowest replicability (does it work on different data?)
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Win Without War @winwithoutwar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Trump's speech tonight was the speech of a president who can't figure out what to do about the disastrous war he started. Congress should choose for him: end this war before it becomes an even bigger catastrophe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2026
Hannity and Lindsey Graham are straight up cheerleading war crimes against the civilian population of Iran
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 31/03/2026
“Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the ‌border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday, vowing to inflict Gaza-like destruction in the area.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border, defence minister says
Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the ‌border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday...
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Owen Davis @odavis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A new contribution to the mass of working papers examining AI impacts to software coders, this one from two Fed economists. Headline finding: coder employment is *very roughly* 500k below the counterfactual. [Insert a million caveats here] www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...
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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
my god
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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 17/03/2026
No words for how evil this is.
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
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The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 11/03/2026
America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered. The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim. From the indispensable @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com —> chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026
According to the latest #jobsday report, Black women's unemployment is UP nearly 2 PERCENT since last year. Read that again.
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a woman in a pink shirt is sitting in front of a black chevrolet cruze
Alt: a woman in a pink shirt is sitting in front of a black chevrolet cruze
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Santiago Anria @anriasantiago.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy to share that "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" is out now with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and available in multiple formats. If it looks interesting, please consider requesting it at your university library! Check it out 👇 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Polarization and Democracy in Latin America
An insightful examination of Latin America’s contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility. Although Latin American democracies have shown considera...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Tariffs are “having the exact opposite effect of their intention ..” (via Vital Knowledge) #ISM
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Absolutely incredible. Weeks of war without any vote in Congress. And the current regime may largely be left in place. This isn't just a war of choice. It's a vanity war. If this is allowed to stand, our country is in real trouble.
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Justin Bloesch @justinbloesch.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thanks to @josephpolitano.bsky.social for regularly posting the one piece of good news these days.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
LEFT: Trump’s DHS just lied again. RIGHT: Wash post with video proof. Another man dead. father of 2, nearly blind, dropped off in the cold outside a closed coffee shop. They lied that it was warm & open. Without accountability it will happen again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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