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Kwon Y.

@kwony.bsky.social
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One person is doing more to defend America than the other
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
where did we get this discount Patton? Temu?
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"A resounding repudiation of the predatory economics and politics that govern our time." 📚 Kirkus Reviews describes ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS as a manifesto calling for an economic regime that “serves life.” That's exactly why I wrote this book. Preorder your copy today.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very interesting paper on @nber.org that proposes a new variable that contributed to the Great Depression: the outpacing of product diversification by industrial productivity, leading to flattening employment, returns to investment, etc. Paper 👉 www.nber.org/papers/w35816
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Carney: "This isn't the first time Americans have tried to use tariffs to break us. Before he became president, William McKinley was an Ohio congressman known as the 'Napoleon of Protection.' McKinley championed the Tariff Act of 1890. It put 50% tariffs on our exports to the U.S. Sound familiar?"
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jesus. This is not only a corrupt administration but an incredibly cringy one
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mainstream economics now sees out-migration as advancing development back home, not hindering it, @josephpolitano.bsky.social writes, citing a 2024 @restatjournal.bsky.social study that found Filipino nurse migration to the U.S. increased nurse numbers in both countries.
theargumentmag.com
Democracies attract immigrants who like democracy
What did you think "City upon a hill" meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Losers
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Your annual reminder that the Act did not fully abolish slavery, and it continued to be legal in parts of the British Empire such as St Helena and Ceylon, and the massive territories under EIC control.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What delusion
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who in their right minds would rank Andrew Johnson that highly?
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And if Cliffs' initial assessment on green steel was so off, why continue supporting a company that is so bad at analysis?
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I just don't see how this is not simply a subsidy for relining a blast furnace. If so, what gives Middletown a greater claim to this subsidy compared to Granite City Works or other integrated mills?
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A case study in public education
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How did a nation without a military assist the United States militarily in Afghanistan? Again, a case of a Trump cabinet official being either stupid enough to be braindead or unforgivably duplicitous.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Always the victim, responsible for nothing
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dotard move
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In our latest game of, "dumb or lying?"
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just shows that they are a party of prejudice and ignorance.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It would be fitting if he were to get it. Would make a Buddhist out of me.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bats under South Congress Bridge Swim in Barton Springs pool Franklin's BBQ
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/06/2026
The Reconstruction Papers is our answer to the necessities of the moment. The PDF is now free to the public. Read it now: www.liberalcurrents.com/content/file...
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I mean, his profile picture is Dr Strangelove
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Maybe it is a good thing that people are a little wary of waving the American flag after the United States bombs a school. And it is a good thing that people have difficult conversations about our history of the intention is to enhance our potential for a better future.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Successes and failures of civilization through the lens of women's participation in the economy, according to @vnbateman.bsky.social @arthurlewislab.bsky.social And a graphical representation of the lecture. youtu.be/CSQe9P_UX0w?...
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Folks, friends, citizens, You can submit comments on Trump's Triumphal Arch in DC until June 15. Here is the link: parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...
parkplanning.nps.gov
ParkPlanning - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Alex, I will take "what was the Venetian arsenal if not a state-owned enterprise and part of the republic's industrial policy" for 500
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Unpopular opinion but I don't think dessert should really exist. We consume enough sugar in our lives without it being another part of the meal.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Were you thinking of Borjas' study of the Mariel Boatlift specifically? If so, Bruegel published a blog post in 2017 that aggregated and summarized studies that responded to both Card and Borjas: www.bruegel.org/blog-post/ma...
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The Mariel Boatlift Controversy
What's at stake: how does immigration affect the wages of local workers? One way to answer this question is by exploiting a natural experiment. The Ma
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One factor here might be the climate crisis. A lot of people understand that, left to run its course, climate change is a sledgehammer falling on humanity. Despite this, most governments - especially US gov - are doing nothing about it.
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 20/05/2026
Geothermal is broadly popular, but still tricky to finance and develop. @zeitlin.bsky.social has the story on a brand new coalition led in part by the governors of Colorado and Utah aiming to bridge some of those barriers in the Mountain West: heatmap.news/energy/mount...
heatmap.news
Exclusive: Western States Form New Bipartisan Geothermal Consortium
The effort brings together leaders of four Western states with nonprofit policy expertise to help speed financing and permitting for development.
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Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social
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Witnessing the Weavers’ Rising of 1826
A digital mapping project created by The National Archives and The Open University
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on this day in 1862. The law offered western lands to qualified settlers but also land loss for American Indians & environmental degradation. In this short article, I argue it was important for cohesion among early Republicans before the Civil War.
werehistory.org
Republicans and the Homestead Act
A Means to Provide Opportunity to the Masses
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Same policy has just been implemented in Germany and it props up margins at the expense of tax payers.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/05/2026
Trump is very deliberately & visibly killing the US wind power industry. Nobody even seems to be putting up a fight. As far as I can tell, the ACP -- the utterly fucking useless, spineless, compromised clean-energy trade association -- is responding with sternly worded letters.
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Trump Is Getting Away With Murdering an American Industry
And future administrations will learn from his extrajudicial success.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Roger B Taney be sitting in hell and laughing his ass off
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison
a graph of AI investment vs other physical investment categories
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...
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NBER @nber.org · 26/04/2026
Using 180 years of US data to show that tariff increases reduce imports, output, and manufacturing, with effects operating through both supply and demand channels, from Tamar den Besten, Regis Barnichon, Diego R. Känzig, and Aayush Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35102
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The worst human beings in the country should not be running the country.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
too real
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
i will vote for any democrat who promises this
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The president celebrating the morbidity of the nation.
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Or does Ground News only do sources and not who shares the articles?
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Kwon Y. @kwony.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Can you see this quantitatively with Ground News data?
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Happened to be teaching this essay last week, seems relevant these days www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: A Study of Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime (1940–1944)* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 92, No 4
Abstract During its first days of existence, the Vichy regime ordered a review of recent naturalizations. In accordance with a law passed on July 22, 1940, denaturalization decisions were made on a case-by-case basis by a commission tasked with reviewing all naturalizations granted since 1927. Examining these cases collectively by quantifying a thousand denaturalization files takes into account any individual variations in decision making. Denaturalization procedures are an excellent field of investigation for observing the relation between an ideological project and its administrative implementation. This article opens a field of investigation that questions the boundary between discretionary and absolute power. It explores the consequences of leaving a degree of freedom to administrations in authoritarian regimes.
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Rich Condon @richcondon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate, and even those who don’t.
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