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Leslie Ehrlich

@leslieehrlich.bsky.social
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Trained economist. Ex-global financial institutions (consumer focused). Payments nerd. Native New Yorker. Parent. Knitter. Bridge player. Petter of dogs.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 6h
The dog carrier rules in the subway - which should be enforced - are for the safety of other passengers and the animals. They're not just suggestions for a reason. bsky.app/profile/magi...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6h
New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...
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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30m
I would like to believe that anti-trans messaging doesn’t work because enough, even most people, know it is cruel and abhorrent and full of lies Not simply that most people don’t care
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 33m
While minor in the grand scheme of things, it’s under-appreciated the damage done by making us wonder whether the smallest action by our government is good or evil
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 6h
Totally agree. While we could debate the causes of the status quo centrism of The New York Times, it is definitely a thing and wholly inadequate, even damaging in this moment
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11h
I’m sorry, what? Fraternity brothers at Cornell have a practice of taking away the phones of drunk women at parties? AYFKM? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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Cornell Students Question Greek Life Culture After Sexual Assault Claim
With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19h
Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations
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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 22h
When all the cockroaches and worms of the Trump admin try to rehab their images after he's gone, we can't let this go. Rubio promised that PEPFAR wouldn't be impacted. It happened anyway. When he tries to be a "Normal Republican" in 6 years, remember he let hundreds of thousands die for no reason.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 22h
Guaranteed outcome: buy more from SpaceX
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 22h
Hegseth is truthiness in full, gaudy bloom
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports)
The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pass throughs, carried interest, rewards for mischaracterizing investments as experiments Those most able to pay for the good government does get tax cuts While the rest of us pay our taxes despite cuts to health care and food support and more No wonder people think the system is rigged, it is!
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A brilliant encapsulation of our era, embedded here “1. Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units. 2. Anything can be true is someone says it loudly enough. 3. Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is measured by how fervently they believe it.”
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The Nation Learned What Missouri Has Known for Years about Eric Schmitt - emptywheel
This has been a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad month for current and former Missouri Attorneys General. Today was Eric Schmitt's turn.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Accountability matters
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This one's a cri de coeur from @gruberte.bsky.social, @jmijin.bsky.social, and I: The coal sector's decline has created strong empirical evidence about how energy transitions play out, but most decarb scholarship and policymaking ignore it. That has to change. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DJ88Z...
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How to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About It
The energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the...
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every single word of the highlighted text The GOP was perfectly happy to cut taxes and starve people and take away health care and wreck higher education. The atrocities and theft were an acceptable by product.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LET’S GO LIBERTY!
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOGE was substantively horrible, but only a small part of the story. It's also the only part of the story most Republicans would want to keep, because they supported the objective and the methods, and were willing to take the hit. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess irreparable harm is only a thing when it’s the Trump administration not being able to commit atrocities Harm to their victims clearly not a thing
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nebraskans, watch:
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love the idea of accountability for knowingly spreading lies
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's really crucial to remember that a "gas tax holiday" means starving states of revenue. That means fewer resources for public needs. Who do you think wins in a fight between funding for preschools and highways?
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let’s do this, c’mon Go get those states
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All voters should check their registrations, given the extensive GOP efforts to knock people off the rolls
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Six Flags announces it's shutting down the world-famous X2 roller coaster after CNN investigation exposed a history of brain injuries and deaths linked to the ride. cnn.it/4hCelj6
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. While it may work as a rhetorical evasion, it’s cowardly
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The 'economic issues not culture wars' frame adopted by much of the Democratic Party is entirely wrongheaded. It’s an example of intellectual dishonesty, moral cowardice, historical inaccuracy, and flawed electoral politics all wrapped together." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's happened to crude oil flows from the Middle East since the US war on Iran began? 🛢️ Has Iran effectively choked off the Strait of Hormuz? Or is the Strait now basically open as the US claims? & what's happened to other exit routes? Here's a helpful way of visualising it...📊 👇1/8
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This chart from Fifty Plus One tracking the average of the generic ballot encapsulates everything: Support for Republicans is flat at 41-43% no matter what. (I fear for their souls.) In the face of atrocities on every front Democrats have steadily picked up the undecideds.
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FiftyPlusOne - Generic Ballot Polls and Average for 2026
A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026
For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
at least he didn’t take a picture of seashells
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026
Another Schumer disaster! They had Republican votes, they could have stopped this!
Grouped By Vote Position

Armstrong (R-OK)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)

Budd (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)

Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)

Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hirono (D-HI)

Kaine (D-VA)

Kelly (D-AZ)

Tillis (R-NC)

YEAs---74
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hawley (R-MO)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kennedy (R-LA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moran (R-KS)
NAYs---25
Kim (D-NJ)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moody (R-FL)
Murphy (D-CT)
Paul (R-KY)
Reed (D-RI)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schiff (D-CA)
Not Voting -1

Moreno (R-OH)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-Ml)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Slotkin (D-Ml)
Smith (D-MN)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)

Schumer (D-NY)
Scott (R-FL)

Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many braille textbooks are transcribed in prisons. For the last 25 years, the Billman Braille Center in Gatesville has prepared women for careers on the outside. Read More👉 ebx.sh/xgz5ek
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case you had any doubts about how the freedom and privacy folks felt about YOUR freedom and privacy
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