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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 05/05/2026

Any @nytimes.com product managers here? I might convince myself to pay premium for content free of: - any Met Gala coverage - Doss Routhat columns - Cucker Tarlson coverage - NYTimes@Athletic upsell every few posts Can we have a deal here?

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

“It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then ask me where you’re going to put them.“ — Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Ponte Vedra, Spain. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Renting a bike should not cost the same as hiring a human being to chauffer you in a motor vehicle through the densest city in America.

Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom of Speech" in which a man in a plaid shirt and suede jacket stands to address a community meeting.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

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Paulo L dos Santos @plbds.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Today's contribution to the conversation. Having that kind of a day.... #EconSky

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

I'm unreasonably excited to get these!

The back of the package, showing the back of the ingot. Says things like

QUESTIONS? COMPLAINTS? We'd love to hear from you! Fill out a clay tablet and return to Ea-Nasir in Ur *

*Unless you are Nanni. then shut up

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Dow @dow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

When the market goes down hard, it’s never because investors got too bullish, too levered, and too far out over their skis. It is always because the Fed did it to them.

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Erindale @nodegroup.xyz · 20/11/2025

5 days and 4000 nodes later, Bejewelled is complete #Nodevember #Nodevember2025 #B3D #GeometryNodes

Ornate set of plate armour with gold and rubies

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 19/11/2025

You're not imagining it: NYC's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe — despite astronomical geographic and ridership growth raking in more and more money for Lyft, which operates the program.

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Lyft Hoses Citi Bike Riders Compared to Bike-Share in Other Cities: Report - Streetsblog New York City

New York City's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This is brilliant.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Unitary Executive = King

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I'm a centrist because I like to base all my opinions on the distributions of other people's beliefs.

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.eurosky.social · 19/10/2025

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Evidence from random roommate assignment and a gaming ban for minors in China once again show what I now believe incredibly strongly: smartphones and social media destroy civilization via @arpitrage.bsky.social

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Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market
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Panle Jia Barwick, Siyu Chen, Chao Fu, Teng Li
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjaf048, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf048
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Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along with comprehensive evidence on how students' own and their peers' app usage affect academic performance, physical health, and labor market outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data from a Chinese university covering three student cohorts over four years. We exploit random roommate assignments, differential exposure to a policy shock (gaming restrictions for minors), and differential exposure to a discrete event (the introduction of a blockbuster video game) for identification. App usage is contagious: a one s.d. increase in roommates' in-college app usage raises own usage by 5.8%. High app usage is harmful across all measured outcomes. A one s.d. increase in app usage reduces GPAs by 36.2% of a within-cohort-major s.d. and lowers wages by 2.3%. Roommates' app usage reduces a student's GPAs and wages through both disruptions and behavioral spillovers, generating a total negative effect that exceeds half the magnitude of the impact from the student's own app usage. Extending China's three-hour-per-week gaming restriction for minors to college students would boost their initial wages by 0.9%. High-frequency GPS and app usage data show that heavy app users spend less time in study halls, are more frequently late or absent from class, and get less sleep.

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no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Reactionary-centrist consultant/pundits like @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social are very dangerous for the democracy, because their minds are warped by right-wing echo chambers. How can you be a popularists and not know that abortion access is popular: If you spend all day on X and evening watching Fox News.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NYT yesterday: we are the torch bearers of free speech! NYT today: some loser libs are upset that Trump keeps forcing Corporate Media to fire comedians he does not like.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hint: maybe the city was never that shining to begin with

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I repeat: This is WILDLY illegal. Trump is just outright, explicitly, egregiously ignoring the law. The fact that NONE of these words in the Times post say so is a failure of journalism.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching

New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

My working hypothesis also, in lack of a better one...

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This is a progression of tweets from Musk that represent his downhill slide from sanity or rationality into the abyss 🕳️. This, as he foments violence in the UK and interferes with that country. Have no idea what type of medications he is on… but everyone needs to get off of that X platform.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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The goal is a trusted digital town square, where a wide range of views are tolerated, provided people don't break the law or spam. For example, any incitement to violence will result in account suspension.

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The left is the party of violence and hate

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The Left is the party of murder

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Either we fight back or they will kill us.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Been clean and sober from X for 10 months and it feels great. I used to think I needed to be on there to "engage in the debate." Nah. It's worse than a waste of time. Even seemingly righteous engagement there does nothng but fuel a fascist propaganda machine. Just. Stop.

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innoonewetrust.bsky.social @innoonewetrust.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The fact that they are people who admire respect Ezra Klein never fails to disgust me.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Ezra Klein from 15 years ago would be embarrassed

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Sad thing recent events have made me accept: a lot of US elites are weak, amoral people, whose guiding star is "what does power want?" mixed with "what's easiest for me in the short-term?" And that unfortunately means we can't appeal to principle or patriotism, we need to structure their incentives.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

John Fetterman inherited a cursed amulet from Kyrsten Sinema. His staff have repeatedly pled with him to just take the damn thing off, but it’s gaudy as hell and Fetterman, like Sinema before him, has awful taste.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Complete 🤡 take by some economists to think that AI magically "complements" experienced worker skills but "substitutes" recent college grad skills. Much more Occam-y explanations are cohort-based, ...

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 04/09/2025

I miss the days when "tilting at windmills" was a metaphor: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

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White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Yeah it’s sort of funny but I’m a 100% unironic believer in that “good times create weak men” shit now, it’s totally accurate, it’s just that the kind of guys who posted it the last few years were the weak men in question.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.

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Libby Hill @libbyhill.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

very into a world where the boss slowly transforms into david lynch

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Relevant to…tons of stuff, but right now I’m thinking of Pike Place

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Complete 🤡 take - mainstream media is stuck in neutral, treats democracy as horse race - supreme Court is openly authoritarian - military is already deployed internally - wtf? - "vibrant"? 😂 Any tiny country can mobilize bigger protests But sure feel free to spend your time on a semantic discussion

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2025

this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.

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