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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger than a billion.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The government punishing a law firm for defending a client seems like the kind of tyranny we fought a revolution against.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I might have asked this before but if you buy a pickup are you required to sign something that says you will back into every parking spot
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msp4real.bsky.social @msp4real.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist
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Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025
Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
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World - yesterday

As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/01/2025
Old Guard Democrats on the hill need to get over their prejudice against digital media and content creators if they want to amplify their messages. Get on every podcast every day. Build audiences. Create a massive digital messaging network. Adapt or get left behind.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
to recap: — Trump was *for* the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Trump has made tens of billions of dollars from a fake social media company that has no revenue and a meme coin that is literally nothing, like actual nothing, like it has no use at all and doesn't actually exist on Earth in any way, and I think that's great!
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation for tea at the White House, and yet I haven’t seen a single Republican call her out for disrespecting “protocol.”
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/01/2025
✨GOOD NEWS ALERT✨ A young Black woman from the University of Minnesota, Salma Abdi, just won THE TOP PRIZE for college students studying #economics. This is a big deal because Black women don't even make up 1% of economics #phd graduates. She is a member of @sadiecollective.bsky.social 💜 #econsky
The Andrew Brimmer Undergraduate Essay Prize
 

2024 Award Winner


“Racist Infrastructure: Impact of the Interstate Highway System on Black Neighborhoods”
Salma M. Abdi, University of Minnesota
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
DAWSON GARCIA - logo three beats the buzzer and Michigan, first B1G win for the Gophers, first B1G loss for Michigan
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Four takeaways from Jack Smith's special counsel report on Trump's attempt to overturn his loss of the 2020 election. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
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Takeaways From Jack Smith’s Report on the Trump Election Case
Jack Smith wrote that Donald Trump would have been convicted had the case been allowed to proceed and explained why he didn’t pursue charges of incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Vikings
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft
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10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵
A Twitter user writes: I've often wondered what's the point of having two buttons if the lower one is not supposed to be used?

Can someone explain this illogical behavior  for me?
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In Kenya, India, Brazil and dozens of other countries, snakes vie for the same land, water and sometimes food as people, with devastating consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...
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In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields (Gift Article)
Venomous snakes bite millions of people each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/12/2024
this is a dril tweet
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This one wins
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
NYFed paper: Trump's previous tariff announcements caused large declines in US stock market returns, and had a negative effect on the U.S. economy that is substantially larger than past estimates libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2024/12/usin...
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Iconic
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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Venn diagram between “seed oils are evil”, “statins are evil”, “sunscreen is evil” “fluoride is evil”, and “vaccines are evil”… is a circle.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Tfw you forget you’re the one who signed the USMCA (oops!) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump promises a 25% tariff on products from Mexico, Canada
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Mexico and Canada.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 25/11/2024
oh lmao this is real. alt text: Tweet from Elon Musk: It is laughably easy to take down fighter jets. “Stealth” means nothing if you use elementary AI with low light sensitivity cameras. They aren’t invisible.
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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I don’t know how the gophers game will end except that’s it’s gonna be so, so stupid
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Someone blocked me on Bluesky. I will write a column about how it illuminates the inadequacy of Bluesky. Then when people make fun of me for that, I will write about that. And so forth, as many times as it works. I am a journamalist.
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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 23/11/2024
The snow is so pretty!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
When I was a professor at University of New Hampshire, I used to teach a class on contemporary metamodern multimedia in which I would play this video for students. Giant screen; small, darkened seminar room...it would leave us all speechless. Including me—every time I saw it. Hope you feel as I did.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is the last view of the sun in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, until January 23rd. There will be no sunrise or sunset for the next 66 days. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Rabbi Sara Zober @rebbesmz.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
We are literally doing that!!! Please answer your phone!
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