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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h

Economists really need to get off twitter. EconTwitter is now just like “bad instruments are DEI and women ate stupid” interspersed with a few good economists talking about the latest Claude update

Labrador Skeptic & @SaysSimulation
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This is a perfect example of DEl in the wild.
Women gets Harvard PhD, Princeton postdoc, NY Fed job. Impeccable credentials - on paper.
Writes post demonstrating that she doesn't under the basics of causality & statistics. There's also a very strong urban class component
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Natalia Emanuel * @NataliaHEmanuel • 2d
Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more
Starbucks in an area -> 3-4% more inventions.
People gather over a cuppa. They share ideas, discuss how to untangle a knotty problem, help se...
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Women really are retarded. This one has a phd from Harvard and still can't grasp simple concepts. She actually posted this thinking she was clever. A dimwit can see the glaring error of her simple thoughts.

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Natalia Emanuel @ @NataliaHE... • 2d
Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more
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These are what you call middle-upper class townies. They look great on paper, seem competent when you talk to them, but have no idea how the world works or any real common sense as to how things relate to other things, with no real beliefs of their own to boot.
I see these types of women in software all the time - many of them were shoe-horned into their roles by a system that wanted to "promote women" at any cost, and really are not good at this kind of stuff or have any actual interest in improving the products they work on.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

X is the platform of choice for these smears. Musk himself pushed this conspiracy from his own account three times. Democrats need to go to war against Musk because he's already attacking them. He's deeply unpopular. And, as we saw in Wisconsin, voters recoil when he becomes an issue in a race.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 6h

Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

So the Talarico mental health clinic hoax has now been tired directly to a disinformation campaign of the Russian intelligence services. How shocking.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

this is a big reason i call bs on people who try to rehab mitt romney. trump's biggest path to political legitimacy came when romney went to him begging for an endorsement at the height of birtherism.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

if you treat fucking fascists with kid gloves they will in fact fucking murder you. thats what fascists are.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

if you cant make the connection between biden's betrayal in telling trump "welcome home" and trump pushing to denaturalize a fucking united states representative i cannot help you

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6h

everyone - including dem leaders - pretends like these thugs didnt physically assault a us senator not long ago. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Sen Alex Padilla dragged out of Noem immigration briefing in LA

California senator Alex Padilla was pushed out of the news conference by authorities after he interrupted Noem.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8h

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h

One of my biggest disagreements with liberalism is the obsession with why evil people do the things they do. They do it because they’re evil. It’s not particularly interesting.

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THEE Acting Lore @portgreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of the beauties of NYC is that schools get all the major holidays for heavily practiced religions and cultures. I forget other places do not; heck even some parts of Long Island don’t.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 2h

Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3h

President @barackobama.bsky.social showed me something in myself I might never have seen without him. I’m humbled to have his support in this fight. The Affordable Care Act will have laid the groundwork for guaranteed healthcare and I'm honored to pick up his baton and finally pass Medicare for All.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Any Democrat announcing pre-emptively that they won't impeach Trump is not just failing to fulfill their constitutional duties, they're signaling to Trump that he can ramp up the abuses because they're not going to hold him accountable. Nope.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

impeach tear down the ballroom imprison the crooks abolish ice restore funding

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 1h

The blame for the leniency in this case belongs to the (now-recalled) DA, Pamela Price. I mean, I agree with the goal of reducing incarceration, but there's a *big* difference between petty shoplifting and the attempted (or potentially successful for the intended victim's father) murder here.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/10/2026

This opening by Bob Smietana is perfection! A must read!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

OK this is objectively hilarious.🤣

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 2h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography bsky.app/profile/sahi...

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 2h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography bsky.app/profile/sahi...

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 2h

It does not sound like Becerra was recommending leniency. He called him a “sophisticated criminal defendant” worthy of a high bail and monitoring. Please correct or delete

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

The thing about Gillis's monologue isn't just that it's misogynistic; it's that it's misogynistic in the most unoriginal, dated, cringe-ily 1982 would-be Andrew Dice Clay way. Like, wow slut shaming women in workout clothes, where'd you dig that fossil up

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 2h

There was a guy who told us about this in 2019. People ignored him because he didn't have enough "pizzazz." He even indicted the Russian troll farm and the man who ran it: Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 2h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography bsky.app/profile/poli...

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 2h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 5h

This is NOT an ad for @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social’s new documentary “MUSK” (in theaters now). We are promoting it for free. Join us right here on October 20, 2026 at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern for a livestream hosted by @niedermeyer.online.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2h

Pressuring of civil society organizations--corporations, law firms, universities, unions, religious congregations, etc--is the frontline of authoritarian consolidation US law firms are powerful. But they didn't coordinate resistance, and were picked off one by one Some resisted and so far have won

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.

My RT of a Katie Miller tweet which RTed the NYPost coverage of the Ilhan Omar raid.

She said: Promise made, promise kept.
I said: Katie Miller is not going to do very well in a deposition.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the explanation Elon's robot gave when someone asked why Katie deleted the tweet (validating, btw, that she did post it). 😎

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Katie Miller deleted the "Promise made, promise kept" post after it circulated, switching to neutral praise for HSI agents. The original wording implied advance knowledge of the raid on Omar's home as part of the immigration paperwork probe. Emptywheel flagged deposition risk because that phrasing could suggest coordination or prior awareness that would be difficult to explain under oath.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5h

Just a reminder: child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on X is not a flash-in-the-pan thing associated with Grok's loose image generation rules. It is a persistent, ONGOING feature of X Fair to assume X will be one of the few to carry a live-streamed execution too, btw www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Despite Pledges From Musk, Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has long vowed to remove child sexual abuse material on his social media platform, X. But some of the content continues to appear.

A review by the Canadian Center for Child Protection found that the site’s own artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, responded to requests from users by creating dozens of sexualized and sometimes sexually explicit photos of children, including victims previously known to law enforcement, at the beginning of the year. The images included children in sexualized poses with partially exposed genitals, in states of undress and with fluid on their faces.

A separate analysis by The New York Times found that during the first half of the year, users on X posted child sexual abuse material previously flagged by authorities, including some of the most egregious content that the site attempts to block using automated filters.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The General Social Survey is funded by NSF. It's a gold- standard, nationally representative survey of US residents fielded since 1972. It's free for anyone to use. Much of what we know about Americans' life chances, religion, social and political attitudes, and family and work life comes from GSS.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...

Graph showing the number of NSF grants over 7 years—moving to zero in 2026.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

6/ In other words, Trump makes the world more dangerous by extending two wars and gets nothing in return, not even for himself (unless there was a side deal, which can’t be ruled out).

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

5/ Trump got his pocket picked as usual but the money is ours and the deeper price is the visible shift of US policy to support Russia’s war of aggression.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

4/ But since Russia and Iran are allies, the shift in US policy and any US taxpayer money that Trump gives Putin will help both the Russian war on Ukraine as well as the regime in Iran.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

3/ So now Trump wants to give Putin a lot of money for Russian diesel, which won’t do anything to markets and won’t even help him in the midterms though I bet Putin told him it would.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

1/ It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump.

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography bsky.app/profile/sahi...

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography

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It’s possible that the Russian oligarchs, Chinese crypto billionaires, and Arabian sheikhs that fund these Republican super PACs are not familiar with American geography bsky.app/profile/noah...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

yeah i dont think its a very good statement either but i wanted to post it to make clear he did release one. its of course too couched too cautious too weak, but thats kind of what he does.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

They're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 5h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6h

I don’t care how conservative you are. Abandoning Ukraine to Putin spits on everything Reagan stood for. Tax cuts and party loyalty cannot excuse this betrayal. If your principles mean anything, this alone should cost Trump your support. Grow a spine. Some things matter more than the GOP.

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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when weaksauce Merrick Garland refused to investigate congressional reps for their part in 1/6? I do, and this is what you get when you do…. A corrupt govt that will never be satisfied with how deeply you bend a knee to them

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