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Amanda Weinstein

@profweinstein.bsky.social
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Economist studying rural economies. Air Force Veteran. Ohioan. Mom of 3 kids. Wife of the 1 and only @senatorweinstein.bsky.social

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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
AI-generated local news coverage without any human verification isn’t filling the gap for small towns; it’s making it worse. Ask me how I know.
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Small businesses power #cities—creating jobs, fueling #innovation, and building community. They’re also a key path to generational wealth. But success isn’t easy. Urban's guide highlights what works, what’s promising, and how cities are using these tools. Learn more this #EconomicDevelopmentWeek.
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Proven and Promising Interventions to Support Small Businesses
This guide is designed for city policymakers, economic development officials, and key partners to understand what interventions have been proven to work, whi…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2026
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 25/02/2026
Claude's ability to make old weird printed tables into structured tabular data will save thousands of collective hours of some of the most frustrating and boring tasks in research.
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A tax economist put his entire life savings into a prediction market bet that DOGE wouldn’t cut spending. His wife read the Kalshi comments from the people on the other side and grew *more* confident because “they didn’t seem to understand what they were buying.” He made a 37% return
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The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE
Until Elon Musk came roaring into the nation’s capital, Alan Cole was largely a plain-vanilla investor.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
so in conclusion, the state of the union is actually very bad because a man who tried to end democracy is using the government to personally enrich himself and his buddies while executing citizens and noncitizens alike
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
tapping the sign
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/18/a...
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A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio already makes solar and wind projects go through extra hurdles that don’t apply to fossil-fueled or nuclear power plants. Now a new bill threatens to raise even more barriers that might block…
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
In forecasting the future of AI, it's easy to miss the main point. Whether AI largely substitutes or complements human capabilities isn't merely a technological matter. It's a societal choice.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
But in the United States, he'll have ICE put a bullet in it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It was never about government spending and efficiency.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It doesn't matter if you are the daughter of Bill & Melinda Gates, as a young woman, you will still get asked, "what happens when you have kids?" when pitching to venture capitalists. Unlike in hiring, there is no law that prevents such questions in VC pitches. fortune.com/article/meli...
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Melinda French Gates told her daughter Phoebe to 'get up or get out the game' when investors kept asking about her plans to have kids | Fortune
When Phia cofounders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni launched their business they didn’t expect so many questions about when they might have children—but learned to push back.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
ICE is just 'proud boys' in uniform‼️ Regardless if you're a citizen, if you're a different shade or your surname sounds ethnic, you're in their crosshairs‼️
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Of course ICE is going after Native Americans, the only people in the country who are NOT immigrants. Because it was never about safety or legality or citizenship. It was always about whiteness.
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Quantity to quality.” @michael-macher.bsky.social on the gradual and then sudden explosion of far-right power centers in the lavishly resourced and unaccountable immigration agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. (Charts by @yusufimaadkhan.com)
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
The #NobelPeacePrize medal.

It measures 6.6 cm in diameter, weighs 196 grams and is struck in gold. On its face, a portrait of Alfred Nobel and on its reverse, three naked men holding around each other’s shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design unchanged for 120 years.

Did you know that some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after the award was given? A well‑known case is Dmitry Muratov’s medal, which was auctioned for over USD 100 million to support refugees from the war in Ukraine.

And the medal displayed at the Nobel Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to Christian Lous Lange, Norway’s first Peace Prize laureate.

But one truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.”

A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
Screenshot of Fox News from Jan. 15, 2026 with picture of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and chyron: "Breaking News: Noem: U.S. Citizens Should be Prepared To Show Proof."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/01/2026
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Naaaaaaailed it
Some idiot complaining that people are pouring buckets of water outside of ICE goon HQ
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“When the American people recognize us and all others whom they have denied, as God’s children endowed by our Creator with the same rights as all people who inhabit the earth, then and then only will she prove herself capable of leading the people of the world to eternal peace and security”
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What if he invades Minnesota
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Tina Smith: "I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of unbelievable."
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 10/01/2026
A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail ...
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Climate change is an affordability issue
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This Substack article is a great read. It shows how massive outside-PAC spending often fails to move the needle in elections — and that really rang true for my city council race.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," Edmund Burke.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues? Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened! Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week. people.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The experiences and background of a generation of economists affects economic research and economic policies across the country.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025
I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists. #econsky #news #harvard
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/11/2025
This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Incredible paper that shows what I have long believed at my core: that research & teaching can complement each other, and that having research-active faculty teach undergrads is a very good thing!
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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Ope
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Local elections matter. When we rebuild, we rebuild from the ground up. It’s time to rebuild, folks. In my town, we start now - with a government that works for the people not over them! 🇺🇸
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Yep. We have a dark money PAC from DC spending money on attack ads against me for a city council race for our town of about 23K. 🤪
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10/10/2025
A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...
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A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities
The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2025
The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.
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