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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
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Small communities deserve accurate local journalism, not coverage that treats them as too small to visit or verify.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A 5/20 @cleveland.com story on Hudson, OH’s District 11 zoning changes included a quote that wasn’t accurate, an AI image that misrepresents the actual zoning, and zero contact with any council member. This is not local journalism. It’s local harm
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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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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Is that a bug or a feature for ICE?
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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 · 08/12/2025
I think it will work best if it looks different in every community - for some it might be meals cooked from your hobby farm produce, in others it's addressing the risk of flooding by building up environmentak services (wetlands etc), in others it's preserving local open lands and the tree canopy, …
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Everyone is selfish to some degree. I don't personally find telling people they are selfish or that I view myself as less selfish to be an effective strategy to change behavior but I'm not a behavioral economist.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A vegetarian diet is definitely cheaper. But a lot of people prefer chicken (or beef) to lentils, for example. New ways of thinking about vegetarian meals - easy, fast, cheap, and delicious - helps.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
In our house, one of the easiest and healthiest veggie meals that my kids love is fondue - with bread, apples, roasted potatoes, carrots, and mushrooms and we add a vegetarian sausage 😋
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
That’s a hard one. I don’t eat beef, but I understand people who do. Habits are hard to break. Finding ways to make substitutes more appealing may be a better strategy—reach the family chef: meal deliveries with easy, tasty vegetarian options, influencers who share great veggie meals…
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Yes!
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The economic theory has been pretty clear that climate change is an affordability issue for quite some time - we just call it negative externalities.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Cc: @earthsciinfo.bsky.social
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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
It’s not just development economists. I left academia after earning tenure because I’d rather be approximately right about things that truly matter and share those insights with communities than precisely right about something with little real-world impact.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
And one more thing that isn’t lost on me: we need to make public service more accessible so people from all backgrounds can step forward, contribute their perspectives, and help shape our community’s future. All politics is local
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This election showed that in Hudson too, it’s not about who throws the most money around. It’s about who shows up, who cares, and who invests in our shared future.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I’m proud that Hudson said YES to protecting what matters — downtown vibrancy, public safety, parks for our kids, and broadband so people can work from home.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What did move the needle? Grassroots energy. Small donations from across the community. Neighborhood events. Real conversations. Yard signs, letters written from neighbor to neighbor, and people opening their homes and hearts to this campaign.
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