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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

the actual realistic answer is rigorous NISPOM and DFARS clause 252.226-7003 enforcement the non-national security stuff is a political problem of dealing with a notional trillionaire generally, but the DoD stuff is pretty straightforward

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 17h

lbj should ‘unleash’ hubert

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

Please post more of your research On Here. Bring me more working papers

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

Adm William H McRaven: There is nothing noble about a public display of a government-sanctioned execution. With this decision, the Trump administration continues to undermine our national values. Our current leaders are shameless and ignoble. They have no sense of dignity or honor. They seem to

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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution is Shameless and Ignoble

A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 23h

One day people are tweeting about how YIMBYism has no answers for the Rust Belt and single-stair kills. The next, a firefighter moonlighting in construction and a nurse (total household income: $175k-$200k?) can’t afford to buy in a good Kansas City school district. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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America’s Housing Affordability Crisis Spreads to the Midwest

In the region that’s often thought of as a refuge from the US housing squeeze, prices are rising and would-be buyers are feeling boxed out.

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CAL FIRE @calfire.bsky.social · 23h

For practical guidance on preparing your home, visit www.ReadyForWildfire.org

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People have asked what the "improve the existing tracks" option is as an alternative to high-speed rail; here is one alternative. www.thetransitbrief.net/p/if-not-hig...

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If not high-speed rail, then what?

An Alto alternative sheds light on the costs and benefits of Canadian high-speed rail.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 11/10/2026

Yikes...the National Fire Sprinkler Association published a blog post in 2025 about Maryland’s 2024 Fire Fatality Report that appears to have been written with ChatGPT and, as far as I can tell, hallucinated some major findings nfsa.org/2025/07/29/m...

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Maryland Leads by Example: What 16 Years of Fire Data and 20 Years of National Research Say About Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers - National Fire Sprinkler Association

What 16 Years of Fire Data and 20 Years of National Research Say About Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026

One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/10/2026

China’s railway system provided 25 million rides on a single day, October 1. For comparison, the US aviation system serves about 3 million travelers daily. Amtrak serves about 35 million riders per year.

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China's railway passenger trips hit record single-day high

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People will look at you in the eyes and tell you speeding isn’t a big enough problem to justify cameras.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:

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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)

The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Among the most evil things he's said

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The United States will abandon you, betray you and sell you down the river for literal cents at the pump"

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am BEGGING more journalists to look into Marshall’s staffers

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K @kate10010.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ed Zitron used AI to create the very first chart in this piece. It made a critical error, which he did not notice because he just learned about bonds last month. THAT is the danger of non practitioners relying on AI output, you don’t know what you’re looking for. The chart is completely inaccurate.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yuri Slezkine's "House of Government" or Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar" are excellent narrative introductions to that bizarre, deeply, darkly tragicomical time and place

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Certainly nothing ever goes wrong with mercenaries in the Congo?!!

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 09/10/2026

Pretty embarrassing for San Francisco that their single-stair code section is going to require a second stair. The second part makes no sense – an exterior stairway is already allowed…there was never any requirement that both be interior.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The new Survey of Consumer Finance is out! www.federalreserve.gov/publications... For Matt Darling aficionados: - Median household net worth is $215.9k (up 2% since 2022) - Median assets in transaction accounts is $8,200 (-6% since 2022) (Percent changes are in real (adj for inflation) terms.)

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

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Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 09/10/2026

AI is dangerous because people increasingly trust it even though it constantly screws up. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/08/a...

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The Real Danger May Be AI as Dumb as Us

Talk of “super intelligence” distracts from frequent screwups.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you‘ve been keeping a book around in case you need it as a reference, and it unfortunately pays off

Picture of The End of Public Execution by Michael Ayers Trotti

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's really the whole ballgame.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/10/2026

I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...

nature.com

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly, I love that NY Fed now has a "weekly column" kind of thing~

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trevorrobb.bsky.social @trevorrobb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Taxpayers can't afford for us to keep sprawling — every new suburb needs new roads, pipes, firehalls and bus routes — that lands on your tax bill forever," Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack said Thursday. #yegcc #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto...

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Edmonton mayor slams 'uninformed directive' after province intervenes on city infill rules

Edmonton city staff scramble to meet a last-minute directive from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith overhauling the city's growth plans.

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NBER @nber.org · 03/10/2026

Population projections often assume that future fertility rates will stop declining after falling below some threshold, but that is at odds with global historical patterns, from Diane Coffey, @MikeGeruso, Dean Spears, and Sangita Vyas www.nber.org/papers/w35824

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...

Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
REDACTED BOARD MEMBERS 9/23/26

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/10/2026

Tom Emmer is the congressman for my hometown, St. Cloud. The growing Somali population there is who are buying up the big houses that my friends there grew up in. They’re the only ones who seem to give the city life anymore. Fuck him for talking about them like this.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think Hegseth is fundamentally a broken human being.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t think firing squad is more barbaric than any other method of execution. Choosing to make it public though? Now that’s definitely a sign things are going great in this non-fascist country!

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess this is just sort of the logical endpoint of this administration’s commitment to fulfilling their supporters’s desire to vicariously consume violence done to other people.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The head of the Fraud Task Force unaware of corruption inside the Trump administration, despite it being widely covered in the media. All by design: The Public Integrity unit in DOJ was gutted and has been told to focus on welfare fraud in blue states. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

The unit is hiring again to focus on “how politicians and state officials facilitate the misuse of taxpayer dollars.” That sounds good — until you realize what this actually means is they plan to go after blue state officials for allegations of welfare fraud. Trump’s circle will remain safe. After all, his former defense lawyer runs the DOJ now.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Let me just say that the US does not have anything like the public pension problems France does. We are very much in the "tweak" zone to achieve long-term stability. They...yeah I dunno what they are gonna do. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

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What’s the Matter With France?

Is Europe’s #2 economy too big to save?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Given how much Los Angeles' terrible governance on housing and homeless affects the rest of the state, it's no exaggeration to call the LA Mayor's race the most important election in California this cycle.

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Metropolitan Abundance Project @metroabundance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New research from @pewresearch.org: a 20% rent drop (what Austin and Minneapolis achieved through zoning reform) would reduce poverty by up to 26% and child poverty by up to 38%. Housing supply is an anti-poverty policy. www.pew.org/en/research-...

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The Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of Poverty

Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.

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