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Titaness of Brown Blogosphere, Ruchira Paul, is no more – Brown Pundits

What a fantastic tribute to my mom www.brownpundits.com/2026/07/17/t...

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't care about the World Cup, obviously, but my mother did and favored Spain over the remaining teams 👍🏽 she would have loved it if a real underdog made it into the finals but also would have enjoyed this to the last

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fucking frozen pizza ass lookin moon. making me wanna eat it. jerk.

A graphic with a black background and white text that says “the clearest image nasa has ever taken of jupiters moon io.” In the center two thirds is a photo of said moon, it is a bunch of warm colors like potpourri floating in milk. Theres lavender, yellow, blood orange, moss green, and cream. It also looks, as I mentioned in the skeet itself, like a frozen pizza with onions and peppers suspended in cheese, but the pizza is a perfect sphere.

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One thing about my mom dying is that I plan on calling out rank stupidity where I see it more clearly than before.

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JD Vance truly represents the standard-economics-outlook-criticism of fools ... no, complete idiots

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In a sure sign that the thing I've been studying has infected my brain, I found myself thinking "well, a parent pre-deceasing their child is less total trauma in the world than vice versa"

One thing to understand is that Hale and the Institutionalists were just a lot more intelligent than most people on the Supreme Court at the time

sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's important to understand that classic "lochner era" cases like Adair and Coppage are really not based on the self-coordinating market idea *at all*. Not even a little bit.

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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We had just been emailing about a trip she planned to take to Central Texas. I am kicking myself for all the times I went to Houston and never arranged to meet her.

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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

She was one of my favorite online friends for almost 20 years. I will miss her writing, her art, and our private correspondence dearly.

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Didn't see this post at the time from my mom, who mostly spent her online time on facebook. Sharing it now.

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My mother Ruchira (Mitra) Paul passed away suddenly last night. July 23, 1951-July 7, 2026. I will have more to write about her later. She was intelligent, curious, beautiful, and unerringly fair-minded even when social conventions were not. Anything I may be able to do in this life comes from that.

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Brandeis was (I think pretty clearly?) the best and most all around sensible pre-1940 Supreme Court Justice and interestingly the first minority of any kind to be appointed to the court - which does not precisely prove the rightness of Woke, but doesn't not prove it either

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Felix Frankfurter: annoying and overrated at all points, not just later

My whole schtick at this point in time is 'free markets as an idea were way less important in pre-1945 American history than the CW thinks and are way more important now than the CW seems to think'

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

weird asymmetry for much 19c econ? the inframarginal seller (id'd with landowners by eg Ricardo) is presumed to get MORE than his costs (b/c market price set by others' higher cost); but the inframarginal WORKER is presumed to get less than she produces (b/c market wage set by others' lower product)

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Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

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It's interesting how for the matcha au lait, particularly among fancy cafe drinks, the home-made version is better 95% of the time

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"Liberal Socialism ... must be democratic. It must come from below, not from above ... It must engage the efforts and respond to the genuine desires not of a handful of superior beings, but of great masses of men."

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

yelling 'it's not laissez fuckin faire' at the computer is normal behavior in this neighborhood

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My view: we need a TVA for energy transmission. It may take a minute, but we can't limit ourselves to public planning and public subsidy. This infrastructure is just too crucial for economic and climate safety to split power and ownership w private firms. And we have to move w purpose.

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Entrepreneurship idea: woke poison ivy removal

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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Voice notes: the happy medium between text messages and phone calls

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JD Vance is not special he's just your racist uncle whose brain got cooked by Facebook

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What's the weird random thing that lives rent-free in your head? Mine is that in 1974, this was a global top 20 pop and country hit youtu.be/BHvManq-Q7k?...

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My Girl Bill , Jim Stafford , 1974

YouTube video by Wicker Bill

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To be more precise about this: this was the moment I think where ideas about 'who deserves what' got wrongly tangled up with the self coordinating market idea--itself sharpened by the marginal revolution--for the first time. But the SCM has squat to say about who deserves what!! Nothing at all

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Midtown Manhattan Building Evacuated as Officials Warn of Collapse

This is legitimately scary! Especially with regard to those horrible super talls (which should not exist and as I understand it are lying half vacant, or at least were not long ago) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/n...

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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As Max points out, Republican presidents who do not want agencies to function will actually like this outcome, and they may even take the choice away from Democratic presidents by preemptively firing enough commissioners that the agency lacks quorum before the new president even arrives in office.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

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An opinion I have, which I don't mind expressing, is that there are (highly successful & well regarded, to be sure) women in the legal academy who are primarily recognized for doing works of intellectual/economic/legal history, and less so for the really important original theory those works contain

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I think it was perhaps a bit of a problem that Progressives and institutionalists understood (then orthodox) economic theory better than the judicial conservatives who were their antagonists. They seemed to credit the latter with understanding that they simply lacked.

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i suggest we annex Maine into Quebec

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Very curious to learn more about how Nebraska and its public power districts managed to eventually buy out all the IOUs in the state. If you've got recommendations for sources that go deeper on this, please let me know!

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Education Minnesota @educationmn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Today, we remember Saint Paul Public Schools employee Philando Castile who was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop on this day 10 years ago. Rest in power, Philando 💔

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Brittney Braxton @mintii.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What I love about losing electricity for several days is getting a utility bill from DTE. Like the tactlessness of it all just makes me want to throw my washing machine in their headquarters ala old lady at Discount Tires.

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This looks so ham handed that I predict it will net more of the opposite effects, than the ones at which it aims. Also from the description it looks way more focused on how miserable life was "before capitalism" than anything else. So he's going to list off plagues?