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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 5h

They really can’t see public space without vandalizing it can they?

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 10h

Brera Madonna: early Renaissance altarpiece 1472-74, of faultless architectural proportion, with symbolic suspended egg; for kneeling donor Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, by Piero della Francesca (died #OTD 1494) whose perspective drew on mathematics & geometry. Pinacoteca di Brera 1/4

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 10/10/2026

Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When I’m not in motion - can you ping slgreer at umich dot edu?

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Chief Justice John Roberts…is 71 and has had health problems. If Roberts – much less one of the three Obama/Biden appointees – is forced to leave the court, Trump will be in a position to remove any significant limit on his power, and poison court decisions for generations.”

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The election for Michigan’s next U.S. Senator is about much more than just our state, and much more than any one policy. Our election may well decide which party has a majority in the Senate. And control of the Senate will determine the direction of our courts.” @sbagen.bsky.social in @freep.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The US faces at least 2-3 years before it has trustworthy federal public health authorities, so it's good to see others get to work (I know there are plenty of trustworthy people left at e.g. CDC but they aren't running it!)

milbank.org

Vaccine Policy: The State Role in a Time of Public Health Disruption | Milbank Quarterly

Beginning in 2025, longstanding opponents of vaccines have held the highest positions of federal public health policy powers.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I cannot stop thinking about the relationship between google searches about testosterone and Trump voting. I'd assume it's that the same profitable and polluted information environments are shaping [men's] feelings with regards to both politics and endocrinology.

goodauthority.substack.com

Republicans’ fascination with testosterone in three charts

Why depictions of testosterone as a measure of manhood resonate with Republicans.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the conservative intellectual "does not command the movement from above or organically organize it from within. He occupies the unstable space between a respectable institutional world and popular forces he can neither afford to embrace completely nor safely abandon."

unpopularfront.news

Better Late Than Never?

The Right Wakes Up to Fascism...Kinda

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Massive come from behind endorsement of Skowronek if true

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

By the standards of many activities in government or business, the UK in a changing Europe program cost basically *nothing*.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I fear the lesson is a pretty common one: if you pay people to do good stuff, you get good stuff. If they’re intrinsically motivated, it doesn’t even need to be much money. UK higher ed is mostly deep in an experiment in which they pay people less, treat them worse, and get worse results overall.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A reminder: *there is no evidence Cook did something wrong *there is ample evidence that Republicans have done the thing she was accused of, including the family of her accuser, but they are exempted from investigation donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

The partisan targeting of officials by Trump officials is underlined by who they are not pursuing. For example, Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General and Trump supporter is appears to be guilty of a worse version of the crime Cook is accused of: he declared three homes as his primary residence for mortgage purposes, while using two of them as rental properties. Three of Trump’s Cabinet members have two primary residence mortgages, the “fraud” that Cook is accused of. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Department of Justice to investigate him.

Weirdly, the only people who seem to have been proven to have engaged in the type of fraud at the heart of Bill Pulte’s campaign…are Bill Pulte’s family. Reporters found that Pulte’s father and step-mother had been claiming homes in wealthy neighborhoods in both Florida and Michigan as their primary residence for tax purposes. Local Michigan officials said they would revoke the Pulte’s tax exemptions.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: What happened in Holborn? Some constituency polling to help us understand a bit more. TLDR: loyalty to Burnham + a local candidate won the day; no real sign of tactical voting; Greens never convinced ppl they could win but Polanski not toxic necessarily. @persuasionuk.bsky.social

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

80% of the reason for this post is to remember the restaurant. 20% of remember the disjunction which might be Silver and might be the journalist

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bubala sounds like an excellent restaurant (near kings cross). The guy being interviewed… if you take him at his word, scary. (If what we want is an amazing tool, then why create something that’s not designed to work for us?)

ft.com

Computer scientist David Silver: ‘Where are we going without AI?’

The architect of Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Trump Administration is again illegally impounding federal funds, withholding roughly $800 million in congressionally approved funds from 11 program accounts. Congress can restore the funds and prevent future “pocket rescissions”: www.cbpp.org/research/gov...

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Administration Again Illegally Impounds Federal Funds

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), members of Congress from both parties, and the courts have all agreed the Administration’s actions are illegal. Yet the Administration’s actions have become...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What’s the quip- poor Donald Trump, born to be First Lady, condemned to be President?

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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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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

EU reaction: EU reaction: "It is deeply regrettable that the United States has announced intentions to impose sanctions." "The EU stands ready to take any necessary measures to enable the Court to carry out its work (and) protect the interests of EU operators within the single market."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

University of Michigan gave her tenure!

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Indiana Immunization Coalition @vaccinatein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"It's crucial that people get an influenza vaccine... And this might be a year that people might want to get a vaccine early." www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...

npr.org

An early flu season means it might be time to think about a flu shot

Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 09/10/2026

The Trump administration has denied Illinois’ request for a major disaster declaration that would have unlocked federal aid for eight counties, including Cook and Will, hit by severe storms this August.

chicagotribune.com

Trump’s FEMA rejects Illinois disaster aid request for August storms

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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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As California considers a wealth tax on billionaires, how does $1 Billion in wealth compare to median wealth in Californian? $1B is 3300x the median wealth in California, based on wealth estimates from the Public Policy Institute of California @ppicnotes.bsky.social www.ppic.org/publication/...

$1 billion relative to median wealth in California. The median wealth of Californians is not visible on the graph except for a value label because $1 billion is so much higher.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t particularly wish the Tories well, but a healthy democracy requires parties to the right of center that aren’t overtly racist and extremist. So good news if she is actually trying to reorient the party towards distributional stuff like taxes and housing instead of chasing the far right.

ft.com

Six things we learnt from the Tory party conference

The Conservatives’ annual gathering in Birmingham has closed with leader Kemi Badenoch focusing on the economy and homeowners

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

the QAnon promotion is no longer subtle

tweet from the Dept of War that featuring Trump with a gigantic Q behind him

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 09/10/2026

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Northern view from Lake Point Tower overlooking the Chicago shoreline where it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-08 18:06:13 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@LakefrontLive // Current Temp in Chicago: 66 F | 19 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: E at 8 mph | 13 kph // Humidity: 59%

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s a very interesting (and troubling) graph

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ve been half an hour in a huge queue to get Covid and flu vaccination and that makes me happy. Good to see my community looking after itself.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump admin is suspending a bunch of tech companies (Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini) from participation in the H-1B PERM program, alleging fraud. Some other tech firms (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc.) notably absent from the list.

apnews.com

The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program, alleging fraud

The Trump administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas, accusing the company of fraud.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I genuinely don’t know how else to say this other than to repeat that Kennedy is a eugenicist who wants *certain* kids to die www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-tox...

thebulwark.com

RFK Jr.’s Toxic World

The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes it really is a loyalty test.

Donald Trump on Truth Social just now:

The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, "Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not one of the dead or bereaved but I will never forget Musk, Vought, Trump and the Republican enablers whose destruction of USAID is causing literally millions of deaths. Here's a readable summary.

theargumentmag.com

Yes, Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of millions

World's richest man denies hurting world's poorest

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

global review:"medical and recreational legalization increase cannabis use, with weaker effects among youth. In addition, potential substitution effects were identified for other substances (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, opioids), excepting complementary alcohol use among young adults" post-legalisation

milbank.org

Impacts of Global Cannabis Policy Changes on Substance Use: A Systematic Review of Quasi-Experimental Studies | Milbank Quarterly

Substantial changes in cannabis policies are occurring globally; however, the impacts of these reforms on cannabis use, as well as downstream effects on other substance use, remain unclear.

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