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Sam Levey

@slevey.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Economics at Illinois College. Modern Monetary Theory and other heterodox approaches.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Given the scale of the forces arrayed against us, it's probably true we cannot save everyone from these monsters. But you make them work for every single innocent victim they take. That's what all the other politics is FOR, abandoning that principle means we have a meaningless politics of nothing.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This has got to be an unimpeachable, unbreakable, red-line principle for anyone who wants a better world. We fight together or die alone. Even if it's a losing fight.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...
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The Wheels Are Coming Off
It Can Only Good Happen
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
we have got to put that into a causal inference lecture
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There's a persuasive argument that based on conventional liberal principles (central planning, market distortions, coercion, interference in hiring, trade, manufacturing, mergers & acquisitions, etc.) this is the least market-friendly administration since FDR. Possibly ever.
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
A graph of US monthly solar generation
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tiddlydump.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And @slevey.bsky.social is here, so I can say "your video series is great!" He also has a two-parter on projection that's quite pleasant. Go check it out.
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tiddlydump.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Saw this linked about a year ago, skipped through some parts, and bookmarked it. youtu.be/VDlnuO96p58 When I returned to it this week, to my delight, there were 4 videos in a series (with more to come, I hope). It's really great! I love the intuition you can build w/ simple animated visuals +
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Degrees of Freedom, Actually Explained - The Geometry of Statistics | Ch. 1 (#SoME4)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I still think about the WSJ scoop about the Epstein birthday book. The official Republican position, to this day and after unsuccessful Trump litigation, is that maybe someone faked his signature and put it in a book where everyone else's signature was real
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'm sorry but I just don't believe this is correct. An endorsement is a statement about what you believe. A vote is an effort to pick between one of several possible futures.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026
ah the Peace President
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
There's no other word for it but degeneracy. Trump's mind has degenerated, his party has degenerated, his government has degenerated, & his cultural movement has degenerated. These are the floor sweepings of politics, placed on the highest pedestal more or less by accident.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Liberalism is the unrelentingly radical belief that humans stand equal as brothers and sisters in a shared and open society, governed by laws and leaders of their own choosing, free to live lives of their own choosing, finding their own truth and fortune, vested with rights universal and inalienable
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
so i actually wrote this www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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The radicalisation of the American liberal
How US liberalism found the will to fight Trump—and what we can learn from it
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Onion StatShot: Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character? 
Columbine: 0%
Scaramouche: 0%
Pulcinella: 0%
Pantalone: 0%
il Dottore: 0%
Don't know: 100%
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We've come a long way from "those who are willing to trade their liberty for security will soon end up with neither."
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 15/04/2026
The next president's Attorney General needs to act with urgency to investigate and prosecute the crimes being committed to effectuate the mass deportation agenda.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Imagine causing more uncertainty than a global pandemic that killed millions www.economist.com/united-state...
Chart from The Economist showing the Economic Policy Uncertainty index in the US. There are two peaks, in 2020 and 2025
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 31/03/2026
The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3.	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6.	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8.	He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11.	For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12.	For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15.	For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17.	For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18.	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19.	He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
6 for 6
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I really feel like we are at the dawn of an age in which truth, the simple facts of the matter, will be more valuable than ever and also less accessible than ever.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The extent to which the last few years demonstrate that "good times make weak men" is true, but that it means the opposite of what the phrase's proponents mean by it, is wild.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/03/2026
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
can this be a solution?
strait of hormuz map featuring the big ass eagles from lord of the rings
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 06/03/2026
Incredible @polphilpod.bsky.social banger today. Conclusively answers the question of whether conservatism is just fascism or not. Offers a hopeful vision for victory. Give it a read!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Years ago I wrote about naive cynicism, which is the posture of being sophisticated, knowing, and worldweary often worn by those who don't actually have a firm grasp on what's going on but have surrendered to what they claim to oppose and are trying to convince others to do the same.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
They didn't care about the Americans killed in the Benghazi attack, they saw those murdered Americans as props, as tools to be used for political attacks against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. So they have trouble grasping that some Americans really do care about US personnel killed abroad.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
There’s this sense that everyone has been underreacting to objectively alarming scenarios because everyone else has been underreacting, but that also means if the mood changes it could change all at once
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The implication here is straightforward: that people with platforms, including Democratic politicians and media, need to keep highlighting the threat to democracy specifically — centering democracy as an issue in both word and deed. To save democracy, you have to actually talk about democracy.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/02/2026
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
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Sam Levey @slevey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Teaching macro be like "here's this idea about how people behave, pretty crazy rite. You've never heard of it because you don't personally do it. The empirical evidence that anybody else does it is very bad. Every paper must have it or at least address it or the paper can't be published."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Also they're just sick. They're killing people and whether you think it's justified or not (obviously it's not) that should mean something. Instead they're running around laughing like an axe murderer in some terrible horror movie. Completely broken people
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Sam Levey @slevey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Americans relearning in real time that uncertainty is a necessary sibling of discretionary authority.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In my Foundations of HCI class, we’re in the midst of our social computing section, thinking about how to address online toxicities. Had the students play Masnick’s “Trust & Safety Tycoon” game in class yesterday. Their reactions: moderation is HARD... www.techdirt.com/2023/10/17/t...
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Trust & Safety Tycoon: Try Your Hand At Managing A Social Media Trust & Safety Team
Play Trust & Safety Tycoon in your browser on desktop or mobile » Today we’re super excited to launch Trust & Safety Tycoon, a video game simulating what it’s like to run a trust &amp…
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