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StevenStrauss

@stevenstrauss.bsky.social
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John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs

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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In Defense of Secretary Mullin: Why the Comparison to Caligula’s Horse Is an Outrage medium.com/p/in-defense...
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In Defense of Secretary Mullin: Why the Comparison to Caligula’s Horse Is an Outrage
Unkind persons, of the sort with too much education and not enough patriotism, might compare President Trump’s nomination of Markwayne…
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In which it is Humbly Proposed that Mr. Vance, Having Already Changed His Name, Religion, and Every Opinion He Ever Held, Might Yet Change His Title from Vice President to Private Citizen, for the Good of the Nation and the Comfort of the Trump Family. medium.com/p/a-modest-p...
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A Modest Proposal for Preserving MAGA
In which it is Humbly Proposed that Mr. Vance, Having Already Changed His Name, Religion, and Every Opinion He Ever Held, Might Yet Change…
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In an age when software can revise yesterday by lunchtime, ink on paper is a quiet act of civil resistance. open.substack.com/pub/stevenst...
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Start Keeping a Paper Diary
Why AI-mediated search and word processing make analog records matter.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Border Patrol, America's toughest, these guys are not complainers.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
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reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
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a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/01/2026
trying to translate an absolute ton of quotes from French into English while a woman next to me is loudly talking about something unrelated in French and my brain currently feels like an object plugged into the wrong power supply
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In Peronist Argentina, Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Putin's Russia, etc. authoritarian parties used a corrupted legal system to crush not just their opponents, but also what were perceived as independent power centers. Thankfully these sorts of thing don't happen in America.
President Trump (in his personal capacity) sues JP Morgan in Federal Court in Florida for $5 billion
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
AI as Co-Founder: What Accelerators, Investors, and Educators Need to Know Now open.substack.com/pub/stevenst...
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AI as Co-Founder: What Accelerators, Investors, and Educators Need to Know Now
New research on AI and entrepreneurship—and the three skills that matter now
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/01/2026
Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/01/2026
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2025
Trump needs to be investigated - and we don't need Congress or the DOJ to do that. New from @stevenstrauss.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...
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It’s Time for the States to Start Investigating Trump
Democratic-led state governments can hold the aspiring autocrat’s feet to the fire.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2025
NEW: It's time for Democratic-led states to deploy a tool they have been underusing: launching commissions to investigate Trump and his administration. Here are some concrete, specific suggestions—from @stevenstrauss.bsky.social in his Bulwark debut. www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...
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It’s Time for the States to Start Investigating Trump
Democratic-led state governments can hold the aspiring autocrat’s feet to the fire.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Davos, the Alpine theater of the absurd.
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Davos: The Alpine Absurdist Theater
The World Economic Forum at Davos has always required of its participants a certain suspension of disbelief—the willingness to accept that gathering the global elite at a Swiss ski resort, where meals...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/09/2025
I’m honored to serve on the new January 6th subcommittee alongside and Rep. Swalwell @repmoskowitz.bsky.social. Together, we will defend the Constitution, protect the truth, and make sure the American people never forget who was responsible for the defilement of the Capitol.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In a more innocent time, Elon Musk running the government for a few months and deciding that the rural broadband subsidies should mostly go to him would be a big deal but there’s always a dozen other insane things happening. www.slowboring.com/p/beads-quie...
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BEAD’s quiet underspending
The U.S. broadband plan that’s leaving millions behind.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Note, Axios liberated a copy of the Epstein book and other docs. I reposted a copy of the book here. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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DocumentCloud
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Lauren Daly @yourlocalcrazy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
When you're too hot and sweaty to shower but the sheets on your bed were just washed and you don't wanna get that gym stank on them
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
One thing people can do to gum up the works when it comes to purging voter rolls or arresting Dems or whatever bs they have in mind is to register as a Republican or independent. If enough people do that the voter “data” will be contaminated to some extent www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
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Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
open.substack.com/pub/stevenst... Not to be a spoiler but Mamdani is actually not that popular among NYC voters, most polls show in a 1 on 1 against Cuomo (a scandal tainted Gov who resigned in disgrace) Madani would lose
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Got all my points in,” Starr reported to [Epstein]. “I said, no crimes, period. Inappropriate, yes. criminal, no. Bragged on you.” The great American moralist Ken Starr. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Justice Kavanaugh's attempt to re-brand how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications is belied by how the Supreme Court is actually handling emergency applications. That, and a bunch of other #SCOTUS news, in this week’s “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
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177. The (Not-So-)Interim Docket
Justice Kavanaugh's attempt to re-brand how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications is belied by how the Supreme Court is actually handling emergency applications.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2025
NEW: Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
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The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Elections have consequences
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@readwise save
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I’m not even that liberal 😂
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
some personal news: in a few weeks, I, along with my Rolling Stone comrade and editor @andrewperez.bsky.social, will be up and running at the expanding political reporting team at @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s outlet @zeteo.com www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
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Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A few thoughts steven-strauss.medium.com/the-mamdani-...
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The Mamdani Phenomenon: A Rorschach Test for American Politics
Zohran Mamdani provides an interesting Rorschach test for American politics, and the conclusion’s clear: we’re a country living in two…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“.. a private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials .. “.. Bessent at one point threatening to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte ‘in the fucking face.’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Just a modest proposal - GOP Senators, Members of the Cabinet, and the President should take Kennedy's advice: drink raw milk and refuse to get vaccinated. I predict that if the GOP leadership would do this, in a year America would be a better place :-) open.substack.com/pub/stevenst...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Just a modest proposal - GOP Senators, Members of the Cabinet, and the President should take Kennedy's advice: drink raw milk and refuse to get vaccinated. I predict that if the GOP leadership would do this, in a year America would be a better place :-) open.substack.com/pub/stevenst...
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Fyi - anyone else having an issue like this
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/02/2025
Am I l i t e r a l l y horrified that someone who claims to be a copy editor with decades of experience has never encountered "nonplussed" used to mean surprised/confused and believes in their heart of hearts that it means totes chill? You. Bet. I. Am.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Astounding to me that Saudi Arabia paying for a new Trump Tower in Belgrade doesn’t make this list:
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A new Trump Tower of corruption
President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was a top White House official during Trump's first term.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
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StevenStrauss @stevenstrauss.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I grovel and beg eduroam
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