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William Meservy

@williammeservy.bsky.social
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Husband. Dad. Believer. Liberalism. YIMBYism. Geologist. Russian speaker. #NAFO

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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
DOGE is a scam, and this weekly-updated Musk Watch DOGE tracker deserves more traction and publicity: doge.muskwatch.com The tracker allows — in granular detail — one to view how much DOGE inflates the value of what it says it’s doing. In reality, federal expenditures haven’t dropped at all.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It sincerely doesn’t feel good to be so validated about how bad Trump would be. Watching a predicted train wreck is still watching a train wreck.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The money we will pay just on the interest of Trump’s deficit-exploding tax proposals will be an order of magnitude greater each year than what we pay on total foreign aid expenditures each year. That’s how dumb all of this USAID talk is. www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-...
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Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11 Trillion | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
2025-02-06-In a closed-door meeting with House Leadership today President Trump reportedly outlined his tax priorities.
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Josh McCoy @joshuabmccoy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
So so important to know & remember. Foreign aid & immigration are not sinking us. We can’t get to solutions with scapegoats.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Probably worth reading the following as well: reason.com/2024/07/13/t...
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Why did Americans stop caring about the national debt?
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You’ve been deceived. Sorry! www.nasdaq.com/articles/how...
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As we experience the fallout from Trump’s pause of federal loans and grants, let us not forget what really drives spending and deficits👇
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Critics of this post ignore data associating church-attendance with a good life/society. That’s their prerogative. But—while it’s one thing to believe in God without empirical evidence—it’s altogether another to decry church attendance in the face of strong empirical evidence showing its benefits.
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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Here's what I've learned about Bluesky. The average user HATES religion.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I can’t speak for Scientology, but people leave the LDS faith all the time and are still loved.
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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
At some point I'm going to write a book called, You Should Go to Church Even If You Don't Believe In Any of It. From a purely pro-social, pro-democracy perspective, attending a house of worship regularly is a very good thing.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Looking at the data (as opposed to what I’ve been told by several people), I think you are right and that these people are conflating whose political ads they were. I find this interesting and instructive: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_...
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Kamala is for they/them - Wikipedia
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
There’s nothing to be fooled about here. I’m reporting what run-of-the-mill Democrats from Nevada have expressed to me post election.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The market and the law defines meritocracy.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Kamala Harris was repeatedly running television ads promoting transgender rights. I have had about 30 people in Nevada tell me they think that’s why she lost there—because no one knew her economic plan but everyone knew she’d make sure transgender athletes could compete with women athletes.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I really hope that Bluesky will become THE place to be, but at its current stage I'm inclined to use X, still. There are simply too many limitations I dislike (60 sec videos, can't post multiple images/videos on one post, threading is terrible...).
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The major climate groups monitoring global temperature released their estimates for 2024. The anomalies range from +1.46 to +1.62°C, likely the first post-industrial year with Earth +1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions. The 30-year climate average is still ~1.2°C but obviously increasing 🧪 +...
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I think people are very tired of the forced frameworks—many of which seem to undermine meritocracy. Trainings can feel over-the-top and infantilizing, and initiatives which prioritize minorities in any way commonly feel unfair to people. MOST everyone wants and believes in fairness and pluralism.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
John Deere, Ford, and Harley Davidson have also dropped DEI initiatives. Again: the tide has turned against DEI. In the real world (as opposed to the online one), people are generally quite sick of DEI, and they are voting it down. Companies see that.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Democrats are best when they focus on being the party of evidence-based decision making, not the minority-obsessed finger-waggers. We can achieve real pluralism faster by governing well than we can by lecturing people.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Since I posted this thread, META, Walmart, Amazon, and McDonalds have dropped DEI programs. Bluesky needs to know how to win future elections: making Democrats the party of DEI, transgender athletes, pronouns, hardline abortion stances, etc is a great way to lose both elections and the culture war.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I’m supposed to have this tribal hatred of Liz Cheney despite her sacrificing her career to fight the one threat I care most about. And I’m supposed to have this tribal loyalty to leftists who continually refusal to do the absolute bare minimum and support a liberal Dem against that threat. Nah.
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 08/01/2025
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 07/01/2025
I have a feeling this meme format is going to get a lot of use over the next four years.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
These are not serious people. These are children playing with matches. And the CCP has to be rejoicing.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
NEW: Georgia Republicans have voted unanimously to expel former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan from the party. His “sin”? choosing to put country over party by endorsing VP Harris. In a statement, Georgia Republicans declared: “Geoff Duncan is hereby demanded to cease calling himself a ‘Republican’”
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
We can all agree, no matter our politics, that chef José Andrés deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his amazing work with World Central Kitchen in disaster-stricken areas across the U.S. and the world.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
You can’t simultaneously both welcome technological improvement/automation and hate immigrants for tAkInG jObS aWaY. Just admit you’re a degrowther who doesn’t understand economics. Or maybe choose to learn something: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of...
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Lump of labour fallacy - Wikipedia
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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
America should invent a walkable city with good public transit that's also doesn't get too cold in the winter and is sunny. The closest we have is San Francisco.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Nativists have much to learn. They can start here: 1) The economy isn’t a fixed pie. 2) Immigrants don’t just fill jobs; they create jobs and demand for more jobs. 3) In the US, studies show that both documented and undocumented immigrants are a net fiscal and economic benefit.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
He’s just now figuring this out
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
so much of what people dislike about H1B would be fixed if the visas were just awarded by salary offer instead of by lottery
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Sadly, my 2021 article on anti-Asian bigotry/discrimination on left and right is newly relevant, especially the part about the right and immigration: thehill.com/opinion/civi...
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Both the left and the right discriminate against Asian Americans
While superficially different, left- and right-wing versions of anti-Asian discrimination have much in common.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I very sincerely prefer the company and the community of immigrants in America than that of nativists. I see more real love of America from immigrants. I see more excitement about the future. I see more ambition. Nativists suck. They’re a drain.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
MAGA tech bros on Twitter are finding out that so much of Trumpism is just naked racism and nativism and that the leopards are now coming for their faces.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The same people who decry mainstream media are the same people who uncritically believe anything their favorite internet pundit tells them.
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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Expand H1B visas. Expand all visas. Then eliminate the need for visas entirely by allowing any peaceful person to come here for any reason. Make national borders as easy to cross as state borders — for skilled workers, unskilled workers, non-workers, refugees, everyone.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
if you want to make it big on the internet, the easiest way is to find things that make people mad, publish them (regardless of accuracy), and then validate their anger. the result of this has been the creation of a humanity-spanning rage machine where every possible source of anger is being mined
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
it is funny how much space the H1b system takes up in immigration discourse for how small it is relatively speaking. (only 85k people a year) We probably issued more employment authorizations via humanitarian channels for Haitians alone last year.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Leftists want DEI for minorities. MAGA wants DEI for majorities. Both suck. Embrace the center.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
You are confused about how we can reasonably analyze these data and what they imply: www.cgdev.org/publication/...
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The Often Overlooked “Pull” Factor: Border Crossings and Labor Market Tightness in the US
This study investigates the link between Southwest US border crossings and labor market tightness, measured by the job openings to unemployed ratio, over nearly 25 years (2000–2023). Analyzing monthly...
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The correlation is clearly visible, but feel free to run a regression. We don’t have causality, but simple logic tells us border encounters aren’t the driver of US job openings. Moreover, the data shows encounters trailing job openings, not the other way around. It’s hard to find other explanations.
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Most of the immigrant surge can be explained by the US labor market and had little to do with the policy decisions of the presidential administration: www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/democrats-...
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Mark Stevens @mark-stevens.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
In the final minutes of It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey gets to see what the world would look like if it was ruled by a malicious megalomaniac with no empathy and no concern beyond increasing his own personal wealth. Thank goodness that'll never happen.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas, my friends. Let's not forget Europe's defenders.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
"Matt very unfair!" Matt Gaetz shared a message of support he received from Trump today, after the Republican-controlled House Ethics Committee revealed that Gaetz had used illegal drugs and paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl. Birds of a feather flock together
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William Meservy @williammeservy.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I have several close friends from South Africa. I’ve just been repeatedly surprised by their ardent embrace of Trumpism and their sharing of Russian disinfo. I have a lot of conversations with people, and ones with my Saffa bros stand out as especially unusual and vehement.
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