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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 9h

Weapons is the best movie I’ve seen in many years

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 12h

More like Yasqueen Arafat

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 13h

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1093/qje/...

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 13h

Tony Yeung

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.

The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 14h

Also his wife left him a couple years ago. Her instagram used to be full of photos of her with another dude just beaming too, but all photos have been deleted from it recently.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14h

Vought is a small, unhappy, hateful and anti-social person.

He is also evil: opposed to Jesus‘ teachings, and exactly what Jesus warned about in the Bible.

The first step in bringing Vought down is being honest about who he is.

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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 14h

Many people are asking me who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. While I don’t know for sure, this year I think that it will be Satoshi Nakamoto, or Emmanuel Saez.

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 14h

Social media probably also makes people more demanding and less patient about progress on complex issues because they’re constantly being inundated with commentary about how simple things are and how everything that’s wrong with America is because of people who are a little different from them.

Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 14h

Stuff like this is driven by anger and disgust and confusion and fear. Also ignorance and stupidity. It’s probably very gratifying in the moment to lash out like this. It’s more satisfying in the moment than the hard work of trying to understand a problem and figure out how to solve it.

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s an example. I can’t believe people are still raging about this. Or that this is how they’re doing it now. No one actually cares about youth sports or women’s sports. They care about bullying trans people. Which doesn’t make life better for anybody!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Activists strip to protest trans athletes at school board meeting

After a school board in Maine voted not to align policy with the Trump administration, community members began to undress in protest.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 14h

Just culture war bullshit. Culture war bullshit is about spectacle and emotions. Much of policy gets built around those imperatives. It’s impossible to have serious discourse about policy because too many people learn that policy is about owning the other instead of making our lives better.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

Interviewing for my first “economist” job next week 😱

Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

We get it, you’re retarded. You don’t need to keep reminding us.

Seymour Smoke @bone2meetu.bsky.social · 15h

The collapse of U.S hegemony is a good thing, we shouldn’t dictate the entire world, we shouldn’t have an overriding veto at the UN and everything the US has done internationally since the 50s has made the world objectively worse

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

SF isn’t known for 996 either. That’s a term from the Chinese tech sector.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 18h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 18h

Some kind of cosmic irony in the cult of productivity producing literally nothing

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 21h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

Talk about a sign of the times www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site vandalized

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

I for one hope AI will increase aggregate productivity

Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

Yawn

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15h

"Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a stock bubble focused on artificial intelligence companies might burst before long."

Stock Bubble Dread Grips Central Bankers in Washington

Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a stock bubble focused on artificial in...

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Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 15h

Some personal news: I won the Econ Nobel for my whining about qualifying exams

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