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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 4h

Follow the 💰💸!
#Graft
#insidertrading

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10h

Advice to journalists: find out who made money trading on this deal happening.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 12h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 5h

Great idea! ☮️👨🏼‍🍳

Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 11h

I *really* hope tomorrow is José Andrés' Nobel Peace Prize day.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 5h

👇🏻

God @thegodpodcast.com · 6h

You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 6h

You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 9h

What shutdown? Treasury Secy Scott Bessent says (on X) Treasury bought Argentine pesos today -- and finalized a $20 billion swap line with Argentina's central bank. Wonder if the Fed had to sign off on the swaps. x.com/SecScottBess...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on X: "The @USTreasury has concluded 4 days of intensive meetings with Minister @LuisCaputoAR and his team in DC. We discussed Argentina’s strong economic fundamentals, including structural changes already underway that will generate significant dollar-denominated exports and foreign" / X

The @USTreasury has concluded 4 days of intensive meetings with Minister @LuisCaputoAR and his team in DC. We discussed Argentina’s strong economic fundamentals, including structural changes already underway that will generate significant dollar-denominated exports and foreign

x.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10h

Advice to journalists: find out who made money trading on this deal happening.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 12h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 10h

Please add circumcision to the list of things that DO NOT cause autism. That list also includes Vaccines and Tylenol use in pregnancy.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 11h

I *really* hope tomorrow is José Andrés' Nobel Peace Prize day.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 14h

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 1d

Time to get the 💉!
#vaccineswork

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Oh look, vaccines work.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Oh look, vaccines work.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 3d

#VOTE 🇺🇸

Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 3d

This Election Day may seem unimportant because there are no “big” offices on the ballot but many states hold their nonpartisan municipal elections in off years. Races for city council, school boards, county judgeships are VITALLY important to the day to day functions of your community! Participate!

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 3d

Woah! 🤒

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maps show how expected increases in monthly premiums vary by age and geography.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 3d

This Election Day may seem unimportant because there are no “big” offices on the ballot but many states hold their nonpartisan municipal elections in off years. Races for city council, school boards, county judgeships are VITALLY important to the day to day functions of your community! Participate!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3d

Thank you Dr. Houry for calling a spade a spade. RFK Jr. is leading a hostile takeover of the CDC. ~80% of experienced leaders gone, science sidelined. The health of all Americans is on the line. #FireRFKJ #SaveTheCDC
@drdebhoury.bsky.social

Full interview:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease

Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 3d

📌

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Week Ahead

October 5, 2025

open.substack.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Week Ahead

October 5, 2025

open.substack.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 4d

More 💔.
🇺🇦

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4d

Anastasiia Hrytsiv and her family were killed by the Russian strike on Lviv region last night.

Anastasiia's school wrote about her death.

She had her life ahead of her, but Russia's damned war against Ukraine took the lives of the whole family.

Deepest condolences...

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4d

Anastasiia Hrytsiv and her family were killed by the Russian strike on Lviv region last night.

Anastasiia's school wrote about her death.

She had her life ahead of her, but Russia's damned war against Ukraine took the lives of the whole family.

Deepest condolences...

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully back to normal soon. 🤞🏻

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 5d

It's cooler in Atlanta, apparently. 59⁰ this morning. High today was 77⁰.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 5d

Crony capitalism ==> graft
#econsky

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/3IusbGP

Article excerpt: After Trump won and formally announced Homan would be returning with him to the White House, Sowell kept Homan on his payroll until the end of the year. Once named as the border czar, Homan said he would recuse himself from contracting, saying he would have no “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts.”

But several industry executives who spoke with ProPublica said at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work.

Homan's business relationships are under greater scrutiny after MSNBC reported an FBI sting that allegedly caught him on tape accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as would-be government contractors before he took the border czar post.

His relationship with Sowell raises fresh questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process for immigration enforcement, ethics experts say.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/3IusbGP

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Chicago Booth Review @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social · 6d

"I always share about the fact that when I started writing the book, it was about 25 million refugees in late 2018. Now it's already at 36 million, so a huge amount of growth."

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca... #econsky

The Economics of the Refugee Crisis

Chicago Booth’s Andrew Leon Hanna discusses how policymakers should respond to the global proliferation of displaced people.

www.chicagobooth.edu

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 8d

#Releasethefiles
#Epstein

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8d

What? A shutdown does nothing of the sort.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 8d

Should I worry that my teenage son immediately knew that image is Gigachad?

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 8d

For those like me with questions about the picture knowyourmeme.com/memes/gigachad

GigaChad | Know Your Meme

GigaChad is a nickname associated with the art project berlin.1969 / Ernest Khalimov, which is a series of photoshopped versions of several models created

knowyourmeme.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 8d

🤔 let's see the #Epsteinfiles!
#Epstein

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

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