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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 29m

Still hits 😞

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D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 1d

Yep! She does that, too. So many nights i wake up freezing and don’t know why smh

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to have this paper with @loismiller.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes accepted at Econ of Ed Review!

And honored it will be in the special issue in memory of Rodney Andrews. ❤️

Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 2d

Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Leveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between geographic access to public two- and fou…

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 1d

PhD is going well btw

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 1d

Finally ready to admit that no one in my household knows how to change the air conditioner from Celsius to Fahrenheit but my cat. Her best friend is a carrot

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe it’s an aging thing, but man is it nice when the band you want to see is the opener. Easier parking, usually can get a good spot not too far from the stage, often can meet the band afterwards, and can get out before the end of show rush/before too late. What a concept!

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 6d

Or can people with money/their families pay for obituaries? Fine! Do I really need that alert sent to my phone tho. Let’s maybe revisit what should constitute “breaking news”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 6d

Not to be crass or disrespectful, but I continue to be baffled by whose passing the NYT chooses to highlight with “Breaking News” alerts. Multiple times a week, I find myself going “Who that?”

(Maybe it’s a cohort thing? Boomers might be losing their minds when a regional food emperor dies at 100)

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 11d

Kinda why I’m skeptical when people use “People of color” in certain contexts. Too often it’s a lazy rhetorical device used to mask heterogeneity/lay claims that wouldn’t pass the slightest bit of scrutiny. Not even all Black people are the same! So you def can’t lump everyone “non White” together

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 11d

Who did what now?? Don’t you put this evil on us

A screenshot from a Politico tweet saying “Black Americans and young voters helped Trump win in 2024. Now, with joblessness rising, they’re souring on his leadership.”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 24d

The Star-Spangled Banner is unquestionably gorgeous, but I’d find a new level of patriotism if our national anthem sounded like a Dies irae

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 24d

Real final boss-type shit, in all the best ways

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National Anthem of Azerbaijan | "Azərbaycan Marşı" | Lyrics w/ English Translation

YouTube video by madelvictor

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 24d

Beginning my transition to being a National Anthems Guy, bc Azerbaijan’s goes way harder than it needs to

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 27d

I’m always somewhat pleasantly surprised when I come across a new pop-punk band. Like huh, I thought they stopped making that vintage 15 years ago when I left high school — cool

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Sep 14

What could possibly be so pressing

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Sep 14

Why are you, as an Amazon Prime Video app, sending me push alert notifications?

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Sep 1

Aah thanks so much! That’s perfect

Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh awesome! Probably 1992 or 2004 would be ideal, but really any of the releases after 1972 would be great!

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm looking for data from Barron's college competitiveness index (like the full thing, not just select colleges), but the government is, uh, broken, so the restricted-access data seem impossible to get rn. Any suggestions from the crowd?

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#urbanecon @urban-econ-papers.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Racial Residential Segregation in the United States”
by Trevon D. Logan and John M. Parman
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Racial Residential Segregation in the United States

(September 2025) - Residential segregation is a central factor in explaining socioeconomic gaps across race and ethnicity in the United States. Place of residence directly impacts access to schools, j...

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Aug 29

They got me again: went to a talk for a really cool sounding labor paper, and it’s just macro models all over the place. Charlie Brown and that football ain’t got nothing on me

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 26

The administration is trying to aggressively escalate its coercive power over the American people.

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost.
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(ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · Aug 22

When you definitely know zero (economics) professors

One tweet says “How many centrist professors are there though? Can’t be many these days”

And another tweet responds “Zero. There are exactly zero”

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NBER @nber.org · Aug 22

Estimating individual pay premia for 4,800 unions in Brazil, finds substantial heterogeneity across unions. Strikes and internal competition correlate with higher premia, from Ellora Derenoncourt, François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux https://www.nber.org/papers/w34139

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