Bert Kaufman
@bek.bsky.social
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
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Free speech?
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
August 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Free speech?
Excellent satire still lives! When great journalism becomes public art…
April 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Excellent satire still lives! When great journalism becomes public art…
Reposted by Bert Kaufman
Fabulous discussion between @claudia-sahm.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social. Covering tariffs, risk of recession, DOGE, the positive effects of immigration to help COVID Econ recovery, the dangers of gov cuts to educ research funding. It made a microeconomist love macro for just a bit!
An Interview With Claudia Sahm
Of rules, recessions and more
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Fabulous discussion between @claudia-sahm.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social. Covering tariffs, risk of recession, DOGE, the positive effects of immigration to help COVID Econ recovery, the dangers of gov cuts to educ research funding. It made a microeconomist love macro for just a bit!
Brian Thompson’s murder is awful, tragic and inexcusable. Bullets are never the answer. We don’t yet know motive.
And
The U.S. health insurance system is broken.
There are ways to exert pressure to show how broken it is. (A battle from 5 years ago)👇
californiahealthline.org/news/patient...
And
The U.S. health insurance system is broken.
There are ways to exert pressure to show how broken it is. (A battle from 5 years ago)👇
californiahealthline.org/news/patient...
Patients Caught In Crossfire Between Giant Hospital Chain, Large Insurer - California Healthline
Insurance giant Cigna and San Francisco-based Dignity Health have failed to ink a 2020 contract, leaving nearly 17,000 patients in California and Nevada scrambling to find new health care providers. M...
californiahealthline.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Brian Thompson’s murder is awful, tragic and inexcusable. Bullets are never the answer. We don’t yet know motive.
And
The U.S. health insurance system is broken.
There are ways to exert pressure to show how broken it is. (A battle from 5 years ago)👇
californiahealthline.org/news/patient...
And
The U.S. health insurance system is broken.
There are ways to exert pressure to show how broken it is. (A battle from 5 years ago)👇
californiahealthline.org/news/patient...
Peering over the shoulders of phone-scrollers on a crowded Metro in the morning as they open X and see the first 3 things that pop up in their feeds are all Elon posts. Truly CRAZY.
November 26, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Peering over the shoulders of phone-scrollers on a crowded Metro in the morning as they open X and see the first 3 things that pop up in their feeds are all Elon posts. Truly CRAZY.
Reposted by Bert Kaufman
Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week