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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 23h

I still have to update my website & whatnot to do a fancy post, but in the meantime...

I'm going to be on the econ job market this year so if you know of cool openings in applied micro / development / environmental econ, please send them my way!

#EconSky

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

Super happy for the awesome @hahrie.bsky.social and her MacArthur fellowship -- couldn't go to a more deserving scholar and person... www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Hahrie Han

Analyzing the organizations and movements that equip people to participate in public life and solve problems together.

www.macfound.org

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

It actually blew my mind when I moved to the US and realized that here you would rent an apartment and it comes with fridge, stove, etc.. Had lived my entire life in Brazil as a renter, and it was unimaginable that landlords would provide you with any of that...

David Wagner @dwagner.bsky.social · Mar 31

Many apartments in Los Angeles come with no fridge. It's long been one of the weird quirks of renting in L.A.

But the days of landlords expecting renters to bring their own fridge could soon be over.

My @laist.com story on a new bill to ban BYO-fridge:

BYO-fridge? New bill aims to ban LA’s refrigerator-less apartments

Why do so many L.A. landlords make renters bring their own refrigerators? An Inglewood state assemblymember is seeking to stop the practice.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Our future depends on who can coordinate best and how Americans answer the two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

This was my only point. You shouldn't let your frustration with economists' citation malpractice or disinclination to read -- which are very real! -- blind you to the fact that econ articles do require huge amounts of effort. bsky.app/profile/fili...

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

In other words, I'm doing the very opposite of belittling books or the work that goes into them. I'm making the point that top econ papers are like books *because they also require a huge amount of work*!

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

In other words, I'm doing the very opposite of belittling books or the work that goes into them. I'm making the point that top econ papers are like books *because they also require a huge amount of work*!

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

In other words: this cannot be an equilibrium situation.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

My frustration is when people then look at economists and ask, "why do you publish so little?" No one asks that of book-writing disciplines, bc ppl understand each book takes tons of work. But so does each top econ paper!

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

My point was 100% about effort! But many disciplines (especially in the hard sciences) also write papers, but with a completely different production function that allows people to publish tons of papers per year.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

But I'm not saying that at all! I'm putting the two kinds of work on a par, quite explicitly: I didn't say econ papers entail *more* work than books. I might even say that you're the one suggesting that the work of economists (and other non-book disciplines) is less rigorous/meaningful... ;)

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

Man, if you knew the amount of work that often goes into what ends up being a footnote with an appendix table... And I'm not saying that it's unique in economics. What I'm saying is that disciplines that write books vastly underestimate the amount of work that goes into a top econ article.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

I think you're very wrong in the belittling of the work as "more econometrics in appendices"... But to be clear, it's not a good equilibrium in economics. Referees in top journals expect papers to cover every inch of ground, rule out every possible alternative mechanism, etc., that's not good.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

In other words: economists *do* write books, but publish them in the shape of lengthy articles with enormous appendices.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

It's hugely inefficient to have statutes that have to spell everything out in minute detail, but that's the kind of inefficiency that comes from being in a low-trust environment.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

It is a huge problem that the US is now a low-trust country with laws and statutes written in the context of a high-trust country. From now on they will need to be rewritten keeping in mind that any loophole will be ruthlessly exploited, with zero forbearance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

The way I try to explain it, to my non-economist colleagues, is that each economics paper at the top level is the equivalent of a book. It has a convenient paper-length summary, and lots of stuff shoved into appendices, but it's the same amount of work.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

O pênalti não marcado contra o Palmeiras hj é um negócio chocante. Com VAR, é simplesmente inexplicável ignorar um pênalti assim.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

Every single non-citizen has been at this point deprived of any free speech rights, for all practical purposes. And even those of us who are naturalized citizens feel more than a bit self-conscious and cautious exercising them.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

It was right there for everyone with eyes to see…

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