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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting choice of words.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Lee Zeldin on Trump's response to California wildfires: "His patience has been worn thin a long time ago. He's ready to blaze through whatever obstacles are left there on the ground locally."

Reposted by Scott A. Imberman

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Lee Zeldin on Trump's response to California wildfires: "His patience has been worn thin a long time ago. He's ready to blaze through whatever obstacles are left there on the ground locally."

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 14h

Oh. You don’t say.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’ ft.trib.al/0dStAqB

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’

Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 18h

Uhhhh… bsky.app/profile/katj...

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

Nicholas Christakis, sociologist. 9/

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

Reposted by Dan Goldhaber, Scott A. Imberman

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18h

#EconConf

Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · 18h

📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026

We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

After a one year review of The Trump Kennedy Center, that has taken place with Contractors, Musical Experts, Art Institutions, and other Advisors and Consultants, deciding between either Construction with Closure and Re-Opening or, Partial Construction while continuing Entertainment Operations through a much longer period of time, working in and around the Performances, I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World. In other words, if we don’t close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result!

Based on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before.

Therefore, The Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex. Financing is completed, and fully in place! This important decision, based on input from many Highly Respected Experts, will take a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center, one that has been in bad condition, both financially and structurally for many years, and turn it into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Entertainment, far better than it has ever been before. America will be very proud of its new and beautiful Landmark

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’ ft.trib.al/0dStAqB

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’

Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 21h

In fairness we should be using future potential wages in our SVL calculations.

Reposted by Gernot Wagner

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s be clear- the cost here is dead kids.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22h

To the Trump administration, the huge new measles outbreak is no big deal. It's just the "cost of doing business," as one official put it.

Doctors and epidemiologists are worried, though:

www.thebulwark.com/p/measles-co...

‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse

The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.”

www.thebulwark.com

Reposted by Scott A. Imberman

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22h

‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse

The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.”

www.thebulwark.com

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

Even if he hit her accidentally (doubtful but maybe) he fled the scene of an accident. Guy is gong to jail for a long time.

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

“Emoluments”? Never heard of em’nts.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

The US Constitution makes it illegal for the President to do this, in Article I.9.

The ongoing suspension of our Constitution will do profound and permanent harm to all Americans, Conservative and Liberal, by poisoning our institutions.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

Reposted by David R. Miller, Scott A. Imberman

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

www.wsj.com

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord, this is dark.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

www.jta.org

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

www.jta.org

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Gambled And Lost Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

wut

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 1d

IRS executive Kathleen Walters was asked to break the law by the Trump administration, and refused.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

Nicholas Christakis, sociologist. 9/

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

To:
Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com]
From:
Christakis, Nicholas
Sent:
Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM
Subject: Re: Thanks
You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop
N
Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net
On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
great first date
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas <
wrote:
Dear Jeff
I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday
light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that.
Best regards,
Nicholas
Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from
my iPhone.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net

From:
Sent:
Christakis, Nicholas
Jeffrey Epstein
Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM
Subject: Re: meeting again
no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas
wrote:
dear jeff:
thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed!
as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks.
my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people.
let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above):
best, nicholas
On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:41 AM 9/8/13, Jeffrey

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: "Christakis, Nicholas" =
Subject: Re: introduction -- follow-up
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:26:20 +0000
great I will be back in sept. lets try then
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Christakis, Nicholas < nicholas.christakis@yale.edu> wrote:
Dear Jeff:
The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it:
I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, 1 make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes):
http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-21st-century-change-to-social-science
Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): http://humannaturelab.net/wp= content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/126.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece).
I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

From the ever insightful @bencasselman.bsky.social with analysis by former BLS Commissioner & Friends of BLS co-chair Bill Beach and others
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/b...

Trump Names ‘Data Nerd’ to Lead Labor Statistics Agency

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Maass @maassp.bsky.social · 1d

I encountered paramilitary goons who looked and acted just like this in Bosnia, Iraq, and other conflict zones. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident

The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...

www.mprnews.org

Reposted by Scott A. Imberman

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Liam and his father might be released.

Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be released from immigration detention, source says | CNN

A federal judge has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejos Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, according to a source with knowledge of the fed...

www.cnn.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.