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Lewis Lehe

@lewislehe.bsky.social

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Asst. Prof at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Traffic, transit and economics. https://lehelab.com/

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Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · Aug 2

monarch on my zinnia

monarch butterfly on zinnia flower

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 6h

Curious about the exports controls on the things they don’t even make. As a trump linguistics watcher, I know what happened. He adds amplifying parenthetical phrases: windmills kill birds, and even bald and golden eagles, by the thousands. this one happened to be nonsensical, but is ordinary

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 19h

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 1d

the argument I would make, were I to argue this, is: hours of reading or doing practice problems needed to get a decent grade has overall declined. so students have more time to go on social media. much of social media is political, so more use what they know and become activists

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 1d

it all goes back to accounting

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 1d

love showing visitors around campus

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 1d

gonna do one on how bad bunny is an icon for the 5’ 11” community

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 1d

warm October until today. new flowers still blooming.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 2d

proud of transportation academia as regards ffpt. a policy idea started to gain interest, and new studies came out to inform the discussion with fairly consistent results. sort of how you envision academia is supposed to help things.

Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 2d

A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 2d

could you observe any transit travel time changes on the ods in the sample

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 2d

lol

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 2d

an underrated part of the story of excess chinese ev capacity you read about.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 3d

The first step is to point out they aren’t real doctors, root docere: to teach. While we need more respect for trades such as physicians and welders, words have meanings.
www.britannica.com/topic/doctor...

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 3d

good semiotics here. ordinarily, you cut spending to keep tax rates low for residents and to encourage commerce. here the spending cuts are an end in-themselves. the rates are cut to prevent spending even though residents dont pay the rates and want to discourage the commerce.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 3d

slow growth final boss: Loudoun Co VA is cutting data center taxes explicitly to raise less revenue, so as to lower government spending. it isn't to encourage data centers: they're restricting them w/ regulation. they just want the "i cut spending" merit badge. www.loudounnow.com/news/county-...

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 4d

true.
this also means it’s very hard to understand what people in the past were getting at.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 4d

he made a trumpcoin crypto and they called it crass. now he mints a metallic trumpcoin and they’re STILL mad! The guy can’t win!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Treasury Defends Lawfulness of Minting a $1 Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

this is the best book I’d never heard of until reading it on my study abroad.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

this is sort of the plot of operacion masacre
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci...

Operación Masacre - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

es.wikipedia.org

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

yeah i bet. it's interesting though that the driving is good enough that opening doors is the problem.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

a very well-written intro.

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

post made me think of a name i haven't had in my head for 25 years. very powerful

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 8d

You can announce something popular, and the costs will be dispersed over time and place. People got mad at aoc for talking about legalizing Korean sunscreen.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/8/...

Voters Overwhelmingly Support President Biden’s “Buy American” Executive Order

Biden's order to support American manufacturing and strengthen critical supply chains is backed by voters across party lines.

www.dataforprogress.org

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 9d

the nobel committee called today and asked which one i wanted. i said "none" because i "dont crave the limelight." they said they understood but were disappointed. so when they announce the prizes next week, please act extra excited. say "great choice yall. good job."

Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 9d

at least the whole thing has revealed the need for a "mulch corps" where they send people around the country to spread mulch. i would join.