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Christian Weller
@profcew.bsky.social
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Economist at UMass Boston and Center for American Progress; focus on racial wealth inequality, retirement savings and economic policy. Center on data driven policy development. Skeets are all my own opinions.

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 2h
This seems, uh, ill advised, given the growing energy needs.
costasamaras.com
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h
@theonion.com is now indistinguishable from real life.
A man in a suit is speaking at a lectern, looking derranged. The text is about autism being linked to circumcision, attributed to RFK Jr.
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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 23h
Someone said this year is like being awake during surgery and… yep
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Christian E. Weller

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 1d
If a bunch of smart, financially-disinterested experts take a look at something and they all come away with concerns, that's not "bias." It's data.
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 1d
The fact that religious leaders are being attacked is absolutely horrifying and it should not be normal, but right wing extremists (and past governments) have long attacked (Black) religious leaders and churches.
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 1d
Latinas' job market experience shows that having a job, working hard and working a lot is not enough. Those also need to be well-paying, stable jobs with benefits, where people get respect for their work.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 1d
Latinas often work in industries with positive employment growth, but their wages haven't kept up. Full-time, year round #Trabajadoras earn just 58 cents per dollar of white, non-Hispanic men resulting in >$33k/year lost to the #WageGap. #LatinaEqualPay https://ow.ly/Iht150X8Bv2
The gender wage gap for full-time, year-round workers expanded significantly in 2024 and is wider for women of color
ow.ly
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Reposted by Christian E. Weller

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Bee @beesmartypants.bsky.social · 1d
If you live near an active military base, & able to, please consider donating to their food pantry. Enlisted troops will be hurt the most. Daycare on bases & after school activities/care closed, overseas bases have halted all “non-essential” for dependents

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...
Military families brace for missed paychecks as shutdown impacts are already accumulating | CNN Politics
Cancelled school events, growing lines at military food pantries, accumulating fears tied to missed paychecks and the potential need for loans to stay afloat – US military families are already feeling...
www.cnn.com
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 1d
Latinas often work in industries with positive employment growth, but their wages haven't kept up. Full-time, year round #Trabajadoras earn just 58 cents per dollar of white, non-Hispanic men resulting in >$33k/year lost to the #WageGap. #LatinaEqualPay https://ow.ly/Iht150X8Bv2
The gender wage gap for full-time, year-round workers expanded significantly in 2024 and is wider for women of color
ow.ly
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations. This is awesome
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 2d
The shutdown is a big deal for a lot of people. Another example...
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 2d
One week into a federal government shutdown, U.S. service members, DOD civilian employees and their families in Japan and South Korea were taking stock and asking how much longer, with affording groceries and rent the main concerns.
Rent, groceries on minds of US military families in Asia Pacific as government shutdown continues
Americans with the U.S. military in the Pacific are concerned about how they will afford groceries and rent if the shutdown continues.
www.stripes.com
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Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Lesley A. Hall, Christian E. Weller , and 1 more

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 2d
My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...
San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology
jobs.sjsu.edu
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 2d
One week into a federal government shutdown, U.S. service members, DOD civilian employees and their families in Japan and South Korea were taking stock and asking how much longer, with affording groceries and rent the main concerns.
Rent, groceries on minds of US military families in Asia Pacific as government shutdown continues
Americans with the U.S. military in the Pacific are concerned about how they will afford groceries and rent if the shutdown continues.
www.stripes.com
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d
Here’s video of the incident
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d
If Republicans don’t pass our bill to reopen the government and extend ACA tax credits, millions of families will see their health care costs soar.

Here's just one example of a MD couple who would see their costs nearly TRIPLE — a health catastrophe and another Trump betrayal:
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 2d
This is great news. It is also a reminder that this train has left the station, no matter what the Trump administration does to slow it down.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 2d
Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
share.google/FrLUSBkG5xrX... 🔌💡 #Upshift
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
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Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Christian E. Weller, James Goodwin

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 2d
Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
share.google/FrLUSBkG5xrX... 🔌💡 #Upshift
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
share.google
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Christian E. Weller, Georg Weizsäcker

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 3d
We're hiring! Environmental econ AP position with a focus on biodiversity and related topics.

Come join our great community here at LSE, with lots of people working in the enviro econ space across campus.

Deadline in just under 3 weeks (Oct 26th) and details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 3d
They're just waiting for Trump to drop his health care plan in 2 weeks. Maybe they'll finally release his concepts of a plan.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."
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Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Christian E. Weller

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 6d
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7d
One of the demands is to freeze tuition. Which will help the rich kids and international students, since they’re the only ones at some of these schools who actually pay the sticker price www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Dirk Pilat, Christian E. Weller, Greg Linden

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d
“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d
BLS produces essential services!
#JobsReport
www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/e...
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 7d
We got a surprising number of assistant professors from TX applying for our position. Tremendous resumes. Some states will end up with weak/no social science research. Wonder how employers will feel about this.
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Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 7d
Is this the first Dem MC to say this explicitly? That the reason this is the GOP’s shutdown isn’t because they “refuse to negotiate” or whatever but because they in fact have the power at any moment to nuke the filibuster and pass whatever they want to keep the govt operating?
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8d
ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Your wallet has been taking a hit this year. You can blame the mass deportation policies of Trump and Stephen Miller, which have ensnared and scared off the skilled workers who feed us and are the backbone of the agricultural industry:
Your Wallet Is Taking A Hit This Year. Blame Mass Deportation
The rapid growth in daily expenses for working Americans has been fueled in part by the administration’s cruel and chaotic mass detention and deportation agenda.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 8d
Not sure reminding people that the architect of Project 2025 is making illegal decisions inside the WH is a good strategy. But, what do I know?!
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 8d
huh
“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said in the opening moments of his September debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. “That’s out there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8d
Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target:
- 39% of the country lives in those states.
- They contribute 44% of GDP.
- They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them.
www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...
Sorry about your luck, 24 million Trump voters
It has been the case since Donald Trump's first tenure as president that he wants to slice the size of the federal workforce. During his period in the political wilderness (also known as the Biden adm...
www.pbump.net
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 8d
Montana Senator Steve Daines gets a truth-telling award. Acknowledges Republicans shut down the government because they think people should pay higher health insurance premiums cepr.net/publications... It's not about "illegals" getting healthcare
Thoughts From the Shutdown
Trump’s shutdown chaos, his “America Fourth” foreign policy moves, and a bleak ADP jobs report highlight the growing costs of his presidency.
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