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Michael Kevane
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Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org .. more

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · Dec 2
Proud the FAVL partner in Burkina Faso distributed 1,520 illustrated, locally produced books to 152 students in Maro, Tuy Province. The books cost about $.75 each, so this is about $1200 to produce and distribute. Or $7 per child to get 10 books to read. favl.org/2024/12/02/d...
Distribution de 1,500 livres aux élèves du CEG de Maro
L’association des Amis des Bibliothèques de Villages du Burkina Faso/ABVBF a distribué gratuitement ce 27 novembre 2024, des livres produits au centre multimédia de Houndé/CMH aux élèves du collège…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING:

Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 13h
Trump granted clemency to the biggest Medicare fraudster in history. Well, the guy was just re-arrested and charged with domestic violence. Here, via @motherjones.com, is the wild, sordid tale of how Phil Esformes made a fortune screwing taxpayers and nursing home residents.
Donald Trump freed a convicted Medicare fraudster. The Justice Department wants him back.
The cautionary tale of nursing home mogul Philip Esformes.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h
For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d
I’m a bike commuter for past 5 years… the sharing of a bike lane with two forms of transport going quite different speeds is something that I hope in my lifetime I will see re-engineered! Not a huge issue but Pareto improving probably…

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.

Why are these people such freaks?

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d
Just please don't zip past the regular bikers, with 6 inches of distance, without warning, in the bike lane.... Enjoy!

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d
Disappointing oped... the tariffs have been really high... so why small effects? ... the tariffs haven't been so high... And, the data could be bad... So then find reliable data! And then, ... it'll happen next year.
Maybe just write: "Don't know, sorry..."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Why haven’t Trump’s tariffs crashed the US economy? | Jeffrey Frankel
Why haven’t Trump’s tariffs crashed the US economy? | Jeffrey Frankel
Effects on inflation and employment have not been as bad as feared – but could still materialise with full force in 2026
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Doug King in San Jose @dekgreen.bsky.social · 1d
My wife just shared with me that CA created “California’s Bookshelf”, which is a digital state library allows all CA residents to check out ~300,000 #ebooks and #audiobooks for free.

Just gotta download the Palace app (also free)

This article walks through it.
Whoa! California’s Bookshelf: Free Access to Over 300,000 eBooks & eAudiobooks | The South Pasadenan | South Pasadena News
Access over 300,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks for free with California’s Bookshelf. No library login needed—just download the Palace app and start reading today!
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Jay Fonseca @jayfonsecapr.bsky.social · 1d
📣 La gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, anunció que la celebración de despedida de año se llevará por primera vez al municipio de Utuado, y se combinará el evento con la tradicional transmisión desde el Distrito T-Mobile en San Juan.

🎶 Sin embargo, la Compañía de Turismo ya ha...

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Black Ink @6lackink.bsky.social · 2d
“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi…

… If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 2d
An interesting issue it seems in legal area of Section 230 is whether internet choice architecture (having situational agency shaped by the platform) is “speech” or a “product”?

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 2d
Comparative advantage suggests the psych people should be encouraged to come up with the catchy names and spend time/energy promoting them?

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 3d
Opposition controlled both chambers then. I think we’d see some switching if 2026 made House democratic and shaved Senate majority to 1-2…?

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 3d
Unless you are a cake shop.
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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d
'Heritage American,' noun.

1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States.
2) An American actively betraying those principles.
3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 3d
Definitely. This is a bit different though because the difficult reading experience is by design, so continuing is a form of trust in Wolfe (in this case)…

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 3d
Ancillary Justice and Murderbot both start with amnesia but don’t do much with it.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 3d
Reading Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist with a deja vu feeling that originates from having read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant a few years ago. A fiction writing challenge for sure but is it a good reader experience? Not sure.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3d
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d
I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting
The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.
www.nbcboston.com

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 4d
The themes or messages of the movies were good for discussion because I could not figure out what story/mood/emotion/epiphany they were trying to accomplish. And still can’t.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 4d
The three car chase scene at end of One Battle is quite boring. The all dead montage at end of Bugonia is quite beautiful.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 4d
Over holidays family wanted to watch "One Battle After Another" and “Bugonia”. Both are messy films, the first with high production values and the second low.

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 6d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns*
Abstract. A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or p
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 7d
COLAU’s latest newsletter with updates from August to December

COLAU newsletter Dec 2025Download
COLAU’s latest newsletter with updates from August to December
COLAU newsletter Dec 2025Download
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d
“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)

more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”

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Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 7d
Blog Post: District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties–Bogard v. TikTok

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District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs' Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties-Bogard v. TikTok - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This is a quirky lawsuit designed to subvert Section 230, the First Amendment, and traditional common law. I previously summarized the case: This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 8d
ED is launching a Clery Act investigation of Brown following the recent killings on campus. I don't recall them doing that with this fall's high-profile killing at Utah Valley.

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U.S. Department of Education Announces Review of Brown University for Potential Clery Act Violations
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will conduct a program review of Brown University in response to the December 13, 2025, shooting on its campus, which killed two students.
www.ed.gov

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 8d
Some photo from Nyariga Community Library in Ghana
Some photo from Nyariga Community Library in Ghana
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