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David Rosnick
@rosnick.bsky.social
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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · Apr 9
New from Francisco Rodríguez, myself, and Giancarlo Bravo:

That recent counter-intuitive @cgdev.org piece by Bahar and Hausmann suffers fatal flaws, starting with a Stata programming error. We fall back on the intuitive conclusion that U.S. economic conditions drive encounters at the border
Do Venezuelan Oil Revenues Drive Migration to the US? A Reappraisal of the Bahar and Hausmann Results
We show that their results are driven by a flawed empirical specification that appears to be the result of a coding error.
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Reposted by Philip Nel, David Rosnick, Henrik Skaug Sætra

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h
Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons
Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.
www.nj.com
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3h
Is he lying? He lies about everything so yes of course he is. But I think not by as much as NFL fans might imagine

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3h
Those claimed measurements hang very very different on a zero-fat world-class athlete than they do on a 79 year old fascist with an obsession with McDonald’s and a fear of stairs
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3h
This always kinda confuses me. I have nearly the same measurements and nobody is going to mistake me for a QB. 25 years ago I exercised an abnormal amount and my back and shoulders were solid muscle and I weighed like 215, up from a wiry 185 in high school. Still no QB, me
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h
As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 11h
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 16h
This is particularly rich after oral arguments in Barrett v. United States
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 16h
Oh yeah that’ll teach him a lesson he’ll not soon forget
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
www.propublica.org
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
www.propublica.org
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 17h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d
Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
Kavanaugh concurrence
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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d
This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 2d
We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.
Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
isportlandburning.com
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
Hey, remember the impassioned defense of free speech, especially on college campuses, that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox made after Charlie Kirk was assassinated?

Well... www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference
University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.
www.insidehighered.com
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3d
That’s how it sounded to me

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d
I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific.

It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways
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Reposted by Julia Lynch, David Rosnick, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d
listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d
As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.
Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491 Quote Corey Walker @CoreyWriting · 16h The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d
If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d
It's okay to say "we don't know, and we affirmatively don't know, and we want to be clear that lots of stuff we can't see could have happened, and those patterns could matter, and a straight line is going to shape how ppl recall this graph forever, and that could be bad, so: big blank white space."
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d
This is rampant lawlessness

The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...
OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance
An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.
www.govexec.com
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d
It is appalling that we have—for DECADES now—allowed ourselves to become inured to having our streets patrolled by paramilitary police.

We need laws that make it impossible for law enforcement to roll out like this outside the RAREST of times.
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Reposted by Charles West, David Rosnick

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 3d
The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'
Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'
The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.
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CNN @cnn.com · 3d
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 4d
Right so it’s 1/500th the problem of gas cars. So how about when we are at the point when gas cars are 1/500th the problem of inhalers (we are down to our last 1000 gas cars) hmu
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 4d
🙄
nypost.com/2025/10/06/m...
Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …
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