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Benjamin Clark

@benclarkphd.bsky.social

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Professor & Director. School of Planning, Public Policy & Management @ University of Oregon Civic tech, budget/finance, environmental resilience, coproduction, and crowdsourcing. Season 13 Eugene Beer League Champion.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28d

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story

A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

www.theatlantic.com

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Note to self: Maybe it's time to get some varicose vein tattoos ahead of the arrival of the real ones so people won't notice when they are really there.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Aug 28

And by and large, companies don't come because of them, but will still lobby for them because who doesn't love free money

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW: Congressional Budget Office analysis of who wins and loses in the GOP megabill.

Top 10% gets $13,600 a year (2.7% increase in income)

Bottom 10% *loses* $1,200 a year (3.1% drop in income)

This isn't shared sacrifice--it's class warfare.

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Aug 8

That album brings me back to my college dorm, a la 1995. So great

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Aug 8

John Stossel now has a bunch of dumb ass videos for classes too. He's getting government contracts to make them. But you need fact checker to follow up each video to correct the bias.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sadly no

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Aug 7

I remember leaving an interview for a job and an hour later realizing that I had glitter all over my hair and face. It was a light coating that only showed up in bright lights.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Jul 13

For the worse?

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Jul 9

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Jun 27

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.

It's a lie.

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Jun 22

The new Baptist-bootleggers coalition?

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · May 31

Charge for scare resources or pay the piper.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · May 28

Gwinnett County, too.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · May 28

Flatlining policy

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · May 28

Trade policy update.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 26

Re-upping this piece because the deadline for comments on the new version of Schedule F has been extended to June 7.

DOGE actions occurred with no public input, so no excuse not to weigh in on Trump's further efforts to politicize the civil service.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services

Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 16

Never have more than three or four tabs open at a time. I kill the cache every day and start fresh.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · Apr 12

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 11

Young people aren't running things, and they aren't in charge. Literacy is an issue, but it's not the core problem here.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 11

I guess the so-called doge isn't very good at its so-called job.

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 7

I already live in a fluoride absent community. The teeth of the rich and poor are worse off. This is driven by long-standing left-wing crazy with a touch of right.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 7

It's a good thing you didn't buy it as an investment. Compared to the S&P, a 6% decline doesn't look too bad.

Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 6

The price of used cars is going up as demand increased because of tariffs. Yet one brand is seeing a decline—tesla. Hmmm

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Benjamin Clark @benclarkphd.bsky.social · Apr 5

he'd spend too much time with the workers.