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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

I was always the real victim here

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

I paid off my student loans today

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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago, stay strong and take care of one another.

For help for your family or to report ICE activities, call 1-855-435-7693 (HELP-MY-FAMILY)

Para ayuda para su familia ó para reportar actividades de ICE, llame al: 1-855-435-7693

National Lawyers Guild Chicago Legal Support Hotline: 872-465-4244

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HELP WITH LEGAL SERVICES
REPORT ICE SIGHTINGS AND ARRESTS
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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · 5d

REMINDER: @maxkasy.bsky.social has written the definitive account of where this whole "AI" thing is going. Available from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and everywhere on Halloween 🎃

Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 5d

🪅📕 The first paper copy has arrived! 📕🪅

#themeansofprediction

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · 5d

George Will devoted a whole column to @georgeselgin.bsky.social, FALSE DAWN, and our bipartisan dreams about the New Deal:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Kindred spirits on the left and right believe in a New Deal fable

Donald Trump is leading the most economically interventionist U.S. administration since FDR’s.

www.washingtonpost.com

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 8d

Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Against Money

A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev. Money is unavoidably fundamental to our daily lives. It lurks behind ...

press.uchicago.edu

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · 8d

Bury me with a little bottle of this please

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Aug 15

When you tell me you crowdsourced your book’s title and subtitle and actually it’s quite popular

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Jul 19

I mean she runs shit

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Clara Mattei doing Clara Mattei things

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · Jul 18

Jon and Clara Mattei unpack the nature of government intervention in the economy.

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Jul 18

My dog Pearl has been extra cute and funny this week, shoutout to Pearl for being the best

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Jul 3

Entering my second week of a bender on this song. I know it’s not new. But it’s now affecting my sleep.

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hyde Parkers walking their doodles off leash with the stupidest self-satisfaction

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · May 9

Leo passed Chicago’s greatest character test

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 9

Fans from the White Sox and the Cubs seemed to claim the Chicago-born pope as their own, but his brother had the final answer.

An Urgent Question for the Pope: Cubs or Sox?

www.nytimes.com

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · May 8

These are actually 15-minute snuggle stories, and the lack of regulation on these claims is a bipartisan issue we should all care about

Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Apr 30

8-year-old picks up book proposal sitting on kitchen table.

“I don’t like this title, so I’m gonna trash it.”

What title would be better?

“Maisy Takes the Bus, by Lucy Cousins.”

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · Apr 12

New substack post: taking a break from current events posting to review @hatethegamebook.com's book! With some (somewhat) deeper meditations on self help books, housing, and the similarities between the job and dating markets

open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...

A Fool And His Money Is One Big Party

Book review of "Hate the Game" by Daryl Fairweather

open.substack.com

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Chad Zimmerman @chadzimmerman.bsky.social · Apr 5

“When you are deciding what to leave out, begin with the author. If you see yourself prancing back and forth between the subject and reader, get lost.”

Elizabeth Kolbert on John McPhee’s “Encounters with the Archdruid” www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...