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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 29d

After the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk, I watched as one right wing influencer after another said it was time to wage war on all left-wing institutions. Then, Trump echoed them in his oval office address. It's frightening he would even hint at it. www.theargumentmag.com/p/charlie-ki...

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Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ok we've made fun of deficit hawks forever but @jhweissmann.bsky.social has a convincing case that if you care about social welfare programs you actually do need to start worrying about the debt! www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-i-lear...

How I learned to start worrying and hate the deficit

It's time for liberals to wake up about the national debt

www.theargumentmag.com

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

Part of that will require a grassroots effort to win the culture war over taxes, which Democrats have all but ceded

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

My argument for being a liberal deficit hawk.

Between slashing taxes and crushing immigration, Trump policies are a disaster for our fiscal future.

Libs need a longterm plan to fight back that doesn’t compromise our goal to protect and improve the welfare state.

open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

How I learned to start worrying and hate the deficit

It's time for liberals to wake up about the national debt

open.substack.com

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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · May 17

One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-aft...

One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs ⋆ The Palm Springs Post

Police confirm one person is dead after a bomb explodes outside a reproductive facility

thepalmspringspost.com

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · May 17

This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.

In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.

This is an extinction-level event.

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · May 17

The fun part of this video is where he explains that Oxford and Webster both define a body slam as the wrestling move.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 17

DHS official Tricia McLaughlin keeps insisting that members of Congress and the Newark mayor assaulted and "bodyslammed" ICE officers even as Blackwell plays her video demonstrating that they in fact did not

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 1

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Apr 3

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · Apr 2

Stockpiling in Free Trade Zones in every US state surging amidst tariff fears.
www.ft.com/content/bafa...

Trump tariffs drive imports into US foreign trade zones

Policy uncertainty fuels surge in use of approved facilities that temporarily exempt businesses from paying levies

www.ft.com

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 29

Looking forward to hearing Bill Cassidy’s take on this www.wsj.com/politics/top...

Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

www.wsj.com

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

You know, I still would not rate the chances of a Canada invasion highly (like, less than 5% chance). But watching this Greenland presser, I’d understand it if Ottawa was doing a little war gaming right now.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Mar 25

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants.
Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds.
(Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

New York (CNN) — Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/ne...

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 25

Student loan news: The Dept. of Education is apparently planning to turn back on the applications for income-driven repayment plans tomorrow, according to two sources familiar with the administration's plans.

SAVE and REPAYE will no longer be options.

IBR and PAYE will be.

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 24

Hm. Carpetbagging isn’t a great strategy.

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 24

She’s targeting Jan Schakowsky, who is a popular progressive, but also an 80-year-old incumbent who represents a college town. (Evanston, home of Northwestern). Absolutely can imagine this being a serious challenge given the frustrations with the party.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Mar 17

lmao I can’t believe they printed this

The New York Times
"A current policy approach is like if you signed up for a Crunchyroll anime subscription that you knew you couldn't afford, but now that it's time to re-up the subscription, you pretend it's free because you've already been paying it."

Bobby Kogan
Senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a progressive research group; former adviser to the director of the Office of Management and Budget; former Senate Budget Committee staffer

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 17

BYD says it has a battery system that can charge in 5 minutes, slightly more time than it takes to fill a tank of gas.

The big US automakers are just hopelessly behind, and it feels like their foreign sales could easily be wiped out in a few years as a result.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BYD Unveils Battery System That Charges EVs in Five Minutes

BYD Co. unveiled a new system for electric cars that the Chinese automaker says will allow them to charge almost as fast as it takes a regular car to refuel.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Mar 17

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · Mar 16

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News

Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 12

One of the more useful pieces I once edited by @benmathislilley.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

“Doing What an Angry 3-Year-Old Would Do” Is the Only Remaining Republican Principle

You'd think this would be an unsustainable way to govern or win elections. But temper tantrums can last a long time.

slate.com

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 12

Do you have any sense of what's left at IES? Anyone?

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 12

Hi Betsy — I'm a reporter with Yahoo Finance. Do you mind sharing how this list was compiled? (DMs open).

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

Yes, I was around talking about how the Germans were assholes then.

And from a macro and trade balance perspective, which is what Greece etc. should care about here, miltary keynsianism is fine.

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

Department of education announces it’s cutting its workforce by 50% (including buyouts/retirements)

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Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

This fuckin’ doof made his name trying and failing to stand up to German austerity. And now…

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Mar 10

Germans can no longer sell cars. So, they will build tanks. But tanks last for decades and consumers don't buy them anyway. That's why Military Keynesianism doesn't work, unless you start one war after the other US-style. Ergo, only fools welcome German Military Keynesianism.

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