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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25d

This is all just being said out loud now on the air on Fox “News”, instead of away from the cameras like before. That’s what’s changed. They’re testing the response and normalizing the idea at the same time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · 27d

😂😂😂

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

Extending what is happening in the federal government into higher ed: faculty being purged because they are disfavored by the new regime

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29d

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Sep 8

Let me say what the President won't: Domestic violence is not okay. It's immoral, illegal and abusive, and no real man is okay would do it, approve of it, or minimize it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ich dachte schon grundsätzliche Updates könnten Familienbild (Kinderbetreuung, Steuerpolitik, usw) betreffen. Aber da ist ja alles supi in Deutschland....

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · Aug 22

Meine Eltern sollten kommen. Vater schaut dann zufällig wenige Wochen vor der Reise nochmal in der App. Wir tauschen dann Tickets via storno und bezahlen am Ende viel weniger. Ich hab dann nachher auch nochmal für ne andre Reise geschaut. Da hætte ich auch eur gespart wenn ich spæter gekauft hætte?!

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · Aug 22

Noch krasser: ich buche Tickets früh weil billig und so und finde sie dann zum halben Preis wenige Wochen vor der Abreise. Selber Zug. Selbe Verbindung. 🤯

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Putin is an authoritarian who won his last election with 87% of the vote and murdered his main political rival.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 16

Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"

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NSU-Watch @nsuwatch.bsky.social · Jun 1

Wir gedenken heute Walter #Lübcke. Der Kasseler Regierungspräsident wurde vor sechs Jahren, in der Nacht vom 1. auf den 2. Juni 2019, von einem Neonazi auf seiner Terrasse in Wolfhagen-Istha bei #Kassel ermordet. Er wurde 65 Jahre alt. #KeinVergessen #RechtenTerrorStoppen

Sharepic: Schwarzer Hintergrund, ein schwarz-weiß Bild von Walter Lübcke. Text: Wir gedenken Walter Lübcke.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · May 26

The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on Memorial Day 2009.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

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Jonas Jessen @jonasjessen.bsky.social · May 26

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions

tinyurl.com/2wez4wp7

Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻

When? November 20-21 November 🍂

For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career

Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨

Please circulate!

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · May 9

Bleibt Menschen

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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann @masz.bsky.social · May 9

Mit großer Trauer nehme ich Abschied von Margot Friedländer. Mit Wärme, Empathie und großer Kraft erinnerte sie unermüdlich an die dunkelste Zeit unserer Geschichte. Ihr Vermächtnis bleibt: „Seid und bleibt Menschen.“ Diese Botschaft weiterzutragen, ist unsere Aufgabe. www.spiegel.de/panorama/mar...

Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer ist tot

Margot Friedländer ist tot. Wie ihre Stiftung mitteilte, starb die Holocaust-Überlebende am Freitag im Alter von 103 Jahren in ihrer Heimatstadt Berlin.

www.spiegel.de

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · May 5

Good morning from Copenhagen and the first day of the 2025 @eale-office.bsky.social -tour! We look forward to a great day with 3 terrific JM-candidates sharing experiences and flash talks by CPH students! generously supported by CEBI-The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · Apr 29

...her autobio essay offers a sobering account of the obstacles she overcame
econweb.ucsd.edu/~miwhite/sca...

"Why did I decide to go to grad school?... I was inspired by the beginnings of the feminist movement to push the boundaries.... someone gave me a copy of Friedan’s The Feminist Mystique"

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Apr 29

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Apr 23

"Women" were on the forbidden word list. The Women's Health Initiative helped us understand Hormone Replacement Therapy. We had this study because NIH had frequently *left women out* of their studies.

Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · Apr 23

Reviews of Economic Literature has been launched

True open access, managed by academics for academics, it follows our mass resignation from JES where the commercial publisher imposed very problematic conditions.

Submit your literature reviews in economics!

rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...

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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · Apr 18

I hope it is not lost, in all of the chaos at the federal level, that there are many longstanding, discretionary programs that are on the Administration's chopping block, either directly or through the erosion of agency staff, expertise, and capacity. Programs enacted and reauthorized through...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Apr 11

Exactly this. What is bringing global and generational shame on the United States at this moment is not the actions of one person, but the limp abdication by countless powerful Americans walking away from their duty to stop it.

Charles Cavendish @ccavendish.bsky.social · Apr 11

From what I'm seeing in Europe, the real game changer here isn't really the Trump admin itself, but how quickly American elites - political, corporate, institutional and academic - just failed to respond and resist in any meaningful way.

US prestige culture, as seen from abroad, just evaporated.

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Charles Cavendish @ccavendish.bsky.social · Apr 11

From what I'm seeing in Europe, the real game changer here isn't really the Trump admin itself, but how quickly American elites - political, corporate, institutional and academic - just failed to respond and resist in any meaningful way.

US prestige culture, as seen from abroad, just evaporated.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 11

Books on race, gender identity and sexuality are gone. Books that acknowledge the cultural contributions of Black people to American art, or gendered or queer perspectives have been purged.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/infantiliz...

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · Apr 11

Scientists around the world....

Judith Sauer @judithsauer.bsky.social · Apr 10

Es ist nicht zu fassen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · Apr 9

Ppl are dying being denied medial care and self determination over their bodies. And now collecting crucial data is having no return for the health of many?!

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