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Mark Andrew Price

@pricelaborecon.bsky.social

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Salt Lake City born. Current Pennsylvanian (Carlisle). Labor economist. Flower planter, runner (recently back at it), Dad. Signal: price_laborecon.68

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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · Nov 14

The economy is not a force of nature, we can change it to make it work better for everyone. We can’t fix everything but we can make the economy less hostile towards a fulfilling and good life.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 34m

You know, for taking all those weird black and white photos. She should definitely be suspended. Or in jail. Those twins were creepy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 8h

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry

The scientist was born and raised in a single room he shared with his family and cattle in a refugee camp in Amman

www.middleeasteye.net

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 7h

Big congratulations to California gig drivers! A decade ago they launched their effort for the right to form a union and faced lots of obstacles but they kept going.

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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 7h

A moving protest against the on going murder of Palestinian children by the Israeli state on the Harrisburg capitol steps.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 7h

Actually, the basic economics of it is even more ambiguous than that. First, opening up to trade results in a *rise* in the relative price of exportables. So it was not a good deal, even on prices, for consumers of food, say, or airplanes in the U.S. +

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 7h

Me reading another article uncritically stating that “90% of US farms are small farms & approximately 99% of them are family farms”.
- Many small farms are residential operations often used to reduce taxes;
- Family farms can be owned by individuals or corporations, the term is meaningless.

a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .

ALT: a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .

media.tenor.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7h

I don't know how anyone, unless you're John Fetterman and you live with your head up your own ass, can think the Democrats aren't absolutely winning the messaging war on this shut down. All the messaging from the GOP is about how much Republicans love the shut down!!

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 10h

ProPublica analyzed dozens of hours of audio and video footage of speaking events for Linda McMahon’s appointees, as well as their writings, and found that a recurring theme is the desire to enable more families to leave public schools. @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 11h

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 14h

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.