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State Terror, American Style

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 2d

Worth reading: "State Terror, American Style" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Forget about “soft autocracy”

On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 2d

If only half of this were happening, it would still be very frightening.
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October 5, 2025

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 6d

An Autocracy of Dunces

How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 7d

A wonderful person has passed: Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Bulging Biceps Don’t Win Modern Wars

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 7d

Read this …

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Hegseth’s speech was vile. It was also stupid.

Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 7d

A must-read column today:

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

September 30, 2025

Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 8d

Not new, but a helpful review and reminder…

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What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?

Slashing of funding for mRNA vaccine development raises concern | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent Discussion re the Comey Indictment www.execfunctions.org/p/the-comey-...

The Comey Indictment

Lindsey Halligan's case

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 9d

Crazy hsph.harvard.edu/news/slashin...

In August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cancelled nearly $500 million in contracts that funded mRNA vaccine development. The mRNA

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Yesterday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released items from a third batch of documents associated with the criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 10d

Worth reading, imho … open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

September 27, 2025

Notes on Europe’s Economy

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent re European economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated

Why the White House is abandoning solar

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 13d

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 13d

Worth reading, imho www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy.

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 13d

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Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?

This is about ideology and Trumpian fealty, not America’s interests

Photographs from Southwestern Pennsylvania by JULIAN GIORDANO

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 14d

Very much worth seeing, reviewing, and reading ... histecon.fas.harvard.edu/landscapes-o...

LANDSCAPES OF METHANE

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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17d

So what happened to the $50K in cash Tom Homan got in the Cava bag?

Was it deposited in his bank account and reported as income that he paid taxes on?

Is it under his mattress?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 18d

Nobel Prize winner for his work on mRNA vaccines says that ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist in the body is absolutely impossible. Dr. Drew Weissman says that the vast literature shows that the Covid vaccines are safe.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

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Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 17d

Please watch and listen to this video podcast conversation of Ezra Klein and Spencer Cox, Republican Governor of Utah!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJB8...

Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Opinion | The Era of Dark Passions

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 20d

Worth reading, despite the fact that it does not solve problems … www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

An Economic View of the Environment - One Economist's Perspective on Climate and Other Policy

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 20d

My latest essay at my blog: www.robertstavinsblog.org/2025/09/18/a...

One Economist's Perspective on Climate and Other Policy

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Opinion | Our Vanishing Culture of Argument

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 22d

Highly recommended www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

A Disagreement about the Tariff Case and the Major Questions Doctrine

Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 23d

A Disagreement from Bob Bauer with Jack Goldsmith's recent arguments about the Tariff Case and the Major Questions Doctrine open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

A response to Jack Goldsmith