David Rosnick
@rosnick.bsky.social
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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)
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rosnick.bsky.social
New from Francisco Rodríguez, myself, and Giancarlo Bravo:

That recent counter-intuitive @cgdev.org piece by Bahar and Hausmann suffers fatal flaws, starting with a Stata programming error. We fall back on the intuitive conclusion that U.S. economic conditions drive encounters at the border
Do Venezuelan Oil Revenues Drive Migration to the US? A Reappraisal of the Bahar and Hausmann Results
We show that their results are driven by a flawed empirical specification that appears to be the result of a coding error.
cepr.net
rosnick.bsky.social
That’s how it sounded to me
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?
vermontgmg.bsky.social
If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific.

It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways
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ravenmae.bsky.social
Idc who you offer up prayers or good vibes or positive thoughts into an unknowing universe or whathaveyou. Dolly Parton has brought good into the world in many ways. So for her, we pray.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social
listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
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dsquareddigest.bsky.social
Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.
wyeates.bsky.social
The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'
Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'
The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.
buff.ly
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Notice her non-answer.

This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.
atrupar.com
NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse
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mmasnick.bsky.social
It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.
elivalley.bsky.social
As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.
Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
It's okay to say "we don't know, and we affirmatively don't know, and we want to be clear that lots of stuff we can't see could have happened, and those patterns could matter, and a straight line is going to shape how ppl recall this graph forever, and that could be bad, so: big blank white space."
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lizzieohreally.bsky.social
This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.
cnn.com
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"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
It is appalling that we have—for DECADES now—allowed ourselves to become inured to having our streets patrolled by paramilitary police.

We need laws that make it impossible for law enforcement to roll out like this outside the RAREST of times.
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cait.bsky.social
I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will
rosnick.bsky.social
Right so it’s 1/500th the problem of gas cars. So how about when we are at the point when gas cars are 1/500th the problem of inhalers (we are down to our last 1000 gas cars) hmu
rosnick.bsky.social
I’m heading into my third week of… something neither covid nor flu. Hope you come out the other side soon
rosnick.bsky.social
The Iron Law of Institutions
davedette.bsky.social
Feels like Chuck and Hakeem are the last ppl in the party to realize which way the wind is blowing, but they may be willing to let the ship go down over it
diplomatofnight.com
Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
rosnick.bsky.social
There is no way Tapper conducted an interview with the wannabe fascist dictator over text. How gullible does he think we are? How gullible is HE?
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dropsitenews.com
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention.

Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.
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jkuznicki.bsky.social
This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.
aaronrosspowell.com
As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.
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karlamarx.bsky.social
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mommunism.bsky.social
What if we all just post the word Link over and over again repost it and like then until even the normies are bothered?
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ceprdc.bsky.social
We urge the immediate release of David Adler, a close CEPR collaborator, and other members of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Thank you to @rokhanna.bsky.social for your support — we hope other US lawmakers will follow this lead.