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Reposting because I’m still laughing
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Loïc Tregoures @tregs.bsky.social · 1d
Non seulement on ne peut plus se moquer de la Belgique, mais on ne peut même plus de moquer de Liz Truss! La France est humiliée
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“The US is far too rich and central to global finance to be considered an emerging market, but it certainly acts like one, and the full Maga takeover of the Federal Reserve is not even complete.”

by Scott L. Greer

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Decarceration in a bunch of states
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Reposted by: Scott L. Greer, Ann Bartow, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...
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by Scott L. Greer

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I thought I knew a thing or two about American abortion history but this convinced me I knew nothing (the author says it was full of surprises, so I guess I’m not alone). Prioritizing reading the book as a window into not just abortion rights but also eugenics, politics, and class.
Katherine J. Parkin,
Podcast Episode · New Books In Public Health · 10/06/2025 · 42m
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Reposted by: Scott L. Greer, Cas Mudde, Jan W. Mueller , and 22 more

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Here’s video of the incident
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“The person close to the White House said the administration has informally deputized Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to serve as a conduit to Democrats.”
Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.
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Reposted by: Scott L. Greer, Joanna Bryson, Jan W. Mueller , and 12 more

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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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by Scott L. Greer

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A picture is worth a thousand words but here are some more words bsky.app/profile/just...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7h
Important article for anyone following AI and AI policy.

"In the process, [NVIDIA and OpenAI are] now seen as playing a key role in ratcheting up the risks of a possible AI bubble by inflating the market and binding the fates of numerous companies together. "
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Important article for anyone following AI and AI policy.

"In the process, [NVIDIA and OpenAI are] now seen as playing a key role in ratcheting up the risks of a possible AI bubble by inflating the market and binding the fates of numerous companies together. "
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.
Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Very important article and worth the read - Opinion | 6 U.S. surgeons general: RFK Jr. threatens the health of Americans - The Washington Post
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
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by Scott L. Greer

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October: It’s never a good sign for health policy when I’m in the media … and here I am, once again in distinguished company on Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes!
The Hostile Takeover Of America's Health w/ Dr. Scott Greer
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Combing through the FY26 budget request and effects on health, and I haven't read many of these over my career, but it's really shocking how much they read like Trump's social media posts. The word "woke" is used 12 times, "DEI" is used 31 times, and random words are put in quotation marks. Oy vey.
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by Scott L. Greer

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Very predictable: the U of M traffic lights/ camera arrays outside Ruthven, justified as improving bus flow, induced a lot of private cars onto N University and now they are creating a traffic snarl at the stop signs that… slows the buses. But at least we inconvenience innumerable pedestrians now!
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Reposted by: Scott L. Greer, David Darmofal

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Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
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Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
Turns out the cop was also an abuser
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"Now, almost 80 projects have been saved by a matchmaking service run by Rosenbaum & other former USAID staff, that has found them $110m (£82m) of new funding. The team behind the Project Resource Optimization(Pro) initiative estimates it will benefit 40 million people, including many children <5."
‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’
After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people
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by Scott L. Greer

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“Klein's approach would make the stakes higher specifically for already threatened people, precisely at the moment that the stakes have become personally alarming to him, and he says that he believes this will be persuasive of a group that has already declared itself immune to persuasion.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
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by Scott L. Greer

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lol too big to fail
Sam Altman in extremely goofy sunglasses facing some media and saying that profitability is not a “top-ten concern” for him, atop an article about how he has managed to make some extremely rich companies invest scary amounts in him
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by Scott L. Greer — Reposted by: Scott L. Greer

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It’s never a good sign for health policy when I’m in the media … and here I am, once again in distinguished company on Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes!
The Hostile Takeover Of America's Health w/ Dr. Scott Greer
Podcast Episode · Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes · 10/03/2025 · 31m
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by Scott L. Greer

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Kind of fun watching two actual experts try to educate him and him responding with undergraduate debating points

Reposted by: Scott L. Greer, Joe R. Feagin, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 2 more

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Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
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by Scott L. Greer

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Do we call this “defunding the police?”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h
It got almost no attention but six months ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ditched the beneficial ownership rules that facilitate tax evasion and oligarchy by simply choosing to not enforce them. Bob Kuttner has that story.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.
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by Scott L. Greer

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A lot of capacity can be rebuilt easily but I suspect it will be hard to fix the intentional destruction of public capacity to police very rich people
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h
It got almost no attention but six months ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ditched the beneficial ownership rules that facilitate tax evasion and oligarchy by simply choosing to not enforce them. Bob Kuttner has that story.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.
prospect.org
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It got almost no attention but six months ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ditched the beneficial ownership rules that facilitate tax evasion and oligarchy by simply choosing to not enforce them. Bob Kuttner has that story.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.
prospect.org
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Now on FirstView: a Profession Spotlight guest edited by @isaackamola.bsky.social! Rethinking the Corporate University: An Engagement with Kaufman-Osborn’s The Autocratic Academy

The collection is free to read through the end of November here: shorturl.at/4vWqV

#polisky
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#IA01 Miller-Meeks says she will hold a town hall "when hell freezes over."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’ | CNN Politics
Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”
www.cnn.com
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by Scott L. Greer

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I composed a rebuttal, with data, to somebody who was Wrong on the internet about an unimportant topic, regained self control, and deleted it. Now logging off. Please clap.
Duty Calls
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Reposted by: Scott L. Greer, Rosemary A. Joyce

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👇🎯🧵

I'm tired of so many in higher ed feeling like we can only defend higher ed by first granting the premise of every right wing attack on higher ed.

The trust trends don't correlate with tuition/deb trends but do with the GOP's collapse into far right authoritarianism & ongoing media Discourse.
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by Scott L. Greer

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I would not have expected an exemplar of nationalized politics to suddenly show an interest in their district during a high stakes conflict like this
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d
👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.
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