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if you're a family member of a National Guard member or Marine deployed to L.A. and want to talk please get in touch.

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* JAPAN READIES $700M PACKAGE TO LURE TALENT AMID US BRAIN DRAIN @reuters.com

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Fact check: True

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I finally found the time to listen to this excellent podcast on space economics. Excellent questions but what really makes it stand out are the answers by @akhilrao.bsky.social. I have never heard someone explain the principles of economics applied on space issues as clearly as clearly as here.

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New unemployment insurance claims steady at 248K after creeping up in recent weeks. Continuing claims up 3% to 1.956 million, consistent with hiring remaining weak. #NumbersDay

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"'The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,' said Sarah Streyder of the Secure Families Initiative..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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SABEW, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, is raising alarm over troubling signs of deterioration in the quality and timeliness of work by federal statistical agencies. sabew.org/2025/06/sabe... #econsky @bencasselman.bsky.social @chrisrugaber.bsky.social @samsutton.bsky.social

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Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

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Keeping America safe from... [checks notes]... farm workers.

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My framework right now — is inflation going to come from: -Shelter/housing? No -The labor market/wage growth? No -Above-trend NGDP growth? No So tariffs are bad but there’s no way they’re going to lead to anything more than a short-term blip in inflation.

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The way Trump has responded to protests in California is very different than how he treated the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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🔥 There it is. 🔥 #WSJ www.wsj.com/opinion/chin...

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Over the year within-worker median wage growth was 4.3% in May and 3.8% for hourly workers, both flat per Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker. By focusing on change within worker, it sidesteps some issues in more common measures from changes in workforce composition www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-gr...

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#NumbersDay

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They want a fight. They deserve a clowning.

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"...last #JobsReport (decent job growth, layoffs still down, unemployment still low, decent but not scary wage growth) & this [mild] CPI report are a recipe for [Fed] to remain in wait-&-see-what-happens-with-the-tariffs mode." @jaredb-econ.bsky.social econjared.substack.com/p/data_note-...

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So...yesterday, I found out that my #PhD funding from the government was terminated so money for survival is now in jeopardy. 🙃 If you know of ANY sources of funding, please let me know. #academicsky #academia #research #blackademics #econsky

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"I am alarmed by the increasingly aggressive power wielded by a small number of ultra-wealthy individuals" - @gabrielzucman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A data broker owned by the major airlines, including Delta, American, and United, collected travelers’ flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection, and in the contract told CBP not to reveal where the data came from. From @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

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U.S. economic growth rate projection cut by half to 1.4%. China growth rate little affected at 4.5%, 3X faster. Per new World Bank estimates, change largely due to U.S. import tax (tariff) increase, from @deanbaker13.bsky.social. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers went down noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

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Super interesting column @equitablegrowth.bsky.social by Alex Bell on how identification by anti-instruments reveals attribute tradeoffs, applied to job quality. Got to see him present it @upjohninstitute.bsky.social recently. New & interesting. #EconSky equitablegrowth.org/the-hidden-t...

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Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

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One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

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Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia. The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G

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"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes [...] Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." -Anne Frank

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