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We can have our schadenfraude without doing or calling for crimes and evil acts ourselves. Never accept governments rendering people stateless, or stripping citizenship for fun.

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One should not interrupt a leopard while it is feasting.

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And also that the value of $TSLA wasn’t based entirely on business fundamentals

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

“Poster’s Madness” is now a structural theory of international politics and domestic coalition-maintenance and degradation. Throw out that IR degree.

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

broken clock fight

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I feel this a little too hard.

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This would be a great day to open the windows or go for a long walk, but... It smells like smoke inside the house and we've kept the windows closed all day.

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the infighting theory...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

It's strategically advantageous for Musk to look independent from Trump and vice versa now. They did their 130 days of DOGE. IMO they remain mutually useful. Going to be a strange time figuring out how deep the divide is. If Trump ever takes action that hits Musk materially, divorce complete.

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

People really do not appreciate how much our civil servants prioritize service, duty, integrity, honesty and accuracy above all else. If the politicians or ideologues interfere, we the public will hear about it - just as we today heard of the interference with the USDA report.

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It's bad that USDA political leadership reportedly interfered for political purposes with the timing and text in a report around a statistical release. Cold comforts: they reportedly didn't interfere with the statistical estimates per se. Similar reports have not emerged from BLS, BEA, nor Census.

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

... well, here's the political interference.

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LLMs may sometimes act like humans because they’ve read the social science research telling them how they’re expected to act

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The rise in antisemetic violence is horrific. If you disapprove of US foreign policy, lobby your member of congress, go to a peaceful protest. Never excuse or justify poltical violence and terrorism.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The macrodynamics of the COVID-19 business cycle were unprecedented yet transitory as today's macroeconomy behaves much as it did before the pandemic, from James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson https://www.nber.org/papers/w33857

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Consider the implications of a device this small and this simple possibly taking out 2/3 of Russia's heavy bombers. If this story is true, we're in a totally different world

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

submitted 5 days ago • 554 comments

Yes, Elon Musk & Marco Rubio have chosen to kill at least thousands of people—so far—by obliterating USAID without considering the consequences. They enjoy denying this angrily, but without presenting a speck of impact analysis. Musk said he “gives zero fucks” about the deaths.

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Tesla's Fremont, CA factory has been in violation of the Clean Air Act basically nonstop since 2019. Tesla has been doing illegal stealth recalls for years. Autopilot has killed tens of people due to known design issues. Tesla and Musk should be toxic regardless of his role in national politics.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Again: the rule of law exists, or it doesn’t.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Former CEA chair @jaredb-econ.bsky.social calls on economists to publicly weigh in on the administration's claim of a national emergency from the trade deficit to justify tariff policy. Courts, media, & public can benefit from our expertise on this. #EconSky econjared.substack.com/p/calling-al...

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What could possibly go wrong

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"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

Imagine telling people 15 years ago that the US would become the main source of political risk in the global economy

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits U.S. military from serving as law enforcement, but what else do you call this?

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

Authoritarians harass their political enemies with the instruments of the state. This is authoritarianism. We need to be clear-eyed about what is happening here. www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

"Most exposed to tariff impacts are consumer-facing manufacturers, who must confront a demand-side hit from slowing growth and higher costs on the supply side." @mikemadowitz.bsky.social breaks down what to watch with the upcoming jobs report. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/may-job...

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Yeah the word for this is eugenics. The world's richest man deliberately defunded programs that saved millions of lives for the purposes of "cost-savings." Oh and also those cost-savings never materialized and he wound up killing people AND wasting money.

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Government Executive - Federal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to OPM's new "merit hiring plan." https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/opm-merit-hiring-plan-includes-bipartisan-reforms-politicized-new-test

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