mbornfreund.bsky.social
lawyer, former bank regulator, adjunct professor, economist, atheist, family man, nerd
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Her previous support for gender affirming care... Example 2,923 of conservatives taking a benign term from academia or medicine, intentionally misunderstanding and misrepresenting it, and then using it as a campaign cudgel.
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Hi @matt-levine.bsky.social , I'm one of the authors of the Troutman report in your story. Let me know if you're interested in any follow up. Thanks for quoting us!
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Sadly, I've got doom posting on lock.
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I'm referring to the justices who will all be in their 50s after Alito and Thomas retire. Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, Replacement 1, and Replacement 2 will together hold the majority until 2055, at the earliest.
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Yes, it can always get worse. But practically speaking, losing every case 5-4 for two generations isn't much different from losing them 6-3.
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Sotomayor isn't the problem. Alito and Thomas are both going to retire in June 2026, and we're going to have a right wing majority for the next 30 years.
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does this gif go over with blueskis?
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I hear you. Life got in the way (whey?) last week, but I'm going to focus on finding our people after drowning in turkey.
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can i nominate "sky write" instead of... you know... the other thing?
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This doesn't seem accurate to me. While I don't doubt that this kind of thing could be in our future, the story being reported is different:
www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...
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This article indicated it's North Texas, not UT Austin
www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...
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I think you're seeing something different... I'm not defending the view, but I recognize that some people are tired of fighting to protect Trump voters from the consequences of their decisions. "Let them destroy government in exactly the way we warned, then they'll understand."
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oof. If he did, I really have to wonder what happened to him.
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Agree. I've seen that with reposts. Also, if I reply on a thread, that thread gets sorted by my reply time.
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Give it time; they'll all come around to yes
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welcome back to bluesky
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"I am also not amused"
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Which is exactly what was done during his first term
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Here's each G7 country's cumulative increase in real GDP per capita, since just before the pandemic:
🇺🇸 +10.1%
🇮🇹 +6.4% (thru Q2)
🇯🇵 +2.4%
🇫🇷 +1.6% (thru Q2)
🇬🇧 -0.7%
🇩🇪 -2.0% (thru Q2)
🇨🇦 -3.0% (thru Q2)
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Reminds me to reread this article
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Darmok and Jalad on the ocean!
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The person who is very <checks notes> pro union and anti AI in the arts... supports <double checks notes> Donald Trump?!
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Just set this you auto repost every few hours
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More likely driving the bandwagon
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Your furniture is only occasionally a table? What is it the rest of the time?
(I'm new here, but will still see myself out)
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I'm afraid to ask what "it" is in that sentence...
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It's a side effect of the electoral college. Dems in other states know their votes don't really matter, and therefore, they are more likely to stay home.
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"The people who voted for Harris likely caused Harris to lose" -- next hot take, probably
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No. It's the classic 1/1,000 of a tank problem. If it costs $1 million to buy a tank, you can cut the spending and give 1,000 people $1,000 each but no one person could use that money to purchase defense. The value of the people and services cut are greater than the fractional cost returned.
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Will there's this nice bit from another skeet i saw...
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The dept of nutrition / big ag thing is so insulting to the scientist who work there
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That is also a great point. So is Polis against long standing vaccine mandates (i.e not COVID)?
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And would you want to take bets on which of those two issues RFK really focuses on once he gets there?
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Thank you! And it doesn't rely on people having put the tag in their skeet to find it?
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