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took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)

submitted 2 days ago • 162 comments

If they had a shred of material evidence they’d be waving it from the rooftops. They aren’t; they don’t.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

submitted 2 days ago • 519 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 3 days ago • 563 comments

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

submitted 3 days ago • 472 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1339 comments

Interesting new research suggesting one reason women are less likely to major in STEM, economics, and business is that they expect to face labor market discrimination later in those fields (so that the return to such majors is lower). www.nber.org/papers/w33680

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

But did these mushrooms have any top 5 publication?

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Courage is contagious. But how do we catch it? For months, @amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social and I have been asking dissidents and activists from around the world how we can topple authoritarianism. We assembled their lessons into a field guide to courage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Manski's cautionary tale about multiple imputation (MI) is now published. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Astounding levels of illegality.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Has anyone gotten any communication from an alma mater college/univ about attacks against higher ed and asking you, as a graduate, to do anything to act in its defense?

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

You guys Oren Cass is John Oliver’s Picture of Dorian Gray

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Begging people to stop treating pretextual justifications as real policy goals

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 10 days ago • 264 comments

Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out! This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature. Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 9 days ago • 206 comments

A constitutional crisis won't go away because we don't acknowledge. Trump is impounding funds (unconstitutional) and then ignoring court orders.

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Important question for the internets: how does a Dollar Tree Yukio Mishima commit seppuku?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

submitted 8 days ago • 297 comments

imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop

submitted 8 days ago • 1650 comments

Correct

submitted 11 days ago • 86 comments

Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

FWIW, Trump just lost the vote of every 14-15 yo boy in the next election.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is basically pressing all the “do not touch” buttons simultaneously: mass layoffs, increasing prices, undermining consumer and international confidence. Not sure what else he could be doing to trigger a recession, let alone longer term US decline

submitted 15 days ago • 83 comments

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments