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As Justice Breyer said, "America’s public schools are the nurseries of democracy." Which means that by expanding voucher programs, the GOP is poised to erode not only the separation of church and state but also democracy, by using public money to promote Christian nationalism to kids.

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I don't even know what to say. So much vital, lifesaving research has come from this data.

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In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

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Madness

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Trump and Musk are effectively cutting Social Security payments by closing local offices A single SSA office closure leads to a 16 percent fall in the number of disability insurance recipients in a local area

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Y’all

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Move fast and break America's ability to keep our nuclear weapons stockpile alert, locked down, & safe. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/l...

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European neonazi fascists to American neonazi fascists: No no you’re doing it wrong. The Nazi stuff needs to stay covert. American neonazi fascists: no YOU don’t get it. Doing the Nazi stuff overtly is the whole point.

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#EconSky

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Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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#EconSky

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Is there a central location where Econs advertise pre-docs? I have a talented undergrad looking to apply for pre-docs but I’m not sure where to tell them to look. I think pre-docs are not on JOE (right?). What’s the best resource for this?

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Hey #econsky! FYI: our @oiginstitute.bsky.social annual research conference is Nov 13-14, 2025! - Nov 13 is the main conference day ft. keynote by David Card - Nov 14 is a workshop day for early career researchers Learn more + submit here (deadline: 4/11): www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/co...

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Is there public backlash after marginalized groups secure policy gains? For both gay rights and immigrant rights, the evidence suggests NO backlash. But guess what? Elite cues matter. Sounds about right. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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today I stumbled across the most beautiful staircase in the world

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hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

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the head of this Leviathan, in the creature’s living intact state, is an entire delusion

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Lol

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Bonus update! Choropleths are still visually distorted and overrepresent land, so we can instead use points that are sized by population. I added an example at the end to show one way to do this with {sf}'s magical st_centroid() #rstats www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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They screwed this all up.

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I’m alarmed by how easy it is to scam Americans

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Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

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