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Traffic-pocalypse is coming to Newton this weekend. "[M]odels project that it could lead to miles-long backups of 'two to three hours in some cases.'" Cool. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Congestion pricing has been a success in New York City, so more cities should adopt it across the country! A new piece from me at Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/con...

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Silver lining: we have strong evidence from tariffs (and every other policy) that this administration doesn't count economics as a critical field

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There are thousands of residents who are supposed to start in less than a month in hospitals across the US who cannot enter the country. There is going to be a major staffing crisis across the country but especially in rural and urban hospitals than rely on international medical graduates. #MedSky

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Policy-based evidence making

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What's the historical accuracy rate of CEOs speculating about the massive economy-wide effects of their own technology?

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"How Southern Politicians Reformed Textbooks to Resist Civil Rights Demands" -- my new article in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. Ungated version: tinyurl.com/y32wev8y

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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

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when trump and co say they're seizing control of research because of the reproducibility crisis, it's pretty similar to when they say they're enacting trans bathroom bans and sports bans because of violence and discrimination against women.

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These numbers are deranged

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Look, some of our nations biggest and most successful exporters (BU comes in at number 5 with nearly 18k international undergrads). I'm sure any president who obsesses over trade deficits would be doing anything they could to cheer us on

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The bill is a litany of horrors beyond just the topline cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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We are hundreds of thousands of units away from having enough housing, in a market where land, labor and materials are all increasing. Oh, and with potential cuts to Medicare/aid on the table. Blocking housing creation right now means you want seniors to die in indignity. Full stop.

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Easy trade: cities and towns get to control their own liquor licenses, but Beacon Hill gets to erase their anti density and anti multifamily zoning laws #mapoli

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Cutting out the middle man and giving myself $5 directly