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I think I'd get a visit from the FBI if I publicly told what I think of Trump and Vance in this situation right now, but alas this is a strong indicator that Europe must get its act together and become less dependent on the US for security

🔴 North Korea appears to have sent additional troops to Russia to assist its war against Ukraine, South Korean intelligence indicates, according to Newsis.

Featured in the latest Digest: "Household Heat Pump Adoption and Energy Use" https://www.nber.org/202502/digest/household-heat-pump-adoption-and-energy-use

🇷🇴👀 Romanian prosecutors reportedly found €900,000 in cash and plane tickets to Moscow in an underground safe in Georgescu bodyguard's house.

Effective altruism is fundamentally an unserious philosophy. This idea that you can compare different policy goals - i.e. providing mosquito nests, deworming medicine and better school access - and objectively determine which one is more "effective" is a severe misunderstanding of development policy

Accidentally download the appendix of an econ working paper:

Your new alliance, sir

Ich fürchte, es wird sich als Fehler erweisen, dass der 20. Bundestag kein Überprüfungsverfahren zur Verfassungstreue AfD eingeleitet hat.

Occasional reminder of differences PRE German partition. See (pdf) 👉 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social

The United States just voted with Russia against peace in Ukraine.

Russian propaganda has surged over the past decade amid a media crackdown, peaking after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Despite its low-budget production, calls for nuclear strikes on Washington are growing louder. (1/12)

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

Today's front page of The New York Post.

Hab mir gerade das Video dazu angesehen. Maurice Höfgen wird eben nicht als "irgendein Bürger" vorgestellt, sondern als YouTuber und ehemaligen Mitarbeiter der Linken. Also von wegen die Öffis ließen sich von irgendwem "vorführen"...

BREAKING: A plane has crashed in Arizona, leaving at least one person dead.

BREAKING: New video from the Delta plane crash in Toronto shows the full extent to crash.

nobody: tech right guys:

Naja, weiß jetzt nicht ob Kritik am ÖRR darauf basieren sollte, dass man einen rhetorisch geschulten Menschen in eine Sendung einlädt, der einen anderen rhetorisch geschulten Menschen (aber mit sehr fragwürdigen bis hin zu antidemokratoschen Positionen) konfrontiert

silicon valley is going to destroy america

Big day for Polio

🔴 After Russia's attack on Ukraine tonight, the wreckage of two Russian drones was found in Moldova, according to Moldovan police. "Russia respects no borders, attacks civilians, spreads terror," responded President of Moldova Maia Sandu.

A framework for analyzing how institutions, market structures, and technological choices affect societal resource distribution and development across different historical periods, from colonialism to modern AI, from Daron Acemoglu https://www.nber.org/papers/w33442

A new #CEPR Policy Insight (w/ @inaganguli.bsky.social , Sasha Talavere and Yuliia Bezvershenko) on science & innovation in #Ukraine: tinyurl.com/msc2tr7a See how co-authorship structure has shifted from 🇷🇺 to 🇵🇱, 🇩🇪, 🇺🇸, etc. These linkages will help rebound/rebuild science in 🇺🇦. #UkrainianView

what we woke up to at 4:30 a.m.

He’s not mad. Don’t put in the newspaper that he got mad

Summarizing the major advances in the field of economic geography over the past decade creating a tight link between theory and data, from Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis https://www.nber.org/papers/w33436

Liebe Tagesschau, bei allem Verständnis für unaufgeregte und neutrale Berichterstattung, aber ein Staatsstreich ist kein "Bürokratieabbau". So wenig wie eine Enthauptung eine Kopfschmerztherapie ist.

Einerseits ist dieses wohl legendäre Gespräch zwischen David Graeber und Peter Thiel recht erhellend und lehrreich, andererseits, naja, gibt’s auch viel Cringe. youtu.be/eF0cz9OmCGw?...

US political commentator Tucker Carlson echoes Vladimir Putin’s false narratives about Ukraine. Kremlin propaganda finds its voice far beyond Russia. (1/6)

I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.

Cuts to the Arts and Humanities have been going on for years in the UK. Several great departments were closed down. But in most places, the erosion was more gradual. /1

@washingtonpost.com treating the illegal and unconstitutional attempt by a private foreign billionaire to shut down a congressionally created and funded executive branch agency, as if it’s a “controversial personnel move.” what is this insane application of their basic journalistic responsibility?

🚨 New working paper! 🚨 @grattonecon.bsky.social and I just completed the first draft of "The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies". Excited to present it in Munich this week—thanks to Laura Seelkopf, Christoph Knill & others for hosting us! 🧵👇 ▶️ Motivation Many democracies have undergone a

States now hire unjustly fired FBI agents, prosecutors, and other unjustly fired federal personnel. Good people at the right time.

Am I the only one noting that after demonizing China for years, Trump seems to be letting them off lightly, while going full tilt against Canada? Is it Musk's business interests? Have Chinese players been buying Trumpcoin?

1. CDU/CSU legen Anträge und Gesetzesentwurf vor und behaupten, sie brächten Sicherheit 2. Die Pläne scheitern spätestens im Bundesrat. 3. CDU/CSU: Grüne und SPD machen das Land unsicher 4. Nächste Gewalttat. Union: SPD und Grüne sind Schuld 5. Union: Geht nur noch mit der AfD Kein Problem gelöst.

Cruelty is the point.

Based on scientific evidence: Immigration does not increase crime rates.

⚡️ US and German intel thwarted a Russian plot to assassinate Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger. The scheme was part of Russia’s broader efforts to target defense leaders in Europe and disrupt support for Ukraine.

Mit Friedrich Merz drängt ein Politiker in das Kanzleramt, der mächtigen Wirtschaftsinteressen nahesteht – und jahrelang als Lobbyist tätig war. Und dies doch immer wieder abstreitet. Dazu gibt es jetzt neue Infos von @correctiv.org. Mehr dazu 👇 1/15

Deep

Ich stimme ja nicht oft mit russischen Geheimdiensten überein. Aber ich glaube, ich nenne die AfD in Zukunft auch „Alternatiwa Dlja Germanii“ 🇷🇺

USDOT has now deleted this webpage

You’re telling me…the ship that sabotaged the EU underwater cables…was russian?

Forthcoming in the AER: "Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies" by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Diff-in-diff in a panel of African countries... Decriminalizing abortion appears to reduce fertility and child mortality, and lead women to stay in school longer. custom.cvent.com/4E741122FD8B...

Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to play apologist for Trump

Grotesque fucking experience when there’s a siren howling behind your window as a reminder of the hellish nightmare you cannot wake up from and there’s a world leader mocking his promise to end it