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"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

I'd like to ask people who are ok with the Trump admin attacking science, dismantling govt and disregarding and attacking judges - what do they think America is going to look like without science, without govt, without judges and without the rule of law...?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 5 days ago • 1621 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 9 days ago • 289 comments

Whether he has a tattoo or committed any kind of crime - none of that justifies sending someone to a concentration camp in a third party country without any hearing

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

submitted 9 days ago • 438 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 10 days ago • 1754 comments

So Van Hollen managed to meet with El Salvador's Vice President, and his honest answer to the question "why are you holding this man if neither your nor my government has evidence that he is MS-13" was "because America is paying us to hold him there?" Do I have that right?

submitted 12 days ago • 108 comments

See? You use the power you have. Someone let Ruben Gallego know.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

This is such a stupid take - it's not a legal issue - this is a diplomacy issue - a phone call, some diplomatic/economic persuasion is all it would take - there just needs to be the will to do it...

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submitted 13 days ago • 624 comments

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 13 days ago • 483 comments

Note that this is not a student or a postdoc or an adjunct but a TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

LA! Let’s express how furious we are about Kilmar in the Gulag & the others disappeared. Tomorrow Wed 4/16 11:30am-1:30pm Outside Consulate General of El Salvador 3250 Wilshire Blvd LA 90010 In collaboration w/ @samo-indivisible.bsky.social; @indivisiblewestsidela.com; 50501-socal.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

submitted 14 days ago • 651 comments

People living in, or with family/close friends in the US - how do you deal with family or close friends in the US, who don't necessarily deny what is happening atm, but who just can't cope psychologically with even thinking about it - who are trying to live life as if it's not happening?

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submitted 14 days ago • 219 comments

It should go without saying, but this is the antisemitism we should actually be concerned about.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

It feels like a bunch of psychologically damaged people are working out their issues on an entire country.

submitted 16 days ago • 97 comments

From politics to latest in paw patrol #applique - Chase

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

What the world thinks of the US now - poll of 9.5k NZers:

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 15 days ago • 250 comments

Looking at "Four-weekly New Zealand-resident traveller arrival tables – week ended 16 March 2025" from the International Travel (Provisional) data page, as well as the mentioned fall in in people going to the US, there is a dramatic increase in NZ residents returning from the US (& no other country)

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 16 days ago • 123 comments

Still don't understand why democratics don't value this constituency - don't care about their votes - every time they centre families they exclude them

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Book ‘em www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagl...

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Anyone who is in the US legally and who is allowed to work must have a social security number as their Tax Identification Number - that would be millions of people with green cards and work visas - so of course the US issues millions of SSNs to non-citizens - that's the law - Musk is so dumb

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

You literally need a SSN to fill in your tax forms - I know - I've been trying to get one to do just that - it's not just about getting benefits

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 19 days ago • 748 comments

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

submitted 19 days ago • 1896 comments

Surely this on and off with tariffs is just the biggest insider trading scheme in human history...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Deporting people means a judge signs a final deportation order, and the person is returned to their own country. What we are doing is kidnapping a person off the street and paying for them to be held indefinitely in concentration camps outside US courts' jurisdiction. 100% deliberately extralegal.

submitted 19 days ago • 103 comments

No, Trump isn't cratering our economy. The entire Republican Party is cratering our economy. The enablers deserve just as much blame as Trump.

submitted 20 days ago • 65 comments

To everyone posting their stuff for #PortfolioDay - wow! Meanwhile I have started doing applique using a sew machine that isn't for embroidery

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #portfolioday, I draw these little weirdos. For fun (apparently).

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

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submitted 20 days ago • 124 comments

Don’t worry, I’m sure the president who only recently discovered the word “groceries” knows what he’s doing with the economy.

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

"Nobody in the Commission thought that the US government would be this stupid and self-destructive," an EU official has said to Jakob Vela of Handelsblatt. "That they would blow up their own country by letting ChatGPT make their trade policy."

submitted 20 days ago • 62 comments

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

And there it is.

submitted 20 days ago • 120 comments

These are my special little guys <3 Introducing Series 1 of my new Par Avian series of enamel pins, featuring NZ birds on real-life stamp size pins! Collect the Ruru, Hihi, Tauhou, and Tūī with a special set discount, or snag just your favourites <3 pepperraccoon.com (more pics below in thread)

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Everyday I think about the fact that iceland jailed the people responsible for their financial crisis

submitted 20 days ago • 241 comments

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

😕🇺🇸

submitted 20 days ago • 483 comments

“Shut the fuck up, don’t cause trouble, and people won’t wanna kill you” is not just a typical message the author quotes from online abusers, it's the structural message to WoC from political institutions.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments