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Economist who studies faculty salaries and benefits, 1st gen students, and college finances. Big-time dog lover, fan of Grateful Dead, Phish, and prog rock bands.
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Representative Mike Collins, how about holding a town hall for the voters in GA10?? We would love to give you a piece of our minds!

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If anything is gonna make me root for the @Eagles — declining yet another visit to the Trump WH will. 🦅💚

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Sure, there are occasional moments of resistance from senators not facing reelection, but they are fleeting and ultimately meaningless if those same individuals fold when the stakes are high. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-coward...

submitted 16 days ago • 382 comments

After a day of terrible news about the Musk / Trump gutting of IES, a single ray of sunshine: Phish has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Blaze on!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"But what about her e-mails??"

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I hope someone is taking pictures of the prices of goods that are going to be affected by these tariffs. The same goods, the same stores, before and after.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

And these are the "minor offenders" that Trump pardoned.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I’m keeping the TV off today so that I don’t contribute to Trump’s numbers of election watchers

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

How can I get the Corgis off my timeline? I love dogs and Corgis are cute, but somehow I get every Corgi group post and don’t remember asking for them. I’ve tried blocking but new ones take their place.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly! We sometimes forget that peer effects can be negative as well as positive.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, I take back my post saying that Army should have been in the college football playoffs. Sink, sank, sunk!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

My posts flop here just like they did on Twitter

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Anybody who thinks having a PhD is indicative of a particular level of intelligence has never sat through a faculty meeting

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

A surprising number of my friends from high school and college have whacko MAGA beliefs. And here I thought our ed system was indoctrinating students to the left.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Any “Late Show” fans out there? The other night Daniel Craig (James Bond) was the guest. He hassled Colbert about how to pronouce his name (6 min mark). Was this a deliberate ripoff from an episode of Veep or just a coincidence? youtube.com/watch?v=WMNd...

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