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NEW PAPER Oil, shipping, tariffs: We are back in a world of cost shocks. Our AI/LLM analysis of 138,962 corporate earnings calls shows how economy-wide cost shocks let large firms raise prices & increase profits—triggering sellers' inflation. 🧵 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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“If elected officials abdicate their responsibility or refuse to do so, a large and diverse group of people is poised to act. This potential for the exercise of democratic accountability may be the most promising beacon of light in a moment of peril for an immensely popular, lifesaving program”

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BMJ, @hannahdavies.bsky.social @lukemunford.bsky.social @nataliecbennett.bsky.social and I outline how disability welfare cuts (PIP) will hit the most deprived areas and the north of England hardest (again!), with long term harms @healthequitynorth.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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They hate science and academia but still want to claim their legitimacy

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I love angry judges

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On a first scan almost all the really bad health stuff is included including the “work requirements” that will just take health care away from people in a blizzard of Republican-designed paperwork

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“Even with a shattering midterm rebuke Trump will remain with his awesome bundle of executive powers for more than three more years. But the public rejection of both his tactics and his goals is very clear. And that is the variable — public opinion — that is currently in play.”

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@theguardian.com: #mRNA tech could play an important role in stopping the next pandemic, but #RFKjr puts progress at risk. With mRNA “You can pivot faster when you find a new virus to make a vaccine that’s tailored to that virus.” – @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social. More here 👇

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"We find that abortion restrictions ... significantly increased the rate of intimate partner violence for reproductive-aged women [by] about seven to 10 percent. These estimates imply at least 9,000 additional incidents of IPV among women in the “trigger ban” states" www.nber.org/papers/w3391...

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Just to say it again, the Big Beautiful Protests (the No Kings marches) involved 5 million people and were likely the largest day of protest in America EVER. News outlets that downplay this fact, are lying.

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⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants. It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates. Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.

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“It’s a dangerous time to be a child in America.”

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“Treasury department data shows cash disbursed from the National Institutes of Health dropped to $2.8bn in May, down 28 per cent from April and the lowest absolute dollar outlay since September 2014, according to Jefferies, an investment bank.”

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FIRE does good legal work and also does right wing anti-university hack work that would make you think Ann Arbor is Tehran. I wasn’t born yesterday and assume the hackery will eventually win because the key funders don’t care about individual rights but care deeply about dominating universities.

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What a photo ‼️💪👍🏻‼️ St. Louis, Missouri ‼️👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Update: artist also noticed it

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“I do get the sense that the strongly inculcated assumption that you can say what you think, that you don’t need to censor yourself, is more vibrant and ingrained in people at some remove from the centers of immense power and wealth. When you’re closer you’re more practiced at rationalizing things.”

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#ResignationInProtest, CDC edition A CDC scientist resigns in protest because RFK Jr’s insistence on imposing his own views on vaccines — disregarding actual experts — meant that she would no longer be able to “help the most vulnerable members of our population.” Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a …

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“Twice in a row, regents' selections have embarrassed Michigan. Now, maybe more than ever before, it needs a wise, steady, courageous leader who cares deeply about the heritage that makes it dear to hundreds of thousands of alumni, and who will protect it from malevolent actors.”

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Smart, ambitious guy sells out and learns it’s not that much fun ‘Bhattacharya was not always disliked inside NIH. Several staffers said they had been tentatively hopeful about his nomination [but soon] They saw their new director as “weak”—more of a figurehead than a leader’

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Elizabeth Warren’s impressively thorough report on the unbelievable crime spree called DOGE

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I think it’s just fine that our MAHA health policy leadership hang out with people who sell ultra-strong bleach as cancer cure “Last month, Grenon attended the Truth Seekers conference at Trump’s resort, which was filled with bleach enthusiasts and antisemitic conspiracy theorists.”

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This is really bad: anti-vaccination activists are actively reintroducing terrible diseases by encouraging vaccine misinformation… and now they’re in charge of the federal government

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two extremely different authors, pretty much the same argument, very different writing styles and a shared good point. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-... www.late-review.com/p/against-th...

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So CNN covered a CGD report based on a donortracker article that projects a decline in ODA based on no method I can identify. It’s just dooming for clicks, fancy international aid version. And it’s not like we lack verifiable bad news!

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Love it that the AI shill was previously at Coursera. I guess this particular form of techno-parasitism is a viable career. Tell media, VC, and universities that you’ve got the tech to replace universities and they shower attention and money on you. Now why they do that is a good question.

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ann arbor has an april population of about 120k and about 30k undergrads. so let’s say there are around 100k people in ann arbor in the summer. so maybe between 1% and 3% of that showed out today. that’s so much!

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“Very few people, including presidents, have ever put more of a stamp on our country. What McConnell lacked was a moral compass that would cause him to rise above political calculation.”

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Trump as a rotten piñata “[that] would, after getting through the doors of power, burst to release a payload of chittering ideologues”

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“University officials say bills to NIH have simply gone unpaid. NIH grant officers in April were told not to communicate with Northwestern and other affected universities about the freeze, according to an email viewed by The Wall Street Journal”

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Context for the Trump attack on emergency management? “One 2018 study found that while white residents tend to gain affluence over time after a catastrophe, Blacks and other residents of color lose wealth.”

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Very interesting context for the Trump war on American universities: “examining the university education of the global elite. First, we find a small number of globally prestigious universities to take on super prominent roles…Second, we find a consistent and unique place for Harvard University”

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‘“Pandemic preparedness” is something of a misnomer, because a pandemic never starts with a known outcome. It is only in hindsight that we can distinguish between isolated spillover events, localised outbreaks and full-blown pandemics. In the initial stages, all these events will look similar.’

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Giving thanks that political scientists never started calling it “punk eek”

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Note how entire system described here assumes that the people in charge accept vaccine science and the responsibility to protect the public. It’s now being turned inside out.

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In a rural “economy dominated by slow growth and low wage sectors, raising taxes to pay for better education and amenities has seemed frivolous when the community has little hope of attracting high end enterprises or holding on to its youth”

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Survey experiment: “partisans reward candidates by voting for them at higher rates if they ignore a Court decision that harmed the participant’s party.” Cc: Democrats

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House Republicans’ tax-and-spending bill and other Trump administration changes could lead to 10.9 million Americans losing health insurance by 2034, with 7.8 million potentially losing Medicaid coverage alone. A health care scholar explains: buff.ly/uoLEiMl By Simon F. Haeder @tamu.bsky.social 🩺

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Alberta’s government is a real piece of work but this won’t be the last global effect of the current US health policy debacle. The world should expect more now that the US has switched sides in the war on disease and prepare accordingly, eg by making it clear that US vaccine advice is now suspect.

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Stellar idea. It can’t formally replace the feds, but it can give authoritative statements that influence state governments, insurers, etc. and also communicate to the public that the government is not acting in good faith.

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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects 82 million fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Pro-gun PACs respond to school shootings by massively increasing their contributions to candidates in districts with these tragedies. www.nber.org/papers/w33900

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"It is not popular to cut healthcare benefits, it's especially not popular to cut healthcare benefits when you're also, in the same piece of legislation, giving a really big tax break to very, very wealthy people." @citizencohn.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on The Focus Group pod:

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