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Associate Professor. Public Management, Education Policy, Econometrics. https://stevebholt.github.io/
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A lot of tech companies seem to be pushing biometrics for logins and I really, really think people should know that biometrics logins make it very, very easy for law enforcement to access and search your information during a stop. In the context of this admin, I think that's worth considering.

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Yemen-Cointreau affair was sitting right there.

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To build on this, arguably the rise of the MAGA movement is downstream of the scars of the GR, but time, distance, and uneven geographic distribution of recovery obscures the linkages. Well, and other factors too, to be sure. But the shadow of the GR is larger than the average person thinks.

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The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining www.nber.org/papers/w3360... "we infer that a one-standard-deviation increase in worker rights is valued at about 5.7% of wages"

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If I was in another country and mentioned that I really can't risk accidentally overstaying my visa because if I do, they might deport me to a third country's prisons known for their brutality as punishment for being there illegally, you would probably assume I was visiting an authoritarian state.

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Me, watching Sarah Palin in 2008.

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We are watching everything crumble and burn because a small set of dipshit compsci majors with trust funds too coddled to realize they're dipshits are trying to learn things that have been in 1000s of books and are the domain knowledge of 1000s of brilliant experts.

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I guess what I hope everyone remembers is that if Mahmoud Khalil does not have free speech, none of us do. If the Venezuelan asylum seekers do not have the protections of due process and basic rights, none of us do. If the law does not bind Elon Musk, but does bind you & I, there is no rule of law.

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An analysis of the first 2 months of New York City's congestion pricing policy shows that road speeds increased and emissions decreased inside and out of the congestion zone, from Cook, Kreidieh, Vasserman, Allcott, Arora, van Sambeek, Tomkins, and Turkel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33584

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When we say we need a big tent, we need like 55-60% support. We can cut out openly white supremacists and be okay. We don't have to go on their Substacks. We can still draw *some* lines, sheesh.

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If you get a chance to see a production of the Lehman Trilogy, I highly recommend catching it. An interesting, well executed frame up of the evolution of the American economy through this singular firm.

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I've been thinking about my Trump voting family with children with disabilities a lot lately. Mostly with some sadness about just how polluted our information streams are that they've become victims of their own obstinate ignorance.

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The easy answer is that the endowments are mostly restricted for special purposes and, in a somewhat imperfect way, actually provide a proxy measure of the extent to which a university has given up independence for money. You can fill in the blank for how that correlates w propensity for resistance.

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This is all being done by a bunch of ghouls under cover of a senile old man who barely knows what's going on. They hope 2024 was the last election because the accountability for just this first two months alone if it's not should probably land them in prison.

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Given how large the gap is between what people think Elon has done/should be credited for and what he's actually done/should be credited with, they actually basically are equivalent myths, tbh.

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I don't remember the campaign to treat Elon Musk - unconfirmed by the Senate in whatever his role is - as a shadow president.l being put before voters. Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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What's happening at the Department of Education - and again, you can't just close an agency by executive order so we need to challenge this before accepting it - is a reminder of how severely allowing oligarchs into government breaks incentives.

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Probably wise. I think every business in North Country - among the few Republican held districts in NY and incredibly dependent on Canadian tourism and trade - should be receiving outreach from Dems to identify moderate Dem candidates they'd support to pushback on Trump's actions.

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There are some happy features when large profits align with defense of legal principles. One fairly large unhappy feature is it makes rationalizing cooperating with authoritarian leaders as "trying to live to fight another day" much easier when there just also happens to be lots of money on the line

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There's a vibe among right-wing power grabs globally of using the dumbest rhetoric to cover looting their national government or doing illegal power grabs and being perpetually surprised that they haven't triggered violent backlash yet. A dawning "wait, I can get away with *this* too?!"

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I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

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Scientific progress ended the need to have enough kids to ensure that *some* will survive the developmental vulnerabilities of childhood. Ideological zealotry is bringing it back. All so that some hedge fund managers and a South African Nazi can get a tax break they don't really need.

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I was talking with a friend who was describing facial recognition technology advancements in recent years and it's probably the scariest technological advancement to have available as fascism 2.0 rises to control the deployment of it for political suppression of dissent. Underrated imo.

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The @dkthomp.bsky.social appearance on @billsimmons.bsky.social thought on a second basketball league is good, but a slight mod to kill many birds with one stone: a relegation league under the NBA system.

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My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

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Update: After contacting my state rep and my rep contacting the utility company, they suddenly got very responsive, checked their maps, realized a mistake, and approved the project. Just for future reference if anyone else hits this kind of vague objection that you need to challenge and push on it.

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My rec league soccer team is the only place in my life now that I am regularly around normies and it's just wild to be in the midst of a collapse of the Constitutional order and global realignment while realizing the share of the public that's just completely oblivious to it all.

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And Alito and Thomas are already lining up to sign off on it.

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I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too. www.aaup.org/membership/d...

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Elise Stefanik's and Nick Langworthy's districts in New York will be economically devastated by this and I hope the Democrats in those districts are making clear exactly why tourist dollars have vanished.

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Musk better hope this isn't upheld.

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