Came across this piece from 2019 (thx to Bluesky) a few days ago and now I can't unsee it and can't wait to assign it to my Human Rights class

Texas v California, no contest for some of the same fundamental reasons gwagner.com/texas-solar

Landscape, by Joan Miró, 1968, 📸 by @EricEvansPhoto

An explanation not considered here is that Stephen Miran's tariff paper proposes "a user fee on foreign reserve holders’ USTs" which would take a unilateral cut of "remittances of interest or principal" www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly. bsky.app/profile/peng...

Does the "tariffs are a one-off shock to the price level that should not change expectations" theory fail, or is it validated, if households rationally expect an increasing flow of more and bigger tariffs

I’m like a sommelier—I can tell you where a wine came from, how it feels to experience it slowly, how aging has given it its distinctive balance, how it changes when you pair it with different foods—except instead wine it’s insomnia

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Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

Something I've now had the MAGA people in my family bring up more than once without prompting is the idea that Alberta is going to leave Canada *and* become a US state. A quick search suggests seems to be a meme in conservative media/fora, where generic Danielle Smith videos get labeled "pro-US."

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

The 2025 academic econ job market is trending better than the first COVID market year but worse than the rest of 2019-present www.davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/

my most seinfeld-like behavior is that when i schedule-send an email i will schedule it for like 10:34am instead of 10am so it doesn't look like i scheduled it

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

What will Europe do to absorb the talent that's pushed out of the U.S.?

vote choice among indian american citizens in 2024. these folks are not MAGA / trump fans

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I can tell this site needs more sports knowers because everyone's been yelling about canceling Disney+ and Hulu all day and I literally haven't seen anyone yelling about canceling the new ESPN app, which was just rolled out and the success of which is existential for ESPN.

State capacity watch: second consecutive semester for the Census data API to go down on the day I teach students to fetch data from an API using it as the teaching example

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

But the Bob Jones Court agreed racially-segregated schools are not charitable, pointing to 25 years of agreement by all 3 federal branches of government on that question. This longstanding and broad social agreement, not IRS whim, is what defines “fundamental” public policy, the Court said. 6/13

A impressive team of nonprofit law experts (+me), have banded together to comment on the new proposed rules from the Education Dept. on public service loan forgiveness. The rule purports to give ED authority to strip PSLF eligibility from any employer that acts with an "illegal purpose." 🧵 1/13

15 years of service pin. Keep your heads up, my fellow feds. It is honorable work we do.