Today is the 15th day after the Epstein Files Transparency Act required DOJ to file a compliance report with Congress. Discussed here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

Thank you @propublica.org for your continued reporting. Don't look away, America. #USAIDSavedLives www.propublica.org/article/keny...

This should be interesting!

I welcome the release of a number of political prisoners in Belarus, including Sakharov Prize laureates Maria Kolesnikova and Ales Bialatski, also laureate of @nobelprize.org for Peace. They have endured so much. I wish them strength as they should reunite with their families and loved ones.

This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪 The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing “There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

On this day in 1915, the Supreme Court upheld a law providing that an American woman could be stripped of citizenship upon marriage to a foreign husband. U.S. men marrying foreign women were permitted to keep their citizenship.

Next week, the court will hear the most important campaign finance case since Citizens United. Here’s what you need to know, from one of the lawyers who’s been working on the case. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda. And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.

🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad. "It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees... "Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

“The draft offshore leasing plan includes the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska and other areas important to the fishing industry. It’s part of a national proposal that includes the entire coast of California, where drilling is fiercely unpopular.” alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

For everyone traveling, a reminder to masks up and avoid spending your holidays sick. 😷✈️🦃

This is so cool (no pun intended 🫣)! A very long time series. Thanks to #NSF 💲

Incredible!

How heartening and energizing to watch this citizen speak up for the vulnerable.

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Now that I know this collection exists, I want to visit it! #econsky #history #money

Release ALL the Epstein files!! Follow the money! 🤑💰

Are we winning yet?

Woah! 📌 Need to read the full paper Police bargaining rights explain 14% of civilian deaths. (What about serious injury but not quite death?) #econsky

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Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Grotesque

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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

#epsteinfiles They'll hold back or redact out details that implicate certain key people.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

19 Nov @17:00 CET International Macro History Online Seminar #IMHOS ep. 102 🗣️ @mreiske.bsky.social presents 'The Political Costs of Debt Deflation: Agricultural Crises and the Rise of the Nazi Party' Chair: Emilie Sartre (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) ✍️ cepr.org/events/inter... #EconSky

📢 #CallForPapers - 13th CEPR Economic History Symposium 2026 Topics of interest include: #growth, institutions and #development, history of the international economy, & macro and financial history. Submit your paper by 14 December. cepr.org/events/thirt... #EconSky #EconConf

I "liked" every post in this thread. Thank you @durlauf.bsky.social for saying this all publicly. I'll admit it brought forth some emotion. 🥹 #econsky 👇🏻👇🏻

Seriously disturbing

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

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When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying. As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Deinhard Sekt bottle parade, Germany, c. 1920.

Big news! #Atlanta #Econsky

+ German unemployment is rising- now at 6.3%. Real GDP "stalled out." Trump tariffs adding to the Chinese competition problem. Worrisome situation. #econsky

Though careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) often pay well, a surprising number of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers rely on federal food aid to make ends meet. cen.acs.org/policy/SNAP-... #chemsky 🧪

#EconSky @tcddublin.bsky.social Swiss National Bank workshop econbrowser.com/archives/202...

M Aquilina, G Gelos, A Schrimpf, & S Zhu highlight two recent advances in the use of #AI tools to anticipate financial market stress. The tools can help policymakers monitor emerging risks in real time, combining quantitative forecast & qualitative insights. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

📢 #CallforPapers - Simplifying banking regulation and supervision without sacrificing safety Deadline: 9 Jan 2026 Interested parties should submit their draft papers and any queries to Martin Birn of the Basel Committee's Secretariat at Martin.Birn[at]bis[dot]org. cepr.org/events/simpl... #EconSky

And, of course, inflation and tariff costs hit low-income households hardest. So, the real (purchasing power) effect is even worse. Moreover, they are likely holding little/no equity, so missing the outsized gains in financial assets that higher-income/wealthier families are enjoying. #econsky

It was only a matter of time. This is how corrupt authoritarian regimes keep power.

Kharkiv is plunged into darkness, the hum of generators filling the air. Parts of the city are also without water or heat. Last night, russia launched multiple strikes on the city’s energy infrastructure, causing critical damage.