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PhD student | GMU | Economic History | 🏳️🌈
🧵 What caused the 1837–38 rebellions in Canada? Was it nationalism? Poverty? Institutions? We (
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and I) argue: it was the newspapers. And the result flips how we think about rebellions [cross-post from his Twitter/X]
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Stephen Nuñez
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We must break the supreme court
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
5 months ago
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
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Federal Reserve
5 months ago
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckGHaBLSn4
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Kate Starbird
7 months ago
Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685
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Matthew Chapman
8 months ago
This is a really fascinating article. Mississippi's "basic" reading comprehension for Black 4th-graders is 52%. In California, it's 28%. In fact, Mississippi has gone from having one of the nation's worst school systems to one of the best. Despite being one of the poorest states.
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https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choice
https://t.co/g4zk759SKE
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Can I finish this draft soon or will I just rerun R for the thousandth time?
9 months ago
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Reconstructionist
9 months ago
i think fundamentally the story of 2024 and the reaction to this admin is a bunch of people's whose entire lives are predicated on stability necessary for liberal democratic capitalism to function standing in a circle holding hands chanting "worse things aren't possible"
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Don Moynihan
10 months ago
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/justice-department-george-mason-faculty-senate-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.JW0X.u-3t7GYqkhVC&smid=url-share
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Will Stancil
10 months ago
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל
12 months ago
Don't let MAGA gaslight you into thinking any of this is popular.
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Eric Rosen
12 months ago
#BLM
OTD 1863, Harriet Tubman planned & guided an armed raid (becoming the 1st woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots & plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. The raid freed nearly 800 people.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
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And this is why Pride month *must* exist. I wish peace and justice for his family.
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12 months ago
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Raider
12 months ago
"Maybe it's time for us to be a little bit meaner. Maybe it's time for us to be a little more fierce."
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Sounds worrisome
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about 1 year ago
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And can we eat those dollars?
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about 1 year ago
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Billy Binion
about 1 year ago
This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
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Randall Munroe
about 1 year ago
PhD Timeline
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Joshua Erlich
about 1 year ago
so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.
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Daniel Feldman
about 1 year ago
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
about 1 year ago
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
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Iain Mansfield
about 1 year ago
I'd be disturbed if a court barred a politician from standing for 'offensive speech', or 'bullying', or other such subjective matters. Barring them for embezzlement though feels pretty legit.
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What should have been…
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about 1 year ago
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jamelle
about 1 year ago
i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution
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Catherine Rampell
about 1 year ago
Greg Mankiw, who has been teaching econ 101 for decades, scolds Hassett for causally interpreting an accounting identity and pretending it’s econ 101
gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevi...
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Greg Mankiw's Blog: Kevin Hassett forgets Econ 101
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevin-hassett-forgets-econ-101.html
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jamelle
over 1 year ago
these are segregationists.
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A medicine so effective that we give it out for no cost… the death of PEPFAR shows how utterly different this GOP is to the party of 20 years ago
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over 1 year ago
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jamelle
over 1 year ago
a good bit of evidence that trump represents bona fide confederate government is that he keeps tripping every wire placed by the 14th amendment
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real
I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-says-some-treasury-notes-may-not-be-real
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Catherine Rampell
over 1 year ago
Last time Trump levied similar steel tariffs, it led to an increase of~ 1,000 jobs in steel production -- but 75,000 *fewer* manufacturing jobs in downstream firms where steel or aluminum are an input into production.
econofact.org/steel-tariff...
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jamelle
over 1 year ago
vance is lying and knows he’s lying but even if he weren’t, “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” may be true in some other political system but it has never been true in the american political system
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Gregg Gonsalves
over 1 year ago
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
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Darby Saxbe
over 1 year ago
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Catherine Rampell
over 1 year ago
In case you're wondering whether Trump just adopts the position of whoever he last spoke to
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How do you cite a VoxEU CEPR post? Like a blog? Or a website? I don’t mean working papers that have PDFs but columns like this:
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Are the world’s megacities too big?
Are the world’s megacities becoming a sprawling, overfed, and uncontrollable mass that needs to be restrained for the good of society and the environment? This column suggests that policies aimed at reducing the dispersion in city sizes will hardly improve the wellbeing of the people who live there. If anything, in some developing countries, such as China, large cities may actually be too small.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/are-worlds-megacities-too-big
over 1 year ago
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Maia
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We would end fascism and solve all global conflicts if people would just read this book
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over 1 year ago
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Decided to switch to Zotero and oh my god why haven’t I been doing this the whole time
over 1 year ago
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grimm ☀️🌊🏖️
over 1 year ago
Werner Herzog: Something as organic as a cheesecake is too feeble for the American mind, to even enjoy it as a concept they must remove its reality, let you know it was conceived in industrial horrors Waitress:...Okay WH: The cheeseburger spring rolls sound like a delightful abomination. Thank you
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
over 1 year ago
Recently accepted by
#QJE
, “The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth,” by Marta Prato:
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth*
Abstract. How does inventors’ migration affect international talent allocation, knowledge diffusion, and productivity growth? To answer this question, I bu
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Anna Gifty
over 1 year ago
lol apropos nothing... TLDR: Doubling the number of H-1B visas in the US would boost both US and EU productivity by 4% over time. Having innovative people in your country is good for innovation. Who knew?
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Ah yes the inspirational story of Whiplash
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over 1 year ago
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Brent Toderian
over 1 year ago
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says
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Maia
over 1 year ago
I like most articles but especially this one
www.liberalcurrents.com/neutralizing...
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You didn’t define “in” clearly enough! The AI was obviously looking for R programming users
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over 1 year ago
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Asaf Manela
over 1 year ago
1/ Does finance benefit society? 📈📉 In a forthcoming Review of Financial Studies paper,
@mjha91.bsky.social
, Hongyi Liu, and yours truly tackle this question by leveraging large language models to measure sentiments in books spanning centuries and continents. 🧵
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Catherine Rampell
over 1 year ago
This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations
U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-decide-another-round-solar-panel-tariffs-2024-11-29/
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Excited to be presenting at SEA this weekend!
over 1 year ago
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Olivier Simard-Casanova
over 1 year ago
I have some reservations about the methodology But it’s nevertheless indisputable that at the very least, Bluesky has closed some of its gap with Threads Meta had a full year to build a platform people wanted to use Instead, it built whatever Threads has become
#SocialWeb
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John Burn-Murdoch
over 1 year ago
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
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