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Economist at
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https://www.epi.org/people/ben-zipperer/
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ryan cooper
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issuing a correction on my previous post describing Vichy Twitter as "the Nazi App," it is now also "the Nazi And CSAM App"
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🙏 Virginia 2026 🙏
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fun tool that pulls random wikidata facts about your location
www.kmjn.org/local-traces/
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how it started, how it's going
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Andrew Lawrence
2 days ago
the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored
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This is false. Deportations reduce housing demand, but they shrink housing supply even more as the construction sector loses workers. Trump's deportations will make housing less affordable.
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outrageously delicious Taiwanese spread from Hunan Garden in Johns Creek, GA
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ᒍᗩᗴ 🇿🇦 ᖇOK
9 days ago
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
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Cédric Scherer
10 days ago
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas
to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz
#ggplot2
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Arin Dube
9 days ago
Important work using U.S. tax data shows businesses have absorbed minimum wage increases without affecting employment, and through higher revenue-likely reflecting price & productivity offsets. Also shows how reallocation towards more productive firms offers another margin of adjustment.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
9 days ago
I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.
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‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it
People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/migrants-self-deportation-trump-immigration
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
10 days ago
Solar power made up 9.1% of US electricity this October, up from 7.8% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!
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Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.
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Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.
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Adam Serwer
11 days ago
The vandalism continues
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
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White House pushes Smithsonian to comply with review to receive federal funding | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s un...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/politics/white-house-smithsonian-review
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BREAKING: Bari Weiss invites the producers of '60 Minutes' to a town hall debate
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McSweeney's
19 days ago
MARY: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”
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Bruce Springsteen’s Exes Grab Brunch
Several women share bottomless mimosas somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. MARY 1: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hat...
https://buff.ly/2zeq6Ga
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For more on why wages have been suppressed for so many workers and how to fix that, you should buy
@arindube.bsky.social
's new book
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Labor market was so awful in the 1980s that real wages fell for the bottom fifth of workers and didn't bounce back for over a decade
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Death #30 at ICE detention centers this year: a trucking company owner with diabetes who lived in the US for 30 years
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Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
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Incredible story: Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine at WSJ's offices.
@klong.bsky.social
convinced it that it was actually in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and should give away free snacks to fight capitalism. And that's just the beginning...
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34
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The simple economics is that housing becomes more expensive because deportations cause fewer homes to be built. The contraction of the construction industry dominates offsets from lower demand, so prices rise
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Trump's deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
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checking in with how deportations have helped US-born workers...
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Black unemployment in November was at a four year high due to federal government cuts and falling private sector labor demand
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Andrew Heiss
18 days ago
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Education Week
18 days ago
Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers: Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.
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Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers
Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/utah-repeals-ban-on-collective-bargaining-for-teachers-and-other-workers/2025/12?utm_source=bs&utm_medium=soc&utm_campaign=edit
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Economic Policy Institute
19 days ago
Trump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers. Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from
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@domesticworkers.bsky.social
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Trump’s deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs: Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
If the Trump administration follows through on its goal of deporting 4 million people over four years, the direct care industry would lose close to 400,000 jobs—affecting 274,000 immigrant and 120,000...
https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-deportation-plans-threaten-400000-direct-care-jobs-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities-could-lose-vital-in-home-support/
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Destroying jobs, terrorizing communities. Funded by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to fill an unaccountable slush fund for secret police
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Luke Kawa
19 days ago
Read
@jonkeegan.com
on Hyperion: Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B” Equal to: -33 new high schools -public teacher salaries for > 1Y -more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT
19 days ago
BofA: AI adoption rates by corporate customers are slowing
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Destroying jobs, terrorizing communities. Funded by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to fill an unaccountable slush fund for secret police
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Aaron Sojourner
20 days ago
We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.
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Jonathan Ladd
20 days ago
Eric Foner, in Second Founding (2019), notes that the only exclusions discussed in the congressional debates on the 14th Amendment citizenship language were newborns in independent Indian nations and those of foreign diplomats, exactly consistent with the traditional understanding of the Amendment
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Kevin Snyder
22 days ago
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
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Erika McEntarfer
22 days ago
A nice thread from Guy on JP's comments yesterday on NFP growth being overstated. To which I will add a caveat - the birth/death model is not the principal driver of the wedge between CES and QCEW these last two years. (Warning, statistical esoterica ahead) 🧵1/9
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Increased ICE arrests are shrinking the child care workforce, forcing mothers (including US-born mothers) to leave jobs to provide care themselves
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The Impact of Increased ICE Activity on the Child Care Workforce and Mothers’ Employment
The surge in ICE arrests erodes the child care workforce and pulls mothers of young children out of the labor market.
https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/reports/impact-of-increased-ice-activity/
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Arin Dube
23 days ago
Between 1979–2019, top pay (90th pct.) climbed 53%, middle only 23%, bottom (10th pct.) even lower 7%. (Productivity per hour climbed much more at 73%.) But since 2019, fast gains at the bottom have already reversed about 1/3 of the rise in pay inequality. A 🧵 about my book: The Wage Standard.
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Alessandro Rigolon
23 days ago
These are similar words to those I was asked to removed from a US DOT grant. Guess what? They terminated the grant anyway
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Saloni
24 days ago
Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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Chloe N East (she/her)
23 days ago
New
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report, that I co-authored, on how ICE arrests have changed nationally, and especially in New York State, since Trump took office.
www.nyic.org/wp-content/u...
gothamist.com/news/latinos...
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Daniel Zhao
23 days ago
Missed this at the time but the Sep jobs report announced changes to the net birth-death model effective with the Jan 2026 report release that seems promising. Should improve the accuracy of the model and hopefully reduce size of benchmark revisions Q9:
www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbdqa.htm
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Taniel
24 days ago
BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight. Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall. This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
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great advice for coding with LLMs: stop and start over with a fresh session. give it a concrete problem. if it goes off the rails, stop and start over. do not have an extended chat. if it does what you want, great! stop and start over with the next task.
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
Indeed, while we do not yet have a full accounting of the labor market costs of Trump's deportation policies, we can say they are not delivering the promised benefits to native-born Americans—their employment rates are down & their unemployment rates are up over the last year.
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Erika McEntarfer
24 days ago
A nice piece on algorithmic pricing worth your time. A question I got frequently when I led BLS was why the agency went into stores and didn’t just collect prices online. My answer, “prices online are often different than in the store, so we do both” often surprised people.
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Danielle Kurtzleben
25 days ago
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
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