Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say — and threatened his employer until they shut him up. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE

This is a really important paper. American infrastructure is expensive because we outsourced the capacity design (or perhaps even bid) effectively.

Kirk paid to bus people to J6, man. He was not invested in a peaceful path to winning democracy through debate, he was happy to have the appearance of playing within the rules of constitutional liberalism while actively working to overthrow it. www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

“If Spokane, Bremerton, Bothell and Shoreline can eliminate parking mandates citywide, Seattle should be no sweat. After all, Seattle leads the region in ditching cars and forming carfree households.”

The oldest trick in the climate delay playbook: 1. Rule out all other measures as unnecessary and counterproductive because we will introduce CO2 pricing 2. Then rule out CO2 pricing because it would make things unaffordable 3. Checkmate

He died as he lived, discounting the costs of America's gun fetish.

These vehicles are absurd. Most tradesmen need either a full bed and/or an enclosed bed. This is just for men that are trying to compensate for some perceived inadequacies. We moved to Europe in part to escape these things gunning up our streets and they're far, far, deadlier than a conventional car

Perhaps I'm still scarred by a grad school summer in a light shaft-only apartment in Philly, but I wonder if some of this is just an arms race. My A/C (especially window or wall mounted mini-splits) dump hot air onto my neighbors, forcing them to get an A/C unit to off set it.

The Netherlands is curtailing english instruction to deter foreign students. One challenge, many texts books that the faculty use aren't available in dutch.

Sabotage.

I guess tourism is something to be discouraged. www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

N: Oslo, E: Tokyo, S: Capetown, W: Oahu.

Do you remember when violating US and international law was something we'd try to keep on the DL? youtu.be/sWwN-yDCjOM?... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

1/3 of BLS leadership positions are currently vacant. Field offices around the country are closing due to staff shortages. They fired the advisory council that was assessing how to increase survey response rates. These are not actions you take if you actually want to improve the data.

Badgers can't talk, so thank goodness they have the National Highways PR department to help communicate their appreciation.

When you train an AI on people's personal emails, it learns how people actually respond to serious set backs: www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-...

Invstr: What's Bitcoin's innate value proposition? BitBro: It offers a trustless means of payment. Invstr: Cool. I'll buy some of your shares on the exchange. I trust you to buy and hold Bitcoin for me.

I'm boning up on EU rural development programs and I'm happy to report that Commission acronym production has increased by 16%!!

Because god forbid people who can't afford million-dollar houses be allowed to live in relatively wealthy North End neighborhoods (almost all actually wealthy areas are already excluded from new density, protecting them from Seattle's renter majority in perpetuity)

TBF it does say "DRIVE THRU."

“On June 15, 1992, [Dan] Quayle altered 12-year-old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at the Muñoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the subject of widespread ridicule for his error.” — @wikipedia.org

We know Trump lies all the time, but it feels important that reporters covering his politicization of employment data make sure to point out that even his stated reasons are bullshit!

My undergrad game theory teacher, John Kwoka, taught me the best way to cross the street was with a bag over your head, because you've credible committed to not getting out of the cars way.

We are very far over the cliff here folks

petering out...

"risk factors" language "highly associated" with non-causal methods.

Good to see Glaeser and Gyourko pay attention to issues with the LTDB. A lot of people treat the LTDB as if it provided census counts, but it only provides estimates. Critically, the errors in the LTDB correlate with changes in density, which can easily introduce bias. www.nber.org/system/files...

What an achievement!

New nightmare fuel unlocked.

Can't the vendor say pedophilia is against his religion and rely on the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision?

I'm racking my brain for a better term.

What does this say about the trajectory and state of his memory and cognitive skills? bsky.app/profile/acyn...

always look at the bright side of life 🎵

I guess the world is fleeing treasuries, but were financial flows to remain stable, the new FDI from Japan would force our trade deficit with Japan up. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

How many people have been killed in that 11 x 9 lane intersection?

What's with inverse pigovian taxes?

Fuck around: www.inc.com/kit-eaton/wh...

An act in two parts: www.cspinet.org/statement/rf...

This is a hell of a thing to read.

This gives me so much hope. I hope they can pull it off. My Country Is Showing America What’s Possible www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

I wonder if he also fell asleep on the tanning bed?

it's hard to keep track of all of the corruption in this administration. This is a handy list: Trump’s Biggest Beneficiary: Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

When you sell existing correlations as program evaluation.

More incredible housing policy from ... Montana.

If you kidnap and disappear a 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars. If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.

That's how you do it, folks

Leader of the free lunch.

A date that will live in infamy

I suspect this is true, but I wonder if there's a success bias. Are people that work a series of menials soul crushing jobs getting asked for life advice?