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Aaron Sojourner
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Labor econ @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & @IZA.org. Formerly senior economist for labor at White House CEA, UMinn prof, union organizer, bike courier, house painter, dishwasher... Minneapolis. Views mine.

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Aaron Sojourner is an American economist and senior researcher at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He was formerly an associate professor of economics at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. His work has been widely covered by the media, particularly on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market in the United States. .. more

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 11
For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers, a Quick Start guide to plugging into the economics community here.

It aims to lower the costs & boost the benefits for folks to engage here.

If it seems useful, please share it here & especially on X.
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For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers - Aaron Sojourner
This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h
Oh, thanks. That's good.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h
If access to computing and internet had no effects, it makes me skeptical AI will have positive effects.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9h
#econ_ra
climatefran.bsky.social ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 22d
🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨
Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation
Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location
Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346
Postdoctoral Scholar - Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10h
#econ_ra
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Research Assistant or Senior Research Assistant, The Hamilton Project in Washington, Washington, DC | Careers at 1. Resident Employee (Hybrid)
Join one of the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tanks!   The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11h
No room for this guy in Sec Hegseth's army. War fighters & facial hair together?!
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sodrock.bsky.social Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h
As usual, Phil Sheridan was in the thick of it. At the base of the ridge, he lifted a whiskey flask to toast the rebs watching from above. “Heres to you” he yelled. A cannonball landed nearby spraying him with dirt and debris. “That’s damn ungenerous,” he cried “I shall take those guns for that” (12

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11h
Sec Hesgeth would nail this soldier for having facial hair.
sodrock.bsky.social Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13h
U.S. Grant, after his brilliant campaign in Mississippi in summer 1863 was ordered by the war department to take charge. He restored supplies via the “Cracker Line,” pulled in reinforcements, and planned a three-pronged assault to crack Braggs overstretched army off the heights around the city (3

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11h
Telling people not to break the law MAY now be against the law. FBI's investigating it.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11h
#priorities
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h
Exclusive: FEMA and Illinois officials pulled dozens of personnel back from surveying flood-damaged neighborhoods in Chicago because immigration agents were conducting patrols nearby, messages show.
With ICE in the area, FEMA workers were pulled from storm damage work
The decision to halt disaster assessment work came amid the immigration crackdown in Chicago. Officials worried FEMA’s efforts could put residents and surveyors at risk.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h
This is cool

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11h
This is wild!

Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h
As usual, Phil Sheridan was in the thick of it. At the base of the ridge, he lifted a whiskey flask to toast the rebs watching from above. “Heres to you” he yelled. A cannonball landed nearby spraying him with dirt and debris. “That’s damn ungenerous,” he cried “I shall take those guns for that” (12

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13h
U.S. Grant, after his brilliant campaign in Mississippi in summer 1863 was ordered by the war department to take charge. He restored supplies via the “Cracker Line,” pulled in reinforcements, and planned a three-pronged assault to crack Braggs overstretched army off the heights around the city (3

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p.a.lapid, phd 🦃🍂🍁🫡 @palapid.bsky.social · 13h
“In addition, we can see that departures are rising fastest among women and more experienced workers, which risks eroding institutional knowledge and capacity.” -Jesse Wheeler, Revelio Labs

cc: #CFPB Union, @nteu335.bsky.social; @nteunational.bsky.social

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NBER @nber.org · 14h
Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h
Exclusive: FEMA and Illinois officials pulled dozens of personnel back from surveying flood-damaged neighborhoods in Chicago because immigration agents were conducting patrols nearby, messages show.
With ICE in the area, FEMA workers were pulled from storm damage work
The decision to halt disaster assessment work came amid the immigration crackdown in Chicago. Officials worried FEMA’s efforts could put residents and surveyors at risk.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15h
@atlantafed.org GDPNow predicting fast real GDP growth, 4.0% annualized rate, in 2025Q3.
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15h
Federal recruitment has surged for law enforcement officers who aim against individuals, primarily at DHS & CBP

Recruiting to enforce laws against companies down: "steepest declines in sustainability, environmental conservation, & oversight..." and CFPB
www.reveliolabs.com/news/macro/t...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16h
Loved ones give you what you need & have needs of their own that call out for your care.

GenAI gives you precisely what you want & makes no demands on you. Addictive and hollow.
kashhill.bsky.social Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17h
@josephpolitano.bsky.social lives this truth re tariffs.
charlesgaba.com Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d
(sigh) annnnnnnd before I even published my piece (which took several hours to put together)...it looks like Trump's proposal may be moot anyway.

Which is par for the course for healthcare analysis in the Age of Trump.

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18h
Trying to speedrun authoritarian consolidation...
jlray.bsky.social JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 18h
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 8.4k) -- Not great. Almost half of Republicans think the military should follow illegal orders if they come from the President

today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 18h
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 8.4k) -- Not great. Almost half of Republicans think the military should follow illegal orders if they come from the President

today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

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Gregory Daco @gregdaco.bsky.social · 18h
US PPI #inflation steady (Sep) as higher gas & #tariffs pressure offset by margin squeeze

✅Headline #PPI +0.3%
📈Core +0.1%

🟠Gds +0.9%
🍳Food 1.1%
⛽️Energy 3.5%
📊Core 0.2%

✅Services +0%
🚚Transport 0.8%
⚖️Trade (margins) -0.2%

📈Inflation
🔶PPI: 2.7%
🔶Core: 2.9%

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19h
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More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up
Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Jon Schleuss @jschleuss.com · 20h
And Andrew Goldstein, our local president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, smiling while he gave a speech before our strikers walked back in. “Our job is to seek truth, to hold power to account. Our job is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted."
Andrew Goldstein, our local president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, smiling while he gave a speech before they walked back in. “Our job is to seek truth, to hold power to account. Our job is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted."

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 20h
"The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Anti-socialism update:

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 20h
Are you on the academic job market with a paper about crime or criminal justice policy? Please send me your JMP! [email protected]

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20h
Listing the Jews rarely ends well for the Jews.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20h
Deceleration is negative 2nd derivative & positive 1st.

If it's really deceleration of the 2nd derivative, that's a statement about the 4th<0 and 3rd>0.

I bet it's just an overwrought was to say deceleration of investment.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 21h
Penn’s Refusal to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
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Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com