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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you, I'll check these out

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 19h

Tweaking a request I have made before: do you have a paper that is (1) published, where (2) you preregistered the analysis including a power calculation, **and** (3) the preanalysis plan is posted *publicly* where anybody can look at it?

Finding that for many teaching examples, PAPs are nonpublic

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 7d

Every day I find a new way of trying to get across just how ridiculously fake the problem of AI water use is

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 6d

Planet Money just posted a video about FILTERING (the “more luxury housing = more affordable homes” paradox)

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Including 1{Clark Kent nearby} as a regressor

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 2d

That and maybe hoping to dump overpriced assets on retail while the markets are frothing

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 2d

That was my assumption. They don’t want a self-selected group, they want institutions people have heard of.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 3d

great story, this chart RULES

Charts showing average battery pack cost in 2024 $/kWh and battery storage capacity additions globally in GW

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 4d

The push by private equity and private credit firms to get their product into retirement accounts is so laughable. There is already a way to tap into the capital in 401ks — take your companies public!

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Wall Street Is Pushing Private Assets Into 401(k)s. We Asked Whether Anyone Wants Them.

Survey by Harris Poll on behalf of WSJ finds that only 10% of respondents are dissatisfied with their 401(k) investment offerings; yet many Americans are persuadable.

www.wsj.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 4d

I like the idea of the global science system not moving to one research hegemony but a collection of small credible countries like Switzerland and Australia

We can't replace the NIH, but we can recreate it in the aggregate

a man wearing a watch is sitting at a table with other men

ALT: a man wearing a watch is sitting at a table with other men

media.tenor.com

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 4d

The data is from April but holy moly

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 4d

Here lies my productivity

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

Astonishing how many of you "montreal bagel" people think you could even get on the ballot to begin with

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 5d

Now somebody needs to invent a mechanism where real estate developers can pay LA Metro to run a rapid bus past the parcels where they want to put lots of housing

Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 5d

Woah, SB79 is law

cayimby.org/news-events/...

Governor Newsom Signs Historic Housing Legislation. SB 79 Culminates Eight-Year Fight to Legalize Homes Near Transit.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 79, a bill that will make it legal to build more homes near the highest capacity transit stops across California.

cayimby.org

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 6d

I for one am looking forward to the first development RCTs that test for effective strategies for increasing literacy, preventing deadly childhood disease, etc. in the USA

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 6d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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