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Reluctant economist, statistician by trade. Cheese-eating surrender monkey. Géologue de la politique. Tweets in 🇫🇷/🇬🇧.
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Biased Statistics @biasedstats.bsky.social · Sep 4
Les économistes sont des géologues de la politique (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Livre IV)
Ils élevaient les questions matérielles, les questions d’agriculture, d’industrie, de commerce, presque à la dignité d’une religion. Dans la civilisation telle qu’elle se fait, un peu par Dieu, beaucoup par l’homme, les intérêts se combinent, s’agrègent et s’amalgament de manière à former une véritable roche dure, selon une loi dynamique patiemment étudiée par les économistes, ces géologues de la politique.
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notalawyer.bsky.social
this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position
by-cjewett.bsky.social Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.

“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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ithissaintjean.bsky.social
Ce graphique du @financialtimes.com sur les dépenses de R&D en Chine ne rend compte que de manière incomplète de la situation

Je vous rajoute deux éléments essentiels
1- la place de l'UE... que la Chine a dépassé depuis le début des années 2010
🧵⤵️
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
Five foreign policy thoughts/questions after reading the WSJ story about Russia and Witkoff. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Five Questions About American Foreign Policy
A few thoughts inspired by the WSJ exclusive regarding Steve Wtikoff
danieldrezner.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
Some older gamers feel “Generation Stranger Things” are gatecrashing a party they have no business attending. These hold-outs – who often self-identify as “grognards” (“grumblers” in French) – accuse D&D of disparaging veteran gamers. “Feels like everything is focus-grouped into an inclusive oblivion. Races and classes in a fantasy, make-believe, role-playing game are gradually being reduced to aesthetics,” wrote one gamer. I wouldn’t call the design trend “woke” because that’s not a good way to describe anything. Now what I would say is that some of it is borderline queerness as a fashion statement. The actual bad thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of it is just so creatively bland. Feels like everything is focus-grouped into an inclusive oblivion. Races and classes in a fantasy, make-believe, role playing game are gradually being reduced to aesthetics. At a certain point people should accept they don’t want to play a game and just want to make campfire stories with friends. The de-monsterification of things like goblins and orcs is also a travesty. Not everything has to be a morally grey soup. Some things can just be inherently evil, and that’s okay.
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
À lire
« J’ai l’impression d’être bloquée avec cette émotion » : quand la colère intime devient sociale
La colère s’invite partout : dans l’espace public, dans les médias, dans les urnes. La majorité des Français de moins de 35 ans déclarent en éprouver. De sentiment intime à cri collectif, chacun cherc...
www.lemonde.fr
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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emile-chabal.bsky.social
This is so problematic. Creating big-money grants (7m EUR!) is such a travesty. Instead of funding 1 researcher, why not fund 25 with smaller grants? It would create more ideas, secure more careers, and create so much more innovative knowledge. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
Oil. It’s all about oil. Oil oil oil.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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andreloez.bsky.social
Venez pour la discussion de fond sur militaires et politique, restez pour la révélation du grave motif médical qui m’a fait réformer par l’armée en 1995 🫡😷
alexjubelin.bsky.social Alexandre Jubelin @alexjubelin.bsky.social · 2d
Puisqu'on se remet (vraisemblablement) au service militaire, c'est l'occasion au passage de se rappeler un peu la manière dont c'était perçu et reçu par la population française en général (et la gauche en particulier) dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle.
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
Un résumé de l’affaire Libye-Sarkozy que vous ne verrez jamais sur CNews, par la fille d’une des victimes de l’attentat du DC-10.

www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
« Ce n’est pas que nous qui sommes moqués, c’est le peuple français, énonce d’une traite Yohanna Brette. L’histoire est celle d’un ministre qui a voulu chercher de l’argent auprès d’un Etat terroriste en faisant des promesses, dont celle de réétudier la situation pénale d’un homme à l’origine du plus gros attentat contre la France. » Active au sein de l’Association française des victimes du terrorisme, Yohanna Brette s’attache, avec d’autres, à « transmettre la vérité des faits ». Le procès Sarkozy lui a coûté une dent à force de serrer les mâchoires d’anxiété, mais, depuis, elle affirme sereinement : « Nous sommes là où il faut être. »
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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obrother.bsky.social
Attention tout le monde on est en semaine impaire donc maintenant les juges sont trop sévères, avant de redevenir trop laxistes à partir de lundi prochain.

Bonne semaine à tous.

#Bygmalion #Sarkozy
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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fabricelenglart.bsky.social
Cette année @insee.fr a mis l'accent dans son ouvrage "France portrait social" sur les hauts revenus et les hauts patrimoine. Le DESF en charge de la stat publique sur fiscalité dresse un portrait des 0,1% des foyers fiscaux les + aisés (40k foyers). (1/5)
insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Important thread
bridgetbrink.com Bridget Brink @bridgetbrink.com · 9d
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.

Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
biasedstats.bsky.social
Je remets ça là.
biasedstats.bsky.social Biased Statistics @biasedstats.bsky.social · Oct 23
Pour beaucoup de français, il est difficile d’accepter avoir été gouverné 5 ans par deux individus prêts à conspirer avec des puissances étrangères pour accroître leur pouvoir et leur richesse.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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ithissaintjean.bsky.social
@insee.fr vient donc de sortir son édition 2025 du "🇫🇷, portrait social"
Avec notamment des données sur les très hauts revenus et très hauts patrimoines

Et ce graphique :
-l'augmentation entre 2003 et 2022 des très hauts revenus 118%
-celle du premier quart de la population 23%

Sans commentaire
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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aaronhuertas.bsky.social
An unstated issue here is that donors read the NYT so Klein’s advice is privileged above 99% of operatives who actually work for elected officials and political organizations.

www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...
How Ezra Klein's power play is guiding Democrats
The New York Times columnist, podcaster and author has helped shape the party's strategies and policies in President Trump's second term.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
“White House Say HuffPost Journalist’s Mom Chose Trump-Putin Meeting Location” would have been a fine headline for a properly sourced article.
adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 13d
Any journalist who has reached out to the federal government for a statement this year can attest to the unhinged responses they always get. I picked a couple of examples www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
When HuffPost journalist S.V. Dáte reached out to the White House to ask who had picked Budapest for the location of the president’s recent meeting with Putin, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied “your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also responded with “your mom.” Leavitt further elaborated: It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bullshit questions.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
I am not surprised that the first MAGA types to break from Trump are lunatics with principles and not “traditional-value” conservatives, why are you?
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
Yes and the same thing happens on the left when it clusters on just one platform. Not saying we should go back to X but important to keep in mind.

When everyone was on the same platform, the left was more united and dominated the discourse.

With clustering, each camp eats itself.
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14d
morbidly sociologically curious about whether there's a relationship between this and the clustering of right wingers on Truth Social + exodus of libs and the left from Twitter, etc
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14d
“.. It's still overwhelmingly pro-Trump — but less relevant .. These days, MAGA can spend more time eating its own than feasting on liberals or establishment Republicans.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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felipedlh.bsky.social
This is a very vague and consequently stupid headline, and the copy is a little too coy for the subject matter, but guys, this is an article mainly about how Epstein was able to manipulate his media connections and Manhattan power broker buds to maintain his public image. It’s not a eulogy
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
“Do you really think she has an organic interest in the intricacies of Venezuelan oil leases? Give me a fucking break. Someone’s paying her.”

“She’s a P.R. firm that the press likes to write about as if she’s the maga vanguard, like she’s there to police the movement. It’s horseshit.”
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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emilyctamkin.bsky.social
A must read by @winterjessica.bsky.social. Impeccable.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
By their own definition of victory, the democrats have lost.

They chose to make the shutdown about the extension of ACA subsidies. They did not get it. They could have chosen to make it about something else. This deal shows either lack of foresight or follow-through.
Opinion | Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
biasedstats.bsky.social
Critics-say-ism
Here’s the pitch: Mr. Mamdani graduated in 2014 from Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, with a bachelor’s degree in Africana studies. And his experience there—readings of critical race theorists in the classroom and activism for left-wing causes on campus—is emblematic of the highly charged debate over what is taught in American universities. Critics say the growth of these programs, which aim to teach about historical events from the perspective of marginalized and oppressed groups, has turned colleges into feckless workshops for leftist political orthodoxy. “Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling. In contexts not concerning the elite private colleges of New England and their decades-old conflicts and syllabi and on-campus squabbles, this mode of prestige media procedure matters absolutely and enormously, at scales difficult to tabulate. It’s not hard to call them all to mind: “Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…” Every bit of this is disheartening on its face. But it’s actually worse than any first-blush irritation, that familiar annoyance that comes from encountering still another textbook exercise in witless triangulation. Because what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf—“Can Woman Think?: We Investigate,” “Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration”—that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times. And then some. (Only yesterday the Times ran this actual story, which is not parody.)
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM