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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 21h

The GOP didn’t think through the implications of deciding the president can just not spend whatever he doesn’t want to. Not only is a budget deal under these circumstances inadvisable, it is logically impossible.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | What the Shutdown Is Really About

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 1d

NEW -

Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://cup.org/3JaiZYj

"priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent party"

- Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the influence of high inflation on recent elections, voting behavior, and potential impacts on different political parties in the United States.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 1d

Huh never heard of that. Interesting.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

It is just staggering the amounts of chutzpah & utter disdain for your/my/our intelligence as citizens that these 9 Wizards In Robes have. They think we’re idiots & beneath their honesty & explanation, as they dismantle the rule of law & the Republic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 1d

Could be true that firing James Franklin is the right call and that Penn State is also very unlikely to hire someone as good as
James Franklin.

What I don’t get is why Franklin was incapable of seeing the problem -getting too conservative on O in big games - and correcting it.

Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re concerned about people not coming to class there is a very easy fix - take attendance and count it as part of the grade!

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

This is 100% correct. The strike out or homer approach to baseball is so damn boring (and ineffective in the post season).

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUSj4Cc/

A former MLB hitting coach watched last night’s game and was horrified. I have to say, I kind of agree. #mlb #mariners #tigers #davemagadan

TikTok video by Jeff Pearlman

www.tiktok.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

True but I don’t think in this case it’s possible

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

A werid think about the Trump regime is they always think they have leverage even when they very clearly don’t.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest story you should read today is that dozens of federal judges are willing to talk about how alarmed they are by SCOTUS’ willingness to step in on an emergency basis and allow the Trump Administration to do things that seem illegal. Their candor is unprecedented.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 3d

Why doesn’t one of these tech billionaires who hates the best university system in the world just start their own university?🤔

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 5d

An irony of GOP/MAGA's attacks on university sector is that, structurally, it's as close to a "free market" as you'll find in US.

There are 1000s of universities, mostly operating independently.

Unlike tech sector (or coal, oil/gas, eyeglasses, etc), market concentration is incredibly low.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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James Breckwoldt @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social · 6d

What do the public actually think about economic growth, technological change and "abundance"? I’ve done an original survey looking at just this!

There actually is an “anti-growth coalition” and “pro-growth coalition” out there, but the make up of both of these creates some very strange bedfellows…

What Do The Public Actually Think About Economic Growth, Technological Change and "Abundance"?

There's an "anti-growth coalition" and a “pro-growth coalition” out there, it’s just not necessarily the people you think it is

jamesbreckwoldt.substack.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...