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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2h

Mine is free through work. I should deny them eyeballs but the wreckage is difficult to look away from

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3h

We must never forget the millionaires’ Death March

When the desperate rich fled New York City

A city rendered a socialist apocalypse

By the creation of public housing

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3h

JFC

This is the NEW YORK Times

Perhaps the reporters could look out the window & then note here that public housing has been a successful, non-calamitous fixture of their own city since 1934

Created by reknowned socialist & political naif Fiorello La Guardia

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3h

JFC

This is the NEW YORK Times

Perhaps the reporters could look out the window & then note here that public housing has been a successful, non-calamitous fixture of their own city since 1934

Created by reknowned socialist & political naif Fiorello La Guardia

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 23h

This is gross

Gordon Ramsay thinks it’s cool

the families of Bostonians murdered and/or addicted by Bulger and Flemmi do not

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/m...

‘Whitey’ Bulger poster greets patrons at Dorchester bar once owned by man he killed - The Boston Globe

The image was part of a restaurant makeover by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay featured on a television series over the summer and intended to embrace the history of the building.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4h

Who did they have up?

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4h

The two heroes this restaurant is celebrating:

“The gangsters then followed their regular post-killing routine, with Bulger going upstairs to nap, Flemmi removing Hussey's teeth and clothing, and Flemmi and Weeks burying the body in the basement”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4h

So fun! to brunch looking at this guy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4h

Cabo do Cabo

Boston nope

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 23h

This is gross

Gordon Ramsay thinks it’s cool

the families of Bostonians murdered and/or addicted by Bulger and Flemmi do not

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/m...

‘Whitey’ Bulger poster greets patrons at Dorchester bar once owned by man he killed - The Boston Globe

The image was part of a restaurant makeover by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay featured on a television series over the summer and intended to embrace the history of the building.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 1d

Mantra: you will never be younger than you are now. Do it!

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

TO THE 15TH

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

I am stomping around the house in mine. And liberally applying the balsam lotion. May dig out a hair dryer.

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

At age 60 I am finally getting serious about breaking in my Docs

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Huh I wonder if the Nobel committee was sending a message by selecting a female democracy warrior from a shit-hole country

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

This Beaver is super proud of her alma mater

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

My periodic reminder about this Harvard perfidy

Main characters: Larry Summers and Andrei Shleifer

web.archive.org/web/20160827...

How Harvard lost Russia

The best and brightest of America's premier university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to scandal and disgrace.

web.archive.org

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 5d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

My periodic reminder about this Harvard perfidy

Main characters: Larry Summers and Andrei Shleifer

web.archive.org/web/20160827...

How Harvard lost Russia

The best and brightest of America's premier university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to scandal and disgrace.

web.archive.org

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3d

My sister's a (now retired) high school teacher

When I told her my teaching schedule her jaw dropped to the floor

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