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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 8h

Every single paragraph in this article is shocking. I had been quite pessimistic all along, but could not have imagined the speed and depth of the collapse.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 9h

That one is fantastic. “Curtindo A Vida Adoidado” (Enjoying Life Like Crazy, loose translation) captures the spirit much better than “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, if you ask me, as does “Buckle Your Seatbelts… The Pilot is Gone!” for “Airplane!”…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 11h

The “translators” of movie titles in Brazil up until the 1980s were the absolute best…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 11h

RIP Diane Keaton. Not only is Annie Hall one of the great movies ever, the fact that in Brazil it was given the title “Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride” somehow makes it even greater…

Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 11h

Morre a atriz Diane Keaton aos 79 anos

Morre a atriz Diane Keaton, vencedora do Oscar e musa de Woody Allen, aos 79 anos

Estrela de 'Noivo Neurótico, Noiva Nervosa' despontou na Broadway

www1.folha.uol.com.br

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12h

Playing in those lame-ass UEFA qualifiers, Erling Haaland will have 200+ international goals when he’s done.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12h

Same here…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 13h

Decisão acertada do Palmeiras poupar o Ramon Abatti Abel hoje, depois de uma sequência desgastante de jogos. Um cara fundamental como ele tem que ser preservado pros jogos mais difíceis daqui em diante.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18h

In foreign policy, it means that he can get all sorts of short-term deals, bc everyone else knows he exerts unconstrained power in the US and can do whatever he wants. In domestic policy, that means trying to crush his opponents. It’s one and the same.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18h

This only seems puzzling if you fail to see that there is an overarching principle: Trump governs like an autocrat, at home and abroad.

Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

www.nytimes.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds eerily familiar…

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 1d

Kim Jong-un celebra los 80 años del partido único de Corea del Norte: “No ha habido ningún error” social.elpais.com/dha2n7

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

I really think this is a potential game changer in economics. And it won’t be the last one, nor will it be only economics.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

From some of the reactions, I was right to assume it would be hard for people to appreciate the significance. This is not an “of course, two Nobel laureates” case. They’re huge field builders, Esther being still quite young. The kind of people who will attract many others, including young scholars.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not just that it signals: it affects others, and thus helps bring about that reconfiguration…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

And even if I didn’t know that for a fact, the inference would have been obvious. Esther and Abhijit have been recruited by everyone since forever, it’s not as if an opportunity like this just emerged and happened to be in Europe…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump effect is a huge part of it, I can tell you that, not as speculation but as fact.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

And good on UZH, other countries need to step up as the US retreats from supporting research…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 2d

All the terrible stuff we were worried about that mostly didn't happen in Trump's first term is ... actually happening

www.slowboring.com/p/the-author...

The authoritarian menace has arrived

And so has the backlash — but the resistance needs to be smarter

www.slowboring.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 3d

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 3d

I still have to update my website & whatnot to do a fancy post, but in the meantime...

I'm going to be on the econ job market this year so if you know of cool openings in applied micro / development / environmental econ, please send them my way!

#EconSky

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

Super happy for the awesome @hahrie.bsky.social and her MacArthur fellowship -- couldn't go to a more deserving scholar and person... www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Hahrie Han

Analyzing the organizations and movements that equip people to participate in public life and solve problems together.

www.macfound.org

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

It actually blew my mind when I moved to the US and realized that here you would rent an apartment and it comes with fridge, stove, etc.. Had lived my entire life in Brazil as a renter, and it was unimaginable that landlords would provide you with any of that...

David Wagner @dwagner.bsky.social · Mar 31

Many apartments in Los Angeles come with no fridge. It's long been one of the weird quirks of renting in L.A.

But the days of landlords expecting renters to bring their own fridge could soon be over.

My @laist.com story on a new bill to ban BYO-fridge:

BYO-fridge? New bill aims to ban LA’s refrigerator-less apartments

Why do so many L.A. landlords make renters bring their own refrigerators? An Inglewood state assemblymember is seeking to stop the practice.

laist.com

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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