Michael Kevane

@mkevane.com

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Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org .. more

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · Dec 2

Proud the FAVL partner in Burkina Faso distributed 1,520 illustrated, locally produced books to 152 students in Maro, Tuy Province. The books cost about $.75 each, so this is about $1200 to produce and distribute. Or $7 per child to get 10 books to read. favl.org/2024/12/02/d...

Distribution de 1,500 livres aux élèves du CEG de Maro

L’association des Amis des Bibliothèques de Villages du Burkina Faso/ABVBF a distribué gratuitement ce 27 novembre 2024, des livres produits au centre multimédia de Houndé/CMH aux élèves du collège…

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 5h

Qui sait! Could be true... The almost doubling of gold prices and shift to Russian sponsorship means they have significantly more resources than before. But also make the regime especially vulnerable to a double-downturn.... Only took one week for Assad regime to collapse once geopolitics turned.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 6h

Apparently Uhlig wants to have AEA make the assessment...

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 25d

Larry Summers possibly did more to increase gender inequality in economics than Harald Uhlig did to increase ethnic inequality?

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 9h

Nice!

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 10h

andreamatranga.substack.com/p/benefit-of... I wrote a thing about one of my favorite movies

Benefit of Carnage: Tarantino, Kitano and the Art of Violence

When Quentin Tarantino recently dismissed Paul Dano as the wrong “type”—too soft, too twitchy, insufficiently heroic, it was not a comment on his skill, but on his temperament. The man does not fit in...

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 10h

Wow you did all the emotion of Pluribus in one minute!

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 16h

Exhausted by Republican cynicism about the Caribbean and men in boats? Read Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez Relato de un Naufrago, and recover some humanity.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 19h

Displaying CMH books in FILO Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso!

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Jules Duhamel @julesduhamel.bsky.social · 20h

🇧🇯 #Benin – Monitoring Map

Early this morning, a faction of soldiers announced the removal of President Talon on national TV. Gunfire was reported near Camp Guézo by the French embassy.

However, loyalist forces claim the coup was thwarted, and a sweeping operation is underway.

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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 21h

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Tentative de coup d'État au Bénin, le ministre de l'Intérieur évoque «l'échec» de la manoeuvre

Des militaires béninois ont annoncé tôt, ce dimanche 7 décembre au matin, sur la télévision publique avoir « démis de ses fonctions » Patrice Talon, qui devait passer la main en avril 2025 après dix…

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d

Utah has had universal vote-by-mail since 2019, and a recent poll found that 87 percent of Utahns trust that their ballots are counted accurately. But Utah’s governor signed a law this spring that ends this system.

Utah Was a Rare Red State to Champion Mail Voting. That Era Is Ending.

Inspired by the architects of Project 2025, Utah adopted a Republican bill to end universal mail voting and impose new restrictions on absentee ballots.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

These things are now pretty clear: Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their associates are white ethno-nationalists and aiding and abetting them *in any intentional way* makes a person complicit in their project. Because no end justifies their means.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

In the two years leading up to the President’s election, a key ally of the President, who then received a central role at the start of the Administration, was in regular contact with Vladimir Putin.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Fact that many Media & Political Elite, including Democrats, are still getting their news & trying to gain clout on a platform owned by a fascist, designed to push fascism, is insane.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk is having a Great Replacement Theory week on his personal X feed

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Such blatant petty white nationalism on display. There’s no level too small for them to engage in this discursive terrorism.

www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

National parks cut free entry for MLK Day, add Trump's birthday

NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.

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Doug King in San Jose @dekgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every weekend I receive a couple emails from the neighborhood list with urgent text like:

“The tamale lady is on 16th and San Carlos, walking toward downtown!”

I love that we have a door-to-door tamale lady. God bless downtown San Jose. #dtsj

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Seems like a good day to remember whatever Yves Klein thought he was doing... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

International Klein Blue - Wikipedia

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

California officials warn foragers after person dies from poison mushroom

Several additional people, including children, have severe liver damage amid 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children. The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said Friday. The toxic wild mushrooms are often mistaken for edible ones because of their appearance and taste. Continue reading...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not quite sure where to start

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Pluribus 6 continues with slow unfolding of a set of philosophical problems, but are the problems in service of a plot or character arc or setting up a 4 season drama of 13 people + 1, interacting? Will it be a Nabokov Signs and Symbols in the end?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk • 6год.
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The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people
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Dmitry Medvedev • @MedvedevRu... . 5 год. ...
Exactly

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 1d

Hassett to Fed? Bessent to NEC Chair on top of SecTrsy? Miran at CEA *and* Fed #EconSky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 1d

'Him and his minions would be hanging outside Jewish prayers.'
'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person.'

Stefan Benarroch explains his interactions with Nigel Farage at school, and what he has made of the Reform leader’s response to the allegations.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not quite sure where to start

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Rapport de la participation de ABVBF à la FILO 2025

L’association des Amis des bibliothèques de Villages du Burkina Faso/ABVBF, a pris part à la biennale littéraire et culturelle, Foire Internationale du Livre de Ouagadougou (FILO) qui s’est tenue du 25 au 30 novembre 2025 à la bibliothèque…

Rapport de la participation de ABVBF à la FILO 2025

L’association des Amis des bibliothèques de Villages du Burkina Faso/ABVBF, a pris part à la biennale littéraire et culturelle, Foire Internationale du Livre de Ouagadougou (FILO) qui s’est tenue du 25 au 30 novembre 2025 à la bibliothèque nationale du Burkina Faso, sous le thème : « Livre, identités culturelles et souveraineté nationale ». ABVBF, fidèle à cet évènement majeur qui réunit tous les deux ans des écrivains, éditeurs, libraires, bibliothécaires, chercheurs et institutions culturelles ne s’est pas fait compter l’évènement avec pour objectif de présenter les activités de l’association, rencontrer et échanger avec des acteurs de la chaîne du livre, rechercher des partenaires et faire une exposition vente à un prix social les livres produits au Centre Multimédia de Houndé (CMH).

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 1d

Laura Juarez and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla find that, in the United States, menopause leads to large declines in women’s probability of employment and increases the probability of a woman receiving social security benefits.
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#EconSky

Each graph shows the estimated average treatment effects by year, using the imputation method by Borusyak et al. (2024), with their 95% confidence intervals. The vertical dashed line indicates the reference period, two years before menopause. The reported mean dependent variable is calculated at the reference period.

The labour costs associated with the menopause transition have been largely understudied. Exploiting the individual timing of menopause, this column estimates the causal effects of the menopause transition on labour and health outcomes in the US. Menopause leads to large declines in women’s probability of employment and increases the probability of a woman receiving social security benefits. Hormone replacement therapy appears to mitigate some of the costs of menopause, but access to therapy significantly differs by race and education, underscoring the need to expand menopause-related medical care to reduce labour market gaps.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 2d

Inspiring review.... makes Susanna Clarke's Piranesi sound positively hopeful by comparison?

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2d

I expect that we will see a major scandal in the next year or so coming out of these exchanges, but no consequences: both have hired Don Jr. on as adviser, which I assume means in exchange they are free from both regulatory control and consequences for any legal ramifications of their work.

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Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 2d

Marlen Haushofer's strange, haunting novel The Wall is one of the best books I've read in a long time.

Far From Myself: Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

Now that I had barely anything left, I could sit in peace on the bench and watch the stars dancing against the black firmament. I had got as far from myself as it is possible for a human being to g…

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

QUESTION PRESENTED
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those “born * * * in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” are U.S.
citizens. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, § 1. The Clause was
adopted to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves
and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens. On
January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive
Order No. 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of
American Citizenship, which restores the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause and provides, on a prospective basis only, that children of temporary visitors
and illegal aliens are not U.S. citizens by birth. The Citizenship Order directs federal agencies not to issue or
accept citizenship documents for such children born
more than 30 days after the Order’s effective date.
The question presented is whether the Executive Order complies on its face with the Citizenship Clause and
with 8 U.S.C. 1401(a), which codifies that Clause.

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