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 · 13h

An interesting issue it seems in legal area of Section 230 is whether internet choice architecture (having situational agency shaped by the platform) is “speech” or a “product”?

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 13h

Comparative advantage suggests the psych people should be encouraged to come up with the catchy names and spend time/energy promoting them?

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Opposition controlled both chambers then. I think we’d see some switching if 2026 made House democratic and shaved Senate majority to 1-2…?

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Unless you are a cake shop.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

'Heritage American,' noun.

1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States.
2) An American actively betraying those principles.
3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Definitely. This is a bit different though because the difficult reading experience is by design, so continuing is a form of trust in Wolfe (in this case)…

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Ancillary Justice and Murderbot both start with amnesia but don’t do much with it.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Reading Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist with a deja vu feeling that originates from having read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant a few years ago. A fiction writing challenge for sure but is it a good reader experience? Not sure.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting

The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

The themes or messages of the movies were good for discussion because I could not figure out what story/mood/emotion/epiphany they were trying to accomplish. And still can’t.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

The three car chase scene at end of One Battle is quite boring. The all dead montage at end of Bugonia is quite beautiful.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Over holidays family wanted to watch "One Battle After Another" and “Bugonia”. Both are messy films, the first with high production values and the second low.

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 4d

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns*

Abstract. A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or p

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 5d

COLAU’s latest newsletter with updates from August to December

COLAU newsletter Dec 2025Download

COLAU’s latest newsletter with updates from August to December

COLAU newsletter Dec 2025Download

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)

more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”

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Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan

What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 5d

Blog Post: District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties–Bogard v. TikTok

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District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs' Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties-Bogard v. TikTok - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is a quirky lawsuit designed to subvert Section 230, the First Amendment, and traditional common law. I previously summarized the case: This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective...

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 6d

ED is launching a Clery Act investigation of Brown following the recent killings on campus. I don't recall them doing that with this fall's high-profile killing at Utah Valley.

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U.S. Department of Education Announces Review of Brown University for Potential Clery Act Violations

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will conduct a program review of Brown University in response to the December 13, 2025, shooting on its campus, which killed two students.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 6d

Some photo from Nyariga Community Library in Ghana

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 6d

Palantir gave $10 million to Trump's ballroom project, per NYT. Earlier this year, the defense contractor got a new $10 billion / 10-year package.

Palantir's lobbyists at the bipartisan firm Invariant also bundle money for the DSCC and DCCC.

DSCC Took Lobbyist Bundles From Firms Reaping Rewards Under Trump

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm quietly received donations in the first half of this year from lobbyists for Palantir, Andreessen Horowitz, and SpaceX, according to a new disclosure.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 6d

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP-2: Isabela Herrera donated $2.5m to MAGA Inc. on 12/31/2024.

At the time, her father, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, was being prosecuted for bribing Puerto Rico's governor.

In July, Trump's DOJ authorized a misdemeanor plea deal, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed a harsher sentence

Campaign finance filing showing Isabela Herrera's $2.5 million donation to MAGA Inc.

Justice Department press release about the indictment of Isabela's father, Julio Herrera Velutini.

Bloomberg News story about how Chris Kise, a lawyer who has represented Trump, was hired by Julio Herrera Velutini. Kise approached top Trump Justice Department officials, claiming that Herrera was the victim of a politicized prosecution -- a claim that echoed Trump's own claims about the charges he has faced. In response, Trump's DOJ officials overrode the career prosecutors on the case, brokering a deal with Kise under which Herrera and others charged in the case would be able to plead to misdemeanor offenses that carried far less severe penalties than they would have faced under the initial charges.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Was told by a CBS News source that Bari Weiss held a "big managers crisis meeting" in the New York offices today in which she tried to assure everyone that the 60 Minutes CECOT story isn't dead.

"I think that's what the trades call backpeddling," the source added.

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 6d

@heritagefdn.bsky.social EJ Antoni now heads CDA #EconSky
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 6d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

Platform with 700m users worldwide says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have accessed tracks and metadata An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online. Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. Continue reading...

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 7d

Reading Lost Horizon by James Hilton for book group. Very interesting! The racial stereotypes are odd for a modern reader but the stereotypes of the British are almost equally odd. Did Hilton read Joyce and Woolf?

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 7d

Pluribus 8 advanced the story so much. We now know they are building an antenna. Show not tell so shot was of Carol having written it on the whiteboard. Sarcasm.

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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 7d

The Voice of Hind Rajab - Official Trailer youtu.be/hrssPpqv6vc?...

The Voice of Hind Rajab - Official Trailer

YouTube video by Madman Films

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 7d

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"

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