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Gerald Friedman
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Professor Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Graduate of Columbia (BA) and Harvard (PhD). Author of numerous works in labor history, heterodox economic theory, and Medicare for All. Most recent book is The Case for Medicare for All .. more

Gerald Carl Friedman is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He became nationally prominent during the 2016 U.S. presidential election after writing an analysis of Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders campaign's policies in which Friedman concluded that these policies would produce significant economic growth in the United States if they were enacted. Friedman also received strong backlash for these remarks, from editorial pundits and fellow academics. .. more

Political science 35%
Sociology 19%

Understated
To MAHA we need vaccines and #medicareforall

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | We Don’t Seem to be Making America Healthy Again
www.nytimes.com

The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.

Make it make sense.

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🤡 Putin signed a law banning the enforcement of foreign criminal court rulings in Russia, - INTERFAX

Decisions of foreign courts vested with powers in the sphere of criminal proceedings by other foreign states without the participation of Russia,…
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.

Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.

Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Massachusetts has led the country since Lexington and Concord
Toby Morton, a 'South Park' alum, bought www.trumpkennedycenter.org months ago on a hunch that the ridiculously vain Donald Trump would rename the Center. Donald’s stupidity is only exceeded by his predictability.
HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

YES! WE NEED #MEDICAREFORALL
The time has come for #Medicare4All. The lapse of ACA subsidies may galvanize political will.

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Presidential pardon power must be abolished – retroactively from 20 January 2025 forward.
Frankly embarrassing. The temptation to be counter-intuitive at the NYT is dangerous - if you're not rigorous, can just induce lazy reporting. There is *so much room* to challenge reader perceptions on many issues but the merits of New College's takeover are not one of them.
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com

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In 2025, Republicans allowed health care premiums to double for millions of Americans. Those higher prices start later this week.

They’re not working for you.
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3
CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."
shorturl.at

If we had #medicareforall no one would need to think about this
Honest query: how does private health insurance improve healthcare?

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ICE caught in yet another blatant lie. Glen Burnie, MD
Attorney questions ICE version of shooting by agents in Glen Burnie
Questions surround the violent confrontation on Christmas Eve in a neighborhood court in Glen Burnie.
www.thebanner.com

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A monumental waste of money, all to try to trick U.S. evangelicals into continuing to support Trump as a “protector of Christians.”
Ryan Goodman really excellent here in explaining what we’ve learned and how much we don’t yet know about Epstein—and what documents we should be on the lookout for, how much DOJ is still stonewalling, what Congress might have to do.

www.youtube.com/live/GZF-ojI...
Is DOJ Playing Games With the Epstein Investigation? (w/ Ryan Goodman)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com

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Absolute Fing traitor

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The parents of these kids are worried about Muslims being radicalized in America.

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Republican members of Congress are convinced GOP will suffer in the 2026 midterms
www.alternet.org
Republican members of Congress are convinced GOP will suffer in the 2026 midterms
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There's now just one week left to apply to join IFS for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in collaboration with the Administrative Fairness Lab.

📅 Find out more about the role and apply here by Sun 4 Jan 2026: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...