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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 7h

Well fuck that.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1d

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

They're Coming for Our Daughters

The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

jessica.substack.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8h

And kinda weird to ask this but… is being a gang member even a crime?

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8h

And the 8,700 was the ICE number for gang members so you know even that is a horseshit upper bound.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18h

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

www.huffpost.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8h

I’d be interested in a history of the balance of power between the president and Congress. We think of the imperial presidency as a postwar phenomenon but my suspicion is we’re conflating the expansion of federal power with the expansion of relative presidential power.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump’s going to go ballistic over this tariff vote, and you can count on him trying to just disregard Congress on it.

Tasha Monroe @itstashamonroe.bsky.social · 9h

“Fascism is a new name for the terror the Negro has always faced in America.”

-Langston Hughes, 1936

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11h

Awww, got a great email from a student from two years ago who is doing cost benefit analysis in a new job and thinks the class made a difference in getting the job.

I have to say, as a Spring adjunct I get imposter syndrome about being a “real” professor so this really makes my day.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18h

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

www.huffpost.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how cool the intercalary chapters would have been if Moby Dick had been written eight years after Origin of the Species instead of eight years before.

Emi @kayamalie.bsky.social · 1d

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Dunlop was my academic great grandfather. He was Michael Piore’s dissertation advisor. Piore was Robert Lerman’s advisor, and Lerman was mine.

Dunlop didn’t strictly speaking study under Keynes, but he spent some time with him during his doctoral studies (the famous counter cyclical wage question).

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Last of my “treat yo self” haul

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Horrifying. Remember Katherine Mangu Ward of Reason Magazine had an Opinion piece in the New York Times this morning complaining that these cuts did not cut deep enough.

Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News

History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

news.westernu.ca

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to correct the record when Trump says foreigners pay for the tariffs, that’s all well and good. But the fact that we pay for tariffs doesn’t in and of itself make them bad policy. Other stuff makes them bad policyz

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Part of me doesn’t like this tax negativity framing. Sure a tax is a cost but we pay lots of taxes and probably should pay more. Tariffs aren’t bad because they’re taxes. They’re bad because they distort relative prices in a weird way and disrupt global supply chains and international relations.

Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 1d

This is a tax on you.

You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.

Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group

President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

abcnews.go.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

My dude, while the Super Bowl is certainly a big event, “huge culture shifts” do not happen during Super Bowl halftime shows.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

“My ‘don’t let the left fool you… we won… it was a tsunami’ tweet is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tweet”

Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 1d

This is a tax on you.

You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.

Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group

President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

abcnews.go.com

Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News

History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

news.westernu.ca

Emi @kayamalie.bsky.social · 1d

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1d

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

They're Coming for Our Daughters

The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

jessica.substack.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Even in her own discussion of DOGE, she is upset that it didn't go far enough. Which is it: did you try to warn us about Trump or are you upset MAGA was not implemented more effectively?

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Completely divorced from reality. There are anti-Trump libertarians, but when they don't acknowledge the enormous libertarian support for MAGA or the groundwork that libertarianism laid for Trump's anti-government initiatives, they are not to be taken seriously.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

www.nytimes.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

With the exception of very, very few, libertarians have proven themselves to be just the anti-tariff wing of MAGA.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Completely divorced from reality. There are anti-Trump libertarians, but when they don't acknowledge the enormous libertarian support for MAGA or the groundwork that libertarianism laid for Trump's anti-government initiatives, they are not to be taken seriously.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

www.nytimes.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Libertarians have been hugely culpable in all this and most of the "good ones" that have criticized it are still unduly focused on tariffs. They have been almost totally nonchalant about the rest of it because they want the government to be dysfunctional and adore the right wing attack on "woke."

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Completely divorced from reality. There are anti-Trump libertarians, but when they don't acknowledge the enormous libertarian support for MAGA or the groundwork that libertarianism laid for Trump's anti-government initiatives, they are not to be taken seriously.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

www.nytimes.com

Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 1d

LOL! And some of them were cautiously optimistic when Trump got reelected:

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

www.nytimes.com

simi @simifresh.bsky.social · 2d

the bushes were people 😂

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

Libertarians continue to be the anti-tariff wing of MAGA.

This was the funniest sentence: “Trump has a habit of throwing undercooked ideas around, but this wasn't one of them.”… I beg to differ, guys.

reason.com/2026/02/05/s...

So much for abolishing the Department of Education

Trump's latest bill gives the department $79 billion in taxpayer money and prohibits parts of it from being downsized or decentralized.

reason.com

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