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Michael Hicks
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Father of three marvels, lucky husband, parent lottery winner. Retired infantry soldier, George & Frances Ball Professor of Economics at Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research. https://www.bsu.edu/cber

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Michael J. Hicks is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball State University. .. more

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 1d
I personally prefer Patton's view . . .

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At National Prayer Breakfast, Hegseth Says US Soldiers Gain Salvation by Dying for ‘Christian Nation’
While Trump's remarks dominate the headlines about the event, more concerning Christian Nationalist comments came a few minutes later.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"That's just not true, as you well know" -- Sen. Chris Coons is a bit taken aback after CNBC's Joe Kernen pushes the great replacement theory during an interview

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
ski jump penis doping story only underscores the advantages of shape and drape over slim fit clothing

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Excerpt from a Guardian story: "Norway’s head coach Magnus Brevik, assistant coach Thomas Lobben, and staff member Adrian Livelten were also banned for 18 months for their involvement in the scheme, which made the jumpers’ suits larger and therefore reduced their descent rate due to the bigger wingspan. One study in the scientific journal Frontiers found that every 2cm in suit size circumference reduced drag by 4% and increased lift by 5%. It said that a 2cm change in the suits was equivalent to an extra 5.8 metres in jump length. However Bild has now claimed that jumpers have switched to other methods to game the system when they are measured for their suits, data for which is taken by a 3D scanner from the lowest point of their genitals. They include injecting acid into their penises or putting clay in their underwear to make their measurements temporarily bigger and therefore their suits looser for when they compete. The newspaper quoted a doctor, Kamran Karim, who said: “It is possible to achieve a temporary, visual thickening of the penis by injecting paraffin or hyaluronic acid. Such an injection is not medically indicated and is associated with risks.”"

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 2d
That’s just because of price increases on food.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d
"One year later, tariffs 'whipping' some Fayetteville small businesses" share.google/PhKS3ig5y6x7...

"I had to go get money out of a savings account, money that I had saved from six or seven years ago. You know, it was retirement fund money that I'm just trying to hold on"
One year later, tariffs 'whipping' some Fayetteville small businesses
One business owner said many of the products he sells are tied to Chinese imports, even when they carry American branding.
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Dario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social · 2d
new Fed analysis blames the slowdown in US employment mostly on supply - i.e weak labour force growth.

Not the AI/productivity fairy
www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 3d
We will find out

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 3d
This is worth a quick read. In our highly polarized nation, the CBP/ICE activities are just stunningly unpopular.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
These numbers are simply incredible. It's very clear that most ordinary people have figured out that ICE is not remotely functioning as a law enforcement agency any longer and that none of this is about enforcing the law in any recognizable sense.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
These numbers are simply incredible. It's very clear that most ordinary people have figured out that ICE is not remotely functioning as a law enforcement agency any longer and that none of this is about enforcing the law in any recognizable sense.

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maninthebooth.bsky.social @maninthebooth.bsky.social · 3d
This is a frank description of our national dilemma from @profhicks.bsky.social who isn't known as an alarmist. Please read and maybe send a copy to your member of Congress. We're in trouble folks.

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Weekly Commentary with Michael Hicks
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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 3d
I love this — reclaim the flag, seize our symbols. This is an American movement.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d
Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Nov 22
Yes, we’re looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Oct 29
These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d
The French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.
French Response * @FrenchResponse X.com Investigating child sexual abuse material isn't controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fl in France. Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 3h This is a political attack

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4d
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
I so wish that was a universal truth.

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
To stop this spreading evil . . .

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
Much more of these vibes . . .

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
We need much less of these vibes.

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What A Democratic Socialist Convention Is Like
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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
Weird

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
Weird, seems to me that you’d want to find common ground with someone who’s opposed authoritarians all his life and voted against Trump 3 times — but you do you.

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d
This entire discourse, though well meaning, is like Exhibit A in why normal people find the progressive discourse so off-putting, recursive and divisive.
sesmith.lol s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 4d
Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 4d
Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d
I think this is the essential quality that made CBP/BP and ICE so easily convertible into fascist squadristi www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
ICE does not have the same history of criminal behavior, but it does share a long record of abusing its powers and mistreating people in its custody. Put succinctly, these agencies deal with people the American system has frequently treated as barely human. Now these agents have been unleashed on Americans. Putting masks on people in agencies with internal cultures like these was always a recipe for catastrophe. The Trump administration took the most corrupt, poorly trained, and impulsive law-enforcement agencies in the country, gave them masks, and turned them against American cities.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d
👇👇

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 6d
BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points.

How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:
Breaking: Texas Democrats score landslide upset in race Trump badly wanted to win
Taylor Rehmet just flipped a deep-red seat—and gave his party a shot in the arm
www.the-downballot.com

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 7d
Fifa world prize for economics

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Skanda Amarnath @skandaamarnath.bsky.social · 9d
Trump wanted low rates but when you pick the most partisan guy on the basis of obsequiousness, he may not get what he wants...

Also doesn't help when the dollar has shown persistent weakening for the first time in a while.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 9d
"CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is 5x higher than other federal law enforcement agencies—and over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP [officers and agents] (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%)." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...