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David Rosnick
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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)
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This would probably hit harder if Abrego Garcia had been given due process. The consequences to ordinary people for far less meaningful errors can be severe
Screencap of excerpt from article. “‘The only mistake that was made was a lawyer put an incorrect line in a legal filing that since has been relieved of duty,’ Miller said”
April 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I'm only posting here to keep a record of my own failure to be mindful of my own observation that sarcasm just does not translate over social media.

I'm removing the original.
Apologies to the OP who blocked me. Nobody to blame but myself.
OP was a plea for assistance in the face of rising prices. I sarcastically quoted "You mean you suffered unfair trade barriers. The solution is to give away 50 cents for every dollar you spend. This will motivate you to make your own food and shelter rather than pay someone else." I thought this was clearly an absurd position that couldn't be taken seriously but OP blocked me and another responded "who the fuck are you?" All I could answer was with the truth: "Someone who stupidly forgot sarcasm doesn't work on social media, apparently?"
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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How it is going today
Elder Bernese Mounted Dog anxious about all the whistles in hockey flopped down on the floor enjoying a respite during intermission. Behind her, the PWHL break screen is projected on the wall. Sharp eyes might have noticed the second volume of the recent Wonder Woman run. The person behind the camera is clearly secure in their masculinity because this is all fucking awesome
March 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
MSNBC shot of a giddy Musk at CPAC wearing dark glasses and wielding a prop red chainsaw he has no idea how to use. It is like he derives joy from wrecking public institutions and individuals that protect people. Weird, sick shit
March 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Link here: www.bea.gov/sites/defaul...
Snippet of BEA trade report. Big increase in imports of finished metal shapes. Gold not so much
March 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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We also have the growth rates directly from Atlanta. They bumped annualized import growth from 5.4% to 26%. That is, I believe:

(0.059-0.013)/($4149.7 billion/4) = $48 billion from Q4 to Q1.
Atlanta Fed GDPnow estimates showing projected growth rates for Q1 2025. On 26 February, the estimate was 5.4% annualized growth in imports. As of 3 March this was revised up to 26%
March 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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We hadn't moved yet to Boston from Amherst though I remember reports of snow forming icebergs and washing back up on shore. We didn't have so much snow but we had a stretch of cold well into March. Boston was much more pleasant
Temperature record for Amherst, MA from 11 February to 10 March 2015. Lows were: 12, 9, 1, -10, -6, -15, -14, -11, -10, 2 -15, -13, 16, -16, -13, 7, 1, -9, -6, 3, 2, 2, 30, -5, -2, 0, 13, 13
January 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Here we see the relevant players discussing their business plan for the government
Artie Bucco and Tony Soprano facing each other. This relationship doesn't end especially well for Artie
November 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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CNN doesn't show this in their poll
Select results of CNN exit poll showing men 18-29 favoring Harris over Trump 49-47.
November 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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To be fair...
Screenshot of part of cited WaPo article. It reads: "One big takeaway from the YouGov data is that Harris (and those of us in the media) have done a poor job communicating what Harris stands for. Meanwhile, Republicans have often succeeded in defining her brand for her."
October 22, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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In case anyone suspects no lessons could have been learned
ASSESSING NONVIOLENCE IN THE PALESTINIAN RIGHTS STRUGGLE 177 the mainstream international community to give any substantial attention to the strikers. This is particularly remarkable, given the significant response to the 1981 Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger strikes. The IRA strikes, and the international response to them, are regarded as at least partially responsible for changes in British policy at the time, particularly in terms of shifting its central effort from one of counterinsurgency to that of reconciliation, leading to the 1998 "Good Friday" Agreement.
October 10, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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In any case, apartheid is less severe but not absent within the Green Line

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty International documented acts proscribed in the Apartheid Convention and Rome Statute in all the areas Israel controls, although they occur more frequently and violently in the OPT than in Israel. Israeli authorities enact multiple measures to deliberately deny Palestinians their basic rights and freedoms, including draconian movement restrictions in the OPT, chronic discriminatory underinvestment in Palestinian communities in Israel, and the denial of refugees' right to return. The report also documents forcible transfer, administrative detention, torture, and unlawful killings, in both Israel and the OPT.
October 5, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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Buongiorno, Toscana
Sunrise outside Siena, seen from above the fog. Hills are barely visible and trees are hazy
September 24, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #144,323!
Image basically same as text, specifically: First 10% Celebrating 10M users "144,323 David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social Joined Jun 22, 2023
September 16, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Apparently Christian Bale and Sam Rockwell are back together?
Screencap of an image from a news story. The image purports to show Noel and Liam Gallagher. But it’s obviously from a forthcoming Oasis biopic
August 28, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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What distinguishes "tolerated by the government" from "legal under Israeli law"?

(putting aside that "tolerance" seems like an understatement)
Excerpt from NYT article: "Much of the international community views Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal, and many were established illegally under Israeli law, but tolerated by the government."
August 16, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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It's really quite simple once you edit out the irrelevant garbage
Screencap of Megan McArdle's rant about Khelif but almost all the text is blacked out so it reads merely "Khelif identifies as a woman, I am calling her a woman."
August 14, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Likewise
Boston Pride koozie not currently in use
July 24, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social is it a good idea to acknowledge to the FBI that you are a source for a foreign intelligence service?

www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-...
Screenshot of text from a Reuters article. Quote: It says she acknowledged in a voluntary June 2023 FBI interview that she was a "source" for South Korea's intelligence service, "meaning that she provided valuable information."
July 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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1991 is a little deceptive as a point of comparison. Home prices had sagged. More importantly, wages in Boston have been rising nicely over the last 35 years

Boston house prices are wild but rents since 1990 appear to have fallen relative to weekly wages.

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1oxpY
FRED chart showing Boston-area owners-equivalent rent prices divided by Boston-area weekly wages. From 1990 to 2023, rent prices fell 25% compared to wages. In other words, workers could rent about 33% more housing for the same number of weeks worked
June 5, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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I’m gonna leave this here because they quoted the stuff just before the highlight
Excerpt from Mason and Falk (2016) “For, as Mazin Qumsiyeh outlines, armed resistance by the Palestinian people to foreign intervention (to Ottoman rule, then British mandate control – and its support for Zionist aspirations), the partition of historic Palestine and Israeli settler colonialism) came at a relatively late stage: For the first few decades (1880s–1920s), all resistance was popular and unarmed. later, all uprisings started as popular resistance, but some were marked by armed resistance in response to the brutality of the occupiers and colonizers. as such, [Palestinian] armed resistance was limited, considering the injustice. (2011: 233–4)”
June 1, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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And then there is this from the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tweet from Eli Cohen, morning of 22 May 2024. It reads “Spain, Ireland, and Norway want to give a state to these monsters who murdered, slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped our people. They want to reward terrorism. From the river to the sea, there will be one state: The State of Israel.”
May 22, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Here is the context for that river-to-sea bit, if you really care
Screenshot of an excerpt from the document cited upthread. It reads: "Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus."
May 13, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Here is Rosie ready to give and receive love
Rosie Bernese is flopped out on a hardwood floor. She has an inquisitive look: is it worth struggling with the slippery floor and get to her feet or will you come to her?
May 3, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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"Dissent must never lead to disorder"

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., comfortably on the wrong side in 1963
Famous picture of civil rights marchers in Birmingham, 1963, getting the fire hose. Overlaid are Biden's words today: "Dissent must never lead to disorder". The implication is that Biden would have been against the civil rights marchers then as he is against anti-genocide protesters today
May 2, 2024 at 5:44 PM