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Daniel Kuehn
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Research on apprenticeship, workforce development, and history of economics

Economics 30%
Engineering 25%
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My paper on W.H. Hutt's work on the economics of race before apartheid is published! This paper accomplishes two things:

1. It analyzes the origins of Hutt's more famous 1960s work on apartheid

2. It clarifies the origins of his "weighted franchise" proposal

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
the bushes were people 😂

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
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Lovecraft’s letters are all like that. In addition to the formalities he’ll sometimes write to friends as if he were someone else from like Rome, or colonial New England or even a fantasy world and he’ll sign off with Latin or whatever else.
In forecasting the future of AI, it's easy to miss the main point.

Whether AI largely substitutes or complements human capabilities isn't merely a technological matter.

It's a societal choice.

Glad to hear Warner pressing this. He was doing the same thing yesterday in those emails and short videos that always get pushed on you so hopefully this is a pattern. The integrity of the midterms has to be a core part of the ICE reform/restriction/abolition conversation.
Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"

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Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"

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Carter G. Woodson and the Politics of Civil War Memory #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Carter G. Woodson and the Politics of Civil War Memory
His scholarship and understanding of the connection between history and politics has never been more important.
open.substack.com

I assume this is the subject of the Wyden letter, right?
Someone In WH Called Russian FSB

May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com

We are going to win. None of this is sustainable it’s going to implode. They’re openly cruel which normal people hate, and they’re incompetent. We’re going to win this keep the pressure on them.
Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

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Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

Awesome! I kept a coffee plant alive in my dorm for a couple of years. I knew it would never fruit but it felt nice to grow something off the beaten path. I forget where I got it.

Next up is Hämäläinen.

Sears is devastating and makes Lee look really bumbling. The facts are the same so obviously he doesn’t look stellar with Guelzo, but comparing a couple versions really brings it out.

Civil War history is an interesting genre. You can have a million books about one battle and it’s totally fine.

Just finished the Sears Gettysburg book. It’s interesting when you go through a couple books on the same battle how you start to better appreciate differences between authors. Guelzo’s book for example I thought was really great but I didn’t appreciate until Sears how soft Guelzo was on Lee.

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Our little coffee tree seems to have recovered from whatever was troubling it. Still not fruiting, but I only planted it last year. 🌴🌱☕️

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Someone In WH Called Russian FSB

May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

This would be “radical” in the sense that it’s a major change that remakes society but none of it is “radical” in the sense that it would require you to join DSA if you didn’t want to. We’ve had moments where (with varying success) we’ve made leaps like this and we can’t waste them out of timidity.

We can have Manhattan Projects on climate change, cancer, and Mars. We can hold traitors and insurrectionists responsible for their crimes. We can make major changes to our system of government around statehood, the Senate, and the imperial presidency.

…a robust wealth tax and still have a liberal market democracy. We will have to reconstruct what has been lost in terms of CRA and VRA and then go further to achieve what was supposed to happen in Reconstruction with reparations. All of this is still in the framework of a liberal market democracy.

Much of government is dysfunctional, overly means tested, and structurally racist and sexist. We require sweeping reform that would still basically preserve a liberal market democracy with essential social support. Reconstruction around redistribution is the same. We can accomplish so much with…

In a lot of ways I fit the “moderate” moniker. Like a lot of economists I’m quite pro-market. I’m a liberal not a leftist. But I think people who are not leftists make the mistake that your policy and politics need to be milquetoast or compromising. In fact there’s a lot of necessary radical change.

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“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social
We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.
Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
www.bostonreview.net
“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social
We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.
Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
www.bostonreview.net
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
www.nytimes.com

I don’t like the Virginia map but it’s execrable for Cruz to attack it by appealing to what Texas did unprovoked for no other reason than subverting democracy. Even if I vote against it I have every confidence that Lucas and Spanberger have a commitment to democracy that Cruz has never had.

I’m curious what other low hanging fruit like that I’m missing.