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John Mullahy
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UW-Madison, Univ. of Galway, NBER

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Banner image: Free Clinic (detail), Jacob Lawrence, 1937

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2h
Yet W.H. Auden offers these not-so-dreary perspectives.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2h
The bleak midwinter.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 15h
Sally Brown appreciates the deadweight loss of Christmas.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 21h
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d
Annual re-posting (Wall St. Journal, 1993)

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d
Mr. Potter's creepy aide and Trump Border Czar Tom Homan: Separated at birth?

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Sascha O. Becker, John Mullahy , and 1 more

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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d
...contempt for human life

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d
all too timely...

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d
Written in 1949; all too timely in 2025.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d
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Opinion | In Hoc Anno Domini
This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since.
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d
A Festivus miracle?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Refuses to Allow National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Thomasson @mthomasson.bsky.social · 2d
Ohio’s version hasn’t been renamed. Yet.
Strip mall sign saying Kennedy Center

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d
While we may have aired plenty of grievances in December 2024 we had no idea then how they'd pale in comparison to the grievances many of us will air today.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d
Helpful clarification in general, and in the interpretation of GLP-1 trial reporting in particular.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
"But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day."

—James Joyce, The Dead

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
“A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas and new principles. It is serious and enthusiastic for these new ideas and its enthusiasm, even when it is misdirected, is, I believe, in the main sincere."
(cont.)

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
"I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!"
johnmullahy.bsky.social John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
When planning tonight's Festivus dinner be sure to allow more time than usual for the Airing of Grievances.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
When planning tonight's Festivus dinner be sure to allow more time than usual for the Airing of Grievances.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
Pence…said the [Heritage Foundation] had “fallen” because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, among other things.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures
​The former ​vice ​president​’s political group is poaching top officials from the ​foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement.
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Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d
"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the
most medicines."
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733

www.wsj.com/health/healt...
America’s Seniors Are Overmedicated
One in six seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time, an analysis of Medicare data found.
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d
"held by immigration authorities in the US for almost five months"

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d
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'Family kept me going' - Irish woman after ICE detention
Irish citizen Donna Hughes-Brown, who had been held by immigration authorities in the US for almost five months, has said it is fabulous to be free but she is still feeling a bit overwhelmed since her...
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d
"an inquiry into the state of a country, for the purpose of ascertaining the quantum of happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants, and the means of its future improvement"
hos-asa.bsky.social American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 5d
#OTD 21 Dec 1835 Col Sir John Sinclair d (b 10 May 1754) He first introduces the words ‘statistics’ and ‘statistical’ in English in his 1791 21-volume ‘Statistical Account of Scotland’. He apologizes for using anglicized forms of the German word "Statistik" rather than a ‘real’ English word. 1/4

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d
Winter Solstice, the halfway point of Sahmain, and the beginning of Nivôse.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d
"it was the season of Darkness"
(Dickens, Tale of Two Cities)

www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/us...

Reposted by John Mullahy

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 5d
#OTD 21 Dec 1835 Col Sir John Sinclair d (b 10 May 1754) He first introduces the words ‘statistics’ and ‘statistical’ in English in his 1791 21-volume ‘Statistical Account of Scotland’. He apologizes for using anglicized forms of the German word "Statistik" rather than a ‘real’ English word. 1/4