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Matt Bodie
@matthewtbodie.bsky.social
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love to change your mind
Hate to see you lost within your ignorance, or is it just indifference?

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 1d
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www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...
Pope Leo's new US bishops are critics of Trump's migrant crackdown
In diverse statements, some have called the Trump policies cruel; others have urged the administration to use due process before deporting immigrants.
www.reuters.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 1d
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate in whatever way you celebrate
'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral
YouTube video by RTÉ News
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 3d
fascinating new birthright citizenship research from Amanda Frost and Emily Eason — in a reconstruction period rife with eligibility challenges, nobody challenged 12 members of Congress who would fail Trump’s citizenship clause test

Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 3d
On a rough week for the Atlantic, it’s great to have Alexandra Petri.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 4d
but seriously if you want to know how the Trump Kennedy Center Honors went here’s my report from the night-of
Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.
www.theatlantic.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d
I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 7d
I saw this post first and assumed you were live-skeeting the latest “Knives Out”

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 7d
Love this

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 7d
Surprised by Stefanik’s direct and frank quotes here about the reasons for dropping out — seems like stuff a staff member would say not for attribution.

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 7d
I posted an earlier draft of this a couple of months ago, but got inspired today to post the nearly-final version.

thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/p...
Paper: “Law and the self-coordinating market idea”
Penultimate pre-pub draft of paper forthcoming in University of Chicago Law Review (2026). This is a symposium essay with three components: 1) articulating and defining the “self-coordinating…
thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7d
Elise Stefanik dropping out of #NYGov and leaving Congress, per @benjacobs.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
Stefanik Quits Governor’s Race, Will Not Run for Reelection
The Republican explains why she’s leaving politics.
nymag.com

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 8d
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”

* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 9d
I’ve seen three levels of spin on the Wiles interview:
(1) The interview is bad for the Admin
(2) The interview is actually not bad—Wiles has snuck through a softball normalizing piece
(3) The interview is really bad for the admin and the admin is spinning that the interview is too soft to distract

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 10d
A very special Shareholder Primacy podcast! Me and @activistinvestor.bsky.social close out the year with a crossover episode with our sister pod, Proxy Countdown, featuring Matt Moscardi and Damion Rallis of @freefloat.bsky.social.

Here at Apple:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
2026 Predictions with Matt Moscardi + Damion Rallis of the Proxy Countdown podcast
Podcast Episode · Shareholder Primacy · 12/17/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 11d
Loved your Mike Nichols biography — I hope Reiner’s life gets an account that is similarly illuminating and compelling.

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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 11d
Honored to serve on the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Monia Ammar (Tunisia) and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (Republic of Ireland) to serve as members of the U...
www.ohchr.org

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Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social · 12d
The loss of Rob and Michelle is devastating. The stuff of Greek tragedy.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12d
For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.

~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.

We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
Infographic titled “2025 Billionaire Gains vs. Grocery Spending.” On the left, a large gold square shows that the top 100 richest Americans gained $995 billion in wealth in 2025, about $7,595 per U.S. household, representing wealth gains for just 100 individuals. On the right, a slightly smaller green square shows total U.S. grocery spending of $775 billion, about $5,916 per household, covering roughly 131 million households. A callout at the bottom reads “The Scale of Inequality,” noting that billionaire wealth gains exceeded national grocery spending by $220 billion. Sources listed: Bloomberg Billionaire Index and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 13d
Ravens should fire Harbaugh & hire Marcus Freeman: 👍 or 👎

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 15d
A rare disagreement with @adamserwer.bsky.social for me. I think such folks are rare, but the few excel at drawing attention from outsiders, especially the media.
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16d
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16d
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16d
🚨 Federal jobs data may have vastly overstated jobs creation, swinging US from net job creation to net job loss over past 6 months

“The real number could be something more like a loss of 20,000 jobs a month”

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says U.S. May Be Drastically Overstating Jobs Numbers
Powell said that Fed staffers believe federal data could be overstating job creation by up to 60,000 jobs a month—which suggests the jobs market might be shrinking.
www.wsj.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19d
I keep coming back to this:

Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th.

Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20d
This was a panel I did at Sundance in 2009 with Jason Kilar of Hulu, Reed Hastings of @netflix.com & Chad Hurley of YouTube. I was trying to tell Hollywood folks that these people & their startups — then small — would kill them eventually if they did not embrace the future. youtu.be/MvZ_KT1Ya04?si
Kara Visits Sundance and Interviews Hurley, Hastings & Kilar
YouTube video by KaraSwisher
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 21d
The US will draw Vatican City next.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22d
This is a big deal not just because of the ongoing efforts to kneecap immigration judges, but also the more general fight in many contexts over which challenges by federal employees to what the administration is doing can go to district courts vs. which must go to the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25d
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.