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Cecilia Malmström @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the music! What are tariffs doing to the music industry? www.piie.com/events/2025/...

Thank you for the music! What are tariffs doing to the music industry?

Tariffs are affecting many parts of society, but how are they changing the music industry? This highly globalized industry is a finely tuned ecosystem, harmonizing the craftmanship of high-end manufac...

www.piie.com

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Wonder if the author is the one in Trump's ear about South African refugees.

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

I think there's more to it ... but not much.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

I guess this trade war is going really asymmetric.

New York Times Weather @nytweather.bsky.social · 5d

A blast of cold, dry Arctic air from Canada is set to sweep southward this weekend, sending temperatures across the central and Eastern United States plunging 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below normal.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Do You Remember Where Your Gloves Are? Early Blast of Winter Heads East.

www.nytimes.com

New York Times Weather @nytweather.bsky.social · 5d

A blast of cold, dry Arctic air from Canada is set to sweep southward this weekend, sending temperatures across the central and Eastern United States plunging 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below normal.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Do You Remember Where Your Gloves Are? Early Blast of Winter Heads East.

www.nytimes.com

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 8d

Between tariffs and the government shutdown the US appears to be waging siege warfare against its own population.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 10d

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 9d

Gilt bathrooms + calling your constituents crack addicts: the party of the common man.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

Rep. Clay Higgins:

There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average.
Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries.
Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 10d

42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the U.S. He wasn't replaced. Now, the wells are at risk of spewing planet-warming gases and contaminating groundwater.

The Only National Parks Employee Who Tracks Leaky Oil Wells Is Out of a Job

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the National Park Service’s chief petroleum engineer. He wasn’t replaced.

nyti.ms

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10d

Rep. Crow: Trump is largely using tariffs to enrich himself and his family. They are using the threat of tariffs to strike golf course deals around the world. They're using tariffs on Brazil because they did something that they didn't like. Trump is personalizing American power for his benefit

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 10d

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program
Martha J. Bailey, Hilary W. Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker
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Working Paper 26942
DOI 10.3386/w26942
Issue Date April 2020
We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration’s NUMIDENT to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources for families affects children’s long-term outcomes. Using variation from the county-level roll-out of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975, we find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five experience an increase of 6 percent of a standard deviation in their adult human capital, 3 percent of a standard deviation in their adult economic self-sufficiency, 8 percent of a standard deviation in the quality of their adult neighborhoods, 0.4 percentage-point increase in longevity, and a 0.5 percentage-point decrease in likelihood of being incarcerated. Based on these estimates, we conclude that Food Stamps’ transfer of resources to families is a highly cost-effective investment into young children, yielding a marginal value of public funds of approximately 56.

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 11d

You really nailed it.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 11d

This implies the existence of "just discrimination," which would appear to be the mother of all contradictions in terms.

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump administration makes it official:

The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.

As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf

public-inspection.federalregister.gov

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump administration makes it official:

The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.

As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf

public-inspection.federalregister.gov

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 11d

Chef's kiss, no notes, America. This is where we are.

I'm so ashamed.

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12d

I have to assume the people who made LoTR are furious about this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d

DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE

DHS on Twitter: “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.”

Image over a hobbit that reads: There won't be a shire, pippin. Join.ice.gov

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12d

My God.

Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 12d

😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”

apnews.com/article/viet...

Vietnam's tourist sites submerged as record rainfall causes major flooding

Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An.

apnews.com

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12d

Now is the time of monsters?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d

DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.

We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 12d

😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”

apnews.com/article/viet...

Vietnam's tourist sites submerged as record rainfall causes major flooding

Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An.

apnews.com

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah this is some weak shit if they are trying to call this out as mendacious.

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 13d

This was an excellent read but I missed the link to what I assume is an underlying paper. Pretty please?

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 13d

Reminds me of a cartoon from MAD Magazine in the 1980s featuring a grinning Derg general saying "We have no money for food and medicine ... only guns and tanks."

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: About two dozen states sue Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamp benefits in November while the government is shut down. The admin has said it cannot use leftover emergency money, a decision states have contested. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts

www.nytimes.com

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: About two dozen states sue Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamp benefits in November while the government is shut down. The admin has said it cannot use leftover emergency money, a decision states have contested. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts

www.nytimes.com

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 14d

This is the basic diagnostic for dementia, right? I saw my mom go through it two or three times in the past year.

Am I missing something?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 14d

Either make the qpq explicit or pay reviewers. Neither option is great. But it's not going back to the way it was (which was never great).

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