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Elie Berkowitz
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People are idiots, Ron.

💁🏻‍♂️38 | 🗽NYC | ⚡️anxious
As if we needed any more evidence that Fremont sucks
February 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And somehow fewer job prospects than when I opened it
Every time I visit LinkedIn, I leave with a deep sorrow in my heart.
February 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
There’s a team on pop culture jeopardy called O’Trivia Rodrigo and I’m so furious I didn’t think of it.

(please note I do not play or attend trivia of any kind)
February 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Boggles my mind that FETTERMAN has said he's voting against RFK Jr. while GILLIBRAND hasn't.

Please consider calling Gillibrand today about this if you have a minute, fellow New Yorkers.

www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/
February 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every post I read that’s like “here they go banning oxygen” and I think “sigh good hyperbole” is followed by an actual headline that says “doge ends breathing for the wokes”. Can’t even keep up.
February 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I wrote about Trump’s purges at the Department of Justice, and the rapid transformation of the federal government into a tool of his own private grievance. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump has already remade our constitutional order | Moira Donegan
Trump’s vision of governance calls to mind the declaration attributed to Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi’: I am the state
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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If I’m being honest the way a lot of you incessantly talk about your weight and what you’re eating while disparaging your bodies makes this a very triggering place sometimes.
January 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Does the Bob Dylan movie explain why he sings like that?
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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“BANG!!!” Beyoncé stands with Luigi 😌
December 25, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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ah yes, my favorite Hanukkah tradition: going to the grocery store, stumbling upon their end of aisle Hanukkah display, and finding matzoh, matzoh ball soup mix, and yahrzeit candles.
December 24, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Where “you” is the three martinis I had just finished
December 25, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Oh, word?
Important new paper on the effect of Citizens United on democratic institutions in the US.

tl;dr Citizens United meaningfully contributed to voter suppression & gerrymandering.

design: diff-in-diff & synthetic control

gated: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
December 12, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Or one star witness
December 11, 2024 at 9:12 PM
No one’s, like, “doing well”… right?
December 11, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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someone told me “the cream always rises to the crop” last night and I was like yes exactly
November 28, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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returning to bluesky again
November 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM
k I’m back what are we talking about what’d I miss are the n*azis over here yet
November 10, 2024 at 5:08 PM