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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1h

At least for baseball stadiums or arenas (w/ bball and hockey) you can count on 80 to 100 days of use. Obv the number of people each day is smaller but they get better regular use.

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1h

Missouri, as usual when states lose in stadium battles, likely dodged a bullet. The idea that football stadiums, which are used, at best, less than 20 times a year, pay for themselves through taxes has always been ludicrous, even if we ignore displacement of other local economic activity.

Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 2h

Economist Geoff Propheter: "Chiefs games and concerts, using the stupidest, most unreasonably generous assumptions I can't justify without laughing, only gets the state to 33% of the way to the annual debt service needed under existing tax policy."

Experts debate just how many billions of dollars Kansas will lose on Chiefs stadium deal

It's been a whole 48 hours since the last Kansas City Chiefs stadium update — here's what's been happening: After my back-of-the-envelope estimates on Monday that tax revenue from a Chiefs stadium wou...

www.fieldofschemes.com

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1h

This entire country needs a sarcasm detector.

Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 2h

Economist Geoff Propheter: "Chiefs games and concerts, using the stupidest, most unreasonably generous assumptions I can't justify without laughing, only gets the state to 33% of the way to the annual debt service needed under existing tax policy."

Experts debate just how many billions of dollars Kansas will lose on Chiefs stadium deal

It's been a whole 48 hours since the last Kansas City Chiefs stadium update — here's what's been happening: After my back-of-the-envelope estimates on Monday that tax revenue from a Chiefs stadium wou...

www.fieldofschemes.com

Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 2h

I'm generally hopeful; I think 2026 will be different from 2025; I think things are turning around; I believe that we will win. But man, going into next year with a huge attack on child-care providers is pretty dispiriting, not gonna lie.

Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 2h

I missed this whole exchange earlier in the month.//When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/04/w...

When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2h

"America’s Housing Crunch Has the Wrong Villain" www.aei.org/economics/am...
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 3h

I looked how many programs are estimated to be over the new annual loan limits ($20,500 per year for "graduate," $50,000 per year for professional). 4,429 of 17,297 graduate programs and 331 of 1,120 professional programs have per-student averages above the new limits. This is cause for alarm.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

This article about Trump policy toward Russia and Ukraine is exceptional but I just want to focus on what a vacuous tool Pete Hegseth is:
Example 1 - he refused to meet with his predecessor:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mr. Biden's top national security aides had, for the most part, cordial meetings with their successors. The exception was the defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III. Mr. Austin had been a proud architect of the Biden administration's Ukraine partnership, and he, too, hoped to argue for its survival. He let it be known that he was available to meet with Mr. Hegseth, but the Trump transition team did not reply.

@chriswintersva @chriswintersva.bsky.social · 5h

That’s the problem though, Peter? Doesn’t the illegal and immoral stuff need to be repeated over and over even if it’s repetitive and boring because we need people to take action on illegal and immoral stuff? The idea you have to be original is part of the problem here.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing an argument about whether President Trump (personally, not his Administration) is “interesting,” with scorn for someone saying he’s not.

Here’s a challenge: think of something to say about him that a) isn’t obvious, b) hasn’t already been said, and c) your audience doesn’t already know.

Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 16h

This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.

‘He was loved by all’: 14-year-old dies after suffering complications from the flu

An Alabama community is mourning the loss of a teenager who died due to reported complications from the flu.

www.fox19.com

David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 16h

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...

Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

futurism.com

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 18h

Smart move.

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 18h

We are getting really close to some DOJ lawyers ending up in jail.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

Breaking:

Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.

Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show

www.nytimes.com

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 18h

Really dumb and petty as he will look completely impotent when the veto is overridden.

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado

President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.

www.9news.com

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 18h

The project it funds is primarily for his voters.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

Breaking:

Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.

Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show

www.nytimes.com

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado

President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.

www.9news.com

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 19h

Also, I have little doubt this will get stopped pretty quickly in court. If they targeted a few specific day care operations, they would have better luck but they don’t like Tim Walz so they’re gonna try the hard way.

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 19h

I’m not sure they really thought through what this will do. I mean they might have, and don’t care, but MN is still an outside swing state. D’s wouldn’t mind R’s just giving up on it as thousands of angry parents who can’t get to work revolt.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 19h

It’s easy. My wife and kid got it a few weeks ago and I chose not to (also all of us are vaccinated).

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 20h

Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...

What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?

YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson

youtube.com

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year

We Are Going to Win

Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22h

It is irresponsible and dangerous for the CMS Administrator (a physician who knows better) to downplay the importance of getting the flu vaccine.

Reminder: The US had ~38,000 flu deaths in the 2024-25 season.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Dr. Oz on the "super flu": "Every year there's a flu vaccine. It doesn't always work very well. That's why it's been controversial of late. But like many illnesses, the best news out there is if you can take care of yourself so that when you do end up running into the flu, you can overwhelm it."

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