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Scott Imberman
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1h
5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found.

WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.

Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.

(Gift link.)
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2h
It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h
I’m currently at the Washington Monument:
The Washington monument is lit up on all sides with a “250” in red and blue stars

Reposted by Scott A. Imberman, James Goodwin

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
Like, this an actual post from an actual government social media account, posted in the last hour.
Homeland Security * @DHSgov We will not live like this anymore. Underneath is a meme showing “America in 2025,” with “what we expected” first showing flying cars and then “what we got” showing a picture of Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey superimposed over a pile of trash with a speech bubble showing random characters (that are not written Somali) next to the screenshot of the daycare from the January 6er’s video.

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Merry Potato @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 9h
Ah wait, slightly more informative: "Prompted by lies from the Trump administration, unaffiliated civilians demanded to record young children at multiple daycares"

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 9h
A true paradise of free flowing discussion.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 9h
I hope he lives to see his successor tear it down.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 9h
Bluesky definitely has the Juice

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 10h
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.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 10h
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.
fieldofschemes.bsky.social Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 11h
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

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 10h
This entire country needs a sarcasm detector.

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Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 11h
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

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 11h
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.

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 11h
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

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h
A video posted in the past week, claiming to expose fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota, has been viewed by millions of people. The scale of the reaction to the video highlights the way the White House seeds narratives, then rewards sympathetic creators who deliver viral content.
An Intense White House Response From a Single Viral Video
A video purporting to expose extensive fraud at child care centers in Minnesota shows the relationship between the Trump administration and self-described citizen journalists.
nyti.ms

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
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!!!

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 12h
"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."

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12h
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.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
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.

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@chriswintersva @chriswintersva.bsky.social · 14h
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.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14h
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.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d
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

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
Yikes

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
Smart move.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
We are getting really close to some DOJ lawyers ending up in jail.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
Really dumb and petty as he will look completely impotent when the veto is overridden.
kylec.bsky.social Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
The project it funds is primarily for his voters.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
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