John Mullahy

@johnmullahy.bsky.social

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UW-Madison, Univ. of Galway, NBER

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Banner image: Free Clinic (detail), Jacob Lawrence, 1937

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 17h

"ghost networks"

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Patients Who Searched in Vain for Mental-Health Care Take Insurers to Court

Lawsuits accuse insurance companies of providing false information about therapists and doctors.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 19h

“That means more than 5,000 classrooms of children, gone before they ever learn to write their name or tie their shoes,” Bill Gates noted. Children are dying in increasing numbers in part because the Trump administration slashed humanitarian aid.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 19h

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"Maybe the worst calamity to strike an adult is to lose a child. That has become increasingly rare, but in 2025, for the first time in this century, the number of children worldwide dying before the age of 5 is believed to have risen, by about 200,000..."

Opinion | In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up

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Reposted by Brad R. Humphreys

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

If he knows when you're awake and when you've been bad or good it's not unreasonable to assume that he also knows your preferences.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

Yet W.H. Auden offers these not-so-dreary perspectives.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

The bleak midwinter.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

Sally Brown appreciates the deadweight loss of Christmas.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

🔥🔥🔥

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

Annual re-posting (Wall St. Journal, 1993)

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. Potter's creepy aide and Trump Border Czar Tom Homan: Separated at birth?

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Sascha O. Becker, John Mullahy , and 1 more Ben H. Ansell, Sascha O. Becker, John Mullahy, Steven H. Seggie

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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years

An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

...contempt for human life

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

all too timely...

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ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses

The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

Written in 1949; all too timely in 2025.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

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Opinion | In Hoc Anno Domini

This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

A Festivus miracle?

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Refuses to Allow National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Melissa Thomasson @mthomasson.bsky.social · 4d

Ohio’s version hasn’t been renamed. Yet.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

While we may have aired plenty of grievances in December 2024 we had no idea then how they'd pale in comparison to the grievances many of us will air today.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

Helpful clarification in general, and in the interpretation of GLP-1 trial reporting in particular.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

"But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day."

—James Joyce, The Dead

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

“A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas and new principles. It is serious and enthusiastic for these new ideas and its enthusiasm, even when it is misdirected, is, I believe, in the main sincere."
(cont.)

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

"I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!"

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

When planning tonight's Festivus dinner be sure to allow more time than usual for the Airing of Grievances.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

When planning tonight's Festivus dinner be sure to allow more time than usual for the Airing of Grievances.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d

Pence…said the [Heritage Foundation] had “fallen” because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, among other things.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d

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Exclusive | Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures

The former vice president’s political group is poaching top officials from the foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement.

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Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the
most medicines."
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733

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