Madison Perry
@madisoneperry.bsky.social
Research Assoc. at Philly Fed. Interests in labor/public and social safety net. Washed-up classical musician. Organizing with @phillydsa. Formerly UVA math+econ. Tidewater VA born and raised.
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“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
I’m really pretty sure that I can tell if you’re evil or not just by your footsteps
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I’m really pretty sure that I can tell if you’re evil or not just by your footsteps
A lot of The Sopranos is basically about old people and elder care and the writers depict that shit so well
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A lot of The Sopranos is basically about old people and elder care and the writers depict that shit so well
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak officially dies today.
Staff couldn't survey Americans in Oct. It’s the 1st time in 934 months.
This blind spot will remain forever.
This streak officially dies today.
Staff couldn't survey Americans in Oct. It’s the 1st time in 934 months.
This blind spot will remain forever.
December 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak officially dies today.
Staff couldn't survey Americans in Oct. It’s the 1st time in 934 months.
This blind spot will remain forever.
This streak officially dies today.
Staff couldn't survey Americans in Oct. It’s the 1st time in 934 months.
This blind spot will remain forever.
It’s only me and the other number one most dedicated bus riders on this bad boy today.
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It’s only me and the other number one most dedicated bus riders on this bad boy today.
Spent 45 min of valuable research time trying to figure out how I can find a specific chaolamian dish in Philly when I speak no Chinese
December 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Spent 45 min of valuable research time trying to figure out how I can find a specific chaolamian dish in Philly when I speak no Chinese
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Damn that’s crazy!
Peer effects between nursing home roommates are comparable to across-facility quality variations. Better room assignments may reduce mortality by 5.4 percent without added staffing, from Alden Cheng and Martin B. Hackmann www.nber.org/papers/w34538
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Damn that’s crazy!
When I’m on a real tear with working under a deadline, I just keep hearing The Arm from Twin Peaks in my head saying “Let’s rock”
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When I’m on a real tear with working under a deadline, I just keep hearing The Arm from Twin Peaks in my head saying “Let’s rock”
Title of paper is “Then Who’s Flying This Plane?”: Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry
Anyway… working on my paper on airline vertical integration
I hate IO. I’m not interested in IO. Asking me to think about anything to do with mergers, pricing behavior, or the airline industry insults my personhood and erodes my will to live.
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Title of paper is “Then Who’s Flying This Plane?”: Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry
I have an appointment with eating a small hamburger and having a Christmas beer around 5:30pm
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I have an appointment with eating a small hamburger and having a Christmas beer around 5:30pm
A couple times a week, I have to forgive myself all over again for applying to an RA job in fall 2021 that I was woefully underqualified for but didn’t fully know how unqualified I was. The embarrassment hasn’t gone away after 4 full calendar years.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A couple times a week, I have to forgive myself all over again for applying to an RA job in fall 2021 that I was woefully underqualified for but didn’t fully know how unqualified I was. The embarrassment hasn’t gone away after 4 full calendar years.
If you’re wearing trail hiking shoes with those knobbly spiky bottoms on city streets, idk what to do with you. You’re obviously not serious.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you’re wearing trail hiking shoes with those knobbly spiky bottoms on city streets, idk what to do with you. You’re obviously not serious.
Anyway… working on my paper on airline vertical integration
I hate IO. I’m not interested in IO. Asking me to think about anything to do with mergers, pricing behavior, or the airline industry insults my personhood and erodes my will to live.
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Anyway… working on my paper on airline vertical integration
I had no idea that Moby Dick was hysterically funny. My apologies Herman Melville I was not familiar with your game
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I had no idea that Moby Dick was hysterically funny. My apologies Herman Melville I was not familiar with your game
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y'all mind if I invent some tradition
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
y'all mind if I invent some tradition
I can tell I’m in a really terrible place when I start listening to Rap God a lot
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I can tell I’m in a really terrible place when I start listening to Rap God a lot
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that's so cool. I'd like to write a beautiful song or book.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
that's so cool. I'd like to write a beautiful song or book.
I’ve spent years trying to learn how to only want what I can reasonably hope to achieve but the world keeps changing in such a way that that “reasonable” erodes as fewer and fewer people are being allowed to have those kind of careers
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’ve spent years trying to learn how to only want what I can reasonably hope to achieve but the world keeps changing in such a way that that “reasonable” erodes as fewer and fewer people are being allowed to have those kind of careers
I think I might be becoming calmer and mentally healthier bc now I don’t fly into a rage when I see somebody whose work I think is cool and whose career I admire and then I look at their CV and it’s just abundantly clear that we come from completely different backgrounds
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I think I might be becoming calmer and mentally healthier bc now I don’t fly into a rage when I see somebody whose work I think is cool and whose career I admire and then I look at their CV and it’s just abundantly clear that we come from completely different backgrounds
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pursuing an academic career is like thinking the stripper loves you
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
pursuing an academic career is like thinking the stripper loves you
Air travel in the US is such an indignity. Yeah ok put me in a can that’s too hot where I’m packed really tightly with a bunch of smelly individuals and then make us idle on the tarmac for 45 min and charge me hundreds of dollars for my trouble
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Air travel in the US is such an indignity. Yeah ok put me in a can that’s too hot where I’m packed really tightly with a bunch of smelly individuals and then make us idle on the tarmac for 45 min and charge me hundreds of dollars for my trouble
I’m gathering that a lot of what gets clinically labeled “ADHD” in adults, particularly women, is actually something different that’s more about executive function and sensory/stress processing.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I’m gathering that a lot of what gets clinically labeled “ADHD” in adults, particularly women, is actually something different that’s more about executive function and sensory/stress processing.
Upsetting to know that this problem is happening everywhere and not just in large poor urban school districts like Philly
One of the most upsetting articles I've read in a long time www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade...
UCSD report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...
We are failing a generation of kids.
UCSD report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...
We are failing a generation of kids.
When grades stop meaning anything
The UC San Diego math scandal is a warning
www.theargumentmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Upsetting to know that this problem is happening everywhere and not just in large poor urban school districts like Philly
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Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM