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David Rosnick
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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · Apr 9
New from Francisco Rodríguez, myself, and Giancarlo Bravo:

That recent counter-intuitive @cgdev.org piece by Bahar and Hausmann suffers fatal flaws, starting with a Stata programming error. We fall back on the intuitive conclusion that U.S. economic conditions drive encounters at the border
Do Venezuelan Oil Revenues Drive Migration to the US? A Reappraisal of the Bahar and Hausmann Results
We show that their results are driven by a flawed empirical specification that appears to be the result of a coding error.
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3h
While Congress pretends this budget negotiation matters…
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h
Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.

Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?

Trump: I don't know.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3h
So true

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 4h
Also….it isn’t anywhere near the best museum in Paris (“put it in D’Orsay” isn’t as catchy tho)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h
Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.

Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?

Trump: I don't know.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 7h
Combination of mentat and bene gesserit training alongside exposure to melange, if you must know

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 8h
Oh of course

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 9h
Bloomberg brain

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anerdylawyer.bsky.social @anerdylawyer.bsky.social · 10h
Senator, your colleagues just voted to end the one battle we were winning in a war we are otherwise losing. Running cover for them is not the answer.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 15h
Their* position, anyway

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 15h
Do I understand this correctly? Your position is that the Dems caused pains Y and Z just to call attention to (but never to avoid) pain X? And we should applaud (or at least not complain about) this?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16h
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 16h
Also, if 40% are making no claim then that’s a concern! People should be getting regular medical care even if they think they are perfectly healthy

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d
After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d
Some people just hate to win

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d
You got to voicemail? I merely got a message to call during business hours

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d
Whaddya know Fetterman won’t even let you leave a message

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d
Twice

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d
Bingo

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 1d
Exactly. They say they don’t want to be doxxed but the whole point is we have a right to know who they are. It’s the exact opposite for protestors— they have a right to anonymity

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Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.net · 1d
breaking: if people can’t get paid they don’t want to spend. who would have thought!
CNBC OLIVESTREAM Q SIGN IN TECH Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping PUBLISHED FRI, NOV 7 2025•11:43 AM EST UPDATED FRI, NOV 7 2025•4:06 PM EST KEY POINTS • Affirm CEO Max Levchin told CNBC that some federal workers impacted by the government shutdown are losing interest in shopping. • The federal funding lapse, which began Oct. 1, is the longest in U.S. history and has halted work across agencies. • Levchin's comments followed a fiscal first-quarter earnings report from the buy now, pay later firm that blew past Wall Street's estimates.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3d
“masked masked” fml

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 3d
Uh, heavily armed masked masked men operating in the shadows? Sure, they make me feel real safe, riiiiigght

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4d
Tradwife? More like RADwife!
4 frame comic. someone out of frame is going around with a mic, asks a woman in some victorian dress pushing a double stroller : ma'am! do you think we should be worried about the declining birth rate in our society? she replies : what I'm anxious about is white men spewing natalist rhetoric as a gateway to control marginalized people's bodies. the main reasons the birth rate is declining are that minors aren't having babies anymore and that people have the freedom to choose if & when they have babies. also, most kids now make it to kindergarden alive. these are all good things. if white men are so worried about the birth rate, they should welcome more immigrant families, make sure new parents have long and paid work leaves, and make fertility treatments and childcare free. but I guess they're too busy being racist and misogynistic for that.

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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 5d
ICE actions are offensive to a person of reasonable sensibilities
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 5d
Assault now. Injury, government says, isn’t the layman’s definition but the legal one. “Hit with a sandwich. Having a sandwich spiked on your chest. Is that offensive to a person of reasonable sensibilities? Certainly. We have an assault.”

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 5d
Elizabeth in 2021
"The most agonizing thing about the carnage in Gaza is that it won't result in anything other than misery, trauma & destruction. It won't lead Israelis to think that placing 2 million humans under blockade is not a sustainable solution & other solutions must be immediately sought."
Elizabeth Tsurkov on X: "The most agonizing thing about the carnage in Gaza is that it won't result in anything other than misery, trauma & destruction. It won't lead Israelis to think that placing 2 million humans under blockade is not a sustainable solution & other solutions must be immediately sought" / X
The most agonizing thing about the carnage in Gaza is that it won't result in anything other than misery, trauma & destruction. It won't lead Israelis to think that placing 2 million humans under blockade is not a sustainable solution & other solutions must be immediately sought
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 5d
Assault now. Injury, government says, isn’t the layman’s definition but the legal one. “Hit with a sandwich. Having a sandwich spiked on your chest. Is that offensive to a person of reasonable sensibilities? Certainly. We have an assault.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump to Republican senators: "I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented and what we should do about it and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night. If you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for Republicans."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 6d
Dick Cheney was apparently so terrifying that after he shot his friend in the face during a hunting trip, the friend apologized to him. It's like something out of Stalin-era Russia.