Stuart Shapiro

@stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social

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Dean of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Obsessed with baseball, basketball, regulation, TV

Stuart S. Shapiro is a producer, writer, director, and Internet entrepreneur. Shapiro began his career as an independent film distributor in 1974 by starting International Harmony which distributed cult classics TunnelVision, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, Bob Marley's Reggae Sunsplash, The Sex Pistols' DOA, and Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle. .. more

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 4h

Amplify a movie title:

600 Men and a Baby

Earl F***ing Weaver @earlfckinweaver.bsky.social · 6h

Amplify a movie title:

A Hell Of A Lot Of Good Men

Scalawag Jack @scalawagjack.bsky.social · 6h

Amplify a movie title

24 Monkeys

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Earl F***ing Weaver @earlfckinweaver.bsky.social · 6h

Amplify a movie title:

A Hell Of A Lot Of Good Men

Scalawag Jack @scalawagjack.bsky.social · 6h

Amplify a movie title

24 Monkeys

☠A Ghost Inside A Dream☠ @railroadofsin.bsky.social · 7h

Amplify a movie title

The Huge Lebowski

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 8h

Just imagine what Frank Sinatra would say. Oh, you don't have to, he wrote this in 1991: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

In his own way, Wurman's making the case for birthright citizenship. He tries so hard and yet comes up with nothing. If there was a there there, it seems he would have found it by now.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 5d

Prof. Wurman is now tossing about bits of historical evidence for his mission to undermine the 14th Amendment. Far from useful, this tells us nothing.

To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d

Symbolic air strikes, whether in Syria or Nigeria, will not defeat ISIS. Many of Trump’s other actions, from cutting foreign aid to trying to eliminate online moderation, are actually undermining the struggle against ISIS and other terrorist groups. As i just wrote: wapo.st/4qrV8U5

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 1d

You waste time more efficiently than anyone I've ever seen.

Wyatt Sinclair @wyattswickedgoods.com · 3d

What's a compliment you'll never forget?

3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 4d

What's an insult you'll never forget?

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.

A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to go all in on working with this administration right about now.

Tweet from the Department of Homeland Security: "Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Just a general reminder that your experience on any social media app depends a lot on what *you* make of it. It is easy to find some annoying people on any platform. But platforms like Bluesky also give *you* way more power to control your own experience and to fix whatever annoys you.

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 3d

Rafael Santana.

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 3d

And if something should happen to Greenland we would be there for them. Their enemies would become our enemies. Someday, and that day may never come, we will call upon Greenland to do a service for us . . .

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Greenland Envoy Gov. Jeff Landry: "Look, the United States has always been a welcoming party. We don't go in there trying to conquer anybody and trying to take over anybody's country. We say, 'Listen. We represent liberty. We represented economic strength. We represent protection.'"

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 3d

Dec 24th - John McClane prevents Hans Gruber from stealing $640 million in untraceable bearer bonds from the vault in Nakatomi Plaza.

📽️📅 Die Hard (1988)

4 Screenshots from the movie "Die Hard" (1988): First, a man leaps off a rooftop with an explosion and sparks behind him, holding onto a fire hose for safety. Second, a shadowy figure stands in a dramatic pose near sparking metal, illuminated by bright light and surrounded by smoke. Third, a tense hostage situation, with a man holding a gun to a woman's head, both displaying fear and intensity. Fourth, a man in a dirty white tank top crawls through a narrow air duct, holding a lighter to light his path, his face showing determination and fatigue.

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Wyatt Sinclair @wyattswickedgoods.com · 3d

What's a compliment you'll never forget?

3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 4d

What's an insult you'll never forget?

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 3d

Raylan Givens on Justified. "“If you run into an a-hole in the morning, you ran into an a-hole. If you run into a-holes all day, you're the a-hole.”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

what's a bit of wisdom from a place you wouldn't expect that's stuck with you? I think of a line from a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song,

"People aren't characters. They're complicated
And their choices don't always make sense" all the time.

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 3d

This is how Don Coreleone would put it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 4d

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

www.nytimes.com

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 4d

See also this interview with outgoing Comptroller General Gene Dodaro: www.govexec.com/oversight/20...

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 4d

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

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New Jersey State Policy Lab @njpolicylab.bsky.social · 4d

🎥 NJ broke ground on what will become one of the largest film and television campuses in Bayonne; 🍼 NJ Department of Health announced first-of-its-kind embryo storage regulations; 🥫 lawmakers introduced a new bill to ban specific food dyes and additives in the Garden State. Read more:

Production Studio Breaks Ground on New Film and TV Campus – NJ State Policy Updates - New Jersey State Policy Lab

Education Public School Cell Phone Ban Bill Pending in Assembly - On December 15th, NJ Spotlight News reported that some New Jersey lawmakers are interested in pushing forward bill A4882 that would re...

policylab.rutgers.edu

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 4d

It also explains why Republicans won't challenge him until primary filing deadlines pass (89-8).

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 4d

so say we all

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

This btw is also true of systems we think are mainly good/want to argue for emulating. Every system has failure modes, no system is pure unfiltered hell or heaven for 100% of its citizens. All good things come with trade-offs, and even the best systems have aspects simply indefensible

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5d

In the battle between people who are proud to be called Nazis and Nazis who would rather not be called Nazis, JD Vance is neutral and believes in a big tent.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 5d

My latest is about regulatory cost-benefit analysis and how conservatives fell out of love with it. (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t because they started liking regulations.)

newrepublic.com/article/2046...

The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation

Conservatives once promoted cost-benefit analysis to check the administrative state—until it got better at measuring the huge benefits of regulation.

newrepublic.com

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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 5d

In our final EJB Talks of 2025, @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social talks to Julia Rubin about why #NewJersey has long been considered one of the most #politically #corrupt states. She walks us through how this came about and also how changes have led to reform. Listen at https://bit.ly/4pJFcfO

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