Jonathan Borowsky
@jborowsky.bsky.social
I'm a dad. I stan intermediate micro. I research how policy shapes markets, decisions, & outcomes in early childhood care & education.
Give us absolute power! Without all these silly norms and constitutions we'll be able to get the important stuff done. Yes, a few heads will get cracked but it's for the greater good of the nation! {Cracks heads; gives up on greater good; constructs massive monument to own vanity}.
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Give us absolute power! Without all these silly norms and constitutions we'll be able to get the important stuff done. Yes, a few heads will get cracked but it's for the greater good of the nation! {Cracks heads; gives up on greater good; constructs massive monument to own vanity}.
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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No one can deny the reality of climate change.
Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
“.. In the early 20th century, highs [in Phoenix] typically reached 110 degrees fewer than 10 days a year. Last year, it happened 70 times.
“.. Nine of the city’s 10 hottest years on record have come since 2010.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...
“.. Nine of the city’s 10 hottest years on record have come since 2010.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...
August 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
No one can deny the reality of climate change.
Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social So, did you guys know each other in college? Anyway, thank you both for fighting for freedom, justice, and good governance!
June 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social So, did you guys know each other in college? Anyway, thank you both for fighting for freedom, justice, and good governance!
Putting aside historical or legal arguments, the "unitary executive" seems to be quite a terrible system from a policy point of view.
May 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Putting aside historical or legal arguments, the "unitary executive" seems to be quite a terrible system from a policy point of view.
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If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org
Jews for Food Aid for Gaza
Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza
www.foodaidforgaza.org
May 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org
If YIMBY urbanists are listening, I have a question for you. How do you deal with risk of future negative externalities from vacant housing?
It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.
It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.
May 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If YIMBY urbanists are listening, I have a question for you. How do you deal with risk of future negative externalities from vacant housing?
It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.
It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.
Trump accuses Harvard of judge-shopping after Harvard files suit in the state where Harvard is located.
May 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump accuses Harvard of judge-shopping after Harvard files suit in the state where Harvard is located.
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BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.
May 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.
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the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle
FTC now has three Republicans and no Democrats instead of the typical 3-2 split
Senate puts third Republican on FTC while two Democrats sue Trump over firings.
arstechnica.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle
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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
April 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
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lol jokes aside as a researcher and #phd student, all I'm gonna say is that public scholarship matters more now than ever.
And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot.
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And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot.
bsky.app/profile/ifls...
A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s.
www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...
www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...
"Gut Feeling" Is Outweighing Evidence-Based Rhetoric In US Politics"
A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s.
www.iflscience.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
lol jokes aside as a researcher and #phd student, all I'm gonna say is that public scholarship matters more now than ever.
And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot.
bsky.app/profile/ifls...
And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot.
bsky.app/profile/ifls...
In the other place, newly appointed DOJ Chief Economist Julia Pollack throws shade on @hamiltonproject.org, claiming that their graph misleadingly hides spending increase trends under Biden that the administration has fixed.
April 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In the other place, newly appointed DOJ Chief Economist Julia Pollack throws shade on @hamiltonproject.org, claiming that their graph misleadingly hides spending increase trends under Biden that the administration has fixed.
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The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
March 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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There are only two plausible reasons for Susan Collins *not* to supoena Musk and haul him before her committee to answer questions under oath:
--She doesn't actually mind his corrupt pillaging of the govt
--She's too scared/complicit/etc to do her job
Neither of these reasons are OK! #MEpolitics
--She doesn't actually mind his corrupt pillaging of the govt
--She's too scared/complicit/etc to do her job
Neither of these reasons are OK! #MEpolitics
March 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
There are only two plausible reasons for Susan Collins *not* to supoena Musk and haul him before her committee to answer questions under oath:
--She doesn't actually mind his corrupt pillaging of the govt
--She's too scared/complicit/etc to do her job
Neither of these reasons are OK! #MEpolitics
--She doesn't actually mind his corrupt pillaging of the govt
--She's too scared/complicit/etc to do her job
Neither of these reasons are OK! #MEpolitics
@nytimes.com, I don't think Hitler was invited to the Yalta Conference. Was the historical echo you were thinking of perhaps the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
March 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@nytimes.com, I don't think Hitler was invited to the Yalta Conference. Was the historical echo you were thinking of perhaps the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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look at these headlines. we live in a dictatorship. it's not looming, it's not threatening, it's here.
March 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
look at these headlines. we live in a dictatorship. it's not looming, it's not threatening, it's here.
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This is terrifying. She has an H-1B visa.
March 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is terrifying. She has an H-1B visa.
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The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules
A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
Why skeets and not bleets?
March 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Why skeets and not bleets?
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The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.