@joechacha.bsky.social
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The extremely reckless obliteration of USAID, and the foreseen mass death caused by everyone involved, should follow them forever.
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The extremely reckless obliteration of USAID, and the foreseen mass death caused by everyone involved, should follow them forever.
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Understanding the Average Clove of Garlic: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Understanding the Average Clove of Garlic: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments
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"Private companies are not in the business of creating public goods, which is what economic statistics from the government are."
says @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
#econsky
says @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
#econsky
The BLS Can’t Be Replaced by the Private Sector
Government statistical agencies provide breadth and context that private firms can’t match.
www.bloomberg.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Private companies are not in the business of creating public goods, which is what economic statistics from the government are."
says @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
#econsky
says @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
#econsky
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• Prices rise 2.7% in the short-run pre-substitution (the correct way to think about consumer welfare effects), the equivalent of $4,400 per household annually in 2024$
• Post-substitution, prices would settle 1.6% higher, a $2,600 loss per household.
4/7
• Post-substitution, prices would settle 1.6% higher, a $2,600 loss per household.
4/7
April 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
• Prices rise 2.7% in the short-run pre-substitution (the correct way to think about consumer welfare effects), the equivalent of $4,400 per household annually in 2024$
• Post-substitution, prices would settle 1.6% higher, a $2,600 loss per household.
4/7
• Post-substitution, prices would settle 1.6% higher, a $2,600 loss per household.
4/7
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.