Miles Murphy Evers
@mevers90.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UConn, interested in geoeconomics, business-state relations, and international history. I found all 120 stars in Super Mario 64.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
Things are not going well in Argentina, official exchange rate has now decoupled from the market-implied exchange rate to the tune of about 8%
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
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Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
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Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
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I'm teaching a seminar on 'Economic Security' this semester. Here's the syllabus: tinyurl.com/bdd6e4jd. Let me know anything I should add ~
Features @sarahbauerled.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @mevers90.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social @kazutosuzuki.bsky.social et al.
Features @sarahbauerled.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @mevers90.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social @kazutosuzuki.bsky.social et al.
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I'm teaching a seminar on 'Economic Security' this semester. Here's the syllabus: tinyurl.com/bdd6e4jd. Let me know anything I should add ~
Features @sarahbauerled.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @mevers90.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social @kazutosuzuki.bsky.social et al.
Features @sarahbauerled.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @mevers90.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social @kazutosuzuki.bsky.social et al.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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For those keeping score of tech billionaire information control:
-The world's richest man owns X.
-The 2nd richest man now owns TikTok/Paramount/CBS News.
-The 3rd richest man owns FB/IG/WhatsApp.
-The 4th richest man owns the Washington Post/Twitch.
-The 5th/6th richest men own Google/YouTube.
-The world's richest man owns X.
-The 2nd richest man now owns TikTok/Paramount/CBS News.
-The 3rd richest man owns FB/IG/WhatsApp.
-The 4th richest man owns the Washington Post/Twitch.
-The 5th/6th richest men own Google/YouTube.
🚨 Trump will sign an executive order today to hand TikTok over to his friend Larry Ellison. The White House confirmed that users' data will be stored at Ellison's Oracle and the algorithm would be "retrained."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump expected to sign a TikTok deal Thursday
The proposed structure would comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform wasn't sold to U.S.-based owners this year.
www.nbcnews.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For those keeping score of tech billionaire information control:
-The world's richest man owns X.
-The 2nd richest man now owns TikTok/Paramount/CBS News.
-The 3rd richest man owns FB/IG/WhatsApp.
-The 4th richest man owns the Washington Post/Twitch.
-The 5th/6th richest men own Google/YouTube.
-The world's richest man owns X.
-The 2nd richest man now owns TikTok/Paramount/CBS News.
-The 3rd richest man owns FB/IG/WhatsApp.
-The 4th richest man owns the Washington Post/Twitch.
-The 5th/6th richest men own Google/YouTube.
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i stg one of the problems with the modern pundit-pocalypse is their sheer *incuriousity*. everything is based off their first impressions, their gut instincts, their thinking from first principle. they gotta get that take out before they do any reading. what hath the Blog Era wrought, man
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
i stg one of the problems with the modern pundit-pocalypse is their sheer *incuriousity*. everything is based off their first impressions, their gut instincts, their thinking from first principle. they gotta get that take out before they do any reading. what hath the Blog Era wrought, man
“You should smile more.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“You should smile more.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
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It might seem fanciful to talk about rebuilding now, but the reason the second Trump administration has been able to achieve their goals was via advance planning and personnel. Can't want until election season to be ready for Day 1. H/t @sbagen.bsky.social
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
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![As University of Michigan law professor and former Department of Health and Human Services General Counsel Sam Bagenstos put it powerfully, when “the forces of good return to power…[w]e will need to be truly ready on day one…to implement a domestic Marshall Plan for the U.S. government.”
Bagenstos persuasively argues that transition efforts cannot simply focus on replacing laid-off civil servants and re-funding federal agencies. Instead, rebuilders need to think much more ambitiously: changing structures of government to reflect the profoundly altered terrain we will encounter.
That planning for the day after the Trump regime should consider the opportunities for federal agencies to engage social scientists in rebuilding federal capacity and crafting public policy. Although we shouldn’t simply replicate the models of the past, we can learn from what has–and hasn’t–worked before in terms of engaging academic researchers in government.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/bafkreidd3w2tkcqy6tfklvfhrsokvmy4v2kn43aubdx7t2ytyrcuwwig2e@jpeg)
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It might seem fanciful to talk about rebuilding now, but the reason the second Trump administration has been able to achieve their goals was via advance planning and personnel. Can't want until election season to be ready for Day 1. H/t @sbagen.bsky.social
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
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Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.
*DISNEY'S ABC PULLS KIMMEL SHOW INDEFINITELY, WSJ REPORTER POSTS
September 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.
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generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
To some extent, what’s happening isn’t unusual when you consider decades of extreme inequality + elitism. The “norms” were never sturdy—just brittle stalks dressed up as strength. Now we’re just seeing the cracks out loud.
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
To some extent, what’s happening isn’t unusual when you consider decades of extreme inequality + elitism. The “norms” were never sturdy—just brittle stalks dressed up as strength. Now we’re just seeing the cracks out loud.
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WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
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We are told that Charlie Kirk was "doing politics the right way" by going to universities to speak his mind.
We are told that universities do not allow people with Charlie Kirk's views to speak their minds.
It is odd to be told both those things.
We are told that universities do not allow people with Charlie Kirk's views to speak their minds.
It is odd to be told both those things.
September 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We are told that Charlie Kirk was "doing politics the right way" by going to universities to speak his mind.
We are told that universities do not allow people with Charlie Kirk's views to speak their minds.
It is odd to be told both those things.
We are told that universities do not allow people with Charlie Kirk's views to speak their minds.
It is odd to be told both those things.
As @mcopelov.bsky.social often reminds, institutions are not self-enforcing. They are constituted by people, who can decide to enforce them, change them, ignore them, or as @himself.bsky.social suggests, resist them.
"More generally: struggles for power are struggles over the means of coordination. " On the Russell Hardin argument that Ezra mentions www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p...
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As @mcopelov.bsky.social often reminds, institutions are not self-enforcing. They are constituted by people, who can decide to enforce them, change them, ignore them, or as @himself.bsky.social suggests, resist them.
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Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
September 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
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It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.
www.theatlantic.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.