Melanie Friedrichs
@mfriedri12.bsky.social
Macro researcher, currently at the Office of Financial Research.
A++ college admissions essay — Elite Colleges Have Found a New Virtue for Applicants to Fake www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | Elite Colleges Have Found a New Virtue for Applicants to Fake
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A++ college admissions essay — Elite Colleges Have Found a New Virtue for Applicants to Fake www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
July 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
June 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
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Great piece about how covid shaped the current era www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How Covid Remade Our America, Five Years Later
It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Great piece about how covid shaped the current era www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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When you lie about something specific, for every one swing voter you persuade you’re going to persuade a much larger number of people who were *already* on your side to believe some new false claim that confuses them about real options.
www.slowboring.com/p/misinforma...
www.slowboring.com/p/misinforma...
February 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
When you lie about something specific, for every one swing voter you persuade you’re going to persuade a much larger number of people who were *already* on your side to believe some new false claim that confuses them about real options.
www.slowboring.com/p/misinforma...
www.slowboring.com/p/misinforma...
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