Edsim F. Ska
@neyhs44.bsky.social
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I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new @NewYorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...
www.newyorker.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new @NewYorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this.
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
February 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this.
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
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boost inequality, which – because the rich spend a lower share of their income than ordinary households – may only further restrain domestic demand and, with it, domestic investment.
carnegieendowment.org/china-financ...
boost inequality, which – because the rich spend a lower share of their income than ordinary households – may only further restrain domestic demand and, with it, domestic investment.
carnegieendowment.org/china-financ...
Economic Consequences of Income Inequality
Rising inequality is inextricably tied to economic imbalances and, in a context of limited productive investment opportunities, the only sustainable outcome is sharply higher unemployment.
carnegieendowment.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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boost inequality, which – because the rich spend a lower share of their income than ordinary households – may only further restrain domestic demand and, with it, domestic investment.
carnegieendowment.org/china-financ...
boost inequality, which – because the rich spend a lower share of their income than ordinary households – may only further restrain domestic demand and, with it, domestic investment.
carnegieendowment.org/china-financ...
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1/3
WSJ: "The Banana is reigniting a long-running debate about the value society is willing to place on an everyday object simply because an artist calls it art."
Technically this isn't so much about the value society places on the object.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
WSJ: "The Banana is reigniting a long-running debate about the value society is willing to place on an everyday object simply because an artist calls it art."
Technically this isn't so much about the value society places on the object.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Someone Just Paid $6.2 Million for a Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall
Sotheby’s auctioned the artwork by Maurizio Cattelan on Wednesday; Piece sold to Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, who plans to eat it
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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WSJ: "The Banana is reigniting a long-running debate about the value society is willing to place on an everyday object simply because an artist calls it art."
Technically this isn't so much about the value society places on the object.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
WSJ: "The Banana is reigniting a long-running debate about the value society is willing to place on an everyday object simply because an artist calls it art."
Technically this isn't so much about the value society places on the object.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...