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Or, instead of repairing relationships and continuing to teach, maybe, like most 70-year-olds, Summers should just retire and make room for younger economists to take his place?
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Or, instead of repairing relationships and continuing to teach, maybe, like most 70-year-olds, Summers should just retire and make room for younger economists to take his place?
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Larry Summers has learned his lesson.
by Susan Collins
by Susan Collins
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Larry Summers has learned his lesson.
by Susan Collins
by Susan Collins
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Larry Summers was doing dating the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Larry Summers was doing dating the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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cable news anchors, they're literally just like us.
Finally driving my first EV and can’t be the only middle aged dad now *obsessed* with regenerative braking and getting as many miles as humanly possible.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
cable news anchors, they're literally just like us.
Enjoying COBOLtok
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Enjoying COBOLtok
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Part of growing is realizing that Paul Ryan really wanted to kill grandmas on Medicare and wasn’t being influenced or forced into that position.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Part of growing is realizing that Paul Ryan really wanted to kill grandmas on Medicare and wasn’t being influenced or forced into that position.
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When Democrats say “Big tent politics” what they mean is they have taken us all hostage in their tent like we’re in “Clockwork Orange” and force us to watch while they continually platform bigots while saying they’re being “open-minded”.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When Democrats say “Big tent politics” what they mean is they have taken us all hostage in their tent like we’re in “Clockwork Orange” and force us to watch while they continually platform bigots while saying they’re being “open-minded”.
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Today, I finally learned how to pronounce "Ambrulevičius." Rocker Rewatch Episode #2 coming up this week featuring Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevičius! Stay tuned
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Today, I finally learned how to pronounce "Ambrulevičius." Rocker Rewatch Episode #2 coming up this week featuring Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevičius! Stay tuned
Really hoping that funding CSR does not come back into salience
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Really hoping that funding CSR does not come back into salience
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True justice would be if Klein, Yglesias, the Pod Bros, and all of the white dude pundits would take a 4 year sabbatical from commenting on politics.
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
True justice would be if Klein, Yglesias, the Pod Bros, and all of the white dude pundits would take a 4 year sabbatical from commenting on politics.
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Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win
My grocery store has locked up a section of the ice cream aisle - what is even 2025
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
My grocery store has locked up a section of the ice cream aisle - what is even 2025
Are there any second person shooter games?
September 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Are there any second person shooter games?
Really want a skating program to songs from Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - could be an epic conceptual piece on life in the suburbs and suburban sprawl
August 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Really want a skating program to songs from Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - could be an epic conceptual piece on life in the suburbs and suburban sprawl
Tried to sell a teenage relative on the greatness of Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein today
August 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Tried to sell a teenage relative on the greatness of Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein today
Woodkid, Benson Boone, and Imagine Dragons
August 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Woodkid, Benson Boone, and Imagine Dragons
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People keep comparing the AI Bubble to the Dot Com Bubble.
I was there for the Dot Com Bubble, this is going to make that look like nothing.
Nobody in the 90s was building nuclear reactors to power GoDaddy.
Clinton never said "I know the economy is bad but it's fine, I made a deal with Pets dot Com"
I was there for the Dot Com Bubble, this is going to make that look like nothing.
Nobody in the 90s was building nuclear reactors to power GoDaddy.
Clinton never said "I know the economy is bad but it's fine, I made a deal with Pets dot Com"
August 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
People keep comparing the AI Bubble to the Dot Com Bubble.
I was there for the Dot Com Bubble, this is going to make that look like nothing.
Nobody in the 90s was building nuclear reactors to power GoDaddy.
Clinton never said "I know the economy is bad but it's fine, I made a deal with Pets dot Com"
I was there for the Dot Com Bubble, this is going to make that look like nothing.
Nobody in the 90s was building nuclear reactors to power GoDaddy.
Clinton never said "I know the economy is bad but it's fine, I made a deal with Pets dot Com"
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This finding is mindblowing to me (and probably anyone who lives in a country with universal healthcare).
www.cbsnews.com/news/over-th...
www.cbsnews.com/news/over-th...
Nearly a third of people using over-the-counter birth control pills previously used nothing, study finds
Two years ago, the first over-the-counter birth control pill was approved. Now, new research looks at who's switching to it and why.
www.cbsnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This finding is mindblowing to me (and probably anyone who lives in a country with universal healthcare).
www.cbsnews.com/news/over-th...
www.cbsnews.com/news/over-th...
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*Tech skeptical voice*
Hiking. You reinvented hiking.
(Laudatory?)
Hiking. You reinvented hiking.
(Laudatory?)
Forest bathing is becoming more and more popular. Here's what it is and how it can positively improve your mental health.
The Japanese art of 'forest bathing' can improve focus, lower stress: What it is and how to get the most benefit
Forest bathing is becoming more and more popular. Here's what it is and how it can positively improve your mental health.
cnb.cx
August 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
*Tech skeptical voice*
Hiking. You reinvented hiking.
(Laudatory?)
Hiking. You reinvented hiking.
(Laudatory?)
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Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
lithub.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
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There's something quaint and charming about the way I, a U.S. figure skating fan, can easily watch high quality free livestreams of obscure Korean & Canadian domestic competitions while footage of the equivalent American competition is paywalled, silent & filmed from the parking lot outside the rink
July 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
There's something quaint and charming about the way I, a U.S. figure skating fan, can easily watch high quality free livestreams of obscure Korean & Canadian domestic competitions while footage of the equivalent American competition is paywalled, silent & filmed from the parking lot outside the rink
Living rent free in peoples minds …
July 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Living rent free in peoples minds …
The cold plunge is the single best low effort thing I’ve ever found for my mental health - it’s magical
July 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The cold plunge is the single best low effort thing I’ve ever found for my mental health - it’s magical
The Wire references in the Clipse album are big Gen X rapper energy!
July 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The Wire references in the Clipse album are big Gen X rapper energy!
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I didn’t get into The National until Boxer, then dug into the back catalog and realized that not only had they released this classic a couple years earlier, the tour for it had played the brewery around the corner from my house in Milwaukee, like a 75 cap room. Ugh
Absolute, total, stone-cold classic album
I wrote about ALLIGATOR, two decades later
April 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I didn’t get into The National until Boxer, then dug into the back catalog and realized that not only had they released this classic a couple years earlier, the tour for it had played the brewery around the corner from my house in Milwaukee, like a 75 cap room. Ugh